Really? This entire thread.
I check this thread regularly because I'm interested in game highlights and other updates on his actual playing, and the thread has primarily been moaning and hand wringing theatrics by people who don't watch him and sometimes don't even grasp his situation and are certainly not providing any new insight.
Like, read this, last page first post:
Him not playing much tells us a lot about where his development is at. Right now I’d peg his development this year as borderline disasterous.
Francesco needs to employ every tool in his toolbox to get Pod over here. The Aquilini family must have connections amongst the Russian oligarchs that run the KHL.
Every sentence is dramatic and absurd and most of this thread has been roughly this level of dialogue.
I’d like an example of this as well. Let’s have it
@mriswith.
Ok sure we'll bring you in. I wasn't going to specifically call you out because you're not the worst, but you're no shining beacon yourself. This is going to be a hit and run though, because I have no interest in continuing to participate in the problem by bloating this thread with more theatrics than this.
Motor and board play are fine to project a bottom6 upside, but the production is not there. That’s the key attribute he is missing, no matter the context
"Key attribute he's missing no matter the context". Like 5 games post draft for a top KHL team playing 4 min a night, "no matter the context", jfc. Whether you intended it this way or not it comes across as dramatic.
There are some who also understand NHL equivalency rates and the relative strength of each leagues. He should be dominating the MHL and should be having at least a mixed performance in the VHL. He’s not doing that.
It’s time to park the excuses and look at his progression for what it is. Right now, he does not appear to project as a top6 forward, and that’s not good.
Ridiculous, dramatic, stat watching.
I don’t think it’s the minutes, I think it’s him. Podkolzin is a busy player that doesn’t produce. Usually, that’s the type of player on the lower end of the forward corps.
I wasn’t bullish on this draft, but remained cautiously optimistic. That is slowly eroding with time.
Ridiculous, dramatic, stat watching.
I get as Canucks fans we're generally pessimistic and neurotic about any sign of weakness in prospects but this thread is bloated with hyperbolic hand wringing non-content. All these assumptions about what a handful of games mean immediately post draft are as premature as a kid his age at prom. Worse, it's hard to track what he's actually doing as any real content gets buried.
And now I'm out and back to lurking.
