What makes Alex DeBrincat so good?

[Tasty Biscuits]

It's a combination of very high hockey IQ and a quick release.

Bingo bango bongo.

Brains. They're important.

 

[jbobell98]

Scouts have always been bearish on undersized players. What makes these small players so good is their hockey IQ. Since they couldn't rely on size to create space and resist pressure they have see the game well. Small players are also really fast and agile which is becoming more important it todays NHL.

 

[Pancakes]

I remember some study done a few years ago about how the Canucks over a certain period of time would have done better if they had literally drafted by what points players put up in their draft year rather than what they actually did.

I imagine we'll see less and less players like Debrincat and Gaudreau fall through the cracks. If I were a GM I'd be using my picks on such guys in droves. The ones that do pan out tend to be elite point producers.

 

[mphmiles]

He’s not good he’s a by product of Patrick Kane

He barely plays with Kane at even strength. Less than a quarter of his minutes.

As to why he's so good:
-One of the very best sets of hands in the league. Specifically, the way that he can gather a pass and load a shot in basically the same motion is extremely difficult to do, and gives him one of the quickest and most deceptive releases in the game. A big chunk of his goals come on wrist or snap shots from 30+ feet where the goaltender was just never expecting the puck to be off his stick that fast.

-Very high hockey IQ. Does an excellent job of getting lost by the defense and finding soft spots, whether that's on the back door, 3 feet away from the crease, or in the middle of the circle.

-Very good passer as well. This was excellent from the other night.

 

[Jay haller]

He barely plays with Kane at even strength. Less than a quarter of his minutes.

As to why he's so good:
-One of the very best sets of hands in the league. Specifically, the way that he can gather a pass and load a shot in basically the same motion is extremely difficult to do, and gives him one of the quickest and most deceptive releases in the game. A big chunk of his goals come on wrist or snap shots from 30+ feet where the goaltender was just never expecting the puck to be off his stick that fast.

-Very high hockey IQ. Does an excellent job of getting lost by the defense and finding soft spots, whether that's on the back door, 3 feet away from the crease, or in the middle of the circle.

-Very good passer as well. This was excellent from the other night.

Nope he’s a byproduct of Kane. I read HFboards

 

[1909]

Don't not draft a player because of his size.

Hawks should send a big thank you note, +flowers and champagne to the Habs which gave them two second-rounders for Shaw. One of those turned out to be DeBrincat. Ouch !!!

Habs would not be in limbo if they would had kept these picks and draft DeBrincat and Samuel Girard. yeah, I know, they are soooo smallllll....

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

For all the talk of him as goal scorer and his shot he is also an underrated playmaker

He has good vision and seems to find guys (Especially Strome) with ease when passing puck

2 assists tonight and now has

37 goals + 31 assists for 68 pts in 69 games

 

[Alwalys]

Debrincat
Tocate

 

[Scrantonicity 2]

But he's too small to make the NHL

 

[w e l o s t b o y s]

some guys just put the puck in net good

 

[tiburon12]

He pops in his cat eyes before each game

 

[Martin Skoula]

I remember some study done a few years ago about how the Canucks over a certain period of time would have done better if they had literally drafted by what points players put up in their draft year rather than what they actually did.

I imagine we'll see less and less players like Debrincat and Gaudreau fall through the cracks. If I were a GM I'd be using my picks on such guys in droves. The ones that do pan out tend to be elite point producers.

It was over the better part of a decade and the spreadsheet got almost double the games played of the real scouts. The spreadsheet also was not capable of drafting defensemen or goalies, so it out drafted Vancouver with 1/3 of 1/5th of the available talent pool (only CHL forwards were looked at).