Andy Dufresne
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- Jun 17, 2009
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i love how people see couturier against guys older than him and in a game where there is no chemestry at all and is just really based on individual ability and come to the conclusion RHN is better..........
at the next level i would take couturier over RHN. Bigger, stronger, better hands IMO, better goal scorer and RHN might have the little edge playmaking wise but watch couturier in a team system and the guy is a different player all together...Couturiers defensive game is better, only thing RHN kills him at is skating.
You do realize that a lot of the posters talking up RNH see him regularly in the WHL right??
Based on individual ability??? I would hope that would be a strong point for any player taken in the top 10 of the NHL draft.
Players with great hockey sense tend to be able to create instant chemistry with each other in a format like this, the circumstances here weren't any worse for Couturier than they were for Hopkins. Maybe RNH had an edge playing with Bartschi and Phillips?
Even so....most here are talking UP Hopkins rather than talking DOWN Couturier.
I'd add that RNH 'killed' almost every other forward in that game at puck pursuit and anticipation, reading the play and then going and taking the puck back, that's a sign of both hockey sense and great work ethic imo.