Player Discussion When are Juulsen and Mete going to produce points?

[417]

Mete is only 20. Ellis and Krug didn't start hitting their stride until they were 22 or 23. Two or three years make a big difference for defencemen at that age. Expectations in terms of production should be very low for quite a while yet whether he's playing in the NHL or the AHL.
Same with Juulsen.

In fact neither Krug nor Ellis were full time NHL dmen until age 22

 

[Fish on The Sand]

I just hope Juulsen becomes our Adam Larsson.

And we trade him for Draisatl?

 

[417]

Mete I'm a little surprised and would think he would have been a little more on the score sheet with the pp time he also gets
Juulsen I don't see him being that offensive producer and I'm ok with that.

Mete in 8 games has seen a total of 8 PP mins

he really hasn't been used all that much on the PP.

In fact, other than Petry...no Dman on the Habs gets a lot of minutes on the PP.

Reilly is 2nd on the team at just over 12 mins total.

 

[WhiskeySeven*]

They are not mediocre lol.

Like, people of HFBoards: Ds do not have a career year for multiple years after their first one. I still consider them both rookies, nobody has 82 games played.

Give them their rookie years now, we need them to reach their potential and that takes about 250-300 NHL games for a D. No amount of time in the AHL changes that. Reason: we need to be able to trade Petry and Weber in the next 2-3 years, so some parts of our D core need to remain stable. That's Reilly (we seem to have found a gem), Mete and Juulsen. Hopefully we can draft a top-pairing potential LD this year and trade for one with Weber-Petry (+). So we'll need Mete and Juulsen to have some games in the counter to stabilize these arrivals.

Byram - Honka <--- we should aim for something like this, both Petry and Weber are no longer top pairing cup winners.
Reilly - Juulsen
Mete - Romanov?

They're absolutely mediocre as point producers. They're worse than mediocre, in fact.

The reality is that if they remain 10-20 point d-men, they'll never be useful in a top3 dman role. It's too early to give up on them, and pigeonhole them as bottom3 dmen, I think.

 

[montreal]

8 games, 16:22 TOI this year, 0 pts
49 games, 15:35 TOI last year, 7 pts

that's 57 games, 7 pts for a .12 ppg which over 82 games would be 10 pts.

I know he's not going to produce like say Subban who in his first season puts up 14 goals and 38 pts on a team that had 1 player get over 49 pts. Still would have rather they not rushed him and let him develop in the AHL. Guess we'll see how it works out.

 

[CoopersFalls]

Juulsen will eventually put up 20-30 points consistently. You see his instincts come through quite often, he’s just playing it safe.

Mete should get PP time. This coaching staff is dead set on Petry, where I think he should be rotated with Reilly and Mete. They don’t have his shot but both have better hockey sense IMO.