William Karlsson has 18pts

[feffan]

Amen to that! I think teams are better today to look on what type of player they acquire but not that long time ago we could see the most horrendous examples of players used in wrong roles. Niklas Sundstrom, P-J Axelsson and Magnus Arvedsson actually had more tools and promises than they were thought of. Jakob Silfverberg is the latest one.

Agreed. So much untapped talent in some players. Goalies are even more obvious some times. The wrong goalie coach sometimes want´s to "fix" a goalies playing style instead of develop from that prospects strength. Jonas Gustavsson choosing a team that had Francois Allaire as their goaltending coach was suicide for having a good NHL-career. Allaire want´s nothing to do with goalies of the type The Monster was when he came over. And Gustavsson, unlike many others, had a choice and made a terrible one. One that didn´t have a choice was Markström. And he did salvage his career because he was young and got a few years under Roland Melanson (one I as a goalie with a own choice sure would love to work with...). Had Markström been drafted by a team with Melanson from the start, he would have had a completley different career. And even if he will be in the leuage as a probable 1A/B kind of goalie by the looks of it, he could have been a great starter and a top 10 goalie in the leauge if he had the right goalie coach from the start.

 

[Nordique]

Torts said many times last year that Bill needs to shoot the puck more. New environment, new role, and he's making the most of the situation. Good on him.

 

[JAS 39 Gripen]

Agreed. So much untapped talent in some players. Goalies are even more obvious some times. The wrong goalie coach sometimes want´s to "fix" a goalies playing style instead of develop from that prospects strength. Jonas Gustavsson choosing a team that had Francois Allaire as their goaltending coach was suicide for having a good NHL-career. Allaire want´s nothing to do with goalies of the type The Monster was when he came over. And Gustavsson, unlike many others, had a choice and made a terrible one. One that didn´t have a choice was Markström. And he did salvage his career because he was young and got a few years under Roland Melanson (one I as a goalie with a own choice sure would love to work with...). Had Markström been drafted by a team with Melanson from the start, he would have had a completley different career. And even if he will be in the leuage as a probable 1A/B kind of goalie by the looks of it, he could have been a great starter and a top 10 goalie in the leauge if he had the right goalie coach from the start.

Nah, the problem with Markström and few other Brynäs goalies is that they had "Pekka! Alcen as their goalie coach. He has a way of only focusing on his goalies good sides and not have them working on their flaws. This was appearant when he joined other organizations and the national teams, whos goalie coaches wondered why no one had told (in this case) Markström what he needs to work harder on. It's one problem, at least.

 

[feffan]

Nah, the problem with Markström and few other Brynäs goalies is that they had "Pekka! Alcen as their goalie coach. He has a way of only focusing on his goalies good sides and not have them working on their flaws. This was appearant when he joined other organizations and the national teams, whos goalie coaches wondered why no one had told (in this case) Markström what he needs to work harder on. It's one problem, at least.

Agreed that it´s a problem if there are major flaws with a goalie that´s not taken seriously. But to me the real problem starts when some goalie coaches (as François Allaire with Jonas Gustavsson...) tries to make the goalie play the only way Allaire think that position should be played. Instead of building from that goalies strengths and then fill in the holes in the rest of his game.

 

[DDRhockey]

Last season he had 25pts in 81 games. Wtf

He just tripled his production, crazy.

 

[ThirdManIn]

I think we have enough William Karlsson threads without resurrecting an old one to discuss the same thing.