Your favorite player's biggest flaw

[jetsforever]

Not sure if he's still my favourite player (top 5 though) - Evander Kane's biggest flaw is... hmm...

 

[Riddum]

stamkos- just hasn't been the same since he broke his leg

quoted for truth. He's a shell of his former self. His shot isn't as good. Pre-Leg Break, he was playing the best hockey of his life. It's tragic really.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Drouin:
When he gets frustrated, resorts to puck hogging, turns over the puck.

 

[Kamiccolo]

Drouin:
When he gets frustrated, resorts to puck hogging, turns over the puck.

So the question is was last playoff a fluke? Do we get a dominant forward or the guy who didn't even put up ppg in the AHL?

One of the most interesting guys coming into the NHL this year IMO

 

[Deaner]

PK Subban : talks too much, is too good at gaining the blue-line by himself

 

[Hank Chinaski]

The slippery ice still gets the better of Scheifele from time to time.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Price needs to shake his playoff demons. He's been merely "really good" vs otherworldly.

 

[islesfan186]

Tavares

Not very good defensively
For an elite player, has a poor slapshot and a very underwhelming one timer

 

[Aladyyn]

Eichel is not consistent enough and sometimes seems to forget that he's actually amazing at hockey

Girgensons falls down a ton

Reinhart needs to adjust his helmet all the time because he wears it too loose. Drives me crazy

But the biggest flaw is those 3 are probably not going to be a line next season

 

[Tofveve]

Gaudreau isn't 6'5" 245 lbs with the exact same skills.

 

[Trap Jesus]

My favorite player is probably Bergeron. His biggest flaw is that he likes to make my favorite team look like they don't belong in the league.

Same for me. Unfortunately your flaw applies to my favorite team (Bruins) as well.

 

[McDLT]

Wheeler is slightly taller than I am, and I don't like that.

 

[kingsboy11]

I wish Kopitar could be more selfish when it comes to goal scoring opportunities. He almost always passes up a shot given the chance or defers to someone else. Can also go on long streaks where he's not scoring at all. But other than that he's still really effective during the games even if he isn't scoring any goals.

 

[CanuckGame39]

Markus Naslund. His biggest flaw is he is retired.

 

[Crosbyfan]

Phil Kessel is awful in shootouts, and is meh on breakaways.

He lacks a decent one timer. Plus current injury.

Beliveau waited to long to start the NHL part of his career and apparently had a Volkswagen size heart in a Cadillac size body...or so the story went in the early sixties in the years between being the best player of two dynasty's. Plus injuries.

Crosby tries to do a little too much sometimes, and can thereby get frustrated...or sometimes tries to do too much when frustrated. Plus injuries.

 

[Crosbyfan]

Toews has too many amazing intangibles.

You can't have too many amazing intangibles...

...oh, wait you said Toews...sorry about that, carry on

 

[A4T1L6]

Jay McClement

Offence isn't in his vocabulary

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

So the question is was last playoff a fluke? Do we get a dominant forward or the guy who didn't even put up ppg in the AHL?

One of the most interesting guys coming into the NHL this year IMO

In my opinion, Drouin's success was mostly because he changed up his play style, and limited his bad habits. So I think (hope) we can see big things next year.

 

[Rocket of Russia]

[NHL] [/NHL]

Gaudreau: his wrists aren't reinforced with adamantium.

But then his hands wouldn't be so buttery soft...

Letang's slapshot/one-timer leaves much to be desired. He can also be a hothead and is a little too vocal to the officials.

 

[Allie Kitsune]

He (Letang)'s an idiot who can easily be goaded into taking penalties and can't run a PP to save his life and is going to RAPIDLY decline once age takes away his physical gifts.

 

[I am not exposed]

Barkov - too passive

 

[Inapt]

Tavares - Tries to do too much at times/stays on the ice too long. Also that damn drop pass near the blue line.

 

[Steerpike]

EJ: Not great at connecting on huge hits.

Duchene/MacKinnon: Aren't great at choosing when to give up on a 1v3(+) and just try to gain offensive possession.

ROR: Too much rational self interest.

 

[mpp9]

What's Sid's biggest flaw I don't even know. Used to be visibly less skilled defensively but safe to say he's come around in a big way.

Half wall on the PP. Throwing pucks through the slot and getting picked off 70% of the time.

Pens need to run the PP through Kessel this year, which will force Sid to be more of a shooter and down low. If Sid goes into shoot everything mode and the PP gets consistent, he wins the Ross by a comfortable margin.