I would bet money I could pull up posts from YOU of hedmans first two years?
Want to bet? He is a rookie yes 23 or whatever but man he needs the reps you are expecting too much the jump for defenders is not the same as a jump by a forward
Defenders are more 28 prime year forwards are like 24 sometimes huge difference
You are probably viewing other guys progressions and if you want to look at that look at his piers guys like him. Is he showing more than aulie? etc..
Sustr will be fine maybe never a top d but a good 5-6 guy sure. He is a rookie with what 40 some games? I am guessing didnt look. I mean lower the expectations especially on young d. I have had to for detroit now for years lol.
Smith kindl the other slug of life for detroit cant even name him hate him sooooooo much haha lol not dekeyser but he was higher ranked coming out of college than sustr. Give him time he needs the reps here or in the ahl and for me ? is fine either way. Probably rather have in syracuse this year with koekkoek but doesnt look like that is going to happen.
Go look at d guys who how long it takes honestly sustr is fine. He just might never be all that much but is he NHL guy sure. Has that reach skates reasonable well.
Garrison turned it over in middle of ice just shot it across blindly and cost us with a few minutes left like 2 minutes at least a minute of time in our zone that is a vet doing that nonsense.
I am shocked he did that but I am sure he will get talked to should have just shot to other end get a change something just stupid move.
I aint worried on our kids.
I hate our lines we have no chemistry yet everyone can say well we got 7 in montreal sure. What did tyjo and palat do or killorn or whoever was with stamkos?
Go back to flipper cally and pally for now. Stamkos was doing it on own cant wait for drouin im all for him taking martys old spot with tyjo or killer on top line would hope was kucherov cause he can play there but obviously we are trying to force a square peg in a round hole or something.
my lines
stamkos drouin kucherov
flipper cally pally
tyjo vladdy connolly
killer boyle brown morrow.
So yes cant win every game schneider played ass off their top line played well and jagr is still unreal at 42 lol.
The one and only major concern when I watched was the comparison of seeing their d in offensive zonec compared to ours? They seemed more calm.
Our d didnt seem as calm and controlling of the puck situation as new jersey so hope we can work on that get some more confidence into everyone.
So end of rant we are going to play better and get better but def have concerns right now. It will take time and that is probably our biggest factor lol.
Again not terrible just not all that good and we are off. We got 7 but was two great players taking over lol.
We owned them and than seemed to turn it off? I have actually been quite impressed with our second period especially the start before today.
Hats off to new jersey they didnt give us much but thats when you just try that much harder you do that extra hit etc.. Not sure if mentally we are in that zone yet
Hope soon I expect this team to be great and hope to see it this season. We maybe had a glimpse but even as watched yesterday said to self we can be better
3 days off saturday next game lots of time to get things done
Hope for drouin very exciting.
I am really disappointed we didnt get nabby his first win he played well enough and deserved it