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#1OA Juraj Slafkovsky - Huge Disappointment

LemonSauceD said:
He may not live up to #1 overall expectations but I think he’ll have a long ass career and become a Landeskog type for the Habs and nobody will be talking about where he was selected.
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Landeskog was captaining the Avs when he was a teenager. The only captain Slafkovsky's familiar with is Morgan.

He's not a hustler, he's not defensively sound, he's got little to no 'dog' in him. When he was soaring and doing well he looked like the game was easy for him but even then he didn't seem like he was breaking a sweat.
 
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They had the rare option to put him directly into the AHL after the draft. He should’ve spent at least 1 season there before coming up. Seems like a bad decision to rush a prospect along to the NHL when they didn’t need him.
 
He might not go 1st in redraft, but still he goes top-3.

He is still very young and from Utah perspective I would pay a lot to get him

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Line of Slaf - Cooley - Guenther could be one of the best lines in the league for the next decade. Sadly Slaf isn't for sale
 
He has no brain for the game whatsoever.

He has a processing speed of a computer from 2005. It's so sad you draft 1st overall and end up with a player who wouldn't go top 10 in most years.

What a horrible contract they signed him to.
 
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Arthur Morgan said:
huge disappointment? but I thought he blew Knies out the water
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Well at the same age he absolutely does, even still to this day.

Thing is one was a 1st overall pick and one was a 2nd rounder. If a 2nd round pick put up 50 pts at age 19 we would be taking about how big of a steal they were. The expectations aren't even remotely the same.

Knies is definitely good and although I still think Slafkovsky will be better it's definitely not a guarantee. But you can't compare the 2 in terms of expectations and that's why Slaf is getting the disappointment label.
 
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Breakfast of Champs said:
Well at the same age he absolutely does, even still to this day.

Thing is one was a 1st overall pick and one was a 2nd rounder. If a 2nd round pick put up 50 pts at age 19 we would be taking about how big of a steal they were. The expectations aren't even remotely the same.

Knies is definitely good and although I still think Slafkovsky will be better it's definitely not a guarantee. But you can't compare the 2 in terms of expectations and that's why Slaf is getting the disappointment label.
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they are very similar, for where they are right now they are extremely close. players take different paths and develop differently. their age when they are both this young means very little, Slaf has had more time to learn at the NHL level and with more games he's barely ahead of Knies.

I'm not going to sit here and say Knies is better but he's not blowing him out of the water like what has been said before
 
He had 50 last year and I was hoping for about 70 this year. He is on pace for near 50 again.

Still, way too soon and back to back 50 point seasons (potentially) is far from bust. Big bodies take longer. Give it another season.. then shit on him for not being .ppg.lol
 
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Czechboy said:
He had 50 last year and I was hoping for about 70 this year. He is on pace for near 50 again.

Still, way too soon and back to back 50 point seasons (potentially) is far from bust. Big bodies take longer. Give it another season.. then shit on him for not being .ppg.lol
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PPG stat does not make one successful, look at Dylan Larkin
 
Holy hell there are some terrible takes in here.

If you re-did the 2022 draft right now, Slafkovsky probably goes #2 overall.

It's like clockwork - guy gets rushed to the NHL at 18, performs ok-ish, fans start screaming BUST! at age 20 when he's an average NHL player ... then look really stupid 2 years later.

Cutter Gauthier is older than Slafkovsky and is having a fine rookie season with 23 points but Slafkovsky is a bust with 29 points. Idiotic.

The 2022 draft had a really weak top end where the best guys probably would have gone in the 4-7 range most years. Slafkovsky never projected as some 100-point superstar and if you were somehow expecting that ... no wonder you're disappointed. He always projected as a 30-40-70-type PF and he's tracking totally fine for that still.
 
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Was so overrated by habs fans. Tried to tell them. They were trying to convince themselves he was legit. Said the same thing about Kk , poehling and others. I tell it like it is.

Now fortunately for them Demndiov is worth getting excited about. Said the same about Hutson. Also like mallioux
 
MS said:
Holy hell there are some terrible takes in here.

If you re-did the 2022 draft right now, Slafkovsky probably goes #2 overall.

It's like clockwork - guy gets rushed to the NHL at 18, performs ok-ish, fans start screaming BUST! at age 20 when he's an average NHL player ... then look really stupid 2 years later.

Cutter Gauthier is older than Slafkovsky and is having a fine rookie season with 23 points but Slafkovsky is a bust with 29 points. Idiotic.

The 2022 draft had a really weak top end where the best guys probably would have gone in the 4-7 range most years. Slafkovsky never projected as some 100-point superstar and if you were somehow expecting that ... no wonder you're disappointed. He always projected as a 30-40-70-type PF and he's tracking totally fine for that still.
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Gauthier isn't signed for 8 years at 60 million.
 
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KirkAlbuquerque said:
Laf for Slaf 1 for 1
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As a Montreal fan, though admittedly one who has despised Slafkovsky since his draft year and thought that the fanbase was insane for thinking that he'd ever be anything better than a "top nine" winger, the NYR making that trade would be grounds for firing the GM.

Rude Dog said:
Was so overrated by habs fans. Tried to tell them. They were trying to convince themselves he was legit. Said the same thing about Kk , poehling and others. I tell it like it is.

Now fortunately for them Demndiov is worth getting excited about. Said the same about Hutson. Also like mallioux
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The majority of "us" still won't accept that he's going to top out as a complementary second liner who has the desire to be a finesse forward, and thus squanders his physical potential.
 
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