ChesterNimitz
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You’re right. We should elect him Prime Minister.
Prospect Info: 2022 - 1st OA] Juraj Slafkovsky (LW) Part 4
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DAChampion
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Could he be an upgrade?
BehindTheTimes
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Would it be difficult?
Walrus26
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He certainly has all the credentials. I mean, it takes a real professional with total dedication to their vocation to be so bad. Perfectly qualified to be Prime Minister.
In a results-driven business, I can't for the life of me understand how Burrows still has his job as Habs PP Coach.
Cheese is Price. The kid actually said he prefers to play in the NHL and continue learning the pro game. It seems he really doesn't feel the need to go to the high School Senior prom for a 3rd time when he already graduated to university, but you decided for him what he would cherish forever.
Wright is a rare case of an 18 yo first rounder going back to the WJC, but that is because he is not playing like a top pick. In two months he got 67 minutes of playing time.
It is a small minority of NHL players who get loaned to the WJC. AHL players are a whole different calculation.
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Mrb1p
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Yeah and we'll have 7 person on the PP and all will be great because theyre all gonna be stars, oh and Jacques Plante is going to come back from the dead better than ever Robert Strong Style and the Habs are gonna win the Stanley Cup and the fifa world cup also.
ChesterNimitz
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Maybe you should consider changing teams that you support. It will be less painful.
Schooner Guy
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He was 4th overall. Not even the first center to get picked overall.
nhlfan9191
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Pretty big red flag for a guy like Wright to not only fall, but get passed up by another center.
Schooner Guy
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Mark Edwards from HP came in here and called it a week before the draft. Some reports said Wright was likely dropping to #7 if Seattle didn't take him.
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Yeah...and? Lol
Is this the Montreal Canadiens page or Slovakian National Team? Lol
Kennerback
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Slafkovsky needs to use the back of his body to drive the net more. He did it last game and he made a nice pass to Anderson. He also could have shot or put the puck on the net.
He can create something out of nothing that way. We know he can do it. But he doesn’t do it enough.
He can create something out of nothing that way. We know he can do it. But he doesn’t do it enough.
There is a good chance Slaf will represent Slovakia at the World Championships again in May.
WeThreeKings
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Another point.. but it's not worth as much as a WJC point so I'm pretty bummed.
Where's his Liiga stats page to doomscroll?
Where's his Liiga stats page to doomscroll?
OnTheRun
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It's just not the same as making the difference against junior aged amateurs when it come to confidence booster for a professional hockey player.
Kojo
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He just need to listen to his mother and shoot more often.
[EDITED] It was his play against men that gave him the most confidence last year.
But it seems that some fans' confidence requires him to do well against other juniors.
Fortunately, neither the Habs nor Slafkovsky are prioritizing the confidence of insecure fans.
Just wondering though, is it sort of selfish of Juraj to prioritize his paying job over some fans' desires?
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Heineman Mineman
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OnTheRun
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Well yeah, I was pretty confident to be able to drive my giant, yellow, sarcasm bus through this one without using the signaling lights, that's pretty rough. Maybe he should go for real if I managed to blindside someone with that one, doubt is all I have left now.
dackelljuneaubulis02
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yeah despite the flak you get here I'm on board with this. I think you're doubling down too hard on your takes personally but that's neither here nor there with me. At least you see the potential.
The people who still can't are just hard to take.
You got me, but the fact is, there are many fans who acutally do think like what you were parodying.Well yeah, I was pretty confident to be able to drive my giant, yellow, sarcasm bus through this one without using the signaling lights, that's pretty rough. Maybe he should go for real if I managed to blindside someone with that one, doubt is all I have left now.
What you see as red flags, I see as normal things to improve. In addition, I think he is clearly improving so I would expect that to continue as it does for most high picks who improve throughout their D+1 to D+6.
For a while I was saying that Slafkovsky was 6th among our 15 forwards in P/60. Now he is 6th in scoring period (not just "per 60"), and 5th actually in G/60 and P/60.
His year to date 2.14 p/60 would project to 40 points for a full season of 13m40s ice time per game. I'm going to keep track to see if his pace slips, or if he can maintain it.
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The Great Weal
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You can see the tools and it's exciting. His one timer on the PP looks like an actual threat, he makes these passes at times that you'd see from top end players, he's getting more comfortable using his size, his skating is good, and most importantly he seems to want to learn by being open to constructive criticism (unlike KK). Of course he needs to do all of this consistently if he wants to be that elite player, but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.
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