26Mats
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- Jun 23, 2018
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I'm most impressed with Hage's skating. It is absolutely phenomenal in my opinion. The way he uses cross overs to fly through the neutral zone. Then the wide stance to control the puck in the o-zone. He will never have Mcdavid top speed but his skating style really reminds me of him.
My comparable when I first saw him is Guy Carboneau. When Carboneau was in Junior he was an offensive player. You can still see the elite skating at the NHL level. Carbo himself thought he'd be a scoring star in the NHL and had to learn to accept that he'd be more of a shutdown guy. We'll see what Hage becomes at the NHL level. But if he can become a 3rd line C in the tier of Carboneau behind Suzuki and Dach or Demidov, that would be huge for us.