We could have a fully healthy nhl and ahl team! When was the last time THAT happened? Has the curse finally been lifted?
Edit forgot Reinbacher
As well, Gignac hasn’t been scoring, but he makes a big difference out there with his speed.
Laval Rocket: 2024-25 Laval Rocket Thread
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We could have a fully healthy nhl and ahl team! When was the last time THAT happened? Has the curse finally been lifted?
Edit forgot Reinbacher
Laval need to work on their PP it's becoming atrocious.
Get Roy off the blueline where he tries far too many no chance shots and kills play.
He needs to be tight to the net with those hands of his and he also needs to be a puck distributor as well as a shooter.
I'd call his play selfish at best recently. Personally I'd use Beck in that left point half wall spot he's good at keeping plays alive and moving.
ABB has also been very bad lately telegraphing everything and making some seriously weak assed pass attempts.
Lots of room for improvement.
Get Roy off the blueline where he tries far too many no chance shots and kills play.
He needs to be tight to the net with those hands of his and he also needs to be a puck distributor as well as a shooter.
I'd call his play selfish at best recently. Personally I'd use Beck in that left point half wall spot he's good at keeping plays alive and moving.
ABB has also been very bad lately telegraphing everything and making some seriously weak assed pass attempts.
Lots of room for improvement.
dackelljuneaubulis02
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Saw the highlights from Xhekaj's 5 point night. Beauty pass on his first assist. Nice deflection on one of his goals too.
Engstrom had one pass where he faked the shot but then gave a beauty to Davidson I think? Man he's skilled. God I hope he can play the right side. Kind of screwed if he can't.
Saw Mailloux actually make some solid D plays. He doesn't look like a lost cause which is good.
Davidson with some nice plays.
Interesting to see what happens when we get some players back from injury.
Engstrom had one pass where he faked the shot but then gave a beauty to Davidson I think? Man he's skilled. God I hope he can play the right side. Kind of screwed if he can't.
Saw Mailloux actually make some solid D plays. He doesn't look like a lost cause which is good.
Davidson with some nice plays.
Interesting to see what happens when we get some players back from injury.
It was great no doubt, but Bridgeport has 5 wins this year. It was actually 2-1 until sometime in the second. We need to keep this in mind. Let’s see them beat Hershey like that and I’ll get excited.
They were actually first for a while. Then 3rd. Now 6th. They haven’t looked great for the past 10-12 games. A lot of those points came against bad teams. I’m just saying, don’t get too excited without putting it into context. I’m hoping that a healthy team will allow them to put together a streak, but here comes Belleville on Friday and we all know how that can go.
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Laval is having a good season, great, if compared to some past years. They are sixth, but both Charlotte and Toronto can overtake them as they have played 2 and 3 less games. Wilkes-Barre also has an outside chance to pass them. Still not bad in a 32 team league!
As long as they stay ahead of two of Utica/Belleville/Syracuse it doesn't really matter.
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I don't care how Laval is doing, I care about the players.
I'm a fan of Mailman...and he's getting under my skin. EVERYBODY makes mistakes, on every level, but he has the knack of making mistakes that turn into goals.
There was one sequence tonight where he passed to a forwards feet. From the angle he passed, at the players 5 o'clock position, that is not a crazy pass nor difficult to receive. But the forward loses the puck and a resulting goal.
I kept playing the sequence over and over, other then throwing it down the ice, not many choices...and of course, it lands up in the net.
I think that there is a serious problem with developing players like M. He needs a veteran to play with were there is structure and disciplin. He has all the tools but the biggest thing he doesn't have is vision. He doesn't process the next two moves were he understands that what he does has consequences in the next two steps. So passing to an open player makes sense to him, except that player is going to be covered a second later. He simply doesn't see that. Nor is it a simple thing to teach. EVERYTHING has a one second decision-action-reaction, so it has to be done at an instinctive level speed.
He needs someone to teach him how to play like Josh George's for now. Basic, simple, non-brutal, quick forward passing hockey. Once he's playing that THEN add the offense.
BTW...AHL is far dirtier hockey then the NHL. Too many worthless journeyman still think that if they get the next dirty hit in, someone will notice them.
I'm a fan of Mailman...and he's getting under my skin. EVERYBODY makes mistakes, on every level, but he has the knack of making mistakes that turn into goals.
There was one sequence tonight where he passed to a forwards feet. From the angle he passed, at the players 5 o'clock position, that is not a crazy pass nor difficult to receive. But the forward loses the puck and a resulting goal.
I kept playing the sequence over and over, other then throwing it down the ice, not many choices...and of course, it lands up in the net.
I think that there is a serious problem with developing players like M. He needs a veteran to play with were there is structure and disciplin. He has all the tools but the biggest thing he doesn't have is vision. He doesn't process the next two moves were he understands that what he does has consequences in the next two steps. So passing to an open player makes sense to him, except that player is going to be covered a second later. He simply doesn't see that. Nor is it a simple thing to teach. EVERYTHING has a one second decision-action-reaction, so it has to be done at an instinctive level speed.
He needs someone to teach him how to play like Josh George's for now. Basic, simple, non-brutal, quick forward passing hockey. Once he's playing that THEN add the offense.
BTW...AHL is far dirtier hockey then the NHL. Too many worthless journeyman still think that if they get the next dirty hit in, someone will notice them.
Pompeius Magnus
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He's having a terrible month as a whole, he's nowhere near the player he was earlier in the season, there might be something extra going on (injury, personal, etc.). That said, you're right in saying that he's still missing a couple key elements that will always make it harder for him to get to that next level, unless he can fix them. Missing so much of that key learning/development time in his junior days might be the biggest factor in that IMO, he just didn't get much coaching before age 19.
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X didnt get a lot of coaching either in the past but he turned his game around in a few months after extensive one on ones and practices. The current X is in a different league compared to the season opener X.
Maybe M needs the exact same treatment. Bring him up and work with him by the same coach, one on one, then break him in slowly. It's not like his mistakes will cost us a spot on the Promised Land.
Treat him like the rookie he is rather then expecting him to take over a shift. Play him with Savard and make it Savards job to actually TRAIN him in decision making. Even if he plays 10 minutes every second game, plus practice, we can get the top 4 offensive RHD we desperatly need.
