Playmaker09
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Brother. 4 of the 5 things you said boil down to "they're both big".
Their decision making with and without the puck is heavily influenced by who they are and what they want to do with the puck when they get it.
It's how they position, how they move, how they process, how they play a role for their team/line, how they... everything.
With goalscorers you're trying to project their release, power, how they get to the middle, to the net, get lost in space, control and shoot bobbled pucks, change their release angle, tip pucks, etc.
With playmakers it's their vision, accuracy, how they buy time for things to open with their hands and feet, change the passing angle, their timing and weight of passes, transition in the NZ/gain OZ.
You're trying to project their elite tools at an NHL level. Most elite players develop into dual threats, they don't necessarily start out as one, so they need an elite trait and identity to start with to give them a foothold to develop.
Players who are just above average at everything and have no identity tend to be the ones who bust. So yeah, it's better to put players in one of those boxes (passer, shooter, F1, shutdown F, pmd, twd, shutdown D) and compare them to the better players in the NHL in that role, and see if their skillset, habits and intelligence lend itself towards translating into a player who can successfully complete that task at the NHL level as well.
Maybe he could be the next Benn, Neal, Zbad or JVR. But Dach? What they need to accomplish to be successful is entirely different.
Is Joel Armia also similar to Dach?
