I preferred Eklund, but an overwhelming amount of text and charts advocated for McTavish. Not ready yet to call it a miss, but not looking good.
Wow. Look at the chest thumping about Eklund today. Where the hell was this enthusiasm for the past three seasons? Oh, that's right... Mac was the better prospect in those seasons. Now, let's use context and ask yourself if Eklund would that be productive under a Cronin offense? If you said no, then why are you chest thumping?
Why are you attacking me personally with a cheap dig (
I am surprised Mods are allowing that personal attack; guess that's the new standard.), but then you try to cover your conniving comment with, "Not ready yet to call it a miss, but not looking good." Are you still mad that I predicted the correct pick from that draft? Get over it and yourself. The 2021 draft was 3+ years ago. Why not use intelligence to understand why Mac isn't producing today?
None of our young forwards are looking good under Cronin. Z (2019 draft), Mac (2021), Cutter (2022), Carlsson (2023) and, to an extent, Colangelo (2020) have not looked good under Cronin. Derek Lee went into depth specifically with
Mac and his struggles under Cronin; the problem is how Cronin views Mac as Tkachuk rather viewing Mac as Mac.
You are too damned lazy with your hot take that you don't realize all of our youth forwards' offenses have been stalled or are in retrograde development. There is a much bigger problem in Anaheim. But I can always count on your trolling digs as much as I can your lazy hot takes b/c you are allergic to production and context, aka qualitative analysis. Please note, I'm criticizing your lazy hot takes and trolling digs, but I am not attacking you as a person.
Cronin is better at coaching are our youth defensemen to be more offensive than our youth forwards.
LaCombe almost netted goal #7 four times tonight against the Jets. Our youth defense (
LaCombe 4, Minty 4, and Zell 1) had a total of 9
shots against the Jets; whereas our youth forwards has a total of 3 shots (
Carlsson 0, Cutter 2, and Mac 1). LaCombe and Zell are on the verge of passing up all of our youth forwards in scoring.
Trying to discover why something is working or not working (or predicting draft picks) via qualitative analysis is probably best left to me, since I know how to understand and interpret it. See above qualitative breakdown why singling out Mac is sheer stupidity.