I hear you, and although I don't think Necas is a world-beater, there is no way, if he and Ras were both FAs right now and the Wings could pick one, I wouldn't pick Necas. There is nothing Ras does better than Necas except maybe kill penalties? Necas put up 71 points last season.
I think I would take Norris and Thomas over him too. I agree though that Oettinger is the best player taken after him.
Yeah i've been saying that. He has the same type of build. If he can have the same lateral movement as quick did, then this is a home run pick. Always hated playing LA because of how good quick was with his lateral movement. if you get him moving it doesn't matter, you need to aim in the top corners every time or that puck is just not going in.
With the addendum of learning how to better rein it in when necessary. It's a balance of being able to do it, but not putting yourself out of position too early (or too often).
Look if he becomes a quick, I'm not going to complain at all. We won't need to worry about cross ice passes that much.
I was going to say I'm shocked Tyler Wright still has a job, but it appears he does not.
Necas scores almost 50% more than Ras at ES, going by career numbers (about 0.49 ppg vs 0.34 ppg). You're gonna die on this hill!
His technical game is what impresses me even more. He's so polished and positionally sound, looks like a pro already in that regard. Also, he looks mad confident. But I take that last part with a grain of salt. I thought the same about Mrazek's confidence in his WJC performance, and that trait didn't play out so well lol.
Sorry, with Mrazek I meant the high confidence was similar. Otherwise yeah, totally different style goalie than Augustine.
Goalies gonna goalie
Definitely agree on the technically sound part, as technically sound goalies aren't so bipolar in their performance. He was athletic and reactionary and when he was on, it was great but you couldn't count on it. And as for the rebound point, to be sure he was not good, but there were worse. Tim cheveldae comes to mind.
I'm fairly certain Holland had come out and stated that they focused on size for that entire draft. That was their plan all along. I think it's what had people foaming at the mouth in here around that time. It was pretty clear right away, they had missed out on talent that year. Add that to Raz being the highest Wings pick since Lapointe, and the first pick of the 'rebuild.' ANNNND well, we've seen how most felt.
He is not that soft. No other forwards blocks as many shots. Only Fischer and Kostin has more hits per 60 also. If you want to talk about soft, there's Sprong.
that's an interesting way of describing someone that's 16th in his draft class in points
To be fair to Ras, it doesn't make sense to compare him to anyone taken before him given that we necessarily did not have the opportunity to draft those players.that's an interesting way of describing someone that's 16th in his draft class in points
