canuckking1
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Starting to feel he’s more like a far shot to stick in the league than someone who should be a 3C.
It is so weird.Starting to feel he’s more like a far shot to stick in the league than someone who should be a 3C.
But he was a natural centre!
Gaunce was able to develop decent top end speed but his agility was always crap. It was a shame that his legs never caught up with his brain.Probably pretty comparable to Gaunce at age 20, worse than Gaunce at age 23 or 24.
In the 18-19 season Gaunce had become legitimately fast at the AHL level which shows the huge difference in calibre of play between the NHL and AHL.
Also I’ve always said that Gaunce’s skating criticisms were overblown. It wasn’t good, but it was better than Markus Granlund’s skating but nobody complained about that because small bad skaters don’t look as clumsy as big bad skaters.
Yea no offensive ability and inefficient skating hard to see what the staff saw in him at this point.Well …. Raty is pretty baddy
Puh-lease. He was going for a delayed offside to facilitate a line change and didn't notice that JTM hadn't reached the bench.Yeah he really showed great instincts when he jumped off the bench and played the puck with nobody around
Puh-lease. He was going for a delayed offside to facilitate a line change and didn't notice that JTM hadn't reached the bench.
If you want to see his defensive instincts, watch his play during a board battle. He anticipates where the puck will spring free and works hard to push it out of the zone while boxing out the opposition. Did that multiple times since his call up.
The issue currently is that his acceleration needs work. It leaves him constantly behind the play.
Have to shorten the bench. The games are really important now.An honest 4:22 in Dallas.
Our best skater tonight. Skating really well, making good decisions with the puck.
A very low bar though, no?
Don't know if it means much, but a lot of Islander fans were really upset that Raty was included at all in the Horvat deal.Teams aren’t stupid. If he was a player they weren’t going to give him up. AHL fodder
I agree with all of this. Still hard to believe he's only 20. And he's already played over 150 games in pro leagues between Liiga, AHL and NHL.Raty's skating is a lot better this year. You could see it at the Young-stars tournament. And tonight he had no trouble keeping up, and even generated some decent speed through the neutral zone.
Doesn't s surprise me. A lot of highly touted picks look slow in their first exposure to hockey in N.A. Raty is still only 20. Predicting a breakthrough year for him in Abbotsford, and even a few callups t o the parent Canucks.