Adam Larsson..
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He's so calm that at times he seems really bored. I saw him yawn on the bench last night...
Larsson is fine on the PP. He'll get better at as he gets older. He isn't going to be a rover on there like Nieds was, but he is a good passer and good at handling the puck (and keeping it in). That is what you want for a point on the PP. He just needs to work on when to shoot when to pass as to not telegraph stuff. That will come with age though.
Tedenby21
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AfroThunder396
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I agree. I think the points will start coming more consistently eventually.
I'd like to see that pairing in the future too.
aboriginal
lou ****ing sucks
i think hell excel better when kovy is at the circle and he is in kovys "spot" on point. you know, where defensemen play. still dont like kovy on point. the whole point of getting a dman who can move the puck was to get forwards away from those spots. zomg but heff you scene his wontimerz$?!! yea thats great, ive also seen stammer do the same thing from the faceoff dot. below me.
Trottier
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Frankly, PP is least of my concerns. I care about 5 on 5 play....and considering that this Conference features the likes of Crosby, Malkin, Giroux, Stamkos, Backstrom, Tavares et al for years to come, he was the ONLY pick for NJD last June.
You can have the offensive stat compiler. NJD has a bonafide shutdown dman for the next decade+.
Whereas, until this draft, they did not. With th possible exception of Volchenkov.
That's invaluable.
You can have the offensive stat compiler. NJD has a bonafide shutdown dman for the next decade+.
Whereas, until this draft, they did not. With th possible exception of Volchenkov.
That's invaluable.
were not as impressive to me as enstrom was. enstrom stepped in and immediately became the best defenseman in his division.
and while pietrangelo and myers both played quite well in their rookie seasons, they just didn't have the same composure i see in larsson. not to mention both of them were older.
What you see may not always be what's right.
A lot of Rangers fans were obsessed with MDZ's rookie season. The truth is that, he was playing very average even strength and rode a hot powerplay in the beginning of the year to stat pad. He didn't have a great rookie year as indicated, but a ton of us fans were too biased to admit it.
Myers won the rookie of the year, he became a #1 guy immediately on a playoff team. Pietrangelo had a dominant rookie year, his defensive was on par with the league's best towards the end of the year.
Larsson will probably get 20-25ish points, I doubt he's gonna have a better rookie year than the players mentioned above. Larsson won't contend with the rookie of the year award like the other two were, unless he gets on a hot point streak. There are also other rookies playing out of their mind right now, Nugent-Hopkins PPG player, Landeskog top 3 in shots, hits, Couturier is starting to heat up, etc.
Enstrom while it's a great accomplishment that he became 'the top defender in his division', it certainly is debatable. Mike Green also had a ton of points, playing in all situations for a playoff Capitals team. Other than that yeah, but who were the other elite defenders in the division,.... Frankstiek Kaberle?
SLNP
Gettin' Sykie wit it
if we had drafted couturier instead we would be a lottery team right now. larsson makes our d-corps so much better, even at his ripe young age. imagine having fraser instead of larsson for the last 12 games.
Getzo5
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That is a very scary thought. Very true. And Couturier probably wouldn't be scoring at that rate here, if he made the team out of camp at all.
GentlemanOfLeisure
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Without Larsson we would have signed Stralman.
If we didnt draft larsson we would have drafted Zibanijad. Not Strome or Couturier.
Larsson at 18 is getting 22 minutes a night on our defense and isnt playing bad at all. That's amazing. Will he win a Norris trophy? I doubt it. But if he turns into Ryan Suter we will all be thrilled.
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