lol failure wagon. I really feel for Gauthier/Kravtsov. There’s just nothing those guys could do since they didn’t have the reputations of being gritty/veteran
Chytil made worser passes that Panarin have scored with, such sweet pass from Laffy but no luck
And even if Sharan was right handed so what? I want Laffy so be creative and take those chances with his passes. I see Jack Hughes lose the puck many times when trying to be creative but he keep doing it because when it work then its magic.
Chytil did that on the first shift. He blindly threw a lateral pass that led to a turnover that led to Calgary's goal. I'll bet your initial reaction wasn't "keep doing that."
My point isn’t about a player showing development over the first 10 minutes of any particular game, and not necessarily even about 10 mins vs 16. It’s about giving the player reps, responsibility and opportunity such as better linemates and PP time, REGARDLESS of whether they are playing well or not, in order to let them find their game, to DEVELOP. Obviously a player gets 60% more reps in 16 mins than 10 and logically will come along faster. The way almost EVERY top pick gets treated. And again, NYR were in a different mode than say NJD (who gave Hughes 19+ mins a game and tons of PP even though his D+1 was worse than Laf’s), so I can’t blame them too much for prioritizing wins over development. But at the same time if we aren’t investing in development and willing to live with the growing pains, we shouldn’t EXPECT the same sort of development. You simply can’t have your cake and eat it too. We made a choice and have to live with it.
A right-handed Laf would have done a spinorama to his right and then flick a pass on his backhand. A left-handed would have received it perfectly for a tap in ( see the irony?).
Yeah I have no problem making that sort of play at all. You aren’t going to create offense by making the safe play and the elite players can pull off the high risk play. I sant to see Lafreniere making those passes.
I agree about the confidence.
The real home run play there would've been, all fantasy handedness aside, the Panarin one-time slap pass to Chytil at the goalmouth for the tap-in goal following Laf threading the needle.
Again, the idea that either Panarin or Kreider has ever had to sit in order to elevate Laf isn’t true and has never been true. There have been two wide open top 6 RW spots for the past 3 seasons with basically zero good options to fill them outside of the kids
Not going to rehash all of this again because I don't want to detract from how he's looked thus far, but he was tried on the RW a few times.
Laf himself never expressed that. Laf has said multiple times he’s comfortable playing on the right.
