Laf is getting the ice time and he's producing. I do feel the JV/Varsity team structure of the past 3 years is diminished.
I’m not saying he wouldn’t have benefited from some PP tine last year, but it wasn’t the reason for why last season was underwhelming. Anyone with two eyes could see that his legs couldn’t get to where his mind wanted to take him. The narrative that the team ruined his development was cope, compete and total BS. Whatever, I’m glad to see he put the work in last summer because it’s paying off now when it matters most.
Gallant too
He's on PP1? He's on PK?
Questionable talent evaluators, definitely. But theres players they developed all over this lineup. Forwards and defenseman.
wow... focused training and working hard, you will improve.
Still hits when there is the opportunity... which is when the OTHER team has the puck. That's not happening much when his line is on the ice.
He is, he also plays a different position so I have no idea what your point is.
And yet somehow he was still "the same"/"slow" in preseason. Hahahaha. Confidence unlocks all the physical/technical improvements.
What strikes me the most about Laf this year is that he is generating offense on his own. If you look at some of the goals he has scored over the last 10 games, he is driving to the net and creating the offense himself. That is what elite players do.
Seriously man? You still hanging on to this confidence thing? Did you even read the article?
I agree. But the reason Laf and KK HAVE developed at a slower pace IS the way they were handled and the opportunities they were or were not given. I've said many time I don't blame the NYR for bringing them along they way we did while trying to win. It's just that the people wanting to win AND have them break out on the accelerated timeline that other top picks have, while those top picks were getting 20mins a game stapled to top lines and PP1 and their teams were putting up with the growing pains and losing, was just flat out RIDICULOUS. I've said the same thing about Laf and Kakko right from their first seasons: PATIENCE. They are going to take a while. They are 22 and 23. NEITHER is close to done developing yet.
Well Zib isn't the guy he should be replacing then. Makes zero sense. One's a right handed shot, one's a lefty. You'd have to rearrange the entire PP for this move to work.
Yeah, I did. Did you see him play in the preseason AFTER he made those improvements when all the naysayers were still spewing things like "his next contract should be a PTO," "He looks exactly the same, this kid did NOTHING over the summer," etc? It's BEYOND obvious that confidence is the key here. You can ignore it all you want, but then maybe you should tell me what YOU think the difference was between PRE season and regular, since the improvements were made BEFORE training camp.... I'll wait.
I remember some YouTube video about weird gear and they mentioned this lol, I wonder what his reasoning is. Especially as players gear is custom they could have the same graphics anyway with different features in the gloves, like how many players use old model sticks with graphics of the new sticks. They're both Bauer Vapor gloves though so I guess they're not that different as they're the same cut/style of glove
