Confirmed with Link: Brady Tkachuk - The decider: signs 3 year ELC

[topshelf15]

I'd be shocked if he didn't miss at least 10-20 games this year to injury.

You have to love his aggressiveness, but he needs to put on weight bad.

Playing the way he does at his current weight is asking for injury.

Yeah ,he needs to be careful out there...Lots of guys will look to take some runs at him for sure

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Well that was a fun 2 weeks.

 

[BondraTime]

Hockey I.Q isn't a skill. Skills can be improved, Hockey I.Q can't. The better your hockey I.Q, the better you can use your skills; see Mark Stone and Mike Hoffman.

Tkachuk's hockey sense is fine, more than fine.

 

[aragorn]

I have missed all the pre-season games, how has Brady Tkachuk played in the pre-season?

 

[Sensinitis]

Hockey I.Q isn't a skill. Skills can be improved, Hockey I.Q can't. The better your hockey I.Q, the better you can use your skills; see Mark Stone and Mike Hoffman.

Tkachuk's hockey sense is fine, more than fine.

Devil's advocate: What if you play with your head down, and work hard on making it a habit of playing with your head up more? Wouldn't your hockey IQ improve with this newfound vision of the ice and of your teammates?

 

[Sensinitis]

I have missed all the pre-season games, how has Brady Tkachuk played in the pre-season?

He's been better than 90% of HFsens thought he would be. Engaged, physical, skilled and showing off his smarts. A bit undisciplined but that's to be expected for a player like him.

 

[topshelf15]

I have missed all the pre-season games, how has Brady Tkachuk played in the pre-season?

He looked great as far as what I saw,he does need to put on some more weight and work on a few things...But I saw an young nhl ready power forward

 

[aragorn]

He's been better than 90% of HFsens thought he would be. Engaged, physical, skilled and showing off his smarts. A bit undisciplined but that's to be expected for a player like him.

Excellent, loved the pick at the time, he was the guy I wanted, my kind of player.

 

[Sensinitis]

Excellent, loved the pick at the time, he was the guy I wanted, my kind of player.

I don't think anybody here doubts that, haha! Hope you enjoyed your trip away.

 

[BondraTime]

Devil's advocate: What if you play with your head down, and work hard on making it a habit of playing with your head up more? Wouldn't your hockey IQ improve with this newfound vision?

No, that's not improving your hockey I.Q, that's learning to play with your head up. If you don't know where to go or what to do with the puck, keeping your head up won't help at all. Playing with your head down isn't really a thing in the NHL regardless.

If you could improve your Hockey I.Q, guys would improve it. Tons of guys improve their skating/shot/strength/etc. like Stone, but guys who have all the skills and size, like Lazar, will never improve their hockey I.Q. Lazar will never be able to make the right decisions on the ice in real time, he will always be a step behind his decision making process.

 

[Sensinitis]

No, that's not improving your hockey I.Q, that's learning to play with your head up.

If you could improve your Hockey I.Q, guys would improve it. Tons of guys improve their skating/shot/strength/etc. like Stone, but guys who have all the skills and size, like Lazar, will never improve their hockey I.Q. Lazar will never be able to make the right decisions on the ice in real time, he will always be a step behind his decision making process.

Yeah I agree 100% on your assessment of Lazar. Imo he has the hockey IQ of a frozen pea. But you don't think that learning to play with your head up more improves your hockey IQ? It's a skill but that skill is the only one that improves your vision imo.

 

[BondraTime]

Yeah I agree 100% on your assessment of Lazar. Imo he has the hockey IQ of a frozen pea.

But you don't think that learning to play with your head up more improves your hockey IQ? It's a skill but that skill is the only one that improves your vision imo.

Keeping your head up doesn't make your decisions smarter, you still need to know where to go and what to do (hockey I.Q). Keeping your head up makes decisions easier and lets you predict and see openings you can exploit if you know how to make the right decisions, but it isn't going to make the decisions for you; that's where your hockey sense comes in.

Players learn to keep their heads up in Peewee, guys that are making Junior A, let alone the CHL and NHL draft picks all know how to keep their heads up.

 

[topshelf15]

Lazar needs to just play the simple chip and chase game, as he has really no other skill...For him to stick becoming a great board/energy player is his ticket...Hustle all the time and being on the right side of the puck you know typical decent 4th liner stuff

 

[Sensinitis]

Keeping your head up doesn't make your decisions smarter, you still need to know where to go and what to do (hockey I.Q). Keeping your head up makes decisions easier and lets you predict and see openings you can exploit if you know how to make the right decisions, but it isn't going to make the decisions for you; that's where your hockey sense comes in.

Interesting, thanks for sharing I was curious about your thoughts on this specific subject.

 

[Sensinitis]

Players learn to keep their heads up in Peewee, guys that are making Junior A, let alone the CHL and NHL draft picks all know how to keep their heads up.

This I disagree with though. Maybe more nowadays... See: Lindros, Skinner, etc. The list is long of players who dominated Junior ranks and below because of physical skills (usually skating or size) and didn't learn that skill properly.

Conversely you have the entire Russian system that teaches players to play with their head up before anything else. Kuznetsov wrote a nice article about that (How We Play Hockey in Russia | By Evgeny Kuznetsov)

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I have missed all the pre-season games, how has Brady Tkachuk played in the pre-season?

Really good. He scored a nice goal on Price in g1 vs Mtl and set Duchene up on a beauty play on g2. He has played all out balls to the wall every shift , physical, battling , stirring it up. He has shown good vision , and really good reads.

 

[BondraTime]

This I disagree with though. Maybe more nowadays though... See: Lindros, Skinner, etc. The list is long of players who dominated Junior ranks and below because of physical skills (skating or size) and didn't learn that skill properly.

Conversely you have the entire Russian system that teaches players to play with their head up before anything else. Kuznetsov wrote a nice article about that (How We Play Hockey in Russia | By Evgeny Kuznetsov)

Well Lindros had exceptional hockey I.Q. He never learned to play with his head up, no doubt, due to running over kids as a teenager. Keeping his head up wouldn't have made him smarter, it would have allowed him to not get creamed.

Skinner as well, has fine hockey I.Q. Keeping his head down cutting through the middle again is a personal fault; everyone who plays major midget, and succeed enough to be drafted to the CHL are able to play with their heads up; weather or not they do is another thing completely.

 

[Sensinitis]

Well Lindros had exceptional hockey I.Q. He never learned to play with his head up, no doubt, due to running over kids as a teenager. Keeping his head up wouldn't have made him smarter, it would have allowed him to not get creamed.

Skinner as well, has fine hockey I.Q. Keeping his head down cutting through the middle again is a personal fault; everyone who plays major midget, and succeed enough to be drafted to the CHL are able to play with their heads up; weather or not they do is another thing completely.

Never did I say their hockey IQ was bad, simply that they didn't learn that skill properly despite being good to great NHLers and great Junior players. So this is where we should agree to disagree.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I have missed all the pre-season games, how has Brady Tkachuk played in the pre-season?

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

I'd be shocked if he didn't miss at least 10-20 games this year to injury.

You have to love his aggressiveness, but he needs to put on weight bad.

Playing the way he does at his current weight is asking for injury.

This is my biggest fear with the kid. He absolutely needs more muscle to play his game at the NHL level. Injuries can happen to anyone, but you really increase the risk when you play a physical game and don't have the muscle to protect yourself properly.

 

[16w]

Lazar will never be able to make the right decisions on the ice in real time, he will always be a step behind his decision making process.

Lazar apparently requested to be assigned to the AHL so he can get more icetime and develop... something many people were saying from the start. so it would seem that it is not just on the ice that Lazar is slow on the uptake.



....so yeah how bout that taychuck?

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Lazar apparently requested to be assigned to the AHL so he can get more icetime and develop... something many people were saying from the start. so it would seem that it is not just on the ice that Lazar is slow on the uptake.



....so yeah how bout that taychuck?

Hey, good for the kid for figuring it out. Maybe he can find that missing piece to his game that will give him a few more years as a legit bottom 6 guy in the league. (It may not be glamorous being a bottom tier guy, but it's still the NHL.)

 

[InTkachukWeTrust]

Although I think Tkachuk could play in the NHL this year no doubt. I’d send him down to the A to develop some chemistry with Brown and motivate him/get as much ice time as possible

 

[branch]

Although I think Tkachuk could play in the NHL this year no doubt. I’d send him down to the A to develop some chemistry with Brown and motivate him/get as much ice time as possible

The team needs him up for all 82 games for marketing purposes and he will not be sent down

 

[InTkachukWeTrust]

The team needs him up for all 82 games for marketing purposes and he will not be sent down

Which is unfortunate. I would rather see him down in Belleville for 1 year or even half a season to get some time in wtbs like batherson brown chlapik and possibly white to build some chemmy and develop his game