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C Jack Eichel - Boston University, NCAA (2015, 2nd, BUF) III

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Gerbefied said:
Aside from the Finland game he has been dominant. I didn't watch the Belarus game but he has been impressive.

Bottom line is: it will be fun to watch him and McDavid next year in the NHL.
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I'm not sure about dominant. In terms of keeping the play alive in the offensive zone he's doing all of the right things. But with Trevor Lewis sucking all of the life out of his line he hasn't gotten much going. Eichel's line is the only line that doesn't consistently get burned by cherry pickers though.

A lot of the games he starts out being very creative and aggressive offensively. After that his play slowly turns into keeping the coaches happy and playing "good sound Hockey". You can tell the confidence is not there for him in this tournament. Which is scary to think about.
 
rt said:
Arizona lost HUGE at the lottery. My god. Probably the worst moment in Coyotes history. This is a primarily horrible history, mind you.
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Yeah you got that right.mceichel is on a whole different level then Strome and Marner. Thank god we finished 30th.

And to the Eichel hater who said if we won the lottery we would be singing a different tune...uh no. All of us said since last summer both are superstars and will be virtually the same production wise. We were guaranteed a superstar future hall of famer.
 
WhiskeyYourTheDevils said:
So are you saying Eichel is a lesser player?
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I wasn't referring to any specifc player much less Jack Eichel. The point I'm making is that overall lesser players look better on big ice because they need more time and space. On smaller ice the game ensures that those players aren't as good because they dont think, move and handle the puck as quickly.
 
rt said:
Arizona lost HUGE at the lottery. My god. Probably the worst moment in Coyotes history. This is a primarily horrible history, mind you.
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I'll forever think "what if?" when I watch Eichel play. EDM boned us so bad.
 
canuck2010 said:
I wasn't referring to any specifc player much less Jack Eichel.
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Then why bring it up in a thread specifically about Jack Eichel?

The point I'm making is that overall lesser players look better on big ice because they need more time and space. On smaller ice the game ensures that those players aren't as good because they dont think, move and handle the puck as quickly.
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But before you said that "everybody looks good on big ice". Which isn't true, as someone else pointed out. Then you pulled back and said that only lesser players look better on big ice.

Here's the deal. Eichel has looked excellent in this tournament compared to top NHL players (big ice), and he was positively dominant all season in the NCAA (small ice). Don't think it matters the size of the ice surface . . . Eichel is already a world class offensive player.
 
rt said:
Arizona lost HUGE at the lottery. My god. Probably the worst moment in Coyotes history. This is a primarily horrible history, mind you.
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No, they lost at tanking. The lottery odds were heavily against them, if they wanted Eichel they shouldn't have won 24 games simple as that.
 
Pretty funny. I think it's just a reaction to get a tip in that position, otherwise it looked like he might have been trying to get his stick out of the way.
 
He was trying to get his stick out of the way. Not even Eichel is that good to deflect a shot that close.
 
WhiskeyYourTheDevils said:
Then why bring it up in a thread specifically about Jack Eichel?



But before you said that "everybody looks good on big ice". Which isn't true, as someone else pointed out. Then you pulled back and said that only lesser players look better on big ice.

Here's the deal. Eichel has looked excellent in this tournament compared to top NHL players (big ice), and he was positively dominant all season in the NCAA (small ice). Don't think it matters the size of the ice surface . . . Eichel is already a world class offensive player.
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Let me spell it out again. I'm not talking about Jack Eichel. I'm saying that all kinds of players look good on big ice because they have all kinds of time and space. When they come to North America and play on smaller ice they don't get that time and space. Their skills are such that they can no longer make the plays as quickly as they need to. They can't play at the pace that they need to make decisions nor do they have the skills to it. It's not pond hockey in the NHL on small ice. I made the comment based on the number of players that look great playing on ice the size of a cow pasture. Once again nothing to do with Eichel.

Hopefully Eichel has thicker skin than you do or he'll never be able to handle the NHL>
 
canuck2010 said:
Let me spell it out again. I'm not talking about Jack Eichel. I'm saying that all kinds of players look good on big ice because they have all kinds of time and space. When they come to North America and play on smaller ice they don't get that time and space. Their skills are such that they can no longer make the plays as quickly as they need to. They can't play at the pace that they need to make decisions nor do they have the skills to it. It's not pond hockey in the NHL on small ice. I made the comment based on the number of players that look great playing on ice the size of a cow pasture. Once again nothing to do with Eichel.

Hopefully Eichel has thicker skin than you do or he'll never be able to handle the NHL>
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So just to get this straight, you're not talking about Jack Eichel, in a thread created for... Jack Eichel?
 
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