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C Jack Hughes - USNTDP (2019 Draft) Part III

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The overreactions for a bad period or shift for Kakko/Hughes is reaching levels of stupidity. Honestly, both could absolutely bomb their respective tournaments and it wouldn't matter much, if at at all, as to when they are being picked and their values and projections as prospects.
 
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RangerSeth said:
The overreactions for a bad period or shift for Kakko/Hughes is reaching levels of stupidity. Honestly, both could absolutely bomb their respective tournaments and it wouldn't matter much, if at at all, as to when they are being picked and their values and projections as prospects.
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This just isn't accurate. Performance while actually challenged is important. Otherwise you can barely even see hockey IQ, it rarely comes into day when you completely dominate a level. Of course, it'd be much better if the players played in leagues where they get challenged at all times, but you have to take what you can get.
 
Yeah, agreed. Very loose with the puck and while the Swedes did swarm him, I think you'd like to see him use his teammates more before he gets hemmed in. Not a good look today and pretty much a textbook example of what some of the pro-Kakko posters have been saying.

Hopefully he comes back with a better game.
 
ijuka said:
This just isn't accurate. Performance while actually challenged is important. Otherwise you can barely even see hockey IQ, it rarely comes into day when you completely dominate a level. Of course, it'd be much better if the players played in leagues where they get challenged at all times, but you have to take what you can get.
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Its very accurate. They could both go pointless in their tournaments and id bet my mortgage they still go 1 and 2
 
RangerSeth said:
The overreactions for a bad period or shift for Kakko/Hughes is reaching levels of stupidity. Honestly, both could absolutely bomb their respective tournaments and it wouldn't matter much, if at at all, as to when they are being picked and their values and projections as prospects.
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Kakko and Hughes should've both had Hat Tricks and 5 assists. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Because they didn't, they're busts. :sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:


I pay more attention to the good and bad things Hughes does rather than whether they win the game or not.

The bad things seem to be him trying to take on the opposing team by himself. That is something that can be fixed.

Also, he has to take a bit more care of the puck and not dangle it.

NHL Ice is not wide-open for him to be casual with it.


ijuka said:
That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.
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I know.

I think he thought he was responding to @RangerSeth . :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
I liked his back-checking today. He’s going to score points and will turn the puck over, but a consistent back-check will go a long way towards being a better defensive player.
 
I feel like there's too much overreaction going on here. He had a couple dicey turnovers for sure, but it wasn't the disaster of a game some of these posts are suggesting it was.

He got himself in all alone on the goalie two or three times and created a number of other high danger scoring chances with his passes. Sometimes they're not going to go in.

He did try to force plays a little too much, but that's coachable. His speed and vision were very apparent to me in this game, and those are the attributes of his game you can't teach.
 
Jonathan Drouin has better hands than Jack Hughes. Likes to dangle a lot and can be a very good playmaker. But, turnovers are his best asset. It's not coachable.

Hughes definitely has the better and more fluid skating than Drouin(or any prospects probably except for McDavid) but I feel like he's much more comparable to Drouin(as a draft prospect) than Patrick Kane. Say what you want, Drouin was a premier prospect drafted 3rd overall. Hughes has tons of potential but I hope his flaws get corrected in the NHL. Otherwise it's gonna be a turnover machine.

This shift by Drouin is very similar to those of Hughes. But even with a shoulder check added. There's no Patrick Kane in Hughes game. Kaner in London was a scoring machine and played very north-south rather than dangling everywhere.

 
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