I do also think that Perfettis lack of speed is going to limit him. He's a fantastically skilled high iq guy but if you're smaller you better be an excellent skater in the nhl.
If you can't evade checking you'll be giving up the puck a lot and taking a beating. If Perfetti had ehlers speed, he be a bonafide star, and if ehlers had Perfettis mind he'd be a superstar.
limit him how? reaching some lofty comparisons and ppl throw on here, perhaps. however, there's players who don't particularly play fast that can play or produce at a v good nhl level.
i don't gather much from max top-speed as surixon brought up b/c it looks like majority of fwds fall within couple km/h of each other.
but the frequency they reach certain speed thresholds - Perfetti is near the bottom of nhl fwds in, which id denote as the difference of
playing fast and
top speed. there are some really good producers around him in terms of playing-fast. ofc there's some non-producers too. perfetti has already shown he can be 0.55 PPG player in his early 20s, i think that's a solid enough baseline to improve upon.
I'm not at all concerned about his skating. He gets quicker each year and can burst in thr top 20% when he wants now. He is just going to need to bust more and continue to learn how to shield and spin off guys. He was doing a good of that last year.
his top speed is posted at 22.7 MPH.... he reached above 22 MPH that sole time in 71gp. it's a single point in time measurement that alot of these fwds have minuscule differences. you mention percentiles of max speed and ofc don't even talk about how tight the ranges are.
Sounds to me like they are really counting the pennies in this deal -
Is it possible that the Jets are not as high on Perfetti and many around here are?
Are there concerns with this ability to stay healthy, his stamina, his size, his speed? Maybe it isn't all about comps / production up to this point.
This won't be popular but why would the Jets fret over a gap that looks to be around $500K if the player is anything close to what he is sometimes described around here as?
Sounds like the Jets are also concerned about a bridge number that shouldn't really worry the org too much - I thought there might be concerns with a longer term deal at this point - but the bridge money we're taking over two years?
I was thinking at one time that the Jets would go as high as $4M on a 2yr bridge - now I'm really wondering what is going on here.
i love how we can talk about the difference of 500k USD per year so nonchalantly
he's a recent top-10 pick, their highest pick since 2016 - who seems like a good guy off the ice and someone they felt comfortable sending to represent them on the media tour along with being a legitimate piece for their top-6.
IMO i get the impression they're high on him given all that. i do agree w/ you overall - they're probably a bit more realistic in their evaluations compared to some on here. i am surprised a bit of the absence of LT deal talk from the Jets POV, if the reported commentary or narratives are true.