It’s the finer mechanics at times U see when defending. In the foot work.
There is very minor refine to be done, you have to considere the speed of the game he is facing and the larger rinks, those NL guys arent very big, but they can skate. Defending on larger rinks at the level he is doing isnt an easy thing, it only takes one flaw in the team structure to look bad.
This is exactly what I was thinking. The best mobile defensemen in the league can pivot both ways effortlessly without losing any momentum. The Lesser D either lose some momentum when they pivot or can only pivot well on one side. That is why so many defensemen struggle and get beat on their wrong side.
That would be a disapointment.
I think expectation need some re-adjusting if an Olympian who brought a team to SCF would be considered a disappointment. Vlasic got Norris votes and was good for 30-35 a year while shutting down opposition. Don't let his last few years cloud your opinion on the guy. He was a stud for many years
I agree Vlasic was very good in his prime.
Fair enough it'll come down to deployment. Vlasic averaged less than 2 mins of PP time most of his career. Matheson Hutson and Mailloux/Barron are probably all going to get PP time over him. Offense will need to Come from ES
It’s very possible he caps out around there. But if he’s giving you stud top pair D. That’s great by me.
Not really that many years though. His sudden progression and drop off line up pretty perfectly with Larry Robinson's 5 year contract with the Sharks. It's just too bad for the Sharks he fell off immediately after inking his extension. His time as a top pairing guy was not that long.
I agree. I may simply have understated Vlasic talent in his prime.
Hutson, yes.
Realistically, Reinbacher should be Hutson's PP partner, even if they don't play together at even strength, and Guhle/Engstrom - Mailloux should be on the 2nd PP wave.
It depends on a lot. How he’s deployed, the team around him and his development curve.
Yes, it’s very hard to know before we saw them all in the NHL and know where they fit best but for Xhekaj/Mailloux i agree.
Just what we need. A gm that lowers expectations. I thought we just fired that master of low expectations.
To be fair we lowered our expectations because Bergevin was a bad GM that consistently let us down, not because he told us to lower them.
It was both with him. He had his fair share of takes like trades are hard, centers are never available and/or they'd cost us Price, lineup not requiring much improvement cause anything can happen in da playoffs etc.
Hughes is smart, he is probably trying to lower expectations for lunatic fans
You don’t remember how the first 7 years were transition years ? He certainly did lower them. The sarcasm emoji didn’t save in my other post. I know Tyson was referring to lowering expectations on the player, not for the team.
