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Player Discussion Drake Batherson (RW) - Part II
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Alf Silfversson
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Nac Mac Feegle
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Get a touch of meanness to his game. A bit of attitude. Like, hell yeah, I belong here and I'm not taking shit from anyone kind of attitude.
If he makes a point of carving out his space a bit more, he'll really be something.
Give me Tkachuk Norris Batherson with a 100% healthy Norris and watch Drake outscore Stu
bert
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Pinto is a better player than Norris. I dont think its really close either.
He did and Pinto came to stay with him for 2 weeks as well.
Pinto might be better than Norris, but that chemistry Norris and Bath had with the Captain was unreal.
I'll be happy with either or
Alf Silfversson
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Good to hear that Pinto got some of that experience. Probably bodes well for him. Those are, IMO, probably our two most coachable forwards. I feel like they'll both maximize learning in those situations.
Pinto is great but I think a fully healthy Norris is a better player (at this point at least). In his breakout year he was a legit 40 goal threat and was developing a good two way game. The Norris of last year, playing with one arm, is not as good as Pinto though. I'm hoping we get a fully healthy Norris at least through the second half of this year. I have my doubts though.
bert
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Pinto to me is a much better defensive player than Norris. Norris was a better goal scorer that year no doubt and its a higher peak than we have seen from Pinto. But I dont think Pinto is close to being done developing. He has had some spirts that I have found him more dominant from an eye test perspective than Norris ever was. He is a late bloomer, I think when he starts to get more consistent and can put together longer stretches there is a player with some very high upside. His skillset and package has a matchup center that will tilt the ice all over it. I think he has better puck distribution skills than Norris.
Norris is not getting enough respect.
Pinto needs to show he can be consistent before I will even consider he may, eventually, get better than Norris.
Norris is going to force people to remember how good he was before his injury this season.
Pinto needs to show he can be consistent before I will even consider he may, eventually, get better than Norris.
Norris is going to force people to remember how good he was before his injury this season.
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He was playing stellar defensive hockey before the Octoberfest Coyotes game, the points would have came eventually.
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People are just worried about health wrt Norris, we haven't seen a healthy Norris since 21-22.
He hurt his shoulder after Xmas that year but came back and finished the year scoring nearly a pt per game after missing a month.
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Norris just knows how to score in the NHL though, sometimes it wasn't flashy and looked repetitive and low creativity but the puck would convincingly and consistently end up in the back of the net, which is invaluable, AND he was the defensive player on his line.
Would have been fun to see who became the better player without injuries. Hopefully we still get the chance.
Would have been fun to see who became the better player without injuries. Hopefully we still get the chance.
I understand it, but I am not ready to write him off. He is so young, he can bounce back.
His skating isn't affected by his shoulder and I think people are forgetting how smooth and quick he is.
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Xspyrit
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Maybe last season and going forward but I doubt Pinto ever comes close to having a stretch where he scores 47 goals in 91 games, which is what Norris did just before the 2022-23 season.
Pinto hasn't done this analytically too :
This was his rookie season in 2020-21 and before "JFresh lolz comments", note that there's plenty of Selke level forwards in that list and great defensive forwards. The only few surprises were there because of a favorable deployment and put in a position to succeed but it was not Norris case, he was facing top competition night after night.
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AchtzehnBaby
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Batherson: It was tough to see them go, but that's the business we're in
Sens forward Drake Batherson joins Dean and Gord form the charity golf tournament.
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dumbdick
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I want to see bath explode this year. PPG. He's got it in him.
