F Ivan Demidov (2024, 5th, MTL) Part 2

Lol, you guys are just clueless. He’s green as hell and got burned several times in the 12:00 minutes he played. But sure, let’s play him 20:00+ minutes on the top line and absolutely ruin his confidence before his career even starts.

Again, THIS WAS HIS 3RD NHL GAME. Not sure wtf you guys are expecting. Tell me when a 19 year old was put on the top line for the playoffs in his first few games, just one example in NHL history. Let’s hear it.
Obviously a positional difference, but didn't Makar become an immediate high impact player in his first games coming out of college?
 
Obviously a positional difference, but didn't Makar become an immediate high impact player in his first games coming out of college?
He was a year older, and was used as the 6th D that playoffs. Girard, Zadorov, Cole, Johnson, and Barrie all averaged significantly more minutes than him.
 
I've never seen an NHL player move their feet less than Laine.
He was drafted for his shot unfortunately he is a little to stationary off the puck he would score way more if he moved a little more and tried to get open as he has great puck skills and vision unfortunately the way he plays off the puck makes him a mid six pp specialist
 
Their line needs a puck retriever. Laine is obviously not. It looks like Newhook isn't too. What do you expect, a rookie does all the job? On SKA he played with players who did a lot of hard job, like Bardakov or Plotnikov. And they were skilled enough for the KHL, it helped him tremendously to do what he can do the best, creative plays. On Montreal he just doesn't have such players.
 
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Their line needs a puck retriever. Laine is obviously not. It looks like Newhook isn't too. What do you expect, a rookie does all the job? On SKA he played with players who did a lot of hard job, like Bardakov or Plotnikov. And they were skilled enough for the KHL, it helped him tremendously to do what he can do the best, creative plays. On Montreal he just doesn't have such players.
The entire second line needs a rework. No worry we know that
 

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