Slaf was never a physical player and until recent games, he was and might even only be a finesse player who happens to be a physical specimen. Size does not always equate physicality.
Who knows how many more hand fractures Gally might have suffered if “Websy” were still around.
Lol... true dat.
The full on team you’re seeing is based on speed and IQ. I don’t believe they’ve addressed the physicality element to such an extent as to optimize their asset mix. Gorton paid dearly for his lack of attention to it in New York. I just hope he’s learned from that.
The players aren't going through walls for Marty like they did last season and it shows. Too bad the lemon got squeezed so hard last season it did us no favors at the draft.
Absolutely
Absolutely
Poor Primeau. Hey kid we are playing you on home ice...NJD, Vegas and Florida.
Don't forget we have two mammoths waiting in Laval in Roy and Farrell.
He has made every teammate at every position worse by being on the ice with them, it’s really not just his own S%. Everyone should get his ice gime.
Skill is the most important thing. Benson would've been on track to be our best forward. You trade away other small players to keep him.
Yup much of the issue is inherited. The predecessors had no clue how to draft a good balance of talent/size/heart.
Elite talent can’t be passed upon but you subsequently need to do trades involving your redundant assets, as you rightly point out.
Once Slaf was no longer playing with JA he started looking like a legit prospect. That's a fact
We won't know how it shakes out but the decisions the made in the last two drafts can prove to be a dis-as-ter -- passing on elite-tier talent because our existing flawed roster has some small players on it... might as well drink poison. I tried initiating a discussion about this in the Tank thread but it didn't get too far.
He might end up as good as Suzuki, Cauield and Dach but he won't be better. And he is another small player.
