His shot has never been a strength, have people expected that? He can get it through though so netfront guys like Voronkov can work with it. He's playing semi conservative from his normal game, obviously trying to buy in and not make mistakes until he's established
Mateychuk has dedicated large portions of his offseason training for improving his shot, and it has improved remarkably imo. Nowadays he can snap the puck hard and accurately from the point, but the limitation is that unlike Werenski he still can't do it when there isn't much time and space for it.
Fortunately he sees the ice adeptly for deflection plays whenever there's a stick blade open in the lane but even in those plays the execution at NHL level isn't consistent yet because puck handling technique is still lacking, he can't change shooting angles quickly if he has to do it from a full stop, and the windup posture he usually has makes him a bit too predictable for shot blockers.
All of those things can be improved however and he seems very determined to work on his weaker areas so I try not to worry about it that much.
We need to get Marchenko and Voronkov under long term contracts ASAP while their price is still reasonable.
I'm afraid that ship has sailed. A deal similar to Owen Tippett's 8x$6.2M wouldn't look too bad right now, would it? Some here would've liked more term on his latest contract, I wonder if that type of offer was ever on the table in negotiations.
