Player Discussion Jake Evans (Part II)
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Habs Halifax
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Watched him closely last night... has a good shot and some offensive skills for a bottom 6F. However, he needs to improve skating, situational awareness, and to add some muscle so he can handle contract more.
Evans has developed nicely with the Habs and I wonder how much more he can grow with more NHL experience while he is in his age 25-30 years. Ideally, he is in a 4C role like Cizikas with the Islanders.
Evans has developed nicely with the Habs and I wonder how much more he can grow with more NHL experience while he is in his age 25-30 years. Ideally, he is in a 4C role like Cizikas with the Islanders.
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WinterLion
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That goal was exactly the kind of goal we always hoped Kotkienemi could do.
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KK's stick is too long. Very difficult to be deceptive in both wind up and quick release. KK has a long stick because he uses it for closing gaps cause his skating and acceleration is below average.
ahmedou
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Goalfield13
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This is how I see both him and Poehling, actually.
Evans: 4C or top 9 RW
Poehling: bottom 6 C or top 6 LW (potential)
26Mats
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I really hope we're patient with Poehling. Let him play the whole year in Laval, then start him out on the wing next year. I mean if somehow he's ready at C great. But he hasn't shown the awareness to be a C. The Danault loss was huge. Anyways if it leads to a full rebuild with a new GM, well that's actually ideal anyways. Gotta love these accidental tank moves, like nickle and diming Radulov and Markov led to us getting a top 3 pick...
I didn't mind his celly. Sure, he was surprised as hell, but true emotion is good to see.he's gotta work on his cellyhe was so surprised he scored a goal like that he didn't know what to do
Evans' skating look more than fine to me.
The Great Weal
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He's looked great lately. He's got 3 goals on the season and 3 points and KK has 2 goals with 3 points 
Great to see him picking it up...
Effort & attitude of a champion, if he can bring consistent productivity, he'll be a gem middle 6 player for us for years!
Effort & attitude of a champion, if he can bring consistent productivity, he'll be a gem middle 6 player for us for years!
Evans slowly starting to be a difference-maker out there. His line was huge in tonight's win. If only Armia and Lehkonen could hit the net once in a while... 
KevSkillz4
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Jake Evans is the most underrated player in the Habs. He is a perfect 3C, i really like him.
He's got more offensive ability than people give him credit for IMO.
Still would like to see him get stronger, though I guess at his age, he probably doesn't have the physiology for it.
I'd also like to see him get more consistent at winning PK draws, seems he looses every one of them.
Still would like to see him get stronger, though I guess at his age, he probably doesn't have the physiology for it.
I'd also like to see him get more consistent at winning PK draws, seems he looses every one of them.
IDK..........his line was asked to be a shutdown line last night and they were pretty efficient at that and creating there own scoring opportunities. I see Jake developing into a better playmaker offensively in a shutdown role than you know who. Stay healthy, Jake.
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he's got 19 pts in 71 games in the NHL, over 82 games that's 22 pts, so if he can get a little better then maybe he can be a guy that puts up 25-35 pt range for us.
ChesterNimitz
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Health is definitely an issue. Evans reminds me of Ralph Backstrom: good speed; industrious player who was responsible defensively and could chip in offensively on occasion. Back in the early to mid 60s, Backstrom was the perfect 3c to Beliveau and Richard.
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angusyoung
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Backstrom consistently put up points, and a fair amount,Evans has yet to do so.
ChesterNimitz
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Backstrom didn't have his 'breakout' offensive season until 61/62 when he was 25 years old. Hockey was much different game in the early 60s. Teams generally played only 3 lines. Backstrom was also surrounded with a much better supporting cast. Let's see how Evans develops. In any event, all I said is that Evans reminds me of Backstrom's style of play, not that he will ever achieve Backstrom scoring levels. Another player Evans reminds me of is Pat Hughes, whose skating ability allowed him to carve out a pretty successful career in the NHL in the early 1980s. As I keep saying: if you can skate, anything is possible. If you can't, nothing is. Evans, like Backstrom and Hughes, can skate. So anything is possible. In this dark era, let's all be optimistic about one of our few players that has promise.
Estimated_Prophet
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A smaller version of Craig Conroy also comes to mind and he didn't fully break out until he was 30.
angusyoung
sign sign everywhere a sign................
Certainly can not compare eras, a foolish futile exercise in doing so. Ralph may have broken out that season,but he was putting up very decent numbers from the get go. Evans is looking very good,hope he can continue and hopefully contribute a bit more offensively.
