Player Discussion Jake Evans (Part II)

[Rapala]

I'm afraid he's gonna have to start blocking shots.

I like Jake as a three but not as a four and yes my one criticism of his play on the PK is he's missing a physical component to be really good.
Blocking shots and getting in passing lanes isn't his forte his positional awareness and anticipation is.

 

[Rapala]

He's playing really well since the start of the season, really an ideal 4th line center.

It will be sad when he his inevitably traded.

He's playing on the 3rd line
And no I don't think he's an ideal 4th line center.

 

[Naslundforever]

Been playing well, looks “manlier”. PK doing well too.

I thought I’d say because I’m usually so down on the bottom 6.

 

[Habssince89]

Been playing well, looks “manlier”. PK doing well too.

I thought I’d say because I’m usually so down on the bottom 6.

He has definitely benefitted from a big role last year. No team plans to give a player like Evans that kind of TOI in a non-tank situation, but it leads to a silver lining of giving him tons of development time. He's never going to be a top6 player obviously, but it shows how much decision making and IQ can be improved with experience. He's 29 now and he hasn't stopped working on himself.

love to see a 7th rounder carve out a respectable career

 

[Habby4Life]

Only UFA I would sign. He wouldn’t break the bank.

Very versatile guy who is good on the PK

 

[HuGo Sham]

I think hughes will offer him another one of those 3 year, 2 mill deals. If he doesn't accept, he'll get dealt

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

He has definitely benefitted from a big role last year. No team plans to give a player like Evans that kind of TOI in a non-tank situation, but it leads to a silver lining of giving him tons of development time. He's never going to be a top6 player obviously, but it shows how much decision making and IQ can be improved with experience. He's 29 now and he hasn't stopped working on himself.

love to see a 7th rounder carve out a respectable career

His IQ was always very good, he has taken the time to improve his puck skills and now has the confidence to take advantage of his skating and IQ.

 

[Habssince89]

His IQ was always very good, he has taken the time to improve his puck skills and now has the confidence to take advantage of his skating and IQ.

Agreed I'm just saying the increased role last year gave him reps to improve

 

[Levard]

Get this guy out of the team ASAP can't stand him anymore. He is ALWAYS on the ice for important faceoffs and PK(which we suck at) is weak as a child ..way too much ice time and bring ZERO physicality and almost zero production .. as long as we have losers like him Dvorak and Anderson in the bottom 6 we are going nowhere.

 

[salbutera]

Get this guy out of the team ASAP can't stand him anymore. He is ALWAYS on the ice for important faceoffs and PK(which we suck at) is weak as a child ..way too much ice time and bring ZERO physicality and almost zero production .. as long as we have losers like him Dvorak and Anderson in the bottom 6 we are going nowhere.

Evans + Anderson duo on PK has been excellent and was so last night again

 

[Sorinth]

Get this guy out of the team ASAP can't stand him anymore. He is ALWAYS on the ice for important faceoffs and PK(which we suck at) is weak as a child ..way too much ice time and bring ZERO physicality and almost zero production .. as long as we have losers like him Dvorak and Anderson in the bottom 6 we are going nowhere.

We have the 2nd best PK in the league. Like if your going to complain about something there's a ton of stuff we are near the bottom of the league at, pick one of those instead of saying our PK sucks when it's running at 90.9%.

 

[Tyson]

We have the 2nd best PK in the league. Like if your going to complain about something there's a ton of stuff we are near the bottom of the league at, pick one of those instead of saying our PK sucks when it's running at 90.9%.

Evans is the least of our concerns, in fact he is solid at what his role is.

 

[Whalers Fan]

Evans is the least of our concerns, in fact he is solid at what his role is.

Evans is under appreciated around here.

 

[Tyson]

Evans is under appreciated around here.

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