Player Discussion Juraj Slafkovsky discussion
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Sasha Orlov
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HuGort
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Slaf showed in few games after the four nations break he can be a dominant player IF HE WANTS TO BE!
Gotta love the way he's playing... if he can find consistency of this kind of intensity & physicality, he's going to be an absolute menace through his mid to late 20's
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Jabba11
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No stress. You'll be focused on watching the WOW goals from Ivan Demidov next year. I just want Slaf to produce consistently over a whole year.
I think Slaf will become a PPG player, he has all the tools - just a matter of believing in himself.. and focusing. I dont think he'll be in the 100pt+ club, which is alright.. but im still happy we drafted him, wouldn't change a thing... and I wanted Wright/Nemec.
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Does Slaf have a wife and is Patrick Roy willing to be our head coach?
SlafySZN
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The main thing is his forecheck, cycling the puck and his vision/passing. He is creating so much space. He definitely have PPG potential.
and I think it’s very special for a player with his size and what he brings other than the points, to also have the potential of that kind of production.
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Thank god the Habs didn't select Nemec. What a disaster that would have been.
I feel like Slaf is gonna be like what Andrei Kostitsyn was but more productive. Type of player that will go on a tear but without being super consistent
The way he scores goals reminds me of Joe Thornton. That guy scored a lot of his goals banging around the net, or one timers in close. He had a bit of a slower release too which you can see on his goals from far out.
Andrei79
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I see this as a good thing. They're the most translatable goals in tight games.
Saundies
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Yep, I kind of prefer this to be honest. Other than like Gallagher, we don't have someone that consistently does this.
Dude needs an entire summer on the leg press to get a little stronger on his skates and we're in business.
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The Gr8 Dane
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His monster shift last night in the third was insane , I felt like running through a wall after that sequence
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Ryan Smith scored almost 400 nhl goals in the most grimiest of ways.
Goals are goals.
Saundies
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Plus it gets him more involved in the play. If he thinks he's purely this 'skill' guy who only scores pretty goals, you get what you get in the first half of the year where he's not really moving his feet or imposing himself physically.
Second half Slaf is playing the way he should. Pretty goals are a bonus but productivity is king.
The Gr8 Dane
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The ending is my favorite part
Sorry for the portrait mode , only way I could clip this was on my phone. 2 big body retrievals , a couple crisp passes. And eats up 3 sabres on him at the end like its nothing
Pompeius Magnus
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He has an expansive, bombastic personality out of the ice, and he's at his best when he's playing that exact same way on the ice IMO. He absolutely should not play any other way but in your face.
viceroy
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Also Draisaitl's 177 games are stretched out through his D+1 to his D+4 seasons whereas Slafs is up to his D+3. Ergo Leon's a bit older so if he can be a slightly less good version of LD I'm good.
Hab fans? Hab fans? Maybe you should mosey yourself back to the Bruins' boards whenever you feel like taking a shot at MTL fans.
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Frankenheimer
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I guess if I had to pick I'd rather see Slaf improve his game over the course of year than the reverse. He's going to be a playoff beast.
