He's fine in that position and improved his tip-ins over the course of the season. Obviously he'd prefer to be along the boards and participate in the actual play-making, because he is a playmaker at heart and not a Franzon/Holmstrom net disruptor type, but PP deployments will change as Demidov, Reinbacher and our new 2C join the fray.
Franzen was like 26 years old gtfo of here bro. You don't appear to be here in good faith. Who the f*** is Franzon?
Like the comparisons to Hossa, Jagr, Draisaitl, Rantanen, etc., age has nothing to do with describing a player's comparable archetype, in fact I said he's NOT stylistically like Franzen (Franzon was a typo on my part). This shouldn't be a surprise to you since you've recently described Slaf as a Marian Hossa type. Hossa and Franzen played nothing alike -- so which is it bobo?
Caufield was great on the PP until they brought in Laine. .3 goals per game vs .4 for Laine and Laine had the highest percentage in the league. All we did was cannibalize Caufield’s PP goals for Laine.
He, like the rest of the line, was good in the 3rd. Nervous in the 1st, like the entire team. I just want some more physicality to counter the Caps. I know it’s not his game usually, but get in Thompson’s face a bit.
No reason Caufield cant play high slot like he just did yesterday.
Id cut him some slack along with the rest of the young players for yesterday, it was a first for all these guys and Slaf’s game went as it did for the others, nervous and tentative at first but better as the game went on.
I’ve been saying, they’re creating much more when one of them is carrying the puck in the ozone to then make a play. Having them in movement entering the zone instead of when Suzuki for exemple dump the puck while Slaf and Caufield are positioned at the blue line, they usually don’t have the time to get the puck back. It’s unrealistic to think you’ll win every puck in that situation.
Hossa wasn't even as good as Slafkovsky at the same age.
Matheson was actually fine on PP1. That unit was good. Just replace Dach with Newhook (or Dvorak for faceoffs). That will be unit 1B.
Heineman is made for the playoffs, why is he not playing more? Play Hutson the full 2 minutes of PP and spice it up with Heineman/Demidov/Suzuki. Laine and Matheson would have an opportunity to shine with that setup.
I can't believe you singled this out lol
He's not going to be as effective as he was... end of the day we've given the shooting job to Laine. It's understandable because that's all he really offers and he's been effective. But Laine is easily replacablle with Caufield in that spot.
