Which players had more offensive highlights during pre season so far?
Mainly, Slaf has a goal, the pass to Josh Anderson in the 1st game was something, his breakaway when he burned JBD and his breakaway tonight.
He also had a plethora of good other offensive sequences, board plays.
So yeah, which player showed more offensive prowess than Slafkovsky so far during pre season?
It should be an easy question to answer the way he is talked about here but the reality is that Slafkovsky is the 4th best forward of Habs after Dach, Suzuki and Caufield in the present moment, so far this (pre)season.
If you guys want to argue that Anderson, Roy, Evans, Gallagher, RHP, etc. have been better... im all ear for it, make your point.
Aside from RHP and Roy, those players aren't long-term players. I guess Gallagher is, but that's more because he has a shit contract and he's bad and can't be moved.
Slaf has shown promise, there's no doubt, but he's shown he doesn't belong in the league.
As I stated in the GDT, he had 2 times to shoot there was a leaf player just out of stuck reach if that and both times he chose to shot and it was easily blocked. Low IQ plays. He finally realized to pass, something he should have done before.
Later, he and Dach broke into the zone. Dach was covered. Slaf slowed up and forced a pass instead of using his speed to go around the net and see what opens up. That's showing us he's either scared that he might get crushed, or that he has low IQ to read plays as they develop.
6 on 5, Habs are actually moving it around. Slaf stands a few feet from the net and doesn't really move. He's basically covered there with the puck on his side of the ice. He does move to get open to keep the puck and defenders moving. He doesn't go to the front to screen the goalie, especially with a shot coming from up high. Potential double screen with RHP who's too small to screen a goalie.
He's done well, but I'm hoping he's actually lacking confidence, or just looked bad as the whole team did, but it is not a good look for him right now.
Send him to Laval for a month, or two see if he starts scoring and dominating the league and then bring him back up.
It worked with Pacioretty, so maybe it might help with Slaf, especially when Laval should be a good team, too.