Grate n Colorful Oz
The Hutson Hawk
So far, Schmaltz.
But are we so far or so early?
Because for now, he doesn't belong. Almost the entire planet hockey can see it, except for the big egos running the show
So far, Schmaltz.
But are we so far or so early?
Long time junior coaches generally best for teams with lot of development involved. They got experience. Probably more where Tourigny Team Canada head coach also. Slaf been handled differentlyDon't worry dude,
They're having Slaf watch tape of Matthew Tkachuk.
What better development could you ask for?
Because for now, he doesn't belong. Almost the entire planet hockey can see it, except for the big egos running the show
Agree on this.
Intellectual honesty would lead to acknowledging that indeed he dont look ready to be a contributor.
On the other hand, we also have to acknowledge that a 19YO with this level of skill can sometimes turn his performance on a dime. We ve seen it with Caufield.
As for the big egos running the show, i don't think they share our simple linear view of development where we think a player should dominate AHL then come and have an immediate impact.
Lets not act like these guy are here by luck our mistake. They have done their things in the hockey world and we should at least give them the benefit of the doubt. That does not mean a free pass nor not questioning what they are doing. It simply means giving everyone a fair chance and a fair leash. We are being trigger-happy right now.
Tie Domi made a play like that from time to time.How does a low IQ player with tunnel vision like Slaf could see Newhook on that goal?
Speak for yourself. I've spoken at great lenghts of the reasons I would like to see him in the A, and it's far from linear or simplistic, just from a different viewpoint and one that is probably far more knowledgable about behavioral/brain development. Brain adaptations are best done transiently, by layers. Test anyone on a time constraint game based on a 3d environment and if you start one group at the lowest speed (of objects travelling in the game) and raise the speeds by increments and then have another group start at maximum speed, the former group will get better a lot faster, because they learn what they need to do at lower speeds and adapt at doing it quicker as the phases progress, while the latter group's full speed does not allow for the same acoutumance.
I know you're full into the HuGoBo-do-no-wrong (and MSL) mindset, but they aren't experts on development. They're shooting from the hip, trying to reinvent it and thinking they're smarter than the boatload of scientists who have worked and tested development for decades.
Go back to psge ~50 of this thread and look at the premature circle jerk. Posters antagonizing others with @ mentions etc. Yet, we are the ones being accused of wanting to be right.
The posters acting like petulant children weren’t the ones desperately wanting to be right. I’m not saying he will suck forever or be a bust, but only that he sucks right now and would be better served somewhere else. I think junior was the right place and still do. I don’t think he would produce much in the AHL either.
I would not call the NHL managers from the previous decades scientist tho.
I also agree with your first paragraph and no im not on the Hugo can do no wrong train.
Dont worry, i will happily point their mistake and their failure, in due time.
Well, same thing happened with Reinbacher. Nobody wanted him, but when we drafted him, he became the new Pronger instantly. At the same time time Michkov became a small nasty kid with problematic character and 0 work ethics.They said some wildly optimistic things about Slaf around draft time that really poisoned the well. The next Rantanen, better prospect in every way than Brady Tkachuk, guaranteed future 90+ point player, a player whose absolute floor is better than RNH.
When that's your take on Slaf, someone saying that he might not be the smartest player to ever lace them up indeed sounds like heresy.
Well, same thing happened with Reinbacher. Nobody wanted him, but when we drafted him, he became the new Pronger instantly. At the same time time Michkov became a small nasty kid with problematic character and 0 work ethics.
As if it was ridiculous to just entertain that notion. Pure chickenshit conformism. Team says so, we say so.
On Slafkovsky in Finland, I followed him on TPS ever since he arrived. The whole time through I was lower on him than the scouts' rankings(I remember he was top 5 already in 19-20), and the reason for that was pretty much the same.Bobrov fell in love with Slafkovsky. This isn't what rational decision making sounds like. Bobrov's read on his play in Finland is particularly bad, especially as he went on to say that Juraj had learned everything that Finland had to teach him. Nonsense.
The issue is gally isn't an NHLer without Monahan. So what line combo do we use to both give ourselves a chance to offload guys like Pearson and gally and also develop guys like Slaf without blatantly tanking or letting people know poor play gets rewarded if you were drafted first?Who said it’s Anderson’s “fault” for anything?
But it makes zero sense to have that line together. Anderson has no Iq. Newhook’s trying to establish himself. It’s just not a good combo.
With Dach it’s a different story. But that ship has sailed.
His scouting is deficient on the basis that Slaf isn’t producing at whatever clip you wanted him to 50 games into his nhl career?The nostalgia of the honeymoon is definitely over for me in regards to the new management...
I really really like Hughes' approach still and am okay with St Louis as a coach.
But I am extremely disappointed at Gorton's nepotism styled management. He really sold him self well for me at the start whit his message, but the underlings he brought in are absolute dumbwits...
At least they kind of modernized the organization with a proper analytics department and development coaches.
On the other hand, how can you claim to work on a rebuild if the root of this effort, the scouting, is absolutely deficient?
All in all, sorry for the hot take, but we are very close to a state where we are wasting our rebuild time with this current management. Of course we have solid pieces, like our most likely monstrous blue line. But I am worried we are not gearing up for a perennial top tier team, as we should have.
Poor Slaf is a reflection of this... I think that not all hope is lost, but he needs to cook in the AHL, right f***ing now. If it works, then I will eat my words. A 60 point monster forward can indeed more valuable than a small 70 point center... Lots of ifs though at this point....
On Slafkovsky in Finland, I followed him on TPS ever since he arrived. The whole time through I was lower on him than the scouts' rankings(I remember he was top 5 already in 19-20), and the reason for that was pretty much the same.
What I saw in his game was that he was compensating for his issues with his size. He was not making good decisions - he was brute forcing plays that should not have succeeded, but that he got away with due to his size and strength. I guess you could say that he wasn't playing "the right way", and it felt like he struggled to play as a part of the system.
This actually was prevalent throughout his junior career. He had some skill in terms of stickhandling and whatnot, but either way, I always got the sense of him just doing whatever he felt like doing, because he could get away with it.
It would have been great for coaching to address it while he was still in juniors, but they didn't. Not until Liiga, that is. In Liiga, he actually couldn't get away with doing stuff like that, since in Liiga, the players are used to dealing with players stronger than them, and he struggled as a result. The coaching did notice this as well, but he didn't really seem to adapt. Could never properly play as a part of the system.
Internationally, he actually did great that season. Why is that? My theory is that in internationals, the games in general are lacking in structure, since the teams are essentially ragtag squads where the players have been together for just a short while, and that's the type of an environment where this kind of play can work.
But in Liiga, he still kept struggling, even when he received opportunities well beyond what he would have deserved. They tried him giving him ice time, spots on the top lines etc. and he just couldn't deliver. It's not a case of them somehow arbitrarily giving him no chance.
Of course, I did not think that he should have been picked 1st overall, but even if you make the decision, then there's no way one should have thought that he's ready for the NHL, assuming they had watched him play in Liiga.
Since Liiga is not available in North America, I always feel like the scouting for this league is pretty flawed, and appears to mostly consist of box score watching, and international games. Hopefully, they didn't base their decision solely on international performances.
As bas as he looks, you bet against a 19 years old with that skills at your own peril.
Makes me think of the guy who use to short sell Tesla stock in 2020 and then one day he woke up bankrupt with a position 2000% against him. After all it had difficulty delivering car, was on the verge of bankruptcy, etc. Many similarities with the current discourse on Slaf even tho two very different subject.
You didn’t make that point at all, you just trashed anything and everything on the habs like you always do. Have you ever had a positive post by the way? You’re certainly entitled to your opinion but it may be worth reevaluating why you’re so negative all the time.That's okay I won my point , you have no idea that players need development before they hit the top.
Great post but also terrifyingOn Slafkovsky in Finland, I followed him on TPS ever since he arrived. The whole time through I was lower on him than the scouts' rankings(I remember he was top 5 already in 19-20), and the reason for that was pretty much the same.
What I saw in his game was that he was compensating for his issues with his size. He was not making good decisions - he was brute forcing plays that should not have succeeded, but that he got away with due to his size and strength. I guess you could say that he wasn't playing "the right way", and it felt like he struggled to play as a part of the system.
This actually was prevalent throughout his junior career. He had some skill in terms of stickhandling and whatnot, but either way, I always got the sense of him just doing whatever he felt like doing, because he could get away with it.
It would have been great for coaching to address it while he was still in juniors, but they didn't. Not until Liiga, that is. In Liiga, he actually couldn't get away with doing stuff like that, since in Liiga, the players are used to dealing with players stronger than them, and he struggled as a result. The coaching did notice this as well, but he didn't really seem to adapt. Could never properly play as a part of the system.
Internationally, he actually did great that season. Why is that? My theory is that in internationals, the games in general are lacking in structure, since the teams are essentially ragtag squads where the players have been together for just a short while, and that's the type of an environment where this kind of play can work.
But in Liiga, he still kept struggling, even when he received opportunities well beyond what he would have deserved. They tried him giving him ice time, spots on the top lines etc. and he just couldn't deliver. It's not a case of them somehow arbitrarily giving him no chance.
Of course, I did not think that he should have been picked 1st overall, but even if you make the decision, then there's no way one should have thought that he's ready for the NHL, assuming they had watched him play in Liiga.
Since Liiga is not available in North America, I always feel like the scouting for this league is pretty flawed, and appears to mostly consist of box score watching, and international games. Hopefully, they didn't base their decision solely on international performances.
What we need is some new funny questions from the psychiatrist. That will surely help for the next drafts. “If you need to scratch your butt during a job interview , what would you do? Fight the urge or discreetly go for it? “
oh we really like how he answered that question, he’s our guy! We know he has no hockey sense but man oh man, the way he answered that question leaves no doubt in our minds that he’ll be able to handle the pressooourree.
On Slafkovsky in Finland, I followed him on TPS ever since he arrived. The whole time through I was lower on him than the scouts' rankings(I remember he was top 5 already in 19-20), and the reason for that was pretty much the same.
What I saw in his game was that he was compensating for his issues with his size. He was not making good decisions - he was brute forcing plays that should not have succeeded, but that he got away with due to his size and strength. I guess you could say that he wasn't playing "the right way", and it felt like he struggled to play as a part of the system.
This actually was prevalent throughout his junior career. He had some skill in terms of stickhandling and whatnot, but either way, I always got the sense of him just doing whatever he felt like doing, because he could get away with it.
It would have been great for coaching to address it while he was still in juniors, but they didn't. Not until Liiga, that is. In Liiga, he actually couldn't get away with doing stuff like that, since in Liiga, the players are used to dealing with players stronger than them, and he struggled as a result. The coaching did notice this as well, but he didn't really seem to adapt. Could never properly play as a part of the system.
Internationally, he actually did great that season. Why is that? My theory is that in internationals, the games in general are lacking in structure, since the teams are essentially ragtag squads where the players have been together for just a short while, and that's the type of an environment where this kind of play can work.
But in Liiga, he still kept struggling, even when he received opportunities well beyond what he would have deserved. They tried him giving him ice time, spots on the top lines etc. and he just couldn't deliver. It's not a case of them somehow arbitrarily giving him no chance.
Of course, I did not think that he should have been picked 1st overall, but even if you make the decision, then there's no way one should have thought that he's ready for the NHL, assuming they had watched him play in Liiga.
Since Liiga is not available in North America, I always feel like the scouting for this league is pretty flawed, and appears to mostly consist of box score watching, and international games. Hopefully, they didn't base their decision solely on international performances.