Give me a break Jaynki. Slafkovsky didn’t earn his way on to the team last year. He was placed there because of his draft status. He looked awful. Making the team doesn’t make him special regardless. We’re lacking true blue chip prospects on this roster right now. Reinbacher hasn’t had a good start to this year either.
Hutson’s been on incredible but Foy’s nothing to sneeze at either. Guehle is slowly but surely turning into a first pairing blueliner… a lot of progress is happening.
I hope you know me enough by now to understand that I care not a whit about winning or losing arguments. I enjoy constructive dialogue and wish I had it more often.
I'll concede that last year's 40 games were pure development and scarce results. Teams in a different context with more pressure to win might not have had the luxury to develop their top prospect that way.
Not really important, but can you misspell more names in one post? 'Foy' is Roy, I presume?
Autocorrect and typing on my phone = chaos.
Get the same problem, but it's really bad since my space bar started being wonky! The words all jumbled up together leads to interesting creativity from the auto-correct and I sometmes miss those as I insert the spacing later.
I agree with part two of your message.
You’re asking the questions a lot of us were asking with them doing the right thing with Reinbacher while doing something completely different with Slafkovsky. Considering only Jiricek got a tiny 4 game sample out of the 5 realistic players who could’ve got taken 1st overall in 2022, it’s fairly safe to say he wouldn’t have made any team other then ours last year. That takes away from the whole “he’s doing something special by making the team” arguement being made in this thread.
He has 2 points in his last 7 games playing with the teams best players most of the time. He’s played well but I don’t understand where select few posters are getting this “L” to hand to everyone.
Makes as much sense as to say....Good job to the guys and girls that didn't go to school and made it in business nonetheless. All of those people in a ''you must go to school cult....''
He has special tools no doubt. IQ, shooting, passing, and his hands are all some of the best in the organization. Rare combination.
The people who are actually working so hard at pointing fingers towards posters are the ones in competition with L's and W's. On one side, you had people thinking that we should be patient and he should slowly walk befor he could run. On the other side, you had people bashing posters saying pros know best. I'm fine with my side.
We won’t know for a few more years what we’ve actually got here. But in my opinion, the people celebrating him and as a success story are just as premature as the ones calling him a bust.
I was about to post this and say the exact same thing.
Hutson is not a blue chip prospect until he shows he can defend at a minimum of average level.
Mesar might not be quite there but considering he was an afterthought 6 months ago and now he’s one of the top forwards in the OHL, I’d say that’s not too bad either.
