Now lets talk about the physical aspect defensive aspect strength along the boards aspect of the players and one of them LEAPS OUT at me as having a huge advantage.
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Juraj Slafkovsky - Year Two
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admiralcadillac
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Dude it's incredibly rich for someone who has easily posted 1000+ critical posts of Slafkovsky this year to indicate that other people's celebration is premature. What about your shitposts which make up about 1/4th of the posts in this thread? Were those not premature?
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Well, at this point in time, by any objective measure, the over the top criticism is premature. It’s completely fair to say Slaf has improved but he’s not yet arrived.
Unless you have a predetermined bias towards Kent Hughes — like you do — and think everything he does is wrong and the worst way to do it — like you do — and will ignore and dismiss any argument that challenges your priors — like you do — there is no need to announce the Slafkovsky project done and start handing out cristicism and bad grades.
Seriously.....you've been criticizing EVERYTHING Hughes has done since he didn't draft Michkov.
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Its too early at this point hehe, we dont really know where we are going to draft, What I can tell you is that the top 10 is going to be really strong and we should be in position to grab a really good young player.
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The single point losses have killed us from that perspective.
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We’re more likely to stumble in the playoffs than get a top pick. Damage is already done,
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Goaltending has been unreal too, rolling 3 goaltenders who play like their life depended everytime they are in the net has been brutal for the tank. Allen cant be traded soon enough, it should settle down once Monty and Primeau have higher workload...
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It’s crazy that with a three man rotation that the goaltending has been as good as it is.
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Yep, Marty St-Louis working his magics, he is a players coach and the players delievers without complaining. That team lacks skills, they shouldnt be where they are, but they are working pretty hard and never give up. Apparently MSL isnt a big fan of tanking, cant really blame him, he is trying to develop a winning culture.
I remember NJD talking about how many games they were in the 2021-22 season yet ended up miles away from a post season spot.
FF to the following year they break out for 100+ points. That's how fast things can happen when young teams remain in games while rebuilding.
We don't have their talent quotient but if we hang around .500 all year that's a huge win for me.
Yeah he wasn't last season either and it hurt. It's not his job to tank anyways.
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Lafleurs Guy
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I thought we’d be bottom ten at the start of the year. When Dach went down I thought… top five. And honestly that’s how we’ve played.
Goalies have been great and we’ve pulled points out from losses. I don’t expect that to continue but we’ll see.
We have so much talent that isn’t even on the roster yet. And we’ve had two top sixers we traded for get hurt just as they were heatIng up. Add in CC’s slump and it’s incredible we’re not bottom five already.
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Yep Its Hughes' job to make the needed moves. Hopefully he starts selling vets soon cause we really need to draft high once again, thats maybe our last opportunity.
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And we’re where we are with a stopgap goalie rotation, key injuries and CC and Anderson MIA.
True we are in the window percentage wise I thought we could end up after 82 games if we remained completely healthy.
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Cc is still playing really well and getting points. Huge disappointment on the goals but he’s at least playing well. Glad Slaf has had a spurt of points, he deserved it.
No, you have no moral right to call for 'waiting...'
You sentenced Slaf based on his Liiga numbers.
Pure dishonesty, right?
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The guy was absolute garbage for ~50 games. He didn't belong in the NHL during that span. Call it what ou want, but it's reality.
In less than 65 games, the player went from just being drafted from a league that plays on bigger ice, to being on the first line of an NHL team and contributing.
What you saw as garbage was perhaps a necessary step in development.
Slaf's coaches, teammates and management always said he was developing well. Were they wrong?
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Is this a joke post? Bedard and Fantilli are both performing great.
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44.90 GF% at 5v5 while having the highest Ozone starts on his own team doesn't scream great to me but hey we all have our own definition of great. Fantilli is even worse.
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Don’t know why a sens fan is trying to tell us things about Slaf’s development anyway as if he followed his progress lol.
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Bedard is clearly great but comparing Slaf to him is apples and oranges and anyone expecting a bedard out of Slafkovsky is looking to complain.
Slaf may end up as useful an asset but he won’t put up the points Bedard does ever.
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