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Juraj Slafkovsky - Year Two

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Where would you prefer Slaf spend his 23-24 season?

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japhi said:
What am I missing, its a 5 minute period and he came on second shift? If he would have started, by that time in the game, his TOI would have been same.
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Until this point, Slaf had less total OT TOI than Dach this season despite Dach being out since Game 2 and the Habs playing like 20 OT games. It’s a surprising and disheartening stat.
 
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Shawnathon said:
Final word? I don’t know what that means. He sucked last year tho.
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You state it as an undisputed fact that he was or looked "lost". Like it's the final word. I do not think he was lost at all. I saw a kid who was rarely out of position and very aware. IE, the opposite if lost. He wasn't getting many touches, which is not unusual. That doesn't mean he was lost.
 
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It's gotten a little silly. I've been accused of having past negative takes about Slaf now because I mentioned Marty had demoted him to the second line.
 
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Heffyhoof said:
It's gotten a little silly. I've been accused of having past negative takes about Slaf now because I mentioned Marty had demoted him to the second line.
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There’s a few posters that keep making sarcastic posts accusing people of running away from this thread because Slafkovsky has turned things around. The truth is you can’t make a post mentioning anything semi critical for debate without getting 5+ posts responding to you in a 10 minute period from people losing their minds on you. Lol it is what it is. People aren’t avoiding because they’re scared of the people I mentioned, they’re avoiding it because there’s no entertaining conversations to be had unless you’re looking to treat it like a fan page.
 
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nhlfan9191 said:
There’s a few posters that keep making sarcastic posts accusing people of running away from this thread because Slafkovsky has turned things around. The truth is you can’t make a post mentioning anything semi critical for debate without getting 5+ posts responding to you in a 10 minute period from people losing their minds on you. Lol it is what it is. People aren’t avoiding because they’re scared of the people I mentioned, they’re avoiding it because there’s no entertaining conversations to be had unless you’re looking to treat it like a fan page.
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To be fair, he has improved in many areas from the start of the season. His two biggest flaws from the start of the season remain, but they're less glaring now. The obvious one is shooting, but the other is still the speed of his decision making.

I noticed two or three times this game when he'd receive a pass to start the breakout and would be stuck still not skating for about a second or two looking about, make a nice tape to tape pass and then start skating. More experience should help eliminate that.
 
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Heffyhoof said:
To be fair, he has improved in many areas from the start of the season. His two biggest flaws from the start of the season remain, but they're less glaring now. The obvious one is shooting, but the other is still the speed of his decision making.

I noticed two or three times this game when he'd receive a pass to start the breakout and would be stuck still not skating for about a second or two looking about, make a nice tape to tape pass and then start skating. More experience should help eliminate that.
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He looks like a different player from beginning of the year/last year. It’s amazing what a little confidence does. My main argument in these threads had been if you aren’t going to give him reps in the NHL to build up his game and confidence, he shouldn’t be on the team at all. It does not surprise me when he started getting real top 6 opportunities that he started to get rolling.
 
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Tyson said:
Remember when so many pundits questioned his hockey sense? Yeah, good times.
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It's strange how different people can see things so polar opposite. I always thought his IQ was good and sometimes looked elite. Now it almost always looks elite.

To all of you saying this thread is too positive. WT ever loving F? :huh: What's there to complain about? Does it suck to have a 19 year old uber-skilled 240lb winger?? :laugh:
 
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nhlfan9191 said:
He looks like a different player from beginning of the year/last year. It’s amazing what a little confidence does. My main argument in these threads had been if you aren’t going to give him reps in the NHL to build up his game and confidence, he shouldn’t be on the team at all. It does not surprise me when he started getting real top 6 opportunities that he started to get rolling.
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Oh good grief! The organization have had a plan all along for his development process and buidling confidence. They've stuck with it and we're seeing his game grow. You would think by reading your post that breaking a teenage prospect in slowly was some sort of novel anomaly.

He's showing terrific progress and he's still a teenager. The organization deserves full props for it. They knew what they were doing all along.
 
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Schooner Guy said:
Oh good grief! The organization have had a plan all along for his development process and buidling confidence. They've stuck with it and we're seeing his game grow. You would think by reading your post that breaking a teenage prospect in slowly was some sort of novel anomaly.

He's showing terrific progress and he's still a teenager. The organization deserves full props for it. They knew what they were doing all along.
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With the way they did it, I would say Slafkovsky was an exception, not the rule.
 
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nhlfan9191 said:
With the way they did it, I would say Slafkovsky was an exception, not the rule.
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True, still props on them for recognizing this situation as an exception.

Bergevin would have definitely caved to the pressure and sent him down to the A
 
Tyson said:
There is no doubt now that the Habs made the best pick at #1. Players that big and that skilled are a rare commodity
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We are watching it unfold right in front of us................the OT chance almost won the game.
He has been very good since his promotion to the top line, and now is a driver of the second line and was feeding Money last night chance after chance.....

Great to see guys..................
 
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Slaf is lowkey having one of the best development curves we've seen in a long while for one of our young forwards. Guys like Chuck and Gally didn't improve that much from their first season on, Caufield and Suzuki were pretty much what they were from the get-go, the production just took some time to come ( and a new head coach in CC's case) . I don't know if it's all thanks to Adam Nicolas and Co., but it's an impressive result IMO. It's why you have a staff focus on developing tools.
 
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Pompeius Magnus said:
Slaf is lowkey having one of the best development curves we've seen in a long while for one of our young forwards. Guys like Chuck and Gally didn't improve that much from their first season on, Caufield and Suzuki were pretty much what they were from the get-go, the production just took some time to come ( and a new head coach in CC's case) . I don't know if it's all thanks to Adam Nicolas and Co., but it's an impressive result IMO. It's why you have a staff focus on developing tools.
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Could also be that Slaf is much better than those guy's, devlopment staffs can help but can not do miracles
 
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