Juraj Slafkovsky - Year Two
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BehindTheTimes
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I don’t see many ever shitting on him. I see many questioning managements path for him and MSL’s usage of him. Both things out of Slaf’s control. My concerns are less about Slaf and more about the process. I do have some concerns with Slaf’s IQ that I think will limit his ceiling, but there are a lot of tools there. We will have a good player imo, how good, no one knows.
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He played his best game as a Hab, so why would we not acknowledge that?
One-off performances that do not exemplify a player's talents occur, but are not the basis for overall evaluation; we might as well say that Lars Eller is a 50 goal scorer because there was one night on which he put up four. Rather, the totality of a player's career, failings, and strengths based on repeated observation gives us his profile, on which we make our judgements. When such things as his poor decision-making and skating skills are a game-by-game norm, we don't discard those realities just because of a single good showing.
But there is no reason to identify these typical flaws in his game, and errors in his development, on a night when he, contrary to expectations and past, regular performance, looked reasonably good.
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Picaroon
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Playing WITH Dach is what would help him achieve that milestone... Thank god they re-signed Monahan.
What if what you assessed to be poor decision-making and skating ability was actually poor conditioning last season? The IQ thing is more of an open question and ongoing debate but the idea that a player could be a genuinely weak skater and then just by pure happenstance skate like he did on the Newhook goal in game 1 is a real stretch to me. Results can be flukey like the case of the Eller 4 goal game you mentioned but you can't really fake that kind of 200ft speed.
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He’s smart enough to know that he needs to skate to the net with the puck off the wall and from the back of the net. He’s a big heavy body. This can’t be excused for low IQ. 80 hockey IQ suffices. Someone can even tell him he has the green light to start today.
They’ll waste Monahan on Gallagher’s last curtain call. Higher in the dressing room pecking order. Book it.
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I don't know. This coaching/management staff doesn't seem to be enamoured with the vets like the old staff. Especially vets that were already here when they took over. I bet we see Newhook/Monahan/Slaf tomorrow night.
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Hmmm. I don't love it. Feels like they are forcing Newhook into playing C instead of developing him where his skills are best suited. Reminds me of Drouin...
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Newhook is pretty good at center. It’s Anderson that is a question mark, he’s kind of all over the place i feel like, especially for a young kid like Slaf
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Newhook has looked his best at C since training camp. Him on Dach's wing along with Slaf was sexy, but he's looked better at C since the start. And he wins most of his faceoffs.
It's no coincidence that MSL moved him at C instead of moving Monahan up to that line.
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Thought this was interesting
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Even with all the shit Slaf got during the summer and all the "We should have taken Cooley" posts, it looks like at least one person would still take Slaf first, and wouldn't even take Cooley second.
Re-drafting the NHL class of 2022: Juraj Slafkovsky still goes No. 1, David Jiricek rises
Corey Pronman re-ranks the top prospects from the NHL Draft class of 2022.
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Even with all the shit Slaf got during the summer and all the "We should have taken Cooley" posts, it looks like at least one person would still take Slaf first, and wouldn't even take Cooley second.
Picaroon
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Fair enough. I'll give it a chance for sure. But going from a 6'4" possession monster C to a 5'10" speedster isn't optimal. I'll trust that the coaching staff knows better than me of course.
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He divides it up in 2 tiers.Thought this was interesting
Re-drafting the NHL class of 2022: Juraj Slafkovsky still goes No. 1, David Jiricek rises
Corey Pronman re-ranks the top prospects from the NHL Draft class of 2022.
Even with all the shit Slaf got during the summer and all the "We should have taken Cooley" posts, it looks like at least one person would still take Slaf first, and wouldn't even take Cooley second.
Tier 1
1. Slaf
2. Cooley
3. Jiricek
I don’t mind, in the sense that none has really taken the bull by the horn. No one seems in a hurry to really break out. Cooley might be but it’s a fluid situation. Until he does, it’s a Pick Em. Put them in any order you prefer.
Tier2 (4 to 6)
4. Wright. I’m surprised he has Wright still so high.
Other
7. Nemec. To me this is the biggest surprise that he was dropped from 2 to 7.
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Look at it the way you want: they’re either easing Slaf extremely slowly in terms of TOI and responsibilities or either Slaf has not showed them he deserves any more. In certain scenarios, like using Gallagher over Slaf with Monahan, Slaf is low in the team pecking order.
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he has the skill for both. Newhook I think will create more chances for him to shoot. In the cycle I think slaf likes to pass and get netfront goals, we haven't seen him use his shot in zone yet. For where he is in his devleopment, it might be a nice chance for him to work out his confidence in using his shot more.
MSL just tossed Anderson onto Newhook's line because those two had good chemistry in preseason. The coach is throwing Newhook a bone.
That's great, really, but I would have preferred RHP with Newhook and Anderson because Slafkovsky didn't mesh well with Newhook and Anderson in preseason.
Convinced MSL won't switch RHP and Slaf up with the 19-yr-old playing alongside Caufield and Suzuki. MSL is still shielding Slafkovsky and having the responsibilities of a #1 line won't happen this early.
Right now, there are 4 healthy Cs exactly if Newhook plays at that position. Won't removing Monahan from the third line until Dvorak comes back if Dach's season is over.
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