Lane Hutson Burgeoning Star Watch

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This is some serious copium.

He's a top 4 dman on one of the best teams in the league, but was a 6/7 on that joke of a Canadiens defense? He's been a big part of the devils success this year.

Thanks for giving him up for peanuts!
do you think Kovacevic was a top4 dman last year???
 

Fledgemyhedge

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This is some serious copium.

He's a top 4 dman on one of the best teams in the league, but was a 6/7 on that joke of a Canadiens defense? He's been a big part of the devils success this year.

Thanks for giving him up for peanuts!
asking you because I feel like you’re good at drowning out the noise and forming your own opinions but how would you rate Hutson’s skating? How do you think it stacks up compared to other skaters and do you have comparables?
 

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Feels fitting that his first goal comes from within the flow of an offenses cycle game. Not that it was into a full cycle yet, but quick puck movement, quick step up, quick shot.
 

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asking you because I feel like you’re good at drowning out the noise and forming your own opinions but how would you rate Hutson’s skating? How do you think it stacks up compared to other skaters and do you have comparables?
He's got elite agility and very good top speed. His transition and backwards skating are areas where he could improve, but he's made some nice improvements there in the last two years.

It's tough to find a comparison among defenseman, because he's a very choppy skater, which is much more common among forwards. He's a little reminiscent of how Johnny Gaudreau skated.

He's also not the most fluid backwards skater. Mark Giordano struggled similarly, but he was obviously a lot bigger, making it easier to get away with.
 
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dgibb10

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and you tough Nemec was a top rd too. They played Guhle on the right side because none were able to play top4 min
Yeah and Nemec had a 54.6% xGoals share before phoning it in after we shut down Jack for the year. Absolutely excellent.

Then him and Casey sucked together as a pairing this year, so both were sent down when Luke and Pesce came back. Don't know what that has to do with him last year tho.

He probably would have gotten more time to figure it out (ideally with a veteran partner), but Kovacevic and Siegs were playing so well that there was no way we were taking him out of the lineup.
 

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He's got elite agility and very good top speed. His transition and backwards skating are areas where he could improve, but he's made some nice improvements there in the last two years.

It's tough to find a comparison among defenseman, because he's a very choppy skater, which is much more common among forwards. He's a little reminiscent of how Johnny Gaudreau skated.

He's also not the most fluid backwards skater. Mark Giordano struggled similarly, but he was obviously a lot bigger, making it easier to get away with.
Thanks for the assessment, never a bad thing to be compared to Johnny
 

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