Player Discussion Lane Hutson Part 2

Grate n Colorful Oz

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obviously you dont differiencate playoff hockey than regular season hockey. Caufield scored most of his goals short side in the left circle this year, but generated almost no offense other than that. it is WAY harder to score in playoffs. I trade Caufield for a bigger winger that can make 70 pts anyday of the week. Debrincat was a 40 goals scorer but got traded 2 times, because hes almost unidimentionnal.

Goaltending, overall defense, opportunist and luck wins you cups, a lineup of 12 caufield would get destroyed vs 12 matt tkatchuk in playoffs hockey. have a good day

2 of his 10 goals were from coming down the right side on a rush against 1 or 2 defenders, from afar.

He's had 2 goals from close to the net.

Stop it with your ridicule reductions to creative a narrative. You just show your ignorance and bias.
 
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Benstheman

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This is the Lane Huson thread right.
I just want to say how impressed I am with Lane's maturity since he called himself out.
Too bad about most of the rest of the team.
Man i also am impressed with his compete level and defensive awareness. I was afraid his defensive side would prevent him from being a solid top 4. But man i was so wrong about that. i don't he will ever be a top defensive player but only being good in his case, will give him the opportunities to show his creative talent more often. I'm so happy about that.

Now for me, the only thing that can prevent him from being a star in this league is injuries. But so far so good.
 
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Rapala

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Man i also am impressed with his compete level and defensive awareness. I was afraid his defensive side would prevent him from being a solid top 4. But man i was so wrong about that. i don't he will ever be a top defensive player but only being good in his case, will give him the opportunities to show his creative talent more often. I'm so happy about that.

Now for me, the only thing that can prevent him from being a star in this league is injuries. But so far so good.
The thing we can all hang our hats on is Lane will not be a problem with the proper support.
Savard isn't it but the fact that he can look good with him in some games is encouraging in itself.
 
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Benstheman

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The thing we can all hang our hats on is Lane will not be a problem with the proper support.
Savard isn't it but the fact that he can look good with him in some games is encouraging in itself.
Absolutely. That's what elite players do. They don't need to rely on other players to be good. I'm absoluetly thrilled by this kind of player.

And i hope Demidov becomes that kind of player to.
 

KevSkillz4

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Better than I would expected for his rookie year.

I'm very impressive by with game so far.

He is not just really good on offense, but he play really well at defensive zone aswell. Yess, sometimes he will makes mistakes, but he have the hard work to try to repair his mistake. He is very fast minded player, high hockey IQ, elite passing ability, elite hands. This guy have everything.

Very special player right there!!
 
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Leon Lucius Black

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Jets were very bad defensively, theres a reason they got swept by a very bad team in Montreal. Caufield will never be able to win 1v1 battles, if you played at the junior major league level you would realise how hard it is to fight in corners against guys 40 pounds heavier and 6" taller. You dont win games with snipers, you win games with puck possession time, battles, gaining every inch you can, forechecking, hitting, blocking shots. Theres a reason no past cup champions had a 5'7 unidimentionnal sniper in their top 6. Next time you watch a habs game look carefully how painful it is for caufield to keep the puck while having a guy on his back and thats regular season.

Suzuki was amazing in his first playoffs thought.

Marchessault is like an inch taller and won the Conn Smythe like 18 months ago..
 

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