His edge work and agility is incredible but his actual skating speed could use some power.
LD Rasmus Dahlin (2018, 1st, BUF) Part 3
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Agent Zuuuub
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yes not every prospect is perfect.
Dahlin could get a lot better in terms of top speed and acceleration.
Exactly, the kid is fairly slow right now in terms of top speed, but I’d say he will be a great skater when he gets some more power to those legs!
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Holy **** 6 goals already?!? and 29 points...never in my wildest dreams could of pictured him scoring this many goals
and points for that matter in his rookie season,..all together, good for him. - good job -
Though...most of his assists are secondary, so there's that and the fact that he is getting loads of ice time too.
I think people should hold their horses with Dahlin, one Cam Fowler was going to be the next Scott Niedermayer for the Ducks
after his franchise braking rookie season,...but...that, didn't happen, his rookie season (points wisely) is still his best season in his career.
and points for that matter in his rookie season,..all together, good for him. - good job -
Though...most of his assists are secondary, so there's that and the fact that he is getting loads of ice time too.
I think people should hold their horses with Dahlin, one Cam Fowler was going to be the next Scott Niedermayer for the Ducks
after his franchise braking rookie season,...but...that, didn't happen, his rookie season (points wisely) is still his best season in his career.
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Since when is that a bad thing for an 18 year old defencemen?....Thats something you'd expect from a great defencemen as well.
I can see from your post that youre a "stats-watcher". If you think that makes your knowledge of evaluating prospects such as Dahlin 'good', then good for ya
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If he doesn't end up at least 1.5 PPG by the end of the season, it's time to realize he's a bust. When you're not Finnish, you get a -1.25 to your PPG.
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Dont forget that age dosnt even matter. 1 year, 2 years etc have no impact on your development when youre that young.
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Decent.
But he was the most sheltered entity since France's army during WW2, in his rookie season.
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It would be amazing - considering he still isn't a full-time fixture on the top PP.
You literally just have to watch him play one game and you can see guys like Cam Fowler never had the skills that Dahlin does. Dahlin is no different then Mathews, McDavid or Eichel except he’s a defenceman.
He’s lateral movement and edges are fantastic, his explosiveness and speed are not at the elite level of a Heiskanen for example.
A defender doesn’t really need to be a burner though, some of the best D to ever play couldn’t skate a million miles an hour.
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If Dahlin was a PP1 fixture this season, he'd finish with something like 10 goals / 42 assists / 52 points - which would be amazing for an 18 year old rookie - and would even put him in serious contention with Pettersson for the Calder. Blame Housley for that boneheaded decision.
You win games by scoring more goals than the other team. Any points he gets are just as good as preventing goals. That's the role of modern dmen.
It's pretty simple, the further you go up the ice, the harder your job becomes, so in simplified terms offense is more valuable than defense. Saying "he's a defenseman" is more semantics than an argument about what his focus should be; in Swedish he's a "back".
