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The Tavares disrespect is starting to get ridiculous. I get it he’s not 25 any more, but he just had a 70+ point season. There is nothing wrong with John Tavares as a 2C
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But it's going to happen.
If he is playing that level again this year and you have a #2 ahead of him you are a Cup contending team. If you are banking on him to repeat and he loses another step you are screwed. I like him better as #3 C next year but he may be wing bound soon.
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This is the least exciting 1st draft ever. I am only following were Stenberg goes. Fck Sharks if they go D. And fck Vancouver if they don't go C or D. I want Stenberg with Macklini or Bedard. Or the Stenberg vs McKenna will be as boring. One will be playing with AHL players the other with Matthews/Nylander.
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As he's aged, Tavares has had crazy swings in plays with very low lows that happen more and more often.
He's also not that great defensively despite being a faceoff wizard and a guy who grinds away in the dirty places.
That paired with Nylander also not being great defensively and having a somewhat clashing playstyle makes them have rough stretches of play to say the least
also tavares is 35, so whilst yes he produced as a 2C last year, it wouldn't completely shock me if come next year he cannot do that. We need a replacement soon and need to have some sort of succession plan in place which needs to start pretty soon tbh.
Lastly, this one doesn't matter as much because we have to make the damn thing first, but JT is a horrendous playoff performer, like people shit on Matthews, Marner and Nylander but this dude is like 2 levels below them. He's never had a ppg+ run for us, he's barely held 60+ point paces on runs and he always disappears when we need him. He's like a 50 point player in the playoffs for us and this was when he was a 27-33 year old...i don't expect him to turn this shit around nearing retirement
so all in all, through some aging, playstyle clashing, and general underperforming I do think we need a 2C. It's not as important as fixing the D which is priority 1,2, and 3 but it still is something we should be looking into
Correct. Cereda was coach of my Swiss team for 8 years. He's the new Switzerland U20 head coach.
My vote was fir McKenna, I dont think you can pass on a potential talent like him but I've seen a bit of Stenberg and he's a talented kid
It won't happen but I'd love to get both
It won't happen but I'd love to get both
Tavares looked very slow last season. If he had the puck in the neutral zone, opponents had a pretty easy time getting to him and causing turnovers. It’s why his +/- looks the way it does. Granted, the whole team looked slow at times because the D-core itself was slow and zone entries often looked sluggish, but moving Tavares to the wing and/or cutting his 5v5 minutes is absolutely worth a discussion if the Leafs plan to compete next season.
Always a good idea to compare futures odds between providers as you could find quite a bit of variance. McKenna is -900 on 365
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and yet, he wasn't slow at all, his actual skating speed was pretty good. Perhaps some of it was the systems the team played, or whatever malaise had affected the team.
I wouldn't be too quick to judge what happened last year, due to the Berube affect. When your zone exits are unpredictable to terrible, it's going to cause a delay in the forwards advancing the puck... which will cause everything to look sluggish.
It's kind of funny, but when you look at 5v5 Expected goals %... Tavares was the top forward on the team last year.
Here’s a thought… No, just no
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He’s not a prodigy. He has 2 more players ranked in the same tier as him next year - that’s not prodigy pedigree. There’s no guarantee he even goes 1st. A lot will depend on his year next year but he’s not coming in as a player above all the others
2027 NHL Draft ranking: Landon DuPont tops Scott Wheeler’s first top 25 list
The class for the 2027 NHL Draft is headlined by Landon DuPont, Alexis Joseph and Nazar Privalov.
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I wish I had the confidence that a lot of you do. I won't feel at ease about this group trying to do something off the wall or clever until they announce the pick.
Draft can't come soon enough. Although, I forgot how fun it was to be invested in the process.
Draft can't come soon enough. Although, I forgot how fun it was to be invested in the process.
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It seems highly likely that the pick is McKenna. I don’t think there was any doubt as McKenna’s numbers both last year and this year were better than Stenberg’s. The only reason the media created a debate was because McKenna started a PPG in the NCAA while Stenberg was a PPG in the SHL. Stenberg’s second half was much worse than his first while McKenna’s was better. The debate ended right there, but because McKenna had no challengers the media kept it going.
Interestingly enough, Stenberg opted out of testing at the combine.
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lol are you joking? He was a point a game defenceman in The WHL as a 15 year old. While there may be a couple of guys that are good and are battling for the #2/3 pick, DuPont is absolutely a phenom that has been projected first overall pick in the 27 draft since he was 14. I could go online and find all the articles about him from as far back as 4 years ago while he was barely a teenager, but you should probably do the work yourself. It’ll be your penance for not knowing who the kid is.He’s not a prodigy. He has 2 more players ranked in the same tier as him next year - that’s not prodigy pedigree. There’s no guarantee he even goes 1st. A lot will depend on his year next year but he’s not coming in as a player above all the others
2027 NHL Draft ranking: Landon DuPont tops Scott Wheeler’s first top 25 list
The class for the 2027 NHL Draft is headlined by Landon DuPont, Alexis Joseph and Nazar Privalov.
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I know who he is, he’s not a phenom nor was he the projected #1 pick in this draft for years. There’s always been a debate, just like there still is. There’s been a few high scoring defencemen in the CHL, including multiple over a PPG this year.
He was a phenom when he got exceptional status, sure, but so was Sean Day when he got exceptional status as a defenceman. What is always the knock on Dupont is his skating - it's not as good as the really elite players (Makar, Hughes, or even Schaefer, Hutson, etc.). That's why he was never given phenom status, and his stats aren't phenom-level.
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lol what???? Cale Makar is literally his top comparable.
Here’s just a few articles from 2023. There are more. Many many many more
'Superstar in the making': Landon DuPont's 'special' talent shines in minor hockey - Edge School
Story pulled from Sportsnet.ca It's not often a 14-year-old can hold his own against 18-year-olds, let alone dominate. But that's exactly what Landon DuPont
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Scout's Analysis: Landon DuPont like Connor Bedard, but on defence
With the U17 World Hockey Challenge going on in Sarnia, Sportsnet scout Jason Bukala reports on some interesting prospects he's viewed, led by the exceptional Landon DuPont.
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