JonathnTaylorTavares
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He does remind me a bit of Byfield so far. Kings are still waiting for that breakout.
Player Discussion Leo Carlsson
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ZegrassyKnoll
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Digging through his advanced stats, discovered something interesting.
His 5v5 xGF dropped from 33 last season to 21 this season. However, his 5v5 xGA also dropped from 33 to 25.
Fantilli's 5v5 xGA is 34 (worse than last year).
Bedard's is almost 40.
Celebrini's is at 30.
I think Leo has been one of the biggest targets, and victims, of Cronin's emphasis on defense.
His 5v5 xGF dropped from 33 last season to 21 this season. However, his 5v5 xGA also dropped from 33 to 25.
Fantilli's 5v5 xGA is 34 (worse than last year).
Bedard's is almost 40.
Celebrini's is at 30.
I think Leo has been one of the biggest targets, and victims, of Cronin's emphasis on defense.
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What was the story from the offseason? I forget exactly what it was, but wasn’t it something like Verbeek told him to work out in Sweden and put on “x” number of pounds, and Leo basically said no thanks not necessary?
Maybe he needs to take his conditioning a little more seriously this time around.
Maybe he needs to take his conditioning a little more seriously this time around.
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It’s also important to note that, by at least what I remember, he was expected to take longer than Bedard/Fantilli/Celebrini. I seem to remember a lot of pundits saying he should continue to develop in the SHL. I agree strength and conditioning is an issue for him, but I’m hoping as he matures he recognizes that more if he hasn’t already.
Terry Yake
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It was from a Finnish article, I remember it also. It was posted in this thread around page 63 but it looks like it's been removed. You can see @Static comment about the article but there's no article there... Hmmm, it's a conspiracy.
Edit: apparently I got the language wrong, lol
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MCB
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I think it was a Swedish article that I, amongst others, paraphrased, just happening to know some Swedish (despite being Finnish).
Edit: found it, it's a Swedish article from August where Leo says that Anaheim wanted him to put on 8kg (~17.5lbs) of muscle mass in the summer, but he says he's happy with having gained 4kg and that "you can't listen to everything the club says".
Edit: found it, it's a Swedish article from August where Leo says that Anaheim wanted him to put on 8kg (~17.5lbs) of muscle mass in the summer, but he says he's happy with having gained 4kg and that "you can't listen to everything the club says".
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Sure doesn’t sound like something Leo would say with his personality. You see a lot of stuff taken in a different context in translated articles.
He strikes me more of a “i will absolutely do whatever it takes, here for the team” type of person.
I think it was a Swedish article that I, amongst others, paraphrased, just happening to know some Swedish (despite being Finnish).
Edit: found it, it's a Swedish article from August where Leo says that Anaheim wanted him to put on 8kg (~17.5lbs) of muscle mass in the summer, but he says he's happy with having gained 4kg and that "you can't listen to everything the club says".
Sure doesn’t sound like something Leo would say with his personality. You see a lot of stuff taken in a different context in translated articles.
He strikes me more of a “i will absolutely do whatever it takes, here for the team” type of person.
He literally says in his mother tongue (not translated, I read Swedish) that he thought Anaheim's directive for him was going to be very tough to fulfil and that he's satisfied with having done as much as he did, also adding that "you can't listen to everything the club says" (effectively meaning that he thinks he's given a direction but how far he goes in that direction is his own prerogative).
I don't know how much we can read into that because it could simply be that Verbeek and Cronin gave him an exaggerated goal to work towards on purpose, because let's face it putting on almost 10kg of muscle mass in 3-4 months is incredibly hard even for young athletes, but it definitely reads as though he's going "I'll do what comes easy and that's that". In the way a young, inexperienced athlete who doesn't realize just how much work it takes to get to the top level would treat the NHL.
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