For me, Ghule is a top pairing lock. Everything that you could enjoy about Romanov's game, Ghule was just better. He won't score 40-50 points, but he'll play 25+ minutes a game and we'll all be happier for it.
Prospect Info: Logan Mailloux Part 3 The Only Hockey Talk Thread
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ChesterNimitz
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Here you go...
«J’ai vraiment changé»: Logan Mailloux s'adresse aux médias pour la première fois depuis 2021
Après plusieurs mois de mutisme, l'espoir des Canadiens s'est adressé aux médias à Brossard.www.tvanouvelles.ca
Not only has this kid matured significantly on a personal level, but his on-ice skills are also quite impressive.
This kid has all the talent to be that elusive number 1 defenceman that all teams seek. Great, gutsy pick that will benefit the team for the next decade.
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He might get close to that after a few years in the league. He’s shown he’s comfortable in the offensive zone. It’s will he get the opportunity once in the nhl to go on more offence.
I see him as a Weber type player who can add some look ya and he has an absolute rocket if a shot that can add some PP points too.
Kudo Shinichi
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He's got better offensive tools than Petry. The offensive potential is much higher.
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Possibly I was more talking about the kind of player, same frame, not that much physical, great skater, and offensive D with some holes defensively. Petry came to mind the first time i saw Mailloux play. Petry still a 45 points D, which would be already good for Mailloux to get to that.
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As I noted before, he has the smooth , effortless skating style of Malakhov. After Slafkovsky, Mailloux is easily Montreal's most talented prospect. This could get very interesting if these two players reach their full potential.
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Stylistically, he reminds me of Denis Potvin, with the way he's sniping those wrist shots from the blueline.
Agree with you that Mailloux is the 2nd most talented prospect on the team.
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I'm high on Mailloux. But, let me debate your definition of talented. You called him talented because of one elite skill: his skating. So I would at this point call Mailloux a talented skater. But, I wouldn't call a guy like Drouin, who has more than a few elite skill sets, talented at NHL hockey. Sure he's highly skilled. But his lack of hockey sense doesn't make him a talented hockey player. Just a talented skills competition guy, but a rather useless hockey player.
We'll have to wait and see about Mailloux's other skills, especially his ability to process the offensive and defensive sides of the game at NHL speed, before we know his NHL talent level.
ChesterNimitz
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Absolutely. Except in the rarest case, we have to wait to see if any player has the skills that translate to the NHL level. That is why I find it somewhat amusing how many are quick to anoint so many players as generational, exceptional, etc. Ahh ... the curse of the consensus.
For Mailloux, his skills are far more than just being a "talented skater". He has superior size and an NHL ready shot. How much better to have a prospect with these existing skills than one who you hope can develop same. There are no certainties in the development progression / trajectory of any player. But if I am betting person, I'm betting on the 6'3" guy who can skate like the wind and has a cannon of a shot. The margin for failure goes down significantly for those type of prospects.
What do you base that on? Personally dont see him being a better prospect than Beaulieu at same age. Hope Logan gets better development on how to use tools.
Logan has some impressive skills sets but it will depend on his hockey intelligence as to whether he has an NHL career.
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For a kid his age, he recently has not played a ton of games.............let's hope he can put in a full season so we can gauge better what type of Dman we have.
Staying healthy is key. If he does, expect a dominant season.
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i hope so but missing almost 2 full years of hockey is really hard so it might take him more time
Kudo Shinichi
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Watching him play, you can tell he's very talented offensively.
He's basically got the whole package: huge size, great skater, cannon of a shot, slick hands, vision, passing, etc.
Beaulieu's main problem was his hockey IQ. It's hard to tell how good or bad Mailloux's hockey IQ is since he hasn't played a lot of games.
Maybe Hutson? And, yes, Guhle is a shutdown beast with offensive upside as well.
This is true. It will help that he is in London - the Hunters run a quality organization which will give him every opportunity to succeed.
If it is the intention to sign him, and without knowing how his season will go, it might be best for him to remain with London for his overage season instead of being forced to play against men in the AHL or ECHL given how much development time he has missed.
DramaticGloveSave
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Ya he desperately needs a full healthy season. If he’s able to have one, and is able to dominate the way I think he can, he could end up an even better prospect than Guhle by the end of the year.
I said this once in the draft thread, but if he didn’t have the off ice issues and miss all that time, he’d probably had been viewed like a Jiricek was this past draft year, the tools are on that level.
ChesterNimitz
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Mailloux's level of skill will almost guarantee him an NHL career, here or elsewhere. The question is: how great a career will it be? If he reaches his potential, Montreal will have secured that most elusive of all prizes: a No. 1 defenceman. The Idiot Savant's tenure was largely a train wreck. But the gutsy move to draft Mailloux when everyone else was blinded and deterred by the office ice issues, may well prove to be a decisive move in the re-construction of this fabled franchise. Who would have thought?
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lillypad33
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Beaulieu was a great skater.
After that is where it ended though. I feel like his hockey sense is non-existent.
From watching a few games of Mailloux, I can tell you that his sense is higher than Nate's was.
