Prospect Info: Logan Mailloux Part 3 The Only Hockey Talk Thread
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I think Mailloux has to learn one of two things before he can make the jump.
His footwork is slow I don't think there is any doubt about it.
He either needs to improve his explosiveness or see his next play a lot quicker than he currently is.
I think we have more of a chance the latter will be his card to the bigs than the former.
FrankMTL
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True.....he was god awful defensively. He was great when it was time for the PP to come on the ice and he finally got a shift, he had a bullet from the point.
His skating didn't improve from last season and he was flat out bad last night. There is work to be done that's for sure. Maybe Snake Boisvert is right about him.
I just don't know.
I've always found him a bit slow on the uptake verging on dazed some times.
But as everyone points out he's missed a lot of hockey at a crucial time so more reps more reps more reps.
ChesterNimitz
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Its interesting how the narrative on Mailloux has changed. Just a year and half ago, so many here were describing Mailloux as a robust defenceman who possessed elite skating. Elite skating, is a term/description that is thrown around on forums like this rather promiscuously. When I started to watch Mailloux's games when he played for London, I thought I was watching the wrong Mailloux. Maybe, he had a brother that I didn't know about?
The Mailloux I was watching was neither physical nor highly mobile. Nor was he a particularly good defender. What he did have was a collection of elite skills: offensive vision, a wrist shot and the best first pass I had seen in a Montreal prospect since Subban. I had hoped that he would be able to overcome the lost development years due to COVID, injury and suspension and become the player so many here were initially portraying him as. Though I'm not closing the book on Mailloux, I think it would take a significant metamorphous to see Mailloux become the elite skater, top pairing defenceman so many had initially characterized him as being. It could happen. But the simple eye test focused on Mailloux's progress to date would say that such a metamorphous is unlikely.
It would appear that as usual, reality is a bitch.
Snake Boisvert may have scouted him accurately
Benstheman
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I don't think we can base our future top 2 pairs projection on Mailloux being part of it. If he makes it, fine. But i think management see him more as a future bottom pair D that can play the PP.
Kudo Shinichi
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Based on?
You don't say a player will have a long career in the nhl if all you see that player as is a bottom pairing dman.
Benstheman
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Come on man. What do you want him to say?
Kudo Shinichi
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He couldve not said that Mailloux was going to have a long career in the league? Did he say anything like that about Trudeau, Farrell, Mesar, Heineman, etc.?
Saundies
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You're a Habs fan right? Don't you watch Mike Matheson every single game?
RabbleMasterBlaster
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Habs history is peppered with horrible defensemen getting prime minutes...
Traverse
Brisebois
MAB
Dandenault
Matheson
It's a never ending cycle of terrible players. Goes to show how important it is to draft and develop dmen (more so than forwards Imo). Habs could draft 36 defensemen and only 2 would actually not be total ass.
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Estimated_Prophet
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Only MAB and Traverse were terrible players on that list.
Pump the brakes on the hyperbolic rhetoric and at least attempt to be remotely objective.
WeThreeKings
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All about learning to be passable defensively.
RabbleMasterBlaster
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waffledave
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Mike Green had a long career in the NHL and only had a handful of superb offensive seasons. Mailloux is not great defensively but offensively he's dynamite. He will have a place on this team but perhaps not with the current d-corps we have.
His 100 MPH Slapshot and lethal wrister will be needed.
MarkovsKnee
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Ron Hainsey was Hollywood Hainsey in Montreal and pretty much had the same issues as Mailloux, a good straight line skater but not great on his turns, not physical enough for his size and could be brain dead defensively.
He ended up playing 16 years, over 1,000 games & won a Stanley Cup. He spent 4 full years in AHL before we lost him on recall waivers a quarter way through his 5th year in AHL (244 AHL games).
Logan Mailloux has played a total of 85 professional games. There's lots of time for growth here.
Well said. It's amazing how fast we expect these young players to make an impact.
Hins77
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He doesnt have the pedigree to become a bust. I mean, to dominate the AHL at that age, more often than the opposite you will become a valuable player in the NHL.
Or probalby not on this team.
HuGo inherited Mailloux from the previous management, they might not feel any loyalty toward him.
Kosseca
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Mailloux has something that few other player have: a massive shot from the point. One need to think if this couldn't be paired with Hutson on the 1st PP to create more options
