Prospect Info: Logan Mailloux Part 3 The Only Hockey Talk Thread

[HabsAddict]

I think being a piece in a trade for a major top 4 RD acquisition is certainly a possibility

Mailman was the top of the Hughes list to make it this season. That is why he traded away Kova.

I damn sure Hughes is aware of what is going on in Laval and this regression must have some kind of core issue. He literally looks like he just came up from juniors.

Last night game, I can't understand why he doesn't move fast enough to close the hole in front of the net on the PK. I can't understand why he pinches with the fastest guy on both teams near the blue line and gets completely beaten. I simply don't understand what he is thinking and WHY he is thinking like that.

I slow down the motion to 25% to see if he's looking at something else which gives him pause...and nope, he simply doesn't see the obvious.

HE MUST make his game as simple as it can possibly be. Stop thinking pinches, stop thinking about going on offence. Worry about only one thing...keeping people from scoring. He has to play like how I ride. I take my bike out with the belief that everyone is going to make a mistake and kill me. So my head is on a f*****n swivel making sure that I know where every car on the eastern hemisphere is and heading.

It's not that every second of ice time was a disaster waiting to happen, but hockey is a lot of little things done constantly right. Mistakes are always going to be present, every player makes them, but the more he eliminates, the more reliable and important he becomes. He closes the gap and there is no goal. He doesn't pinch and he doesn't get beaten. That's just three second of decision in 20 minutes of ice time.

I don't know what to say....and I don't know what is going on in his head. I just hope he snaps out of this and slowly gets back to a player we all want him to be.

EDIT....and the best of all extra stupid things to do. Little X is covering for M and stays with the forward THEN he peels off his coverage, to leave his man wide open in front of the net. Literally skated away from the guy he was covering in FRONT OF THE NET. That is PEEWEE level of stupid. I'm glad I'm not coaching because I would bag skate him till his nuts dropped. Needless to say, I'm not impressed by some of our Laval rocket scientist.

 

[First Line]

Not a big fan of this prospect...

Hockey IQ and footwork are lacking. He's a trade chip in my opinion.

sorry , looks like I stumbled in the Justin Barron thread by mistake

 

[chapeau]

He's still just 21. I wouldn't mind him spending this whole year in the AHL, a few short stints next year, and hopefully in2 years he could be in discussion to start as a regular. NHL rookie at 23 considering all the development time missed is just fine. Many players have started off in the NHL at 23 or 24 and become very solid players.

Would you sell high right now or keep him until he's 24-25 and you are sure of what he is? that's pretty much the dilemma. If you look around the league alot of #3-4-5's aren't kids

I'd hold for sure. His value isn't that high right now, but he COULD become a 20 goals/60 points defenseman with size that plays with an edge. His floor is low but his ceiling is still very high.