Player Discussion Mika Zibanejad

DanielBrassard

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The steep decline of Mika Zibanejad continues, that contract extension might be the thing that sinks the rangers for the foreseeable future. He was never a dominant force, nbut his play since last season has deteriorated even more than I anticipated it would.
 

Harbour Dog

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I think the reason he looks slower is mostly tied to confidence. Same reason that people thought Laf and Kakko couldn't play at NHL pace; they were just too much in their own heads.

I was always confident that both the kids would work it out as they developed, but it's a taller task for Mika. Maybe he just needs to embrace being a shutdown centre/PP specialist, and he'll find himself playing more freely.
 
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will1066

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The steep decline of Mika Zibanejad continues, that contract extension might be the thing that sinks the rangers for the foreseeable future. He was never a dominant force, nbut his play since last season has deteriorated even more than I anticipated it would.
 
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Machinehead

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Jan 21, 2011
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It’s called a joke, you know, those things we used to be able to make before everyone became soft?
It's not tho. People really think these things about him because he's bad at hockey.

Like, it might be hyperbole, but there's absolutely genuine meaning behind the personal attacks.
 

SnowblindNYR

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There's a big gap between saying Mika is a soy boy loser and Mika just seems like the type that treats the NHL as a job and merely as a paycheck and doesn't have the determination of even an average NHLer.
 

IDvsEGO

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It’s called a joke, you know, those things we used to be able to make before everyone became soft?
Im not sure people have become softer. Or people have forgotten that talking like that in real life would likely have gotten people punched in the face.

The internet gave fake tough guys a way to feel real big.
 

JohnC

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Mika sorta stinks now, but the people that bring up the child, veganism, whatever are just the board’s usual dipshits that no one take seriously anyway.
 
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Kravtsov420

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It’s the old will vs skill argument. The will is so lackluster right now that the skill part doesn’t even seems like he has it anymore. And that’s not me saying he doesn’t care. But I don’t understand how from the outside he can be so tone deaf to what we’re seeing when we watch. There’s such a disconnect it doesn’t make sense.

Something will give sooner or later, either he figures it out or this will come to a head another way.
 

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