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Hard to get excited for any of this anymore now that it's been everyone and will never change. Chytil, kakko, Laf, Berard, Othmann. Even though they were bad, Andersson and Kravtsov too. This team should be sued for costing good prospects millions in potential earnings.Another guy we'll never try above the 4th line.
How many of you Long Islanders are going to say it, "Noah Laber"?
Hard to get excited for any of this anymore now that it's been everyone and will never change. Chytil, kakko, Laf, Berard, Othmann. Even though they were bad, Andersson and Kravtsov too. This team should be sued for costing good prospects millions in potential earnings.
I just saw you tweet this Michael
Hard to get excited for any of this anymore now that it's been everyone and will never change. Chytil, kakko, Laf, Berard, Othmann. Even though they were bad, Andersson and Kravtsov too. This team should be sued for costing good prospects millions in potential earnings.
Rumor was the Rangers were in on guys like Novak and Laughton and Ryan McLeod. I think Laba can be a comparable 3C to those guys sooner than later. I think it's telling how quick they got this done in time for him to start playing games in Hartford.
What are you basing that on?I have a good feeling about this kid like a lot of us do. I do think he's a wing at the NHL level though.
It's just the dumbest, laziest take to begin with. And then to include Laf, Kk and Chytil?Just wondering what line is Will Cuylle, a 23 year old in his second year, currently playing on?
Completely my own little brain-games when I'm trying to think thrugh the NCAA to NHL projection.What are you basing that on?
Completely my own little brain-games when I'm trying to think thrugh the NCAA to NHL projection.
I try to look for what kinds of elements in a college hockey player's game will translate.
Kreider it was obvious, even when he wasn't scoring much, what kind of NHL player he could be, eve though he didn't always play that game at BC.
McDonagh and Brendan Smith- Smith was the PP guy and the big offense at the college level because he had a better shot.
McDonagh, you could tell he'd hav a little more at the NHL level because you need to create space for yourself, and he was able to do tht with his skating.
Hagelin I wiffed on- I had no idea he'd be a jitterbug. He played very east west in the NCAA and someone smarter than I am told him that pace was going to be the way he succeeded here.
With Laba, it's his offensive zone creativity. He will have a much longer leash to take risks, play with an edge, and use his pace on the wing. I don't see his puck-carrying skills through he neutral zone to be what we'd need from a center.
I don't know how Tanner Glass sees him. It's something I'm interested to find out. And I could certainly be wrong as NYR have a big old gaping hole at the 3C spot that I'm sure everyone would be very enthusiastic if he was able to fill.
But I see a player better able to hone his offense at wing. But in fairness I said the same thing about Dubinsky and he did pretty decently at center.
With Laba, it's his offensive zone creativity. He will have a much longer leash to take risks, play with an edge, and use his pace on the wing. I don't see his puck-carrying skills through he neutral zone to be what we'd need from a center.
I haven't watched him enough to give a scouting report on his ability to carry the puck, but I agree that the center doesn't always have to be the one transporting the puck up the ice. Panarin very often does that for his line.I don't agree with all of this (esp the puck carrying skills, your wingers can do this too) but I always appreciate a well through out response like this.
"He can get from 0-to-60 in two strides," Mayotte said about Laba on The Rink Live podcast. "His athleticism is really what stands out. He's 6-2, 206, and he moves it like he's an undersized skinny guy. And you pair that with his mentality — he's not going to sit on the outside. He's going to put pressure on you if he thinks he has you flat-footed."
Laba, 21, notched 10 goals and 16 assists for 26 points in 29 games with Colorado College (NCHC) this season. Among Tigers skaters, he ranked first in plus/minus (+10), tied for first in goals, tied for second in points and fourth in assists. He also posted a 57.3 percent faceoff win percentage, the fourth highest of any skater in the NCHC.
Last season, he was a CCM/AHCA Division I Second Team All-American and was named the NCHC Defensive Player of the Year.