Speculation: Player Discussion: Will Smith

[Jargon]

My biggest conspiracy theory is that the "development plan" was just a sham to make Smith feel better about us healthy scratching him in order to try to win games. It's no coincidence that Celebrini (who was helping us win games from day one) has never had a development day, and Smith's development days have been few and far between since he also started to help us win games.

My counterpoint would be that Warsofsky would then have to be lying when he said it was worked out with Will and Grier before the season started, which would give it away to Will. Unless they agreed on the vague idea of development days but it was secretly a lever to for Warsofsky when he wasn’t playing well, I guess.

I think probably what’s likelier is that they’re doing less dev days because they sort of suggested they would dwindle through the season and we’re in December so that checks out.

OR MAYBE THATS WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

My counterpoint would be that Warsofsky would then have to be lying when he said it was worked out with Will and Grier before the season started, which would give it away to Will. Unless they agreed on the vague idea of development days but it was secretly a lever to for Warsofsky when he wasn’t playing well, I guess.

I think probably what’s likelier is that they’re doing less dev days because they sort of suggested they would dwindle through the season and we’re in December so that checks out.

OR MAYBE THATS WHAT THEY WANT US TO THINK

Okay yeah. If they said that they talked with Smith about it before the year, then that kinda kills the theory as it was presented.

But I will still say that they don't seem to be super principled about the development days, and appear to be willing to forego the plan as soon as they see the possibility for more wins. Because Celebrini is only 18, he's already been injured, he's playing 20 minutes per game, and hasn't even had a development day yet.

 

[coooldude]

Okay yeah. If they said that they talked with Smith about it before the year, then that kinda kills the theory as it was presented.

But I will still say that they don't seem to be super principled about the development days, and appear to be willing to forego the plan as soon as they see the possibility for more wins. Because Celebrini is only 18, he's already been injured, he's playing 20 minutes per game, and hasn't even had a development day yet.

They've been pretty clear on the record that they're using Catapult load data to determine how much load they're targeting in the first half of the season, with the guideline that teens have a well established higher injury risk in their first few seasons in the NHL. It could just be that since Macklin already missed a bunch of games + his body is handling the load well, that they don't need to give him the dev days.

 

[StrawHatEklund]

Will Smith up to 11 points in 22. So 11 in 14 after starting 0 points in 8 games. Super consistent as of late and happy to see him play back to back.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Will Smith up to 11 points in 22. So 11 in 14 after starting 0 points in 8 games. Super consistent an of late and happy to see him play back to back.

8 in his last 10 when he’s been on the wing. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Smith seems like he gets it offensively from the wing. Ride it while he’s hot then move him back to center when it cools off.

 

[Barrie22]

8 in his last 10 when he’s been on the wing. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Smith seems like he gets it offensively from the wing. Ride it while he’s hot then move him back to center when it cools off.

It seems the coaching staff or by accident (not sure which) is slowly getting smith more and more faceoffs also.

At the start of the switch to wing he was getting 0, now he is getting 2 or 3 a game again.

 

[Juxtaposer]

8 in his last 10 when he’s been on the wing. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Smith seems like he gets it offensively from the wing. Ride it while he’s hot then move him back to center when it cools off.

Nah, keep him at wing until the deadline when Granlund moves or someone gets hurt.

 

[Star Platinum]

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Smitty has been on fire and honestly it's so refreshing to see.

 

[Jargon]

That goal was all confidence. But more importantly I saw him win a few battles and he’s generally looked faster and less lost. It’s also kinda funny that he and Celebrini are going point for point in the last 3 (?) games.

 

[karltonian]

Granny Smith is

 

[sharski]

At this rate I feel like we're gonna see him score a no look between the legs one timer soon

 

[cheechoo]

Granny Smith is

This nickname is so good