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RD Adam Boqvist (2018, 8th, CHI) Part 2

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helicon1 said:
Last year I was a bit underwhelmed by his play. He was better than advertised defensively for sure, but was just so passive. Played nothing like he did in juniors. Looks like it might have been a confidence issue, or even him just wanting to show the coaching staff he could play D?

But yeah, this year has been completely different. Went from passive and sometimes tentative, to really aggressive and confident in his play. Where last year he'd defer to his partner and make the safe play, this year he's looking for opportunities to attack all the time. Haven't had a d-man like that in a while.

He's almost Keith like in his aggressiveness in breaking up plays in the neutral zone too. And very calm with the puck on his stick. I'm pretty convinced he and Ian Mitchell are already our best D-men at getting the puck out under pressure while maintaining possession. Much higher hockey IQ than I realized.

As others have said he needs to get stronger, but he also needs to improve his overall conditioning and stamina. At the start this season I remember reading an article about him needing to improve there. It might explain why at times last year he looked so slow, and then other shifts in the same game even, looked super quick?
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Obviously he had already played in NA, but I am still surprised by the lack of patient given to players from Sweden and Finland. From what I can see the type of environment and probably also coaching is completely different in the Nordics vs. NA (me knowing Sweden better than Finland). I am more surprised when you got kids adapting more or less instantly than when they need some time - meaning years - to adapt.

I absolutely love Boqvist. But I expected him to need more time than he seemingly in the end needed to properly adapt to NA and the NHL. When he plays like he owns the ice, which he often did at a lower level playing against kids, he is such a brilliant player. So simple at times, but also so effective.
 
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Havre said:
Obviously he had already played in NA, but I am still surprised by the lack of patient given to players from Sweden and Finland. From what I can see the type of environment and probably also coaching is completely different in the Nordics vs. NA (me knowing Sweden better than Finland). I am more surprised when you got kids adapting more or less instantly than when they need some time - meaning years - to adapt.

I absolutely love Boqvist. But I expected him to need more time than he seemingly in the end needed to properly adapt to NA and the NHL. When he plays like he owns the ice, which he often did at a lower level playing against kids, he is such a brilliant player. So simple at times, but also so effective.
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Don't disagree with any of that, he was supposed to be a project. My main point above was that he's gained a ton of confidence and improved quite a bit in a short amount of time. .
 
Should have played a full AHL season last yr. His play around the net needs work. However, plans went awry. Easy to forget his age and relative lack of experience.
 
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helicon1 said:
Don't disagree with any of that, he was supposed to be a project. My main point above was that he's gained a ton of confidence and improved quite a bit in a short amount of time. .
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Sorry if it came across as criticism of you or your post. Not my intention at all. I think your description of Boqvist is more or less spot on.
 
Havre said:
Sorry if it came across as criticism of you or your post. Not my intention at all. I think your description of Boqvist is more or less spot on.
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Oh no, I didn't take it that way at all. Just wanted to clarify what I meant. Looking forward to watching him progress over the next couple of years.
 
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SchmaltzLiquor8 said:
Considering Hughes was only a month or so from being in the 2017 class and Boqvist a month or so away from the 2019 class it shouldn’t be a shocker one player was a lot more nhl ready and one needed a bit more time to get his legs
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I think Boqvist>Hughes also involved that Hughes might have 5% better offense+skating, but Boqvist has about 20% better eventual size/physicality and defense.
 
Scored a goal yesterday. Now has 13 points in 18 games.

17th in the league in PPG among defensemen. Every defenseman above him is an established first pair defenseman or PP defenseman. He's the second youngest defenseman in the NHL.
 
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He played (arguably) his best overall game last night. His improvement defensively is not by leaps and bounds but on an upward trajectory which is encouraging - more physical, better awareness and positioning, better at blocking shots and battling for pucks. Not without mistakes and more room for improvement but so far so good for a 20 year old who is still probably a couple years away from developing his "man strength".
 
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EbonyRaptor said:
He played (arguably) his best overall game last night. His improvement defensively is not by leaps and bounds but on an upward trajectory which is encouraging - more physical, better awareness and positioning, better at blocking shots and battling for pucks. Not without mistakes and more room for improvement but so far so good for a 20 year old who is still probably a couple years away from developing his "man strength".
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Has been more engaging physically along the boards.
 
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Tied for 33rd in total points for defensemen in the NHL. All who are tied or ahead of him have played 4 or more games than him, save for Cale Makar who has played 3 less games. Out of all those players (those tied or past him in points), he has the lowest ice time (16:39). The next two lowest are Keith Yandle with 18:16 and Ty Smith with 19:39.

As Buchnevich said above, Boqvist is 17th in PPG among defensemen (minimum 10 games played) with 0.72. Quinn Hughes, who is an easy comparable due to being picked right before Boqvist, is 10th with 0.77PPG.
 
CallMeShaft said:
Tied for 33rd in total points for defensemen in the NHL. All who are tied or ahead of him have played 4 or more games than him, save for Cale Makar who has played 3 less games. Out of all those players (those tied or past him in points), he has the lowest ice time (16:39). The next two lowest are Keith Yandle with 18:16 and Ty Smith with 19:39.

As Buchnevich said above, Boqvist is 17th in PPG among defensemen (minimum 10 games played) with 0.72. Quinn Hughes, who is an easy comparable due to being picked right before Boqvist, is 10th with 0.77PPG.
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hughes is basically in the 2017 draft class. 10 whole months older, and wasn’t far from the 2017 draft cut off while Boqvist was not very from from being in the 2019 draft
 
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