Hey Wings fans, how do you stack this guy up against Mantha? I know Mantha wasn't great this year but it was his first of pro hockey, do you see Pulkkinen as having the higher upside down the road? Or do you think Mantha will be the better scorer?
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I still think Mantha probably has more upside. Pulks will most likely turn out to be a third-line winger/PP specialist. He needs to figure out how to create and find time and space at the NHL level.
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3rd lines are mostly scoring lines these days. Scoring lines that play against the easiest opponents.
I think 3rd liner and a PP guy is a realistic role for Pulkkinen in the future.
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one thing to remember is if Babs leaves and Blashill takes over, Blashill would most likely be comfortable giving him a top 6 role
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Babcock did not use Pulkkinen properly this year when he was up. He mainly put him with bottom 6, low offensive skill grinders. He should have been playing with Datsyuk or Zetterberg who would know how to put him in position to utilize his shot. If they put Pulky on a line with skill players I def believe he has 25-30 goal potential.
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The recent Blashill interview explained all the reasons why Pulkkinen hasn't broken through yet. It boils down to the usual things, namely consistency in defensive play without the puck. He gets ice time in AHL because he scores so many goals, not because he's a well-rounded player. Babcock would have built the scoring line around him if he scored as many goals in NHL as he did in AHL this season, and I think he was kept up as long as there was the tiniest chance of that happening. Blashill said that he can forgive other shortcomings because Pulkkinen produces so much scoring -- But in the NHL he's not doing that. It's something that Pulks has been working on and he has become much better at playing 200' consistently, but he's not there yet.
I agree that his potential is pretty awe-inspiring. If he can translate his game to NHL and have a similarly dominant position as in every other league he's played in, it would mean scoring goals like Ovechkin. The YT highlight compilations give the impression of a modern day Brett Hull. It's a tall order but I think it's not impossible with the shot he has. Suppose he doesn't quite get there, 25-30 goals per season is a reasonable compromise.
I think players like that who are used to becoming key players work their butts off until they get there.
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Well they won't though I could see him getting traded before the draft for a D-man. But still, he won't hit the waiver wire and if he did not a chance 20+ teams pass on him for your Tampa scenario to play out.
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I think he was making a joke. No way will Pulks be hitting the waiver wire anytime soon.
That must have been some playoffs..how in the world did McDougall manage 26+26 is only 16 games
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Early 90s AHL was very high scoring as I recall. Half the good players were in the IHL so an already thin talent pool was even thinner. Makes sense some crazy numbers were put up in that time.
Even then, he "only" had 88 points in regular season, and in Playoffs, the 2nd best scorer on Cape Breton had 29p, almost half less. Cape Breton scored 82 goals in the Playoffs, meaning he was directly involved in 63% of all the team's goals..
I just wish this kind of a beast run would happen more often, Just imagine Crosby or Ovechkin scoring 50+ in a NHL playoffs, the buzz it would create
I just wish this kind of a beast run would happen more often, Just imagine Crosby or Ovechkin scoring 50+ in a NHL playoffs, the buzz it would create
