Player Discussion The Slaf Thread - Parabolic Growth Edition

[Heffyhoof]

Slafkovsky on pace for 40 assists - 10 more than last season.

If he kept his 20 goal pace like last year, he’d hit 60 points this year. He can still do it if he keeps up the intensity like he did last year.

He’s definitely a 70 point winger in my mind when all is done. May flirt with a PPG season.

His passing game and vision is very very high level. Even in a bad year he’s making insane, Kucherov-esque passes every game.

I'll happily claim he'll be a ~90 point player in his prime. 50 points in D+2 and 50 point pace in what most agree is a slow start for his D+3.

 

[Erika]

That’s not at all what Slaf was, is, or ever will be. That’s not how he is, how he sees the game, or how he interprets his role.

That’s not how he has ever played for us either.

Not yet
But I agree with you here... here's more of a passer first mentality with a big body that can protect the puck and cycle it in the offensive zone.

Hard to think about someone like that in recent memory, but maybe a Jakub Voracek minus the ablity to carry the puck.