Player Discussion The Slaf Thread - Parabolic Growth Edition
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Jurivan Demidovsky
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It's ok, he knows he's got to be better and he will be. The contract is gonna look great in a couple years.
Habs
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Oh so he's just going to suddenly start trying next year then? Is he waiting and just floating until this one is done?
Team_Spirit
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Gonna blame Dach and the McDonalds ad curse for his struggles and drink the kool-aid.
Jurivan Demidovsky
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Let's see if he picks his game up in the second half of this season. Leave him on the first line.
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Habs
Jake Evans will steal your wife
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I think you have to earn it, you can't float you way up there because of your draft pedigree
What's the McDonalds ad curse context?Gonna blame Dach and the McDonalds ad curse for his struggles and drink the kool-aid.
Jurivan Demidovsky
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He earned it last season. They should be left together until that magic is recreated and amplified.
KevSkillz4
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I have zero doubt with Slaf. He just need consistency. His tools are too impressive to don't become the player we want in him!
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Last season don't mean shit now, if he's an 8 million dollar player he should prove it on any line. This Club Med blullshit has been killing the club for 30 years. Pat Falloon had a good season once, so did Alex Daigle, Yakupov's first season was solid in Edmonton. Primetime money should mean delivering on your contract moving forward.
He isn't skating, hitting, making plays, shooting.. he's playing like an uninterested kid who is going to be rich no matter what. I hate these contracts. One year, and boooom here's a huge contract.
Jurivan Demidovsky
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The contract hasn't started yet. We have no choice but to give him time to find his game again on the fist line. He was amaizing in the second half of last season. He's played only 148 games so technically he is still 16 games away from completing 2 full seasons. Could be a softmore slump. Let's see what he does for the rest of the season, things can change quickly, he looked pretty good last game.
Proof is always in the pudding, but Slafkovsky's 2nd half last season was more than just a flash. I'm fully confident he can find his rhythm again at some point. Ideally, he'd end up doing as much on a 2nd line with the same partners and we would see a first line -- going forward -- of Demidov - XXX - Laine.
Finding Mr. XXX to play C on the first line would be the difference between an ok hockey club going forward and a true contender, IMO.
And, no, I'm not talking about signing someone from the adult movie industry to play first line pivot.
The 2025 draft could be the most important draft of this rebuild.
If we somehow land Misa, we Ould be all set for the top-6 going forward.
Demidov - Misa - Laine
Caufield - Suzuki - Slafkovsky
XXX - Hage - XXX
XXX - Beck - XXX
That C-line would be something else!
Finding Mr. XXX to play C on the first line would be the difference between an ok hockey club going forward and a true contender, IMO.
And, no, I'm not talking about signing someone from the adult movie industry to play first line pivot.
The 2025 draft could be the most important draft of this rebuild.
If we somehow land Misa, we Ould be all set for the top-6 going forward.
Demidov - Misa - Laine
Caufield - Suzuki - Slafkovsky
XXX - Hage - XXX
XXX - Beck - XXX
That C-line would be something else!
