Hollywood Cannon
I'm Away From My Desk
Oh, come on…literally can’t make this shit up.
Oh, come on…literally can’t make this shit up.
Keith Jones won't be around to "tell the story" forever.
I will accept NONE of your cold water on my stratospherically high expectations, sir! NONE!Please tell me no one is saying he's a significantly better prospect than Eichel. I don't know why we have to lose our minds.
I think you can construct a totally reasonable argument that both are low Tier 1 or high Tier 2 prospects depending on whether you draw a hard line between the Bedards and guys like these two. But the trickiness of determining exactly what is going on with KHL scoring means that even if you have them on the same level, the Michkov side carries more risk as far as projecting a player of that scale. That has no bearing on his reasonable ceiling paths, but it does lower a moderate band of outcomes.
I don’t like the underlying lie here.*dramatic pause*
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Oh, come on…literally can’t make this shit up.
Oh, come on…literally can’t make this shit up.
I don't think playing fundamentally sound hockey hurts your scoring (other than cherry picking), something Sidney had to learn.I dont disagree...but what I dont want is them to hyper focus on his defense before he even establishes his offense. Let him work to his stengths first and gain confidence. A competitor like him will want to better his all around game overtime.
Crosby in his early years put up points...but he was immature, selfish, and not a great two way player. By the time he was in his mid 20s...he was a dark horse selke contender.
MM will get there...but they have to let him excell offensively first. If they sacrifice his offense early...things can fall apart quickly. Id much rather him score 70 points and be a defensive liabilty this year than him struggle to put up points bc hes focused on 2way play that hes not excelling at yet either.
Meh. Been a full time caretaker over a decade now, gets old and interferes with my writing.Hope you've been well, deady.
I don't think playing fundamentally sound hockey hurts your scoring (other than cherry picking), something Sidney had to learn.
That's not the same as defense first, Torts wants his scorers to score, he doesn't want them to be black holes on defense or lollygag on their back check.
Note Edmonton took off when their HC stressed defense (sheltering a mediocre goalie).
Meh. Been a full time caretaker over a decade now, gets old and interferes with my writing.
But pushing 70, and other than minor things like having to get a few teeth extracted, keep my glaucoma in check, and watch my A1C (have skinny diabetes under control), doing fine - at this age, you start losing people (a brother, a 1st cousin) and appreciate that mortality is real. You can work out (6 days a week), eat right, sin in moderation, but a lot of things are out of your control (that cell that gets hit by a cosmic ray and mutates, your immune system working like a Cloudstrike computer, etc.).
So how goes it with you? Still a degenerate gambler?
I understand, I'm just not sure how you expect them to have done that.Doing anything at all to get talent for him to play with in his prime would have been a good start. Instead of building from the 4th line out
I understand, I'm just not sure how you expect them to have done that.
I see things like they should have traded TK but that's removing what talent you have for hypothetical new talent. Don't see the progress there. I don't see any viable realistic examples of things that actually could have been done.
Specifics? Or just general wishes?You trade assets for draft picks and you don't make ridiculous reaches when possibly the best D prospect in the draft falls to you. You also don't trade down into the future for no f***ing reason.