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Prospect Info: Vitali Kravtsov: Part IX

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True Blue said:
I see nothing that is half assed. There is a hard balance that needs to be found. But loosing and playing out the string plays in the mind. Maybe the minutes played in a race do more than those in playing out the string?

Is Kakko is not contributing to a playoff run? Lafreniere needs to step up his play. This up to him. He has to be noticed. That is also up to him. Reaunen needs to do something to stand out in the AHL before being promoted to play on a playoff race at the NHL level.

Like it or not the front office has deemed that less minutes in an environment where every game and every shift counts, is worth more to the kids than more minutes in an environment where winning comes second.

They may be onto something.
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I'm skeptical.

Hope I'm wrong
 
pld459666 said:
I think the problem lies in that the playoffs should be a BONUS whereas the development of the kids should be the goal 3 years after the letter.

If these kids are not contributing anything meaningful to a playoff run, the actual benefit of the playoffs is hollow IMHO.

This seems to have turned into a half-assed rebuild after the little bit of success the team had at the endo of last season before COVID.
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It’s just taking longer than you would like, I think. Despite all the noise, Kakko has played pretty much every game over the past two seasons and improved a lot. And Lafreniere too. If you truly believe these guys were not the right picks or would have come in and been productive Top Six players under another regime, well, I can’t argue. That’s impossible for either of us to know. But aside from Andersson all the kids are playing and improving. Maybe they’d improve faster being spoon fed more minutes. Maybe not, though. In my opinion, the team is steadily improving and integrating a lot of young players at the same time. Consistency is an issue. But that’s to be expected, I’d say.
The highs are really high though. I was so impressed with how they made a recent-champion, in the Caps, literally go nuts in the last match. That’s not an accident.
 
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At NYR site only other #74 was
Vince Pedrie (UDFA D from Penn State a few years back)
who never played actual NHL games (prob TC, and maybe preseason..)
 
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Kravtsov can do what Kakko does (which isn't much) and more. Trading Kakko before he loses all trade value should be a priority. Target a big center like Byfield.
 
Good debut... liked a lot of what I saw but i will say he looks like Kakko last year and Lafreniere this year, just a step slower than he needs to be. It will come so its not concerning.
 
cwede said:
At NYR site only other #74 was
Vince Pedrie (UDFA D from Penn State a few years back)
who never played actual NHL games (prob TC, and maybe preseason..)
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This checks out. I believe Vitaly Kravtsov is Vince Pedrie in Russian. Maybe a Russian speaker can confirm this for me. Thanks in advance.
 
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