Mr Positive
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Bedard hasn't hit his potential yet. I bet he will show signs of it, hopefully in time for Olympic selection
What does Bedard have to do to make Team Canada?
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Two Chicago and 3 SJ players on that list. Do you think those are the 5 worst players in the league defensively? Or guys who played a lot on the two (by far) worst teams in the league?
IMO Walman, Eklund and Toffoli are much better players. Eklund looks to be something special and Smith shows flashes. I see the future core and the talent that will continue to improve.
Compared to the Hawks and there’s not a single name on that team that excites me. Someone’s gotta score but nobody on that team is near Eklunds talent maybe even Toffoli talent.
They may be better, but their on-ice results don’t demonstrate that.
Walman has a slight edge on Jones offense-wise (30 vs 26 pts) but our depth beyond that is crap. Vlasic and Murphy have 34 points combined while the Sharks #2 and #3 D-scorers post-Ceci trade have 21. Walman has unfortunately cooled off quite a bit, time will tell if he can regain his early-season form.
I think Eklund has a bright future, but he is young and isn’t out-producing his closest peer on CHI. Smith has great potential and is showing improvement, but has been wildly inconsistent so far this season.
Not trying to win an argument here, just trying to demonstrate that we very likely have it as bad or worse than CHI, at least until after CHI’s TDL moves happen. SJS already traded our best goalie, best forward, and 2nd best D to get a head start on the race to the bottom.
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Bedard is absolutely bad on defense and on faceoffs which led to many goals scored against his team
Its a fact
While true, which is also true for 99% of teenagers in the NHL who don’t produce nearly the offense he does, pointing to +/- as some kind of evidence is hilarious
Play a lot on horrible teams = very poor +|-
It’s amazing that people who like hockey enough to post on a messenger board can’t seem to grasp this
Unless you think Dylan Demelo or OEL are twice the defenseman than Roman Josi is…?
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Its not evidence, its an indication. he's just terrible defensively.
Ask Mark Messier who called him out on air for being too soft, what does he know?
No other player in the league is allowed to do play this soft.
If he was just a little more aggressive and firm with his actions without the puck, there's at least, at least 5-15 goals he could have prevented. A bunch would have been neutralised by just simply winning more faceoffs and another lot of goals would have been prevented if he offered a tiny bit of a better challenge to the opposite team.
And of course he's not scoring at the pace people had in mind before the draft. He's on pace for 23 goals this season. For the amount of minutes he's playing and all the PP time hes getting, its just terrible.
Bad defense + poor scoring = bad +/-
Even if he just scored 10 extra goals this year and prevented 5 goals against... thats right there +15.
He needs to do his part first before we start talking about his teammates.
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