Modifié 20 mars 2023 à 3 h 14. Raison: "Need a 1C" = Rossi + another 1C
Quoting: RazWild
He's fine. Especially considering he missed a whole year of crucial development due to Myocarditis.
He's doing great in the AHL right now. There's nothing wrong with letting him overbake down there where he's getting top ice time and being *the guy*.
But there's a small contingent of Wild fans who are irrationally ready to give up on him just because he's not already playing for the Wild in a top six role or hate the fact he's under 6'0" tall.
To be clear, I haven't given up on Rossi. In fact, I
assume he'll center our top line moving forward. Whenever I talk about needing a "1C", what I
actually mean is that we need
another 1C to drive our 2nd line. Since I believe you need to have 2 first line quality centers in order to be considered a true cup contender. I also think JEEK is best suited on the 3rd line & special teams. I believe Khusnutdinov will be the next Granlund; which by itself is great but becomes problematic when you begin to factor in the lack of goal scorers we have on the roster and in our system. Kaprizov & Boldy are the only two I consider to be top goal scorers. Yurov, Beckman, Walker, Öhgren (maybe), and others I consider to be decent goal scorers but not in a game breaking way.
Ideally, we'd have a center with top line talent (like Boldy) to drive our 2nd line. Even better is if the center is a natural goal scorer (to take pressure off Boldy), fast (since Boldy seems to do well with faster players), and physical (again to draw some physicality away from Boldy).