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Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 2 heures
Sujet: The last Celebrini chicago post
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Garak</b></div><div>How? Between Levshunov, Lindstrom, and Demidov, Demidov is absolutely the best player with the most upside. He has upside to be a bigger star than Celebrini, even. He could arguably have the best processing speed of any player ever. Just watch some tape, look at how quickly he adapts on the fly and makes decisions. Watch how he moves and handles the puck in small areas and manipulates defenders. Watch how he uses his feet in entirely unique ways to create deception and set himself up for his next deke/faint/pass/shot. He is insane.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>exo2769</b></div><div>The more I watch Demidov the more I'm sold that he should be the guy at #2. The upside is just higher than Lindstrom/Levshunov and we need more elite talent right now rather than higher floor. Also, I'm just not as high on Lindstrom as others are. I see his videos (and I'll continue to watch) and I see his physical maturity right now vs his opposition combined with other elite talent on his team as items that I'm more concerned about than the average fan. He'll be an NHLer for sure. I just see his floor as being very high.

The video below I think does a decent job of highlighting his higher end talent. Some of the things they call positives...I simply disagree with. For example the very 1st highlight ~ 1 min in. He needs to pass that to his teammate and trust his teammate makes the right decision to either A.) shoot it or B.) pass it back. The goalie can't move faster than the passed puck. The video outlines his 10-2 skating which is a nice thing to have in your back pocket and I see Makar's edgework utilizes a lot of this lateral movement, BUT to go up and down the ice like the video shows at 10-2...that'll need to be coached out of him I believe. And CAN! That's Hockey IQ and one of his strengths. What I like the most though is that he went attacks the middle regularly and will sacrifice his body in order to make a play. THAT will 100% translate to the NHL if his body will hold up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLbI37aD-Ws</div></div>

He's just as good as Michkov but smaller, and people are already realizing the mistake that was letting Michkov fall to 7
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 3 heures
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 3 heures
Sujet: If Friedman is right on Seth Jones
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Garak</b></div><div>At the time we had what could be considered a good cast of transitional players that could lend itself to more of a re-tool, if it became necessary. Stop trying to make Jones into a moron or a bad player. He is no more an idiot than your average professional athlete, in fact he is probably more intelligent than most. He isn't even anywhere near as restless as the media is making him seem. Any player who doesn't hate losing shouldn't be in the NHL, but all things considered he seems pretty content to see things through and excited for the trajectory of the rebuild and the players on the way. He is disgruntled about as much as you would expect any player to be when they are losing this much.

You should probably stick to the Penguins. Your seeds of chaos will have no effect here.</div></div>

The delusion is thinking a cap era dynasty like CHI wouldn't need to rebuild. They had no justification for making that deal and myself along with MANY others said as much at the time. Not much different than PIT acquiring Karlsson, though the PIT decline is not as precipitous given the PIT core is stronger and always has been.
Forum: Armchair-GMil y a 3 heures