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jeremy clackston
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Forum: Armchair-GM24 mai 2023 à 10 h 2
Sujet: Cooley 5th OA
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jonh514</b></div><div>Yes... One will go at 4 and one will go at 5... Hence saying, "they are in the range".

It's often said, you can team defence but you cannot teach offence.

Both Smith &amp; Michkov are at least in a conversation to be as good or better offensively than Cooley.

So to say there is no chance that the Coyotes entertain this trade is silly, especially since they tried to sign him and he turned them down to go back to College.</div></div>

I mean sure, one will almost certain be available but I highly doubt both. I also think you greatly undervalue how much Cooley has improved over the last year. Lets take Fantilli as an example. Fantilli has a late 2004 birthday which is why he was not part of last years draft and also why he was playing in the NCAA this year unlike Smith. Fantilli had an incredible freshman year in the NCAA, even better than Cooley (who is only 5 months older than him). A year ago both players played in the USHL; Cooley had a ppg of 1.5ppg and Fantilli had a 1.37ppg. This year Smith had a 2.1ppg pace in the USHL. By that logic Smith should be going 1st or 2nd OA this year instead of Fantilli. However you will be hard pressed to find someone who agrees with you because Fantilli, like Cooley improved drastically this year offensively.

As for teaching defense, technically yes that is true. Offense is generally speaking more natural skill and defense is something that is learned over time from playing against that natural offensive skill. However it is still very difficult to learn defensive skills and some people just have a knack for him due to having exceptional positional awareness. I think Anton Lundell is a great example of a player who is naturally gifted defensively and made a big impact immediately, whereas a lot of the other players from his draft and even the year prior with higher offensive skill (Kaapo Kakko who also played in Liiga) are struggling because their pure offensive skill advantage just caught up to them once they reached the NHL.
Forum: Armchair-GM1 mai 2023 à 9 h 44