I love Tkachuk and what he brings, going to be a great player (already is). I think his speed is going to prevent him from ever being our "best" player, but he really has figured out how to overcome that glaring deficiency in his game and still be elite.
It's amazing though through his hockey IQ and everything else he brings how he actually makes you not realize how slow he is (which means he's made his lack of speed a non issue). The only time you see it is on the rare occasion when he ends up in a foot race down the ice trying to get to a free puck that's squeaked past a defender. He could literally get a moving head start at the Red line and 95% of the D men in the league starting from a stop on our blue line would have passed him by the time he's taken one step over the oppositions blue line.
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