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Originally Posted by bigtmac19
The Nemisz doesn't skate well argument is really getting old.
Just got back from the Spits game, Nemisz with 2 goals, Hall with 2 goals, Henrique with 1 goal 1 assist.
If they would have kept that line together I'm sure the points would have come pretty quickly.
Really not a fan of Desjardins coaching with this team.
Henrique is No. 1 in the OHL for face-off percentage wins (around 80%), but he barely used him.
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How is the argument getting old? Just because you don't like?
His skating is a well documented problem. In fact, essentially every scouting report on the guy talks about how poor it is and how he needs to improve it.
He supposively worked on it this summer, so people were anxious to see the results at the World Junior tournament where he'd actually be playing closer to an NHL level and not in the OHL where 70% of the players on the ice don't have a hope of hell of making it to the next level. The result was he failed miserably. Take off your homer glass for a second and rewatch thoses games. His skating wasn't just bad, it was attrocious. He was 3 steps behind every other player on team Canada, US, and Sweden.
Does he have time to improve it? Yes! Am I confident he can get it where it needs to be to fill a scoring role in the top two lines? Not very. Looks to me like another prototypical Sutter player that we already have 4-5 of in the farm system and 4-5 of on the Flames.
As for the convenient "Look at his OHL Stats", the guy plays on a line with Henrique and Hall, and has Fowler and Ellis with him on the PP. Anyone decently talented player could be putting those numbers up with a line like that.
The old "he must have been doing something right to have stayed on Canada's top line" comment that seems to be getting pulled out here I don't really buy either. Where were they do move him? All the other 3 lines were clicking, and even though Nemisz was playing crappy, Hall and Kadri continued to rack up the points. There was no need to break up the chemistry of the other 3 lines. Why Henrique wasn't given a shot on the first line is beyond me. If he wasn't hurt, Willie Desjardins is an idiot for not giving him a shot.