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Originally Posted by Table 5
Gotta say, watching both of these vids, the entire time I was thinking "so, do these two ever pass the puck?". Lots of dipsy-doodling and stick-handling and doing it all by themselves in there. Impressive sure, but I'm wondering how much of that transfers over to the NHL level when you're facing defensemen who are on you every second.
Watching the Seth Jones videos on the other hand, he already looks like an NHLer. Not a ton of stickhandling-in-a-phone-booth type of skills, but clearly shows all the tools to be one hell of a rock on the blueline.
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That's a great point, and one that shouldn't be overlooked. It's nice when players can pull of dangles like that when they are superiour to their opposition. But that just doesn't happen that often on NHL caliber defenders. In fact, how often during NHL games do you see players skate coast to coast like that and score? Yes their are players who translate that talent over to the NHL, but I think Drouin is going to have to modify his game when he hits the NHL as moves like that won't be able to be pulled off that often. In fact in that best of Drouin video, those defenders are flopping all over the ice and Drouin looks like he's jumping around pylons. That's just not going to happen that often in the NHL.
I'm in the Mackinnon camp. An explosive Canadian center who is comparable to Crosby. That's a franchise changing player right there and is what we have needed for the last 20 years. But you can't go wrong with anyone in the top 4-5. With a lottery pick looking like a real possibility, all I pray for everyday is for the Flames to hold onto that precious first round pick.