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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I get what you're saying, but if he doesn't have the speed, shot or hands to get any points at all in junior, I think he'll end up a big liability on the ice. This isn't football, where it's offence or defence. If you're not pushing the play forward, you're defending. That's not a recipe for success. If you don't have the basic skills to move the puck effectively in junior, how can you in the NHL?
Edit: Though I must say, after rereading the entire thread on the development camp, your assessments were very good predictions for what actually occurred. You clearly are better at assessing talent than I am
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During the development camp, Kanzig displayed some fairly decent hockey IQ, especially for someone so devoid of offense. He could make passes, just not great ones. In the drills and scrimmages, he was able to evacuate the puck from the zone without much difficulty.
It's just so difficult to peg him because there are a lot of moving pieces with him (slow, no offense, a monster physically, heady), all of which have to be working in order for him to develop fully. Could it happen, yes. However, there's a quite a few things that need to occur from now till then in order for that to occur. Just have to wait until July to see what progress he's made. If it's very little, then I think we only have Breen 2.0 with added nastiness. If it's more, then we have to wait again and see what shakes.
Also with my evals from July being mostly on the money, that has a lot to do with being a decorator. Having to focus on the most minute details that are mostly inconsequential and extrapolating how things will work out is my day job. I'm just using the same process that I use when I begin formulating concepts for a room as I do for picking apart the players and extrapolating from there. It's a bit odd, but it does seem to work fairly effectively. (I'm as surprised as anyone that it works)