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Originally Posted by ignite09
I'm fine with that, and I'm not arrogant enough in my opinion to ever tell anyone here to temper optimism. I just think after watching him over the past while, that there is still a heavy learning curve ahead of him. He still makes bone headed plays like Tanguay when it comes to blindely throwing the puck back too the point, or trying to go through two or three opponents when someone else is open. All things that he can grow out of, but he still has growing to do as a prospect, and there isn't anything wrong with that.
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And I just don't see that at all. When you count the number of amazingly astute tape-to-tape passes he makes the arrant ones would be in a very small statistic comparatively. But that speaks to my overall opinion on your take. Taking a small negative example and coming here to post it over the optimistic ones is perplexing to me. Especially when we look at how this is a flames board where the optimism is obviously going to be high.
The amount of mistakes he makes (and of course there will be some with his age and coming right from college) are far, far outweighed by his brilliant plays. It's not even close. To watch him this tournament and to come away from it with the things you're mentioning being the first items to bring up is really bizarre to me. But you're entitled to your opinion.
The number of passes in this play alone speak for itself, and he's been doing this for the US all tourney: