He has kind of an hunched-over skating style (I wonder if he needs to use a longer stick?), which looks awkward.
That's the big criticism of traditional scouting, any time a player does something that looks different from the prototypical player, it gets flagged as a possible problem even if it doesn't affect the player's game at all.
Sam Reinhart has also has his skating criticized, but they say that's because he wears his skates with the tongues sticking out, so his skating looks weird because they kind of flop around when he's at speed.
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