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Originally Posted by Bingo
Gaudreau is a very different player to watch. He does have games where not a lot is happening but then he changes the outcome of the game because of his ability to hang on to the puck and set something up that changes the game.
I didn't find him dominant at all ... I agree.
But if he doesn't hang on to that puck all the way down the wall and set up Jones that game could have gotten away from them. He didn't just wrist the puck on net, he didn't try a low percentage pass. He hung on to the point where something opened up and it created a key bounce.
In the third he puts the puck on Monahan's tape and ties the game.
Same as the Montréal game. He takes two fairly innocent rushes, spins, finds the late guy and changes the out come of the game. What would that game have become if Calgary out shoots Montréal 19-4 and comes up empty?
He's Calgary's first real modern NHL player, a guy that can beat someone one on one and actually take the puck through the system that NHL coaches roll out. Calgary was built for the old league on the 2004 run, ... brute and passion. No one on one skills at all.
Now with Gaudreau, and Brodie especially they have two.
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All true and I agree but what sets him apart from other younger guys for me, is what he does when he doesn't have the puck.
He is so smart at thinking the game which allows him to negate his size disadvantage...he just knows where to be most of the time to make a play without having to scramble around to do so. The guy is very good defensively and its not because he can skate like hell and lift a stick to steal a puck...its because he knows where to be 2 or 3 seconds ahead of most humans.
Remarkable young player and truly looks to be an elite one in the future.