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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It's a huge part. Also, he's not that good at the other parts either. He doesn't seem to want the puck as much as others.
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This does not at all feel like a description of the player I watched last year.
Whether it was with Tkachuk and Backlund or Bennett and Jankowski he seemed to always be near the puck and disrupting the breakout with his positioning and speed.
Terrible at board battles? Yes.
Relatively weak in backchecking? Sure.
But he was frequently playing a suffocating forecheck.