After watching Matt Coronato in the first two games of the ongoing World Junior Championships, he reminds me a lot of Zac Parise. Similar build, just under 6' tall, a stocky looking 180-190lbs, loves to curl along the boards to shift away from defenders, heavy wrister (really puts his weight into it), decent passing, decent skating, nice away from the puck movement to create space, and showed that nice deflecting ability on the goal yesterday. After Logan Cooley got hit awkwardly into the boards yesterday, the USA even looked to Coronato as the go to puck carrier that they dropped it back to in their own zone, when bringing the puck up on the powerplay. Although not sublimely skilled, he is still modestly skilled, and looks as though he as all the tools to be a legitimate top 6 player for us. Really starting to get excited about this pick. I don't think he has an amazingly high ceiling, but he seems to have a high floor. If he can carve out a Parise type career, it will be a 13th overall well spent (Parise went 17th overall incidentally).
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