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Originally Posted by fotze2
Which he will do. It’s just stupid for us idiots to suggest it like we are smaht. Hell even Paul Baxter probably worked on his skating.
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let me put it like this..
there are things you can improve immensely at this developmental age of 17-22-ish
skating mechanics
strength
shooting
winning puck battles
defensive reads
One the other hand there are things that are more innate or developed in early childhood:
hockey sense
hand-eye coordination / foot-eye coordination
vision / overall awareness
ability to make skilled plays in traffic
competitiveness
size (
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When drafting, it's easy to fall in love with aspects from the first list, but that is how you end up with Rico Fata
Skating or defense are not areas that can be entirely projected at draft time the way the items on the second list can.