Halfway mark 16/17
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:52 am
So, we've reached the halfway mark of the 2016-17 campaign now.
What are the positives and also the negatives of your ongoing season?
...and what should your team look to work on?
Plus, how are your top 3 prosects in the system doing?
I'll start with myself.
Positives:
- Managed to bring some good two-way defensemen to our top 4 for assets whose substraction didn't hurt the overall NHL team. (Ballard, Backman, Klefbom)
- Klefbom can play C. Positive surprise. It's very valuable invention, especially now that the team lost Conner Bleackley. Klefbom took his place and he's doing pretty good job at it.
- Tavares fitting well here in Dallas. Gives great flexibility to first and second line because Boyle is a good C too.
- For a reasonable price, Eller is also bringing quality and improving the overall play of 4th line.
- Meloche is playing very well for such a young man. He looks very promising!
Negatives:
- Goalies are not doing well (moderately speaking). But at the end of the day, not a big surprise. Because EHEC hates goalies. And yes, not excluding Carey Price.
- Overall defensive play of the team is not so good as it should be. Something has to change.
- Le Sieur started well when he joined the team (was signed as a free-agent, as a substitution for Charlie Coyle), but his level of play is going down. Needs to develop quicker.
Things to work on:
- Find the right chemistry for the all lines cominations.
- Goalies have to help the team more and not let 3-4 goals per game on a consistent basis.
- We have to gain some victories against the teams which are placed as high or even higher in the standings than we are and not just counting on getting victories against those who lay lower in the standings.
- We have to be more dominant on home games to gain more confidence overall.
Top 3 prospects:
- no. 1.: Jakob Chychrun: His developing in the AHL went very good but then he got injured for a month and then the team acquired Radovan Bondra so there is no left slot for Chychrun now that he came back from an injury to insert him back in the Texas line-up. Chychrun got a taste of high-level competition play again, representing Canada on U-20 World Tournament and was doing very good for Team Canada. He'll be reassigned back to AHL as soon as Bondra will turn 20 (27th of January).
- no.2.: Nicolas Meloche: Already mentioned above, is having pretty good transition from AHL to NHL. Is playing hard, making good decisions most of the time and already showing some offensive upside to his game. He still needs a lot of time and work to reach his cellings, but so far, he's looking sharp. Way to go Mr. Meloche!
- no.3.: for a no. 3, I can name both Dergachyov or Guryanov for this spot. Both are wingers and pretty simillar to each other. Guryanov maybe has a bit higher offensive celling but Dergachyov is a little bit harder to play against. But both are rugged-bodies with interesting offensive skillset. Dergachyov seems almost NHL ready. He just needs to work on his skating a little bit and he might get a taste of NHL real soon. Guryanov needs more time but he's still just 19. So, no hurries.
What are the positives and also the negatives of your ongoing season?
...and what should your team look to work on?
Plus, how are your top 3 prosects in the system doing?
I'll start with myself.
Positives:
- Managed to bring some good two-way defensemen to our top 4 for assets whose substraction didn't hurt the overall NHL team. (Ballard, Backman, Klefbom)
- Klefbom can play C. Positive surprise. It's very valuable invention, especially now that the team lost Conner Bleackley. Klefbom took his place and he's doing pretty good job at it.
- Tavares fitting well here in Dallas. Gives great flexibility to first and second line because Boyle is a good C too.
- For a reasonable price, Eller is also bringing quality and improving the overall play of 4th line.
- Meloche is playing very well for such a young man. He looks very promising!
Negatives:
- Goalies are not doing well (moderately speaking). But at the end of the day, not a big surprise. Because EHEC hates goalies. And yes, not excluding Carey Price.
- Overall defensive play of the team is not so good as it should be. Something has to change.
- Le Sieur started well when he joined the team (was signed as a free-agent, as a substitution for Charlie Coyle), but his level of play is going down. Needs to develop quicker.
Things to work on:
- Find the right chemistry for the all lines cominations.
- Goalies have to help the team more and not let 3-4 goals per game on a consistent basis.
- We have to gain some victories against the teams which are placed as high or even higher in the standings than we are and not just counting on getting victories against those who lay lower in the standings.
- We have to be more dominant on home games to gain more confidence overall.
Top 3 prospects:
- no. 1.: Jakob Chychrun: His developing in the AHL went very good but then he got injured for a month and then the team acquired Radovan Bondra so there is no left slot for Chychrun now that he came back from an injury to insert him back in the Texas line-up. Chychrun got a taste of high-level competition play again, representing Canada on U-20 World Tournament and was doing very good for Team Canada. He'll be reassigned back to AHL as soon as Bondra will turn 20 (27th of January).
- no.2.: Nicolas Meloche: Already mentioned above, is having pretty good transition from AHL to NHL. Is playing hard, making good decisions most of the time and already showing some offensive upside to his game. He still needs a lot of time and work to reach his cellings, but so far, he's looking sharp. Way to go Mr. Meloche!
- no.3.: for a no. 3, I can name both Dergachyov or Guryanov for this spot. Both are wingers and pretty simillar to each other. Guryanov maybe has a bit higher offensive celling but Dergachyov is a little bit harder to play against. But both are rugged-bodies with interesting offensive skillset. Dergachyov seems almost NHL ready. He just needs to work on his skating a little bit and he might get a taste of NHL real soon. Guryanov needs more time but he's still just 19. So, no hurries.