DarkLeftHand
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Regarding Madden, the scouting reports of ‘blazing speed’ seem strange to me, as I’ve never noticed anything of the sort when watching a few Reign games here and there.
As far as Kaliyev goes, his ice time is so minimal and his opportunities so few and far between, I’m sure he has zero confidence in his shot right now. So he’s either gripping the stick too tight and shanking shots wide, or just popping safe shots right into the goalies crest. I bet if he was given some premier power-play time with a set up guy who can actually feed him, you’d see his shot develop back to what we saw the first 50 games or so. Perhaps having him in Doughty’s spot in our PP alignment, and let him crank away.. Would he ever score regularly at even strength is anyone’s guess, but he’s one of those one dimensional shooter types like Mike Hoffman, who could benefit from riding alongside playmakers who can create their own space. But I think a guy like him needs at least 3-4 quality set ups to score in the course of game action. Probably not ever going to happen in a Kings uniform, as evinced by Kempe being the first player in a million years to score 40 as a shooting winger
As far as Kaliyev goes, his ice time is so minimal and his opportunities so few and far between, I’m sure he has zero confidence in his shot right now. So he’s either gripping the stick too tight and shanking shots wide, or just popping safe shots right into the goalies crest. I bet if he was given some premier power-play time with a set up guy who can actually feed him, you’d see his shot develop back to what we saw the first 50 games or so. Perhaps having him in Doughty’s spot in our PP alignment, and let him crank away.. Would he ever score regularly at even strength is anyone’s guess, but he’s one of those one dimensional shooter types like Mike Hoffman, who could benefit from riding alongside playmakers who can create their own space. But I think a guy like him needs at least 3-4 quality set ups to score in the course of game action. Probably not ever going to happen in a Kings uniform, as evinced by Kempe being the first player in a million years to score 40 as a shooting winger