William Nylander
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Bill_Berg
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Zee said:CarltonTheBear said:We could just solve this problem by doing what Howard Berger just suggested today: convert Nylander to a defenceman.
Nylander on D, move Andersen up to 3rd line center and convert Gauthier to our starting goalie. Stanley Cup guaranteed.
Matthews should probably replace Babcock behind the bench and put Babcock in the Carlton costume. Fire the current mascot. Then it will be a threepeat. E5.
disco
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Bill_Berg said:Zee said:CarltonTheBear said:We could just solve this problem by doing what Howard Berger just suggested today: convert Nylander to a defenceman.
Nylander on D, move Andersen up to 3rd line center and convert Gauthier to our starting goalie. Stanley Cup guaranteed.
Matthews should probably replace Babcock behind the bench and put Babcock in the Carlton costume. Fire the current mascot. Then it will be a threepeat. E5.
Brian Papineau inserted at #1 Center, Matthews to equipment manager and Lou Lamorriello top-4 D. Minimum 8-peat.
herman
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These Nylander training videos popped up on reddit.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYA_FwUHuSd/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvJD43DLvG/
It's not as circus crazy as Marner's video, but you can see the work he puts into routinely dangling 3 defenders down low. The difference between him and the others in the video (including his brother) is quite obvious (being older and more experienced being only part of the equation).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BYA_FwUHuSd/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXvJD43DLvG/
It's not as circus crazy as Marner's video, but you can see the work he puts into routinely dangling 3 defenders down low. The difference between him and the others in the video (including his brother) is quite obvious (being older and more experienced being only part of the equation).
Bender said:
His ability to alude players along the boards and hang onto the puck is so underrated.
I don't like the public shaming of his dad. I don't think it's productive in anyway or even that interesting. If anything it's probably a determent to William's development. If I were him I would find this article very distracting. Shoddy article, might have to consider that Athletic subscription.herman said:
mr grieves
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Seems to be caught in a funk. Now that Marner & c. are going again, I wonder if it'd be a good idea to cycle Nylander through the 4th line and get him some easy minutes to get his game going again.
When Matthews is back:
Marleau-Matthews-Hyman
Komarov-Kadri-Brown
JVR-Bozak-Marner
Martin-Nylander-Leivo
When Matthews is back:
Marleau-Matthews-Hyman
Komarov-Kadri-Brown
JVR-Bozak-Marner
Martin-Nylander-Leivo
Nylander has 6 points on a 4-game point streak. He's 3rd on the team in points behind Matthews and Kadri (so he leads all wingers). He leads the team in assists. And he's only shooting 7.5%.
edit: Oh he's 55.1% on face-offs too.
edit: Oh he's 55.1% on face-offs too.
herman
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CarltonTheBear said:
I don't really mind someone like Nylander being used as an overmatch option once in awhile (on the road against top-heavy teams). Back in the Carlyle days, I wondered if the Leafs would try that with Kessel a bit when JvR and Lupul were going. Scoring by sheer Will right into the soft spots of the opposing lineups changes the complexion of the game.
Nylander has made Martin and Moore look like legit NHLers and spiked their confidence (Martin tried to snipe it later in the game! Moore is showing off moves he hadn't used since he was 28!). If we can sort out our penalty taking problems (*cough* Polak) and keep buzzing the offensive zone in waves, Willy will get plenty of PP time to offset low even-strength minutes. Nights like last night, I'd even play Moore's line over Bozak's.
Of the three kids who've ridden the 10th forward role, Nylander has easily been the best, but we already knew that. On the road, teams are going to iso Matthews' line; with Hyman and Brown, he can neutralize the other top lines with Kadri, freeing up Nylander (and eventually Marner) to carve up the bottom.
Coco-puffs
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herman said:
Martin looks like garbage when he has to play with Ben Smith. When he's with other NHL players, he doesn't look out of place.
Andy007
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herman said:
I don't necessarily have a problem with that scenario as long as he can get some steady minutes. Nylander played 11 minutes yesterday. Hyman was at 20 and Komarov 18+. There is no excuse for him to be lagging that far behind, particularly on a night when they only had to kill two penalties and the game was tied until the very end. I'm still trying to process Komarov getting the 2nd most minutes out of all forwards...