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Kr55 wrote on Fri, 18 January 2019 11:39 | I found this interesting to watch again
I remember this video impressed the hell out of me when we drafted Pulju. But, watching now, he looks exactly the same at 16 as he does playing for us, and...unfortunately, the results are the same too. All the super wide circles, all the rushed plays like shots from far away, holding the puck too long in other instances but he can get away with it against bad defenders, and almost no results.
his video for 2016 WJC looks much better.
He looks way more determined, moving in straighter lines to the puck, making heads up plays, far more confident. I think he actually looked like that for us in his 1st season, especially a nice run he had on Mcdavid's wing, but that confidence completely left him before the end of that season.
It's very obvious that this kid should have been in the AHL for 2 full seasons before we started using his first ELC year, which would have been this year. He needed to get a lot of the stuff in that 1st video out of his game. He needed to build his confidence. He needed to improve his english, and the team should have been pushing and providing an easy means to do that from day 1 with the org.
We rushed him, we had a coach that really has zero interest in developing players who just pushed him to the side while the GM just sat there hoping the situation would improve on its own. THis org just stinks at developing guys that need any help at all.
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First of all, I agree with you 100%. I don't think the team has handled him correctly. It's pretty clear now that he needed to be in the AHL for 2 full seasons at least, maybe all 3 of his ELC and who knows if that would have been enough. That rarely happens if ever for a guy drafted that high but it looks like Puljujarvi needed it to happen.
But a question I have is, what do you think stops a player from doing what got him drafted? If you watch the video you posted, you see a massive player darting all over the ice using his huge size and reach advantage to his advantage, he's got good speed and he's got a big heavy shot that he was using from all over the place.
Flash to the NHL. In year 3, he's 6'4, 200 lbs at barely 20. So he hasn't finished filling out yet and he's already a monster. Yes guys in the NHL are bigger and stronger than junior guys but so is he. Do we see him use his size and reach? Rarely. On the odd time that he actually takes the puck hard towards the goal using his speed and size, he has shown every time he does it, teams have difficulty handling him. Yet you rarely see it. Why? In the video he was using his big, heavy shot a ton. If you look up his stats, in 36 games, he's got 41 shots. So barely a shot per game. WHY?
So yes I agree that the coaches and organization haven't developed him properly BUT there is no way in my opinion that any coach has been telling JP, don't you dare drive that puck to the goal, don't you dare shoot the puck. I've heard Hitch say the opposite when he's talking about him and he keeps saying he needs more of what JP does well. So the coach is saying do what you do and do it more, yet he doesn't.
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