 RDOilerfan
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Registered: January 2016
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| Dragon_Matt wrote on Wed, 29 November 2023 10:59 |
by moving him to the wing you allow him to use his speed on breakouts, more often getting opportunities to drive the net like he did in OT last night, trying to beat the last man back. Rather than being the center and moving up the middle, where he drifts to the outside often coming into a 1 on 2 situation.
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So you think if he's a winger, he will suddenly start driving the net? He hasn't done it in any of the parts of 4 seasons he's been in the NHL so I don't see a position change making that happen but I guess anything is possible.
I'm more into the Vegas school of thought. It's about winning so are you helping the team win or not. McLeod has over 90 games in the AHL, 159 in the NHL and in that time, he hasn't figured out that unless you have an absolute ELITE shot, you can't score unless you get close to the net. He has elite speed and in almost 250 pro games, he hasn't figured out that it's a weapon and he should be driving the net as often as he can. You don't have to be crushing guys but when you are 6'3, almost 190 with that speed, if you are driving to the net every chance you get, it will be extremely hard for most dmen in the NHL to stop you. To stop you, they will have to drag you down. So he should be drawing penalties constantly. He doesn't. If they don't drag you down, then with his speed and size, he should be a scoring chance machine. He's not.
This issue is something that was a knock on him in junior that caused him to fall in the draft. So it's not improving and parts of 6 yrs in pro hockey tells me it's not improving anytime soon. So move the asset before he's worth nothing.
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