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Let’s talk about the discourse surrounding Montreal Canadiens 1st overall pick Juraj Slafkovsky, in wake of the David Reinbacher pick. We’re asking the question: are fans worried about Slaf?
This video is taking place after the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2023 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Chicago Blackhawks, Connor Bedard
2nd) Anaheim Ducks, Leo Carlsson
3rd) Columbus Blue Jackets, Adam Fantilli
4th) San Jose Sharks, Will Smith
5th) Montreal Canadiens, David Reinbacher
6th) Arizona Coyotes, Dmitri Simashev
7th) Philadelphia Flyers, Matvei Michkov
8th) Washington Capitals, Ryan Leonard
9th) Detroit Red Wings, Nate Danielson
10th) St. Louis Blues, Dalibor Dvorsky
11th) Vancouver Canucks, Tom Willander
12th) Arizona Coyotes (from Ottawa Senators), Daniil But
13th) Buffalo Sabres, Zach Benson
14th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Brayden Yager
15th) Nashville Predators, Matthew Wood
16th) Calgary Flames, Samuel Honzek
17th) Detroit Red Wings (from New York Islanders via Vancouver Canucks), Axel Sandin Pellikka
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Colby Barlow
19th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Oliver Moore
20th) Seattle Kraken, Eduard Sale
21st) Minnesota Wild, Charlie Stramel
22nd) Philadelphia Flyers (from Los Angeles Kings via Columbus Blue Jackets), Oliver Bonk
23rd) New York Rangers, Gabe Perreault
24th) Nashville Predators (from Edmonton Oilers), Tanner Molendyk
25th) St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Otto Stenberg
26th) San Jose Sharks (from New Jersey Devils), Quentin Musty
27th) Colorado Avalanche, Calum Ritchie
28th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Boston Bruins via Washington Capitals), Easton Cowan
29th) St. Louis Blues (from Dallas Stars via New York Rangers), Theo Lindstein
30th) Carolina Hurricanes, Bradley Nadeau
31st) Colorado Avalanche (from Florida Panthers via Montreal Canadiens), Mikhail Gulyayev
32nd) Vegas Golden Knights, David Edstrom
This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
Juraj Slafkovsky was the top NHL prospect at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2022 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
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30 Comments
we've had bad luck. but where did constantly tanking get the Oilers? go be an Oilers fan
I'd be worried. He could certainly turn into Jesse Puljujarvi. Can't miss guy who missed badly. Tall. Skilled. And now mostly useless. Couldn't even capitalize on playing with McDavid. Skill doesn't always succeed. Slafkovsky isn't a bust yet, but he also hasn't shown any indication he'll be a success, let alone a star.
Slafkosky is a European Ice Soccer Player
How is that going to Help Montreal to win the Cup?
You already have a Team that can score but Nothing Else Your Supposed to do in Ice Hockey so You can win the Cup.
WHY don't You ask how well He Plays His Position.
Does He dominate His Zone or does He Float Around looking for a Pass so the Rest of the Team has to do the Rest of His job for Him.
Like all Euro Ice Soccer Players, They can't Play Ice Hockey Properly.
Bust slavkosky vancouver steal Drafted Lekkermekki rated top 5 they see vancouver was going to get slavkosky but Habs stoke Him caused we got Kuzmenko vancouver stoked Canadians haha took the Bust canucks already knew he was a Bust
no
Give the kid a chance jack Hughes was not as good in his first season
What scares me the most of Slafkosky is his vision/hockey IQ and his ability to skate in restricted areas. To me we call it adaptation, and unfortunately, talent. He’ll have to adapt, to learn how and when to use his big body to take advantage of it. Now he’s big guy playing small. He has to much respect for opponents and not confident enough to do his things like Tkachuck at his first year in Ottawa. Am I telling the fourth pick that year was better than the first pick last year !?
He should not be in the NHL…..
Here's what I think Hughes plan is: build a team that replicates the line up that went to the finals in 2021. When you look at it that way, a lot of the moves make sense. What did that roster have? 1) A young offensive core filled with losts of fast 2 way players. 2) A beefy brutal defense core. 3) A star goaltender. 4) A few seasoned support veterans peppered across the line up. Now let's look at what Hughes currently has on the roster: Young fast tow way players. Check. This is why he got guys like Dach and Newhook. A beefy defense core. Getting there. With Mailloux coming up, Reinbacher, and Xhekaj, getting to the front of the net will be painful. Seasoned veterans, there's a few but he can add more in due time. What's missing is the star goaltender. Montembeault might be good, but probably not starworthy. That explains the multiple goalie picks.
As a montreal fan you are more worried about him than me
People get drafted for overall ability to compete, not to ability to score 50 goals in 50 games at age 18
Draft picks are very elusive like that. We drafted KK months before we traded for Suzuki, both had a shot at being the no.1 centre, Suzuki came out on top. Max Domi and Galchenyuk both sucked, but had their best seasons with us. Remember the Oilers took Nail Yakupov and Taylor Hall and and had many garbage, highly rated picks over the course of a decade before they ended up with MacDavid. It's hard to build through the draft.
Slafkovsky has two paths- he could be an entirely new force of nature, or another Joel Armia. WOST CASE SCENARIO for Slaf: he turns into a bottom 6 guy who checks hard. As a fan I'm not worried about him- yet.
Is it really about skill? Or is it about productivity in relation to pay? I feel players like Drouin and Hoffman would be criticized less if they were paid less. So if Slaf scores 25 goals one season and gets a Suzuki-style contract that same offseason, I'll be furious. Slaf needs to show more consistency to be a top 3 guy.
But Slafkovsky gets third line minutes, has different line mates every night, so I don't expect much. I see a lot of individual effort in Slafs game, like Anderson or Armia. I hope he turns into those guys, on steroids.
Juraj will knock em dead this year and all the doubters next year will say they knew it all along 🤔Juraj's a learner ,a great player who's gonna have a chip on his shoulder next year,and I'm projecting he'll get 50 point's+ this year & add 10 points a year to that over the next 5 years or better SLAFZILLA IS A BEAST AND GOT THAT NICKNAME FOR A REASON PROUD OF YOU JURAJ GO HABS GO 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I still think (with a bit of bias) that shane wright wouldve been the better pick for the habs, yes theyve already got a top line Center, but if you move nick to the wing and give Shane center , that would be dangerous, now youve got a dangerous sniper paired with a strong playmaker and a strong 2 way play making game in shane wirght
It will be funny seeing Slaf and Reinbacher dominate the league
I can't say about Mr Reinbacher other then the little that the scorecard presented as being a 3rd pair D on Team Austria, with one assist against Team Hungary, in the 7th game at the World's, not on the scorecard against Denmark, USA, or Germany. 3rd pair D throughout tournament. Oops this isn't about Reinbacher its about Slafkovsky, my bad.
If we have No 1 pick this year, we probably will pass on Connor Bedard and take an unknown european player no one knows. That's the pattern of this team.
No we ain’t. This is a rebuild. David and Slavs are both solid picks. People need to grow up. Both players had elite level stats in their own right.. these are KIDS.. they dominate against kids but they gotta develop into MEN. Give them time.. also, David was a top 5 pick all year.. the other logical picks are centres.. we got our top line Centre, I wouldn’t take a player who can’t develop with the team for the next three years, even if he was the next ovi. It’s to much of a gamble.
You better be😅
The stats overall are like bad yes i know 39 games 10 points for 1st overall pick is bad yes ok but when you realize he was on 4th line with like 9-8 minutes i think thats actually pretty good, imagine if he played now on the second line or first line minutes and how many points would this guy get this season, he knows what it means to be in the nhl so he has some experience, hes gonna explode
He’s a bust 😂😂😂
Juraj wasn't surrounded by first round veterans it's really not a fair comparison,look I'd play him with a broken arm just send him out there to fall on all the ant's out there JUST RELAX JURAJ IS AWESOME 😎 & REINBACHER SHOULD HAVE GONE 2 ND OVERALL PERIOD. GO HABS GO 💕💕💕
Not at all. I expect Slafkovsky to be at 0.5 PPG this upcoming season and around 1 PPG within 3 years. These people commenting about mismanagement and being allergic to talent sound like incompetent putzes themselves.
I’m worried they will play him in the NHL when he’s not ready. Like they’ve done with every other high draft pick we’ve had lately. Slav wasn’t ready last year. Laval is where he should be. Till he proves he can play North American Hockey.
The fault lies in decades of Habs management having their franchise player a goalie instead of an offensive guy. Now that the game has changed people clamour to have an offensive superstar.
He will be a beast I think. Reinbacher no problem with him
big big bust ! bad hockey player yakupov is better by far
Not worried at all
He’s 19….. next video
I don’t think it matters that slaf is 6”4 230. If he continues to not produce and does not develop his size will not matter he will be a role player.
Unfortunately he is another Doug Wickenheiser. I also believe the reason they won't draft top flight talent is because they would have to pay them big money which is something they don't want to do. They want to be good enough to possibly make the playoffs then hope, but that is all. They have not had a topflight scorer meaning a 50 goal or 100 point scorer in over 35 years. They have a bunch of 2nd and 3rd line players.
Slaf is a pick im more happy about, figures the first time we get a 1st pick its a garbage year but still think slaf was best player available. Reinbacher at 5th is not best player available.