Jiricek

[Nublues69]

paul fischer looking good for Notredame Gave him up to edm

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[seattleblue]

Random stat posting of a former prospect with no context, meaning or having watched them, that dovetails nicely with the white hot hype you pushed on Mailloux as a "baby Parayko" which you heard and immediately assumed was true and blathered it repeatedly this summer. why is this in the Jiricek thread

[BluesDom]

Random stat posting of a former prospect with no context, meaning or having watched them, that dovetails nicely with the white hot hype you pushed on Mailloux as a "baby Parayko" which you heard and immediately assumed was true and blathered it repeatedly this summer. why is this in the Jiricek thread

Paul Fischer is mediocre. Hes 6'0 tall. IS he a shutdown guy--is he offensive? What is he?

[Harry S Deals]

Random stat posting of a former prospect with no context, meaning or having watched them, that dovetails nicely with the white hot hype you pushed on Mailloux as a "baby Parayko" which you heard and immediately assumed was true and blathered it repeatedly this summer. why is this in the Jiricek thread

Yep in pre season, practices Mailloux looked good displaying the size and skill what happens in reality is when you get into real NHL games in the fight hes felt the pressure and his lack of experience shows. However he seems to building slowly game by game, many including me said give him 200 NHL games to find his footing then lets revisit this.

[Harry S Deals]

paul fischer looking good for Notredame Gave him up to edm

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Gave him up? Holloway/Broberg is a helluva return for Fischer, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd etc Id do that all day again and again

[John Cocktoastin]

Thanks for the update as always, Seattle.

It appears he is all in on his physicality with not much hesitation regarding injury history.

Would you say his offensive game evens out with his overall defensive game? Or does one slightly edge the other?

Yeah last year he was getting clobbered enough times to injure him repeatedly but this year he is initiating clobbering. Definitely growing into his weight. He is far more of an offensive defenseman than a defensive defenseman. But he can skate and make an excellent outlet pass and is dialed into how to score once he is up in the o zone. Last year he would be there, available and in the zone but he wasn't getting the puck. Frankly Lardis was taking a lot of the puck action and he is gone now, so that is some of it, but right now he is in really good sync with Jake O'Brien who Seattle drafted. When he first got there from training camp this year I cautioned against assuming he was the #1 defenseman but over the last few he has clearly been the #1 defenseman and has gotten some PK duty. When he is on PP they sometimes use two defensemen with him playing a down low forward spot where Perron's office used to be. His offensive game and instincts are part of who he is. The defensive positioning and shutting guys down has to come with time. He currently uses his far better speed than his peers to do a lot of that work and he cannot do that as he levels up.

Gotcha. I appreciate the insight as I know you've had eyes on him. Just wanted to see what you made of him so far. Good to know he can do both, but liking the physicality too.

[Nublues69]

paul fischer looking good for Notredame Gave him up to edm

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Gave him up? Holloway/Broberg is a helluva return for Fischer, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd etc Id do that all day again and again

yeah we gave him up, or to say it better. sent him with a 3rd for broberg and Holloway. I am not stressing over it. I looked him up under fischer while looking for lukas figured i would show his progress