Mr. Bowman, This is your Wake-Up Call

[Stevie-Z]

Beyond Buff's inconsistencies, perhaps Buff also prefers to play D: http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20101105/sports/711069886/

+1 Dustin is currently in the # 31 slot for scoring among all NHL players. In essence he's tied w/ the Lidstrom for 1st inscoring in the D position. He currently has 13 points,3 pp goals,3 game winning goals & 1 OT goal. At least two of his pots were screaming lasers from the point & on one goal he went coast to coast.

 

[R K]

+1 Dustin is currently in the # 31 slot for scoring among all NHL players. In essence he's tied w/ the Lidstrom for 1st inscoring in the D position. He currently has 13 points,3 pp goals,3 game winning goals & 1 OT goal. At least two of his pots were screaming lasers from the point & on one goal he went coast to coast.

It was his inconsistency at D that originally got him moved to Forward. He was more than brutal on D. You watch Kane walk right by him last night like he was a Pylon on the ice.



I hope he has a Rocket year but just 13 games into it on a team with very other talent, I'll wait. Of course he looks like a rock star on that team. Just as Ladd. They don't have any Rock Stars.

 

[TSD]

I agree with you. Very consistent. Consistently bad. He draws penalties with his speed and that's about all he's giving us.



First of all, I expect the 7th overall pick in the draft five years removed from his draft year to score more than 3 points for every 14 games, no matter what line he's on. Like you said, Dowell has 66% more points from the same line, so its not like he can't be productive from that spot, and Skille has more talent in his pinky finger than Dowell has in his whole body.



I also expect the 7th overall pick in the draft to have SOME offensive moves. That breakaway he had the other night was pathetic. He didn't even try to deke or anything...just shot it right in the breadbasket of Brodeur. In a game that was 2-2 with 5 minutes to go, those kinds of plays are huge. If he scores there, it could shift the momentum of the entire game.



Dude has great speed, but its totally straight line and he does nothing with it.



Its pretty evident that Bolland's been hurt all year, so to compare the two is a bit unfair to Davey. If you can't see that, you clearly aren't watching the games.

Arguably, its not Skilles fault where he was drafted. He's one of countless first rounders who didnt turn out to be top 6 quality (not saying its impossible for that to happen still),



You kept mentioning what you expect from a 7th overall pick, that is frankly meaningless. Skille was going to be Skille whether he was drafted 1st overall or 200th.



Theres no lack of effort, so you cant blame laziness on his lack of production, so perhaps his hands just arent what the scouts thought they were and its as simple as that.

 

[roshinaya]

Arguably, its not Skilles fault where he was drafted. He's one of countless first rounders who didnt turn out to be top 6 quality (not saying its impossible for that to happen still),



You kept mentioning what you expect from a 7th overall pick, that is frankly meaningless. Skille was going to be Skille whether he was drafted 1st overall or 200th.



Theres no lack of effort, so you cant blame laziness on his lack of production, so perhaps his hands just arent what the scouts thought they were and its as simple as that.

100% agreed. No need to trash Skille for not living up to his draft position. Trash the staff that thought he would pan out and picked him that early. That said, I am not even ready to write the kid off, he could still be a late bloomer.