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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 27, 2021 at 12:26 p.m.
Thread: Players Montreal should keep based off of Playoffs
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>faulkmydzingel</b></div><div>I want to say, I don't see the issue with Kotkaniemi that Habs fans keep complaining about. I see a kid that needs some veteran guidance with amazing upside that if worked with and used properly could be a solid 1st/2nd line center.</div></div>

As someone who watched every game he's ever played in the NHL, you're probably right. He needs more stability and playing with almost every winger cannot serve him very will. The upside are there but they are definitly not amazing. The criticism comes from the fact that Tkatchuk and Hughes already have huge impacts on their team, wich is not fair because it's too easy to say that 3 years later even if it's true.

The real thing with him tho and the most worrying is that he does not have an identity nor some defining skills that can help him find it. Average skater, good offensive and defensive IQ not great, hard shot but not accurate, a desire for physicality but a lack of core power and overall strenght. Most of those things can be worked on but he needs to decide what kind of player he can and wants to be so he can work on his strenghts. Right now, is he a sniper, a playmaker, a grinder, a powerfoward, a defensive minded foward? We still dont know and I think neither does he.
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