Michael Blunden

[Mr. Hab]

Originally Posted by Estimated_Prophet

I love his heart and effort but he is slow. He has improved his speed over the last couple of years to the point that he can now play in the NHL.

Relative to other NHLers he is probably somewhere around the 20th percentile as a skater........that is slow.

It helps that he always has his feet moving so he is rarely caught flat footed but skating will always be his biggest weakness.

I'm a huge Ryan White fan (''old school'' player a la Mike Keane) and I'll defend him anytime, but he's not the fastest skater, but...

He does have defensive hockey sense and some underrated offensive hockey sense (from the little I've seen from him). It's not like I've seen him in 180 games already!

White is all-heart, all-warrior, all ''everything we need''.

He's gonna be 11th, 12th or (at worst) 13th forward, imo...here and there.

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ryan white is born to forechek...put im in the foutrh line to give energy to the team...he will do perfect..iim sure If not a couple shift with a playmaker and u will be awe ,,,, HOW DD wil play ,,, confidence bachkek quick golasooooooo
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[Estimated_Prophet]

Originally Posted by Mr. Hab

I'm a huge Ryan White fan (''old school'' player a la Mike Keane) and I'll defend him anytime, but he's not the fastest skater, but...

He does have defensive hockey sense and some underrated offensive hockey sense (from the little I've seen from him). It's not like I've seen him in 180 games already!

White is all-heart, all-warrior, all ''everything we need''.

He's gonna be 11th, 12th or (at worst) 13th forward, imo...here and there.

I think we pretty much agree.......

White just needs to play with good skaters and he will be fine.