Highlander said:
I just watched the Athletic tape review of Lehtonen, he is not flashy at all, the word I would use is "Steady", very collected with the puck and makes the short pass very well, although he can stretch it when he needs to. Excellent puck carrier. I think he will settle things down out there. Hope he can play the RHS, like to see him paired with Rielly.
I saw the clips too. A bunch of point shots, skating the puck up through relatively open ice to the opposing blue line and dumping it in. Is he as good as Zaitsev? Better? Worse? I have no idea. I don?t think his offense is going to be any better than Dermott?s though. He won?t get PP time (or if he does, it?s unlikely to make the pp any better than the next guy) and he won?t score often on those point shots.
How good is his gap control? Can he make a pass when pressured by NHL forwards. Can he prevent passes to the slot? I wish I knew! But he?s another chance at a decent 4-7 d which is a good thing to have at $950K.