Dilly

[Dil 1,744]

Age: 16
Position: RW
Height: 5'6’’
Weight: 180lb
Birthplace: Vancouver Bc
Team: Las Vegas Aces (VHLM)

 

Dil (Diljodh) is a young winger currently playing in the VHLM for the Las Vegas Aces. He was born in Vancouver but has lived in Russia aswell where he learned a lot of what he knows about hockey and gotten his skating ability. He is a promising young player with both positives and negatives to his game.

 

Strengths

 

Scoring
Dil has that shoot first mentality. Whether it’ll go in or not, he’ll shoot it and let me tell you he will rip the puck. He has been known to shoot the puck from all over the rink. Since joining the Las Vegas Aces of the VHLM Dil has taken his goal scoring ability to a whole new level and has focused on improving it over most other skills that he could be training. His coaches growing up have always put him on the power play due to this scoring ability and have never thought twice about it.

 

Skating
Now if you can score goals like stamkos, you probably should work on other aspects of the game aswell right? That’s what Dil did as he has been recently buffing up his speed and has become a mighty quick player. He is now a threat for slow and heavy defenders as he can just zoom on by them with ease. (or at least that is the goal). He has been working with his sister who is a professional soccer player in Europe to improve his speed so that he could keep on getting faster. Also if you were unaware he was an elite level figure skater in Russia before he started playing hockey so that gives him the agility and lower body strength he needs to be a threat to a defenders job.

 

Defence
Hold on, this makes no sense! I thought he was a quick skater with a rocket of a shot! How could a sniper like him be defensive? He’s no Larry Robinson but he has been working with coaches to help his teammates on the backcheck quite often now. Early in his career he never skated back and often stood at the blue line waiting for breakaway passes like Bure did, but recently he has decided to increase his defensive ability so that he could be positioned better and improve his awful +/-. 

 

Weaknesses 

Passing
He can’t pass the puck. That’s about it. Ever since the start of his hockey career this kid has never been one to send someone a sweet pass. He’s usually been on the opposite end of a few of those sweet passes though. Although his coaches have asked him to start passing he has straight up refused and said there’s no need as long as he is playing with a good playmaker. Believe me though, he will try to give a nice pass in the game but he usually fails as he doesn’t have much practice doing so.

 

Leadership

He is quite shy contrary to belief. He usually does not talk to people during games and never try’s to hype or motivate his fellow players. He usually is the one receiving the pregame speech as he has never been much of a social person or motivational speaker. Most elite goal scorers tend to be leaders in the locker room and on the ice since they know how they want the puck played and how to get players to do so. Dil on the other hand lets the play happen and does not verbally try to work on gameplans or assist teammates when figuring out what to do in a tough situation.

 

Scoring

I thought this was his strength? What are you talking about? Is this some sort of typo? No typo here! Indeed his scoring ability can be his downfall. Due to his elite scoring ability he has gained many weaknesses in his game. Like stated earlier he barely passes the puck. Other than that he also has a bit of an attitude connected to him. Since he can put the puck in the back of the net he seems to think his teammates owe him so he tends to think of himself above them. Although it doesn’t hurt his defensive ability, it sure hurts him in things like leadership which also was stated above. Even if he were to give speeches or motivate people, some people don’t like him due to the attitude that comes along with his scoring ability.