Rookie Profile: Sami Van Den Dreissche [1/2]

[TsarPeter 12]

Player Info:
 

Name: Sami Van Den Dreissche

Age: 18

Birthplace: Blankenberge, Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium

Height: 6 feet, 1 inch

Weight: 200 Pounds

Position: Right Wing

Shoots: Left

Van Den Dreissche is a goal scorer with above average puck handling. Unlike other rookies of his age, he is physically capable of VHL play,  Being a right wing with a left-hand shot means he can set himself up for one-timers easily. He is projected to have a similar style to Ron Francis. 

Strengths:

Scoring: His shot is the best and most important part of his game. His shot is deadly, faster than 100mph at times. He is very proud of his scoring abilities and spends at least two hours per day of his own time working on it. Despite the power on his shot, he tends to have accuracy issues when shooting from behind the circles. He accounts for this in his play by putting himself in more favorable positions. 

Puck Handling: Sami uses his puck handling to get himself into prime scoring positions, or to allow his teammates to get into position. Despite his ability, he prefers the simple play that has much higher chances of success compared to the fancy deke that will amaze commentators. Due to this, it is questionable whether this skill will grow throughout his career, as he feels it is a secondary skill that is usually too risky to attempt. 
Checking: Despite being only 6'1", he actively seeks out opportunities to body check. He uses his average size and weight to bait others into the fallacy that he does not pose a physical threat. However, he sometimes goes for checks he shouldn't, increasing the number of injuries he gets. Despite his aggression in checking, he never attempts to injure other players, with the only exception being in revenge for himself or another. Furthermore, if he does injure a player, he tries to make up for it with the player that got injured. 
 

Weaknesses:

Defense: Sami's defensive game needs some work, as in focusing on his offensive abilities he seems to have forgotten defense. Once he gets to the VHL level, it is likely that his defense will improve greatly, due to his high hockey IQ, good checking, and fine motion control relating to his stick. 

Leadership: To call Van Den Dreissche a leader is blatantly misrepresenting his character. He is very flamboyant and has some aggressive tendencies. He also struggles to inspire others, sometimes even being too harsh on teammates. The tendencies previously mentioned lead to the issue of his Discipline being subpar. However, he is trying to fix the issue so it will likely become less of a factor as he grows older and matures. 
Penalty Shots: Going 0-5 on penalty shots in his high school career, something about them seems to prevent him from scoring, even though he scores on harder breakaways. It's likely that this is a secondary goal for Sami, as they do not come up often, especially if you count one specific player. 


P.S. I used the word Flamboyant, I have to use a Flambo image. (this is 500 words excluding this part anyway)

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Edited February 25, 2019 by TsarPeter
Making it valid

[oilmandan 686]

Rookie profiles must be 500 words @TsarPeter

[TsarPeter 12]

On 2/24/2019 at 10:54 AM, oilmandan said:

Rookie profiles must be 500 words @TsarPeter

Edited to meet the requirements 

[Greg_Di 932]

Review: Cutting it close with 501 words I like that you used a picture from the NHL series of games as you made your player very customizable. Picture of the puppy is cute but I would make it a tad smaller. I would also add spacing between each category. Other then that well done!