Bo Burrows prospect scouting report

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Strengths:

 

Defense: Burrows is definitely defensively heavy opposed to offense as on the offensive side he has only really shown sides of passing. Nevertheless, Burrows is a shut down-defender, which is why Houston is top 4 in GAs, and why when on the ice he can be a goalie and an offensive-defensemen's best friend. He can hold his own end doing whatever it takes to make sure the other team doesn’t have the puck, and one of his teammates do instead. This will most likely be the way for his entire career unless he chooses to change up his game later on in the pros.

Strength: Burrows has a lot of strength, and in order to be a shut-down defender you’ll need the strength to hold your end and handle defensive ice-time. Burrows does that job near perfectly with his worth-ethic of a bull. He also uses his strength in many other ways that we will eventually get to talking about. Burrows also just happens to be a hand-in-hand player, and you’ll see it in all of his work. Back to strength though, if Burrows wasn’t a strong player he probably wouldn’t be a player at all considering his game is mainly defensive, and his strength just overall happens to be a reason why the Houston Bulls decided to sign him for the year. 
 

Body Checking: Burrows is definitely a guy who can handle the body in both ways. As you can see at this point in time he is in the top ten in hits. It all points back to the hand-in-hand thing, every strength happens to compliment each other especially with checking and strength and back to the checking skill he’s obviously strong as we previously covered that, but it’s obviously an awareness skill, and while he’s a good checker he’s also somewhat disciplined enough as he is nowhere near the top 5 where you can see much more big hitters, and that’s rather impressive, you’ll always need that guy who knows how to hit, and not get in trouble for it legally unlike Tkachuk. 
 

Cons:

 

Scoring: As far as goal-scoring goes he’s weak in the department though he’s on pace to score eight goals which isn’t half-bad for a defensemen. Still something that VHL GMs like to see their guys use in their career. The fact that he isn’t heavily puck dominant doesn’t help either, and while I’m sure he can improve here this honestly feels like it’s his worse stat out of them all. Though this most likely won’t be something a GM wants burrows to change about since they where probably looking for a shut-down defender.

 

Skating: Simply put Burrows is a lazy skater, and is by no means a Connor McDavid. He looks to improving this skill the most however so don’t feel surprised when you see this is at the top of his list of strengths, and honestly when you take the time to look at his brother Alex you can’t even tell how they’re brothers or if one is a foreign exchange student who happened to be legally adopted by the family. 

Puck Handling: Burrows isn’t the best at handling the puck as he’s been known to pull Marchand's back in his midget days. Which is why you’d probably never want this guy in a shootout, and why he’s not known to be an elite playmaker. Though he has said that he’s working with the team-trainer to get better.