Sabres_Luke wrote:

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Eriksson is on top line Dallas this year

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Just like you said Noah Clarke will get Top-3 minutes in Florida this coming season! (when everyplace I look everyone is saying he's competing for 5th or 6th spot on the Panthers blueline).

Let's let the hfboard veterans (not the youngsters there) who actually go to Stars training camps have their say about Eriksson:

Has not show an ability to get in good shooting positions, is not great with the puck

He's also shown that he gets knocked off the puck and the play pretty easily by physical players. He either needs to get more elusive (a la Ribeiro) or stronger like Jokinen seemed to last year. Without that, his ceiling will be in the 25-30 point range. With a bit more muscle and poise, I'm hoping he can get up to 40 points this year.

Eriksson may struggle to put on a great deal of mass. Shake his hand and you'll see that he has a thin skeletal frame. His wrists aren't real thick (he has muscle, it's just around a slender frame) and his hands and ankles are thin, too. This isn't all bad, it just is, and people with naturally thin frames have trouble bulking up to 200 pounds, etc.

Eriksson can still do things to improve his balance on the puck so that he doesn't get knocked off, like weightlifting, plyometrics, and sprint intervals. Those all increase leg strength, and plyos help with balance, too. In the AHL, Eriksson was able to use his speed and intelligence in protecting the puck along the boards and in the corners. He won most of such one-on-one battles as his AHL experience progressed. His scoring came down to his breakaway speed and breakaway passes (primarily from Toby Petersen). Give Eriksson a chance to skate with say Mike Ribeiro, and he should put up the sort of numbers you'd expect out of a second liner.

I personally do not think Eriksson will become more than a good second liner.
 
http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?p=10151924#post10151924

And the magazines have him projected as a 2nd liner... what makes you think he'll be first line this coming year?

There's reason to think Carl Soderberg = Loui Eriksson ... making the other three prospects a real bonus (and yes it's Kris Russell in the deal, wasn't traded earlier).

Sabres_Luke wrote:

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Eriksson is on top line Dallas this year, why do you think they didnt make a splash on the UFA market.

Eriksson will be a future 76 overall player+

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right    can i get a look at the crystal ball where u know guys overall ratings for the future. like scott gomez isnt even that good. 76 ov. so erickson in your opinion in the prime of his career will be better than scott gomez is right now??