The Aggressive Style and Bright Future of NHL’s Martin Pospíšil

When you look at the career statistics of Martin Pospíšil, as well as his older brother Kristián, you will be interested not only in goals, points but also in the number of penalty minutes. Both of them never lacked aggression, toughness, and when they felt it, they often threw down the gloves.

MARTIN POSPÍSIL scored a goal in the Calgary jersey after a month, but he helps the team in other ways

Martin can no longer afford it in the NHL, especially at a time when he is fighting for a stable position in his rookie season. The days of brawlers are long gone, but they still like bad men, as they call “tough guys” overseas. However, they must have the necessary skills to be valid. There are many examples from clubs, whether Tom Wilson from Washington or Pospíšil’s teammate Nazem Kadri.

The top bad guys include stars like Boston captain Brad Marchand, or the Tkachuk brothers playing for Florida and Ottawa, respectively. It is true for all of them that they are hated opponents on the ice, but off the ice they are among the most popular teammates. This also describes Pospíšil.

Already during the draft year, he had 253 penalty minutes in the junior USHL. “There were matches when our scouts came to the match and he was either suspended until the end of the match, or he spent fifteen minutes on the penalty bench. But that’s exactly why you have to scout for the whole season, not a few duels,” Calgary Flames head scout Todd Button told the Calgary Herald.

In 2018, Calgary’s Jim Cummins was the loudest at the table during the fourth round of the draft. Once a bad man in the NHL himself and now a talent scout. “No one will say no to a player who fights for his teammates with such passion. However, it is true that he was a little out of sorts at the time,” said the longtime Flames scout.

The 4th goal of the season was scored by Martin Pospíšil in the Calgary Flames jersey.

HE FAILS MINIMUM

Pospíšil also described in several interviews for our newspaper that he gradually had to calm down. Frequent fights caused him injuries and especially five concussions that threatened his career. In the NHL, he keeps himself under control, in twenty games he has seven points and only ten penalty minutes.

On the night from Monday to Tuesday, after a month, he scored, with a nice backhand escape against Florida, he added his fourth goal of the year. “I wasn’t even ready for a counter attack, but Nazem Kadri passed to me. He keeps telling me to wait and then use speed.” our attacker, who plays well in a formation with a well-known tough guy, told the overseas media. “He is a great helper, I enjoy playing with him. Cooperation with him and Connor Zary is excellent,” Pospíšil smiled.

He was certainly relieved, as he scored after twelve games. Despite the absent goals, his position is stable in the last matches, when he plays an average of around twelve minutes. His energetic style with lots of cutouts and bodysuits contributes to this. He also had three and added four shots against the Panthers.

HE LOOKED LIKE A CANADIAN IN THE BEGINNING

Calgary Herald journalist Wes Gilbertson points out that a player like Pospíšil was exactly missing from the Flames lineup. He mentions the skirmish of our player with Marcus Foligno from the duel with Minnesota, when the tall native of Zvolen was not afraid of a more experienced opponent. In the next substitution, he pressed three-time Stanley Cup winner Patrick Maroon to the bar and took the puck from him.

“He helps the team with his physicality, which also wakes up his teammates to play harder. He’s a competitive young guy who plays hard. Sometimes he gets under the opponent’s skin. He has it in nature,” described coach Ryan Huska, who already knew him from the farm Calgary Wranglers, which was preceded by the Californian Stockton Heat.

Pospíšil has exactly what NHL coaches expect from a player measuring 188 centimeters and weighing around 90 kilograms. Cummins joked that when he first saw him in the junior USHL, he thought he was from Saskatoon, not Slovakia, because of his aggressive style of play.

“At first it was too tough with a lot of fouls, then he calmed down and combined the toughness with his speed and his ability to be in the top 10 in productivity in the USHL. We were lucky that he started playing like this only in the second season, if he had done it in the first, he wouldn’t have fallen to the fourth round, but already in the second.” dodal skaut Calgary Flames.

However, the fact is that if Martin Pospíšil earns the reputation of a bad man and combines it with his speed and skills, he can win in the NHL in the future.

2023-12-20 15:00:00
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