Could This 6-Foot-4 Defenseman Be the Flyers’ Secret Weapon on the Power Play?
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Jackson Smith
Position: Defenseman
Height: 6-foot-4
Weight: 199
Shoots: Left
Team: Tri-City
Scouting report
Smith is that modern defenseman who is super fun to watch. He skates and handles the puck like a forward, darting up the ice and carving through coverages with all kinds of maneuvers.
“I think teams will gravitate toward him just for the simple fact that the style he plays is the style that’s being played in the NHL, where are a number of players are having success at that,” Dan Marr, the vice president of NHL Central Scouting, said last Wednesday in a phone interview with NBC Sports Philadelphia. “So he’s definitely offensively wired. He’s a D-man that likes to have the green light, so that when there’s an opportunity, he can skate and lead a rush with the puck.”
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