Emmanuel: I don’t think he has shown that he can be a top-2 defenceman just yet. While he has displayed his exceptional hockey IQ and skating ability, I think he is more suited to playing on the second pairing rather than on the first. The issue is that he has more chemistry than Weber compared with Petry. Since there are no other left-handed defencemen on the Montreal Canadiens that plays the same way as Mete, they have no choice but to play him with Weber, barring a potential trade.
For starters, what Mete has to do to reach that level is to start picking up more assists and maybe one day score a goal in the NHL (I’m sorry, I had to.