Minimum!
Equipment restrictions were the demise of the smaller goalie
That’s what I meant…Pro. I think at the OHL Level, size is a little less of a factor because there are only so many skilled guys at 6’1” and taller. So, 6’
Personally, I would look more to their play style and stance than focus so much on their height. There's a lot of tall goalies that make themselves small with their stance or fall forward on their stomachs sliding laterally opening up the upper half of the net. An athletic 6' goalie that can stay upright on their Z axis can play "big" in the net vs a 6'5" goalie that is prone to falling forward on their stomach.
Niagara or any team cant get supplemental picks in back to back years. So if their first round picks dont show, they are SOL in respect to a supplemental pick next year
100% they are sought after. I just disagree with the modern hockey philosophy of not drafting sub 6'2" goalies in general. I think at times they focus too much on size and not enough on how they actually play. So many bigger goalies get picked as projects because they think they can coach the technique and details into their games, or at least enough to make them more than just a guy who's big and gets in the way of pucks. It honestly feels like hockey people don't get goaltending and so just default to bigger is better lol. The skills and technique that go into rebound control, puck handling, skating ability(something that I think is personally undervalued), positional awareness relative to the net are all things that seemingly get over looked in favor of size.
That’s right. But if the player they select who will report, is that much a lesser player, then it may make sense for them to do a Dickinson scenario all over again.
Roobrek has already stated that he won't report to Niagara. So I can't see them drafting him as there won't be any compansion pick for next year as you can not have two in a row compansion picks in a row but we are talking about Niagara.
The Niagara situation appears dire. They need to turn it around in a hurry.
Until the league institutes a league rule that OHL prospects can only enter the OHL draft if they have no intentions of committing to US College or the US Development program and if they do it will make them ineligible for the Priority selection. And must report to whatever team drafts them. With a rule like this and allowing 1st round picks to be dealt like the WHL will clean up the games being played by certain teams. Just my two cents. Might suck for a couple of years of missing out on some good players but it will stop teams getting a top 5 pick at 20 and top US players that initially committed to school changing their mind after being selected by the Londons lets just say in the 4th or 5th round or even later.
I think the OHL does it best.
Do you think it makes it harder to compete with other team at the Mem though? Less assets to stack up... or does it make other assets more valuable?
Because there is supposedly a rule that says you can’t do that but the OHL doesn’t govern themselves that well. There have been many obvious 2 part trades over the years with zero repercussions but I’m sure some of the small market teams feel they won’t be so lucky getting away with it
This is the one problem that I kind of have with it. You have a championship tournament at the end of the season with teams that don't have the same rules as far as trades go.
