I certainly admit TG's opinion about prospects is 200% more educated than mine but problem with TG is, he's positive about pretty much any prospect.
If we believe TG, than Dean has drafted 19,5 potential NHL players in the last three years.
I just cant agree with this. He came up with a complete theory like that has actually happened. He even confirmed it. Yes that needs to be ridiculed if you want to call it like that. People with common sense would understand that mine was at least an opinion.
I am going to address this because it is entirely untrue and a completely false statement. I only spend time writing about the prospects that I know to be of a caliber to have the potential to make the NHL and don't waste my time writing about the Campbells Tueberts etc etc for the most part. If I believe in a prospect and continue to do so as they develop in our system then there is a reason for it.
When I don't see the potential in their development I don't spend too much time writing about them. It is as simple as that.
You will not find me writing about prospects that don't make the NHL or don't at least have the potential to do so and saying otherwise just isn't true. Give me an example of a prospect that I have written positively (and continued to do so) about that either hasn't made the NHL, is developing with the potential to make the NHL or has had their situation change (dealt to a different team, system etc or had injuries that have effected their ability to make it etc) to where I no longer follow their development.
You have gone out of your way to try and ridicule what I post both here and at other times and that is no biggie to me, these are boards and you can write what you want to, it doesn't bug me with the exception of when you flat out say something that is definitely untrue. I am going to respond to this type of garbage every time.
The rest of what you have written must be a language barrier thing because I can't make heads or tails of what you are trying to say.
Zykov came to camp and was sent back to his team with a list of things to work on and that is what he has done and will hopefully continue to do until he makes the Kings. Every player wether it is a developing player or a member of our current roster has an end of the season interview.
With the Kings it is usually with DL and DS and with prospects it can be a number of others. This isn't speculation, it is a fact. During that interview they discuss the season and if there are things that they want the player to address during the offseason or in their development/game then they talk about it. If not they talk about the coming season.
What happened with Zykov is what happens with most of our prospects. It is the reason we have a rookie/prospect camp. Again, this is common knowledge and not a theory of mine. Some prospects do better than other at working on their games and have a faster trajectory to making the Kings and some never put it all together but all of them are given instruction on what they need to work on to make the team. Again, just a simple fact.
DL and co haven't had all of their picks work out and I don't write too often about most of them. I do champion and sometimes I am alone in doing so the prospects I believe will work out and like I said, I typically don't waste my time writing about the kids that I don't think have a shot at making the NHL all too often.
Maybe that is where part of your confusion comes from.
Also, when we tell a prospect what they need to work on and then send them back to their respective teams we aren't telling the coach of that prospects team what they need to help our kids learn (with the exception of Morris and co along with the rest of our systems coaching staff etc). That is left up to the player to work out for themselves.
A good example would be TT and his skating. He went to back to Ottawa and hired a power skating coach and then continued working on his skating with the 67's coaching staff whenever possible. Nobody has said anywhere here that DL called up and demanded that anyone help Tyler make himself ready for the Kings.
TT was sent back to his jr squad with the knowledge that he needed to work on his skating if he wanted to make the next level of his development and he did. He is on the Kings today as a result of overcoming an area of his development that needed to be addressed.
The same thing happened with Z. He was told what he needed to work on and that is what he is trying to do. I saw some very good improvements in his game from the start of the season to the last game I saw him play live which was recently. He still needs work but if he can address this part of his game I stand by what I said when we drafted him. He has all of the skills to become a very good sniper at the NHL level and would be a perfect fit on our second line at LW.
If that is overhyping him then time will tell I guess.
