I am going to try to collect my thoughts and come back on a few comments on the scrimmage later. I am a bit busy now.
One thing on the run though, Bodie and Zamorsky played a lot with Hagelin-Miller-Bourque -- and that showed in how well that lined transitioned. Those two Ds moved the puck really well.
However, Bodie is real small, and Zamorsky had one "idiotic" shift where he ended up putting a soft saucer right across his own zone to nobody. I don't know about Beuke, but Gerander is going to hate that. Zamorsky sat a game in Traverse unless I am misstaken, and he is yanked by AV for the 1st pre-season game. A player coming right from the Czech men's team from the WCH's should fly a little higher than that.
I really like these type of prospects, and like I said I think both Bodie and Zamorsky have made a lot of high caliber plays, hopefully they can raise they play generally in the days to come and get into some pre-season action.
Where are thou Jesper Fast? Fast had a few decent shift. Decent isn't going to cut it with the competition we have this season. He played on the 4th line with Mueller and Glass on half the team, ie a 7-8 line, which don't have too say all that much but still. Fast is a very good skater who is a very verstaile player. He can be really strong on the puck, his fundamental game is about working harder than everyone else, forecheck real hard, play real good defense, win back pucks real well (which AV has focused on the most during practise in camp), and in addition to that he can do a lot of other things on the ice real well, goes to the net, got a good shot and one-timer (although it could imrpove), he is a good passer in odd man situations, etc etc etc.
But from what I've seen he just tends to become too passive in NA so far in his career. He has been extremely poised in a sense, but where is the energy, speed and hustle that should be noticed on a shift by shift basis with a young kid like him? Get going Fast!
Oscar Lindberg is not a flashy player and never has been. But he is a really good player fundamentally that tends to get better the higher level he plays on, in that sense (and not otherwise) he can somewhat be compared to a Jonathan Toews for example (a Jonathan Toews of the SHL if you get what I mean, definitely not in a direct comparision). These scrimmages are real sloppy compared to a normal game, but Lindberg was real focused and was really sharp when he had the puck and made a handful of real good passes down low. Its a good "start" for him. Lets see if he can build on it.
