Prospect Info: 2023-24 Ducks Prospects

[FiveTacos]

18-19 year olds are still kids, come on. Why are we caring if they fight in their games...

Let me tell you a story about a kid named Youngblood, who became a great hockey player only after defeating the evil Carl Racki single combat. After he cut his head off and took his power in the Quickening, he became unstoppable and now rules a firehouse with an iron fist, while his goalie only survived by entering the Matrix. Kids these days need to learn about important unwritten hockey rules, the most important one is that there can be only one.

 

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They can go to war but they can't a punch in a hockey game? That seriously makes no sense.

This is a wild response

 

[Hockey Duckie]

They can go to war but they can't a punch in a hockey game? That seriously makes no sense.

There's no fighting allowed in the World Juniors. I don't see any complaints about it.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

This is a wild response

Oh I can't put ketchup on a hot dog, but they put pigs in blankets? That seriously makes no sense.

 

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Dionico named third star of his game

 

[mightyquack]

This is a wild response

We now live in a world where people have to be consistently mad at something.

 

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Sidorov has an assist. He leads the WHL in goals and shots on goal as well.

 

[tomd]

We now live in a world where people have to be consistently mad at something.

And it's almost always the people who are mad that get even by making ridiculous rules for the rest of us to be burdened with.

 

[mightyquack]

And it's almost always the people who are mad that get even by making ridiculous rules for the rest of us to be burdened with.

I am sure that 15-20 years old not being able to punch each other in the face in Canadian junior hockey is something that effects your life extremely severely, and would be extremely debilitating to live with.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

I demand that teenagers punch each other for my amusement! They're not busy at war so lfg

 

[tomd]

I am sure that 15-20 years old not being able to punch each other in the face in Canadian junior hockey is something that effects your life extremely severely, and would be extremely debilitating to live with.

It doesn't affect my life at all but were the players even consulted by the bureaucrats who put this law into place? What are the "adults" protecting these "kids" from? Fighting has been in the sport for 100 years, why do the Quebec bureaucrats suddenly think it is "harmful"?

 

[mightyquack]

It doesn't affect my life at all but were the players even consulted by the bureaucrats who put this law into place? What are the "adults" protecting these "kids" from? Fighting has been in the sport for 100 years, why do the Quebec bureaucrats suddenly think it is "harmful"?

This is true, there's zero medical research into the effects of repeated blows to the head and the short and long-term effects it can have on a person's life, especially at an age where the brain and body is still developing.

 

[tomd]

This is true, there's zero medical research into the effects of repeated punches to the head and the short and long-term effects it can have on a person's life, especially at an age where the brain and body is still developing.

RIght, so now these protected teenagers are going to start playing in the SHL, ECHL, AHL, and other pro leagues at 20 and have no idea how to protect themselves against men. They're going to get eaten alive. So be it.

And BTW, in terms of damage to the brain soccer is far worse.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

People have been smoking for thousands of years and suddenly it's harmful and I can't give my kid a Marlboro to wake her up before school? It's filtered.

 

[tomd]

People have been smoking for thousands of years and suddenly it's harmful and I can't give my kid a Marlboro to wake her up before school? It's filtered.

I'll just end with this..
1. Did the league produce any statistics showing the effects of fighting on the body or brain?
2. Bodychecking/open ice hits/checking against the boards produce significant numbers of concussions and other injuries relative to fighting. Should they be banned as well?
3. Should hitting a soccer ball with your head be banned? It creates far more head injuries than fighting.
4. Should football be banned entirely? There is a whole cottage industry studying brain injuries in the NFL.

The irony is that I don't even like fighting but I rarely see players going in the IR b/c of a fight...unless they break their hand. My prediction is that the Q will rescind the fighting rule within the next 2/3 years.

 

[TopShelfWaterBottle]

Dionicio has an early goal.


They're kids.

That video is solid coaching nothing overt about it

Can’t treat kids like marshmallows and expect them to be fierce competitors

It’s why society is going south because babying kids has led to weak adults

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

I'll just end with this..
1. Did the league produce any statistics showing the effects of fighting on the body or brain?
2. Bodychecking/open ice hits/checking against the boards produce significant numbers of concussions and other injuries relative to fighting. Should they be banned as well?
3. Should hitting a soccer ball with your head be banned? It creates far more head injuries than fighting.
4. Should football be banned entirely? There is a whole cottage industry studying brain injuries in the NFL.

The irony is that I don't even like fighting but I rarely see players going in the IR b/c of a fight...unless they break their hand. My prediction is that the Q will rescind the fighting rule within the next 2/3 years.

Oh what are we just going to start protecting people from brain injuries now?

 

[tomd]

Oh what are we just going to start protecting people from brain injuries now?

Well my understanding is that that was a major reason for banning fighting in the Q.

And BTW, as someone who leads a TBI support group I understand how serious brain injuries can be and I'd like to eliminate them from every sport...but that would radically change every sport. Changes should be meaningful and thoughtful with real results to real problems. Instead, I believe the Q picked on fighting b/c it was the PC thing to do and it placated the right people.

 

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Sidorov scores his 25th of the year season

 

[All Mighty]

Sidorov scores his 25th of the year season

Through 25+ games, he leads the WHL in goals (25) and SOG (137).

 

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Colangelo was held off the score sheet today, but he offered eight shots on goal. Western Michigan had 67 (!) in the game.

 

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[mightyquack]

Is Sidorov in technically his +2 season? Was he undrafted in 2022? Or was the 23 draft the first time he was eligible?

 

[All Mighty]

Is Sidorov in technically his +2 season? Was he undrafted in 2022? Or was the 23 draft the first time he was eligible?

He went undrafted in his draft year.

 

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Port finished with an assist.