I’m patiently waiting over here for some NCAA free agent signings. I know season isn’t done and can come later but seeing other teams do it has me angsty. Knowing us we’ll probably get a Jake Wise contract and be told to be happy about it lol.
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Gumballhead
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So we’re a little more posh and gay now?
^ Would like to take this opportunity to say I manifested this for us so you’re welcome. However, I wonder if this takes Matt Davis off the table. Our favorite free agent goalie prospect. Cause we have the lumberyard back next year. Nabokov seems to be coming. Saw an AHL stat/analysis guy showing how well Miner is playing this year so wonder if he’s back. Now Posch.
I’m also wondering if they try to get Boston Buckberger or Lukas Gustafsson once their seasons are over. Both defenseman who’ve attended Avs camps.
I’m also wondering if they try to get Boston Buckberger or Lukas Gustafsson once their seasons are over. Both defenseman who’ve attended Avs camps.
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GIVE US ALL THE GOALIES!
The guy we drafted in the 5th round, Louka Cloutier, has a 4.18 GAA and .878 save percentage in the USHL as an 18 year old this season.
Chuck him to the waste bin.
The guy we drafted in the 5th round, Louka Cloutier, has a 4.18 GAA and .878 save percentage in the USHL as an 18 year old this season.
Chuck him to the waste bin.
At least they're FINALLY realizing you have to have multiple goalie prospects in order to develop one. Don't just half-ass your way around with 7th rounders out of Europe you know won't be any good and then finally spend a third rounder (that you traded down for) on a Finnish kid and hope he turns out. Which he obviously didn't.
That said, you can still pick the wrong guys, but at least they appear to be trying now.
That said, you can still pick the wrong guys, but at least they appear to be trying now.
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So the little blurb I just read on Pro Hockey Rumors (good for breaking info but not a source I really pay much attention to) I learned that Posch is a Swede just getting established in North America after only 2 collegiate seasons and just one as a starter, and Gay is a “boards bruiser and net-front presence,” so if that’s accurate it means a tall dude who uses his size in a meaningful hockey way.
If he's a net-front guy then the Avs can use him.
He also is below 50% on faceoffs so he'll fit right in with the Avs if they move him to center.
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He has 31 goals and 20 assists in his last two college seasons. If he's the kind of guy who really excels at finding a way to get those greasy goals it would be a big help if he could establish himself as a bottom sixer.
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I have a feeling the Avs are going to be trading for their starter for a long, long time.
At some point, you have to wonder if they should just shut down all amateur goalie scouting all-together and just double down on the pro-scouting department.
Barely related quest for general information though.... What are the biggest differences between amatuer and pro scouts? Could part of the problem be that the amatuer scouts don't know what it takes to be a pro and are simply looking at these kids vs their peers rather than projecting them effectively against NHL talent? Is there some special training folks devlop or aquire that would take a scout down one path vs the other? Are these guys interchangeable? Can you send a pro-scout to an amatuer game and get the same results that you would have from the amateur scout? Or are the pro-scouts just more intune with the teams actual needs and just tasked differently?
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If he’s a winger there’s a 80% chance posters here will try to pencil him in at center. But I bet it never gets that far.
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It’s like they looked at Nelson and Coyle and thought “oh this is kind of nice to have big dudes with skill who also aren’t afraid of contact” or something wild.
I wouldn't pay much attention to that source either considering a very simple EP search on Posch tells me he's probably established in NA now after having played the last FOUR years NA. One year in the USHL and one in the NAHL before joining St Cloud....
Weirdly, he played his first year in the USHL before dropping down to the NAHL his second year...
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He also played a year in the usual and the nail? If I read that righ
Edit someone beat me to it
Did your autocorrect change USHL and NAHL to usual and nail?
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Wait, so closing your eyes and throwing a dart at one of the goalie names in the 6th round every few years isn't a strategy for success?
Oh also eliminating ALL North American goalies off said dartboard because you’re too cheap to spend money to develop them, don’t forget that part.
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A lot of us have said it half in-jest that the Avs should fire their entire amateur scouting department and make their picks based on consensus lists every year.
IIRC when I tallied the results for certain years, the Avs would have come out with more NHLers in rounds 2-7 but made some pretty big whiffs in round 1 if they went that route.
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