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Prospect Info: [2024 - 21st] Michael Hage, Chicago Steel (USHL), Committed to U of Michigan

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WeThreeKings said:
Ah so not one of the top programs, should be able to find some more offense.
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they are coming off likely their best season and have now moved to the NCHC starting this season. When the Habs re-hired Albie O'Connell a lot was made about how ASU will take a hit since he was in charge of bringing in the players that got them much improved. I haven't looked at their roster yet so we'll see as I don't know who they lost vs incoming.
 
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Estimated_Prophet

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Toene said:
You now remember Michaël Bournival
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Patrick Poulin, Rene Bourque, Oleg Petrov, Josh Anderson, Nathan Beaulieu, Jozef Balej, Gregor Baumgartner, Jesse Ylonen, Mattias Norlinder, Danny Kristo, Mac Bennett, Jacob De La Rose, Will Bitten..........

All great skaters with below average to poor hockey IQ's with varying degrees of success but mostly busts and failures.

Combine IQ, character/work ethic and puck skills and you have a guaranteed NHLer provided that they are not tiny. These are the three most important traits and there are zero elite NHLers without the combination of both IQ and puck skill. Size, speed and strength are all nice bonus traits that can help propel a player that has the most important traits but none of these three are necessary traits that make up a super star hockey player.

When people make grandiose statements about speed as though it is the most important trait it is very telling about how little they actually know about scouting.
 
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JoelWarlord said:
I get that those were some of the guys you particularly liked from the 2024 draft but this just feels like the prospect equivalent of Dreger posting to me. Every year at the deadline Dreger will just cover every possibility so he's always "right" by saying something like:

"Team A is looking to trade players X, Y, and Z, they'd like picks and prospects but they're also open to making a hockey trade if the fit makes sense. They haven't ruled out younger roster players or even taking back some veterans with term, but they won't make a trade just for the sake of making a trade and they also haven't ruled out signing any of these players. They're not close on anything right now but all of that could all change with one phone call"

Casting a wide net to list a bunch of players who were available around the 26th and 57th overall picks and then retroactively picking the best one of each group is extremely likely to produce two players that will be more valuable than Hage alone, but that's not how the draft works. You get to pick two individual 18 year old players on draft day, you don't get to pick two out of a list of six or seven 21 year olds three years from now when we know which ones pan out and which ones don't and have full retroactive knowledge of how the draft board played out.
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That's not even the point of the post bro

Also I put out a draft list every year and I'm probably the most opiniated person on this board. I don't really care about being right or wrong.
 
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That was a slick entry. I like that he didn't try to dangle through everyone and quickly dropped it to his open wing.
 
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What is the ncaa Channel for hockey so I can look for it on my iptv?
 
Estimated_Prophet

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G0bias said:
That was a slick entry. I like that he didn't try to dangle through everyone and quickly dropped it to his open wing.
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He uses the exact same entry with the exact same pass all the time.....NHL teams will adjust but I believe that he will readjust as he seems very smart.

Why stop doing it if it keeps working right.
 
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I think he might be the steal of the draft, looking at him at the prospect camp he was by far the most talented player out there and now to see highlights play like that for Michigan I really think he has a higher upside than most people think. He can do 40 pts this year as a rookie and honestly I wouldn't be surprised. Team Canada better have to invite him to the WJC
 
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