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Claire Hannah has some good posts with video on Yakemchuk .
Prospect Info: 2024 Senators Development Camp
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Top one looks like 2 Bull moose in the rut
One of the reasons I find the Sens focus on height somewhat infuriating. A 5'10 200 lbs forward who protects the puck well can be a nightmare to play against.
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Here is Wallenius and Yakemchuk racing in a puck battle.
Mckeens and others have rated Wallenius as a good skater.
I wouldn't get caught up or extract too much from drills where the players are focusing on developing technique. They are not going full out.
He got under the shoulders and into the upper gut of Eliasson, who could not move fast enough to get by him. Impressive showing by Lucas Moore; unimpressive by Eliasson.
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Development Camp Day 2:
- Claire Hanna was at the rink today, along with the Sens Brass including Poulin, Bowness & Staois. Donovan seemed to have spent a lot of time today talking to Yakemchuk & Eliasson. Have yet to see Hamara, not sure he is at camp? Toure was there on crutches.
- it was all about skating today so not a lot to report. They were in two rinks today, one rink had the little skating coach & she was taking them through a number of drills & the other was also focusing on skating drills along with a number of one on one battles. It seems they are putting a lot of emphasis on puck battles & compete level.
- for those worried about Yakemchuk's skating, I didn't see anything today that led me to believe he would be behind anyone & out skated a few guys today & seems to pivot & turn on his edges well. These are drills & not game situations, but just from the drills he seems to be able to keep up with no problem & turn rather easily. It could be nitpicking, but he has plenty of time to correct any skating issues, I expect he will spend next summer in Ottawa working on his skating & take back everything he is learning here for next season.
- with the few puck battle drills I saw I really like the compete level in Rolofs, Ward & Javon Moore at forward. On defence Wallenius is really growing on me, he has a high compete level as does Yakemchuk & Eliasson.
- there is really no one at this camp that sets themselves out above everyone else so far, there are a lot of good big players who can all skate & have their own niches. Nordberg, Wallberg & Eliasson seem to be the three bigest guys at camp & Toure who was walking around on crutches today.
- Halliday is a guy I would like to see more up close, he has the size, he clearly has the talent, but is it bottom six talent or could it be honed & turned up to be a top six level remains to be seen. He clearly has very good vision, a knack for getting pucks through a crowd & plays a deceptive smart game. I'm also not sure about his compete level, but he does a lot of things well, same can be said for Petersson. Enjoy your day everyone.
- Claire Hanna was at the rink today, along with the Sens Brass including Poulin, Bowness & Staois. Donovan seemed to have spent a lot of time today talking to Yakemchuk & Eliasson. Have yet to see Hamara, not sure he is at camp? Toure was there on crutches.
- it was all about skating today so not a lot to report. They were in two rinks today, one rink had the little skating coach & she was taking them through a number of drills & the other was also focusing on skating drills along with a number of one on one battles. It seems they are putting a lot of emphasis on puck battles & compete level.
- for those worried about Yakemchuk's skating, I didn't see anything today that led me to believe he would be behind anyone & out skated a few guys today & seems to pivot & turn on his edges well. These are drills & not game situations, but just from the drills he seems to be able to keep up with no problem & turn rather easily. It could be nitpicking, but he has plenty of time to correct any skating issues, I expect he will spend next summer in Ottawa working on his skating & take back everything he is learning here for next season.
- with the few puck battle drills I saw I really like the compete level in Rolofs, Ward & Javon Moore at forward. On defence Wallenius is really growing on me, he has a high compete level as does Yakemchuk & Eliasson.
- there is really no one at this camp that sets themselves out above everyone else so far, there are a lot of good big players who can all skate & have their own niches. Nordberg, Wallberg & Eliasson seem to be the three bigest guys at camp & Toure who was walking around on crutches today.
- Halliday is a guy I would like to see more up close, he has the size, he clearly has the talent, but is it bottom six talent or could it be honed & turned up to be a top six level remains to be seen. He clearly has very good vision, a knack for getting pucks through a crowd & plays a deceptive smart game. I'm also not sure about his compete level, but he does a lot of things well, same can be said for Petersson. Enjoy your day everyone.
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Thanks aragorn. Good insight as always.
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His footwork, agility and backwards skating is a problem, and it's why he had issues with his gap control and got beat wide a lot last year.
And that was against junior players. The hope is that he'll improve it to a level where it'll be fine when NHL fowards are coming down on him.
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Exactly. He's 18 years old and will grow but as it stands right now his skating is very much less than ideal by NHL standards.
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That’s not the hope. It’s what they’ll do. It’s just something he has to work on. All these young players have something they have to work on.
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I'd like to be there for a couple Shelly Kettles skating sessions. Sens drafted him .. they will identify areas to improve and hopefully get him the support he needs to work on them.
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One thing that's not often mentioned is that Yakemchuk regularly does successful spin-o-ramas (with the puck).
A lot? More like once every few games.
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Nobody wants to hurt anyone at dev camp. They're probably told to keep it very clean. These kids probably don't know how long their leash is yet. Just happy to be there.
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Anyone can attend the practices, as far as I know, but the 3 on 3 event is for STHs only.
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Poulin is just like many posters on this board who expand the meaning of "elite" to include 50% of the players.
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