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The roster's kinda stacked right now and the team looks pretty good offensively. If I was closer to Abbotsford, it'd be worth picking up tickets to watch in person.

- Aman hilariously looks like a superstar 1C. Wonder why he can't transfer any of this to the NHL
- All the forwards you'd expect look great, except Bains who isn't doing anything and looks invisible. Wonder what happened to him
- Raty really jumped off the page in this game and looked dominant too on both sides of the puck
- Not seeing the Blais others are seeing. Looks like a decent 3rd line AHL winger. Not any kind of super physical, high flying menace. PDG >> Blais on an NHL 4th line
- Pettersson looks very much like a steady top pairing AHL D who controls the game
- Liked Mukhamadullin on the other side, looks pretty close to NHL ready. JT Miller for Mukh to close the trade tree loop :sarcasm:
- Nice game for Lekk with 1g 2a. Not visibly dominant like Aman but doing his thing. Needs some time down here to develop.
- Missed the 4th SJ goal but Silovs bailed out ABB in the 3rd. Woulda lost without his big saves
 
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Thought Bains did some good work on the winning goal. Banged someone off the puck and that allowed Raty to make a nice pass to the wide open Lekkermaki. That late game shift by those three was excellent. Bains got the 3rd star for whatever that's worth.

Aman is, and has been, the best player on this team for a long while. He is a better player than Sasson but Sasson needs a look.

Neilsen is a bit of an unsong hero. Contributes every game in all parts of the ice.

Klimovich has drifted into ether the last while.

Pettersson and Lekkermaki are emerging, I think, as clearly the best prospects.

Mueller in, Stevens out, which, to me, is an upgrade.

Far as San Jose goes they are near a one man team. Everything runs through AHL lifer Poturalski. Like Bystedt but not even sure he's living up to expectations. He did nothing in this game.

You hope Aman doesn't end up someone like Poturalski.
 
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It's 'feast or famine' in Abbotsford. A six-game losing streak, now followed by a six-game winning streak. Aman is dominating at this level right now.

Kind of surprised they didn't lose him on waivers when he was sent down--but I guess most teams in the NHL have a forward or two just like him in their organizations.

Lekkerimaki voted the first star of the game with a goal and two helpers....and Karlsson is on fire right now. He really does have a gift and a net-front presence to get to tips and rebounds. Looks like Jake Debrusk, scoring most of his goals from right around the blue paint.

It's unfortunate that his skating is holding him back. If he gained that half-step he needs, he might be of help at the NHL-level.
 
Aman is a good AHLer putting up good-not-excellent offensive stats in that league-- same points per game rate as last season's stint with Abbotsford-- and he turns 25 next month. What you've seen is almost certainly what you'll get going forward. Same with the other guys near that age. A Chatfield-like leap at age 23+ is uncommon.
 
Blue and Green said:
There are lots of guys like that.
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Not specifically like this.

There are guys who are skill players who can't translate and produce but still play like (bad) skill players in the NHL. Bains may be like this in the end.

There are guys who are workmanlike north-south players in the AHL and manage to translate it to points in that league who just obviously can't produce in the NHL.

Aman is weird because he shows flashes of actual legitimate skill and creativity in the AHL and then plays pretty much the most boring zero-event, zero-risk, zero-skill hockey you could imagine in the NHL. Based on the way he's looked in the AHL, he looks like he *should* have the talent to be a 25-30 point 3rd line type in the NHL but once actually in the NHL he's shown literally none of that.
 
MS said:
Not specifically like this.

There are guys who are skill players who can't translate and produce but still play like (bad) skill players in the NHL. Bains may be like this in the end.

There are guys who are workmanlike north-south players in the AHL and manage to translate it to points in that league who just obviously can't produce in the NHL.

Aman is weird because he shows flashes of actual legitimate skill and creativity in the AHL and then plays pretty much the most boring zero-event, zero-risk, zero-skill hockey you could imagine in the NHL. Based on the way he's looked in the AHL, he looks like he *should* have the talent to be a 25-30 point 3rd line type in the NHL but once actually in the NHL he's shown literally none of that.
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Could be confidence thing, don’t want to make a mistake and get kicked off the roster so plays super conservatively.
 
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Abby if Van stays mostly healthy is starting to look like a wagon for the 2nd half.

man games lost after 37 games = Sasson 21 Raty 16 Amen 10 Lekkerimaki 15 Karlsson 20 Bains 16 Wolanin 14 Blais 21 and Silovs

Have got on a roll with most of these guys healthy and contributing now
 
LemonSauceD said:
They should really just let Lekkerimaki stay down for the rest of the season.
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i have a different take on this.

It's important not to bounce him around too much but it's also important to phase players in vs throwing them into the deep end of the pool or start a season with the expectation of producing and being responsible

Every time he gets a taster in the NHL he goes back with a renewed focus of what he needs to work on to stick. It's optimal for someone as close as Lekkerimaki to stay connected to Vancouver and play some games to see how he's developing

If the idea was a longer term phase in period starting next year to the year after probably in the case of a guy like DPetey then i would agree but i dont think that is the case
 
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