WreckingCrew
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We're still discussing...height...right?I thought it was a half-inch every decade after 40.
We're still discussing...height...right?I thought it was a half-inch every decade after 40.
If not I better take advantage of the rest of my thirties jeez LouiseWe're still discussing...height...right?
If not I better take advantage of the rest of my thirties jeez Louise
Or distance of the stones from the ground.We're still discussing...height...right?
We're still discussing...height...right?
We're still discussing...height...right?
Looks like the best we’ll getAre they going to be live broadcasting the prospects game today?
Looks like the best we’ll get
Hoef looked solid and Andree shut everyone out today. Of course, I’m a little biasedJust wondering how the players looked at the prospect camp. In particular Cedric Andree and Hoefenmayer.
No one NHL ready, although I don't think that's too surprising.
If I had to choose one player to make the NHL based on the video, I would easily say Makiniemi. He looked quite a bit more in control than Kochetkov.Yes the new Russian tender was as advertised, but both Makiniemi and Kucharski played very well too.
Cotton really stood out in the first with some condor like control of the play, and Fensore played the perfect little guy game. Cotton took the foot off the gas in the second, wonder if that was purposeful as white crushed red in possession in the first imo.
Rees looked good in moments. Filipe and Henman looked best for red. Honka was up and down.
Suzuki looked skilled but didn’t really assert like Cotton or Fensore did.
It's funny you said that, people can watch the same content and take totally different things from it. I thought Cotton's strength was pulling away from coverage and maintaining possession. He's not graceful at all, that's my "condor" reference to Vasicek. Someone who's got the wingspan to hold the puck away and the intelligence to pick and choose his moments to attack. I don't know that hes any better than Lorentz in the AHL but I'd like to find out. He's a smart player.Interesting to see this take. I thought Cotton looked lumbering and lost a lot of pucks. I thought it was really, really noticeable playing with Suzuki, who was able to escape from pretty much any challenge with very poised control of the puck. Cotton would try to do similar things, but wasn't nimble and his hands weren't as good, and he would constantly get stripped of the puck as a result, while Suzuki was usually able to escape and make a play. I thought it was obvious that Suzuki was the best player on the ice.
Henman really impressed me. A very nice Erik Cole move to score, and he protected the puck well and had some really clean passes. Didn't have the top end speed that Cole did, so I don't think he has any chance of being a similar player in the NHL, but I thought he had enough speed to keep up. Looks like he's got a year of juniors left, which is a shame. I think he'd be really intriguing to watch as an AHL guy this year.
Rees was interesting to me. He tried a couple things that I guess he was used to doing in junior and got shut down pretty hard, but he also had spectacular second effort and made a couple nice plays after most players would have given up. In the NHL, that either makes you a star or gets you burnt. I think he's got the tools, but will have to adjust his decision making a lot as a pro.
To me, he was the most notable player on the ice. Small sample sizeInteresting how the opinions of Fensore changed so radically in the space of two days.