Around the League 2024-25 season

[GoldenBearHockey]

Well he has just struck again today, so if he keeps this up they may have some decisions to make.

Do you think, even with injuries that this organization would have given a 20 year-old rookie defenseman with 0 AHL games this kind of opportunity? Ofcourse not, they would have kept him in the minors and given the opportunity to someone like Englund or Burroughs until Casey had paid his dues and learned the system.

Casey handled by LA is signed after his freshman year, never has the dominant sophomore year he had last year, and is probably at best about half-way through his "dues paying" development with the Reign, which at the end of it would result in yet another bland system player that is not as good or dynamic as the player the Devils are likely to get from to a traditional and meritocratic development process.

Another point for Casey.
Casey for Norris!

Guess that wasn't a hard decision after all, Casey back to the minors on Monday...(yea I am late)

 

[Herby]

Guess that wasn't a hard decision after all, Casey back to the minors on Monday...(yea I am late)

Ok, and?

There is nothing wrong with a 2nd round pick spending a season or two in the minors. The Devils gave him an opportunity he probably wouldn't have been given had Tom Fitzgerald had a similar development philosophy to Rob Blake.

And it's funny how with my years of posts highlighting players developed successfully without any Kings-like AHL usage, you are silent. But now here for a gotcha moment, congrats.

Btw GBH,

The Kings three best value picks of the Blake era are probably Faber, Anderson and Lafferiere. All three players played multiple years of college hockey. Faber (0) and Lafferiere (4) went straight to the NHL after their first camps as pros and Anderson spent most of the year in the AHL, but his limited games up left most fans convinced he could have been an NHL regular from the drop.

Contrast that with higher picks taken by the Kings who all spent significant time developing (many beginning as teenagers) with the Ontario Reign and "Working with Muzz and (insert 90's King)" and how they have fared relative to where they were drafted. Should we be concerned as to why many of the ones who were under team control, and who were taken higher, have struggled to live up to where they were taken?

Just a coincidence?

 

[Bandit]

Durzi could be out rest of season for Utah after shoulder surgery | NHL.com

Defenseman expected to miss 4-6 months, Marino also sidelined following back procedure

www.nhl.com

Terrible news

Terrible? It’s shoulder surgery, not terminal cancer.