Confirmed with Link: Axel Sandin-Pellikka signs three year entry level contract

[norrisnick]

The most important lesson, how to be a professional athlete.

This is his 3rd pro season...

 

[ShanahanMan]

I think he's gonna finish 1st in points.

Would be cool to see MBN and Danielson get on the scoreboard at some point!

 

[izlez]

The AHL is just NA hockey. That's really all there is to it. It's not a goon league. A goon league was the CHL (no, not that CHL). You softies want guys hanging out in Europe, handled with kid's gloves, getting ill-prepared for NA hockey, well I won't stand for it! Get MBN to GR ASAP. ASP to follow next season!

The guy that injured Mazur was putting up penalty minutes at a higher rate than Probert

 

[SantosHalper]

Anyway , my point was that let him mature enough to play in NHL and skip AHL. I also believe he could play now in NHL, limited third pair and second pp until

Play next season in Sweden? Not the worst idea but the org seems to prefer AHL as the final polishing spot. All situations 1D is better and he gets those minutes in AHL.

This is his 3rd pro season...

Teuvo Teräväinen considered golf as a appropriate off-season training after 4th pro season and didn't start training properly during the off-season until after his 5th pro season. And i believe Kari Lehtonen didn't train at all until he played in Dallas.

Most of the kids ASP age goes to McDonalds to eat after practice and play video games until 2am. And ASP's body has barely stop maturing, natural talent has carried him so far but there is still lot more to learn.

 

[jaster]

The guy that injured Mazur was putting up penalty minutes at a higher rate than Probert

Radko Gudas plays in the NHL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[norrisnick]

Teuvo Teräväinen considered golf as a appropriate off-season training after 4th pro season and didn't start training properly during the off-season until after his 5th pro season. And i believe Kari Lehtonen didn't train at all until he played in Dallas.

Most of the kids ASP age goes to McDonalds to eat after practice and play video games until 2am. And ASP's body has barely stop maturing, natural talent has carried him so far but there is still lot more to learn.

That sounds like a Finnish problem, more than anything...

Most of the kids ASP's age, aren't leading defensemen in scoring in the SHL.

Also, there is no such thing as natural talent in hockey. Nothing about the sport of hockey is natural. Everything has been worked and practiced to get to where they are now.

 

[cjm502]

That sounds like a Finnish problem, more than anything...

Most of the kids ASP's age, aren't leading defensemen in scoring in the SHL.

Also, there is no such thing as natural talent in hockey. Nothing about the sport of hockey is natural. Everything has been worked and practiced to get to where they are now.

I believe what he is saying is some have to work a lot harder then others. My cousin has been mucking it up playing minor pros for years and I would imagine there is a good chance he puts less effort in to training and practice then almost anyone else on his team and that's how it has been his entire life. Coasting by on natural talent. He played with Larkin as a kid, was as good or better then Larkin while being two years younger, and look where Larkin is compared to my cousin. One put in the work, one didn't. Natural talent with little effort vs natural talent with extreme effort.

 

[SantosHalper]

That sounds like a Finnish problem, more than anything...

Most of the kids ASP's age, aren't leading defensemen in scoring in the SHL.

Also, there is no such thing as natural talent in hockey. Nothing about the sport of hockey is natural. Everything has been worked and practiced to get to where they are now.

Those were just the first names that popped in to my minds. There are other examples if we start diggin. Like Byfuglien for example.

Scoring doesn't prove anything yet, those chubby cheeks in the otherhand tells a different tale.

Disagreed big time, like hockey IQ for example. You have it or you don't. All the top players in the world has natural talent, training and professionalism gets them to succeed in the highest level. European leagues are filled with players whom are naturally talented but they ain't willing to work for it.

 

[Mort Divine]

European leagues are filled with players whom are naturally talented but they ain't willing to work for it

You say as if there aren't legions of lazy ass North American players

 

[Tetsuo]

The most important lesson, how to be a professional athlete.

People forget that these kids are literally kids, ASP probably still lives at home. And Yzerman has said that these kids stay where they are until they are physically and mentally ready to play in NHL or AHL.

There is no rush, we not only want these kids to make it, we need these kids to make it. Give them time. Makar & Fox played their first full season when they were 21, ASP turns 20 in March.

He will have three pro season under his bealt after this year. If he continues his progression, he's a prime candidate to leapfrog the thunderdome that is the AHL. Other that adjusting to rink geometry, what does he have to learn in the AHL playing with less skilled players in the league than ever. The AHL, IMO, has taken a huge nosedive as a developmental league in recent years and more players, like MBN, are rightly side-stepping it. Look at what happened to Berg, it's hard to say he's really improved in his too-long stint down there.

Obviously ASP will have to earn a spot in camp, but can you think of a guy in our system more likely to put up a ton of points than him?

 

[Hobnobs]

This is his 3rd pro season...

and...?

It's his second btw

 

[norrisnick]

and...?

It's his second btw

The AHL is no more professional than the SHL.

 

[Hobnobs]

The AHL is no more professional than the SHL.

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Yea, that first "season" where spent the majority of his time in U18 and U20 doesnt really count as a "season in the pros"

This is his second season as with the senior team aka "pro".