Mr. Canucklehead
Kitimat Canuck
DiPietro accepted his QO. I guess now it’s a waiting game to see what shakes out with our goaltending situation.
Only players on entry level contracts can be sent to the ECHL without the players permission. I don't see DiPietro or Delia accepting an ECHL assignment and they shouldn't send Silovs down.He should start in the ECHL imo if we can't find a trading partner for him. I think Silovs is the better prospect at this point.
Feel bad for Mikey. The team really screwed up his development letting him essentially sit for a year. Not sure he would have made it anyways but that pretty much sealed the deal.
Utica played a 28-game season in 20-21. He started 4 of those so he lost maybe 10 starts.
And instead he got to hang out in Vancouver full time with Ian Clark practicing against NHL shooters.
I don’t but it as an excuse at all.
Not an excuse for him specifically; but I think that was a funky year for both his and Silovs’ development in terms of very limited game action. But as you said, at least DiPietro got to work with Clark a lot.
He got NHL level training and full access to all the big clubs trainers. If anything that was a better development curve than staying in the AHLOh, sure. It was a funky year for lots of guys.
But relative to the baseline once COVID happened, I don't think losing 10 starts of game action while being in a much better practice situation and able to work more closely with our renowned goalie coach set him back. And I'm not going to blame Benning for 'ruining him' with how that was handled.
He was never a great prospect. Too small, too technically suspect.
My guess is he is lent somewhere or traded for future considerations.He's going to be traded soon.
He got NHL level training and full access to all the big clubs trainers. If anything that was a better development curve than staying in the AHL
Developing your game with trainers from the best league in the world is now bad?I cant f***in believe there are people here who think what they did was good for his development....
Developing your game with trainers from the best league in the world is now bad?
As already stated he lost roughly 10 startsI'll take Kevin Woodley's opinion over yours if you don't mind.
Im sure you've also heard how Ian Clarke doesn't want his goalies to participate in shooting drills and 2 on 1 drills etc because it enforces bad habits for goalies.
But yeah. I don't agree that having a goalie not play hockey for a year is good for his development no.
As already stated he lost roughly 10 starts
World class development > starting 10 games
Or get world class training from Ian Clarke himselfHe should have been in position to get more than 10 starts. Obviously. Very obviously.
While also getting world class development from Curtis Sanford who closely works with Ian.
Again I'll take Woodley's opinion over yours if you don't mind.
Or get world class training from Ian Clarke himself
If missing out on roughly 10 AHL games stunted this kids development, we have bigger issues with him
You do you, doesn’t change the fact that the 10 or so games he missed isn’t a huge detriment to his development. We aren’t talking about season of games lost here without any form of practiceIf you are not even going to read my responses I think this conversation is over.
I'll rather take Kevin Woodley's educated opinion over your generalisations.
You do you, doesn’t change the fact that the 10 or so games he missed isn’t a huge detriment to his development. We aren’t talking about season of games lost here without any form of practice
Also most young players lost that year of development, DiPietro is not a special case.
It literally starts with the word "also", meaning adding a new statement.This is an entirely different argument.