The 2 best 'tradable' forwards are Misiak (import) and one of the 19yos (Fimis or Alfano). For me personally, Terrance, Spence and Fimis should be unavailable. Erie is supposed to be a contender next season. If that's the case, those three should be untouchable.
Excellent jr stats, but did not fare well with very limited opportunity in Niagara.
In his defense, Niagara has been the worst team in the league the last 2 seasons.
I don’t see this as a good trade and I hope I’m wrong. His Jr stats look good, but his OHL stats look no better than Gibby. We needed to upgrade our backup spot and that was the best on the market? I’m hoping he does well for us. We didn’t spend a ton and he could be a great surprise.
For a 10th round pick, who can blame them for throwing darts at a board here. Would rather have this then waste real assets on someone who isn’t much of an upgrade or with a team that isn’t going far. I think this is just another option in the system at this point but clearly isn’t upgrading their BG spot which I think is a mistake is they stand pat elsewhere (meaning don’t do a minor sell)
The GOJHL is the main league that OHL prospects play in. It's junior B. OJHL is junior A but it's more of an NCAA prep league or a place that older prospects that aren't going to be playing in the OHL head. NOJHL (Northen Ont) and CCHL (Ottawa/East Ont) are also leagues guys can play in but again don't produce alot of OHL prospects.
Several OHL teams assign their players to local teams, billet the players, and then work with the them all season in development sessions and practices. Squeeze them into games when the opportunity presents itself. The days of sending the kids home to play in their local teams completely detached from the OHL club are long gone. I've wondered what the US teams do without this capability, it would really put them at a disadvantage if their prospects aren't getting the OHL level attention that some of the other teams are providing.
Yeah even some teams have even affiliated themselves with junior B teams like Saginaw and Chatham.
Those are interesting relationships but with a few of hours of travel between its not like these kids can bounce between teams all that easily. The routines, schedules and quality of training between the two levels can be very different.
Spitfire ownership also own the Jr B team in LaSalle (part of Windsor) so easy to place players there and good for development. They are also now part of the new Ottawa Senators ownership group.
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Thank you for this! The league isn’t talked about much here for obvious geographical reason. I appreciate this.
Can I ask why they ONLY play this kid every 3-4 weeks and always vs elite teams?
Don’t understand how the kid is supposed to develop when he’s only playing the best teams in the leauge in their arena. Really poor handling by the team, a lot of talent in that kid.
Yeah I totally understand the development side of things but they are also trying to win games and be competitive and when you have a clear #1, you want to play him in the home games or the more winnable games. If they played Gibbons in some of those, they probably have at least 3-4 more losses and the team overall is in a bad spot. It’s not as simple as just giving him the easier situations to develop when they have a full team’s confidence to worry about as well.
