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Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of William Horcoff, 2007-01-23 Birmingham, MI, USA USA. Most recently in the NCAA with Univ. of Michigan. Complete player biography and stats.
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Son of long-time NHLer and Red Wings AGM Shawn Horcoff looks very promising as a potential NHL draft pick in the future. He, unlike his dad will likley represent USA internationally. We'll see how his hockey career unfolds!

 
Happy to see he’s an ‘07. At first I thought Shawn Horcoff’s kid was already draft eligible and I was about to feel old.
 
Was he born on the road or something? His dad is Canadian and still played for EDM when he was born.
 
Should be playing on one of the better U15 AAA teams this season. He is being joined by fellow top prospect Zachary Morin.
 
It's only one game so it doesn't mean anything and I could be way off the mark, but he was the least impressive U17 in the game I saw this weekend. His skating is rough. Looked more like a kid who put up a ton of points in U14/15 because he was a January birthday who towered over the competition rather than him being all that talented. Hopefully I'm wrong but he looks more like the NHL legacy the NTDP always seems to give too much preferential treatment for a roster spot rather than a prospect of interest.
 
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He's a very good defensive forward with grit and obviously has the size. He can play center now and is also good on face-offs, but he might have to move off center because his skating isn't good.

His puck game is tough to read. He has the occasional skilled offensive play, but he can also look unskilled, depending on the shift. A real-wild card what his draft range will be like. On one hand, skating issues and questionable offensive game. On the other hand, very good defensive player, 6'3, son of an NHL AGM. I'd probably have him as a middle round pick.
 
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I don't think he's that bad. Can't skate though. Might have trouble making the NHL with his skating, but should at least be a good NCAA forward and probably a pro somewhere. Has time also to improve his skating and his defensive play for a big forward is very good.
 
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Hockeyville USA said:
I expect growth next year, but he has been super disappointing so far considering how elite he was in minor hockey
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Was he really though? (Elite? )I mean he was 6’3 at 15 and born in first week of january . Those two things right there gives him a massive advantage early . Same with Morin . I’ve never seen Horcoff play but have Morin and latter was simply physically overpowering kids at 13 and 14.
 
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Henry Miller said:
I’m getting old. I remember his father
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It was god's year of twenty-ought-six, and the realm lay fertile with grinders and muckers. Thems were better times. Simpler, but harder. These bygone traces of history exist only in the dim and faint far reaches of the memories of the eldest of our own days. Some claim to recall a man by the name of Horcov, who came out of the eastern lands. He was said to have the eyes of two men, the smile of three, and the nose of none. Legend say he only had what he carried, but dug and tore and shredded so to build riches that many claim were not his to own, but overshadowed those of better men. What facts once were, we can no longer access, but prophecy speaks of a descendant, an heir. The learned say this is cannot be, for too much time has passed, but the hockey gods find a way. They always find a way.
 
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He still has a whole year to show what he can do, but it's hard to see it right now from his U17 year. He didn't show anything that would have me excited to draft him. I wouldn't have him on an early top 20 list for the USA side of things. But then again, I wouldn't have thought Tij Iginla would be a top 10 pick either a year ago.
 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
I don't think he's that bad. Can't skate though. Might have trouble making the NHL with his skating, but should at least be a good NCAA forward and probably a pro somewhere. Has time also to improve his skating and his defensive play for a big forward is very good.
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The skating thing is really weird because his dad could really move around out there.
 
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remember - big lanky kids usually develop late regarding their skating - needs put lot muscle in their legs - so let’s see how he does this year after full year of intense workouts -
 
Pavel Buchnevich said:
6'4 180 to 6'5 195 in the preseason measurements. Has great size and is a very good defensive player, but can't skate and has minimal offense. Has a nepotism draft case, at the very least. Will be fascinating to see what NHL teams think of him.
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Kings drafted Helenius under similar pretenses, I'm sure teams will see NHL pedigree, size, defensive ability and a raw ball of clay as such more than they would if he had a different name.
 
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