Toggle sidebar

Prospect Info: Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL)/Maine Mariners (ECHL) Thread *Part X*

  • Xenforo Cloud has upgraded us to version 2.3.6. Please report any issues you experience.
Status
Not open for further replies.
bmoak said:
Graham should have stayed in juniors for his overage year. He was one of, if not the, youngest players in his draft year, and the youngest player in the ECHL his rookie year. If he stayed in the Q the extra year, he would have been the 1C on a Memorial Cup winner coached by Ted Nolan with Brad Marchand as a linemate. The guy had trouble keeping weight on, and got mono his rookie season and lost a lot of weight and strength.
Click to expand...

He looked low energy and weak the night I saw him---though that was a bunch of years ago--still he was a 2nd rounder so I was watching him closely that night. Mono would explain it.
 
  • Like
Reactions: leetch99
eco's bones said:
I remember seeing Graham as a rookie pro when his Hartford team played in Binghamton. He spent most of that season though in the ECHL. He was a big guy as in tall but skinny as a rail and he didn't hit people so much as push them. For all his size he seemed kind of weak.

Doyle ended up with legal problems. Badly beating up a girlfriend of his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend. I'm pretty sure he went to trial but I don't think he went to prison but if I remember rightly he was convicted of something. He was a guy I think a lot of people who were scouts or around the Q thought underachieved for the talent he had--that he was too cocky and had character issues and didn't work hard enough/kind of coasted on his talent or put another way he was his own worst enemy.
Click to expand...
I followed that court case and I also forget the ending of it . Hopefully he got some help with the things that hurt him and now I think him and Graham arguably the two best players in their senior league now compete against one another . LOL....not sure where Antoine LaFleur ended up ? The player I wanted us to grab off PEI juniors was Josh Currie . We could have signed him as an undrafted guy a few years ago....and now he has played his way from there to the Oilers and has 4 points in 7 games with them . Great to see hard work get rewarded . Good story for sure .
 
  • Like
Reactions: eco's bones
If we are going to fix some things in Hartford next season we should add one or two of the Gallant brothers to ride shotgun for our young club . Those guys are eager and always willing to help out teammates in trouble . Then add a couple of vets ....and drop some guys in there via US college signings and some of our other drafted prospects and such . What can it hurt ? Between the two guys and injuries between them...they likely only use up one roster spot most nights . I think it would be quite the treat for the fans LOL.... those guys are low key and humble fellows....and definitely team first people . They would not in any way interfere or interrupt any development of our NHL prospects . Anyways...just thinking out loud here on this storm day . I know I am biased because I am from PEI...but I also know these guys compete .
 
  • Like
Reactions: Rongomania, egelband and eco's bones
leetch99 said:
If we are going to fix some things in Hartford next season we should add one or two of the Gallant brothers to ride shotgun for our young club . Those guys are eager and always willing to help out teammates in trouble . Then add a couple of vets ....and drop some guys in there via US college signings and some of our other drafted prospects and such . What can it hurt ? Between the two guys and injuries between them...they likely only use up one roster spot most nights . I think it would be quite the treat for the fans LOL.... those guys are low key and humble fellows....and definitely team first people . They would not in any way interfere or interrupt any development of our NHL prospects . Anyways...just thinking out loud here on this storm day . I know I am biased because I am from PEI...but I also know these guys compete .
Click to expand...

I wouldn't at all be against signing one of them---two would be kind of overkill. They're not at all NHL talent but they're both tough as they come and a team gets instant respect when they're in your lineup. IMO they'd do a lot more for our Hartford team than the likes of Bobby Butler.
 
  • Like
Reactions: egelband and leetch99
bmoak said:
The Mariners somehow managed to blow a game to a depleted Utah team that could only ice 13 skaters, and then had another guy get tossed with a game misconduct halfway through the second period. Utah converted on their power play chances and Maine, even with a five-minute major PP, had the oh-fer. The other night, the Mariners went an astonishing 0 for 12 against Utah, but still won.

Granted, the Mariners blueline corps has been picked clean (and not just by the Pack) of anyone with puck-moving skills and they are basically a one-line team up front right now. Unlike the Rangers and the Pack, the Mariners are still fighting for a playoff spot, and fans in Portland would probably appreciate it if the Pack sent down some of their dead weight/healthy scratch ECHL level players like Tolkinen, St. Amant, and Leedahl.
Click to expand...

We’ve had guys step up like Greg Chase and Dillion Fox so its not like Maine has a bad roster. They have gone 9-1-1 in their last 11 games. The biggest issue is Maine is shorthanded and lacking depth. That was apparent after losing Josh Couturier in Saturday’s game. Lack of depth is having an effect on special teams.

POWER PLAY:
They are ranked 23rd out of 27 teams with a 14.8% powerplay rate
They are tied for the 6th fewest powerplay goals with 34
They are tied for the 13th most powerplays with 230
Since February 1st, they have gone 9 for 69 (13.0%)
They have not scored a power play in their last 26 attempts
They have scored four powerplay goals in their last 50 attempts (8%)

PENALTY KILL:
They are ranked 22nd out of 27 teams with an 80.3% penalty kill rate
They have allowed the 11th most powerplay goals with 41
They have faced the 6th fewest powerplays with 208
Since February 1st, they have killed 49 of 63 chances (77.8%)
They killed 80% of the power plays against Utah (16-20)
Since February 1st, they have allowed a powerplay goal in 12 of 15 games

Don’t really see Maine getting any help from Hartford or Laval unless they sign a bunch of ATO’s over the next couple of weeks. If Maine makes the playoffs, I suspect we’ll see help from both teams at that point.

Hartford:
Drew Melanson
Dawson Leedahl
Ty Ronning
Sean Day
Zach Tolkinen

Laval:
Ryan Culkin
Adam Plant
Morgan Adams-Moisan
Alex Kile

Milwaukee:
Scott Savage
 
  • Like
Reactions: Osminator
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Must be sad now that the hobbit is gone
Click to expand...
giphy.gif
 
  • Like
Reactions: Leetch3
Mariners sign F Chris Ordoobadi out of Neumann University to a SPC.... Ordoobadi assigned #11 and is 6'4 200 lbs;

next game tonight vs. Norfolk at Cross Arena and Autism Aswareness Night; before SC shows up this weekend
 
Stanley Cup returns to Cross for 1st time since Anaheim was the parent club, (2007), BUT PICTURES are not as sequestered as they were then....

then it's the Wild Blueberries theme night on Saturday
 
Hartford and the baby Penguins tonight. 1-1 in the second. Halverson's in net again tonight. Melanson with his first ever AHL goal.
 
Hartford and the baby Penguins tonight. 1-1 in the second. Halverson's in net again tonight. Melanson with his first ever AHL goal.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest posts

Ad

Upcoming events

Ad

Top Bottom