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Prospect Info: Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL)/Maine Mariners (ECHL) Thread *Part X*
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Pack ahead of Bridgeport 3-1 after 2 periods. Holland from Beleskey--Gettinger from Andersson and Butler--Gropp from Fontaine on a breakaway. Mazanec in goal. Fogarty got headshotted towards the end of the first and was down for a while. He skated off without help but he didn't return in the 2nd period. Steve Bernier who hit him was ejected.
Wolfpack win 4-2. Pretty good game by the Pack. Belesky winning a battle along the boards sending Holland in who beats the goalie over his shoulder on the shortside for the first goal. Lias Andersson makes a great play winning a puck along the boards and skating thru a couple of players and shooting with Gettinger putting in the rebound for the next goal. All the work done by Andersson who also had a short handed breakaway and several other good plays. Goal 3 is Fontaine knocking down a pass with Gropp being aggressive in picking it up and skating in on a breakaway and beating the goalie. Gropp had several other good plays. But playing on the fourth line he didn't see that much ice. I guess I was under the mistaken impression that Hartford was supposed to be a development league. The last goal is Fontaine breaking in 2-1 shorthanded and beating the goalie. Meskenen looked ok but nothing special in this game. Vinnie Lettieri takes a bad penalty with about 3 minutes left and then o'gara immediately throws the puck out of play leaving an almost 2 minute 2 mad advantage but the Pack held on. Second star is Mazenac and first star is Fontaine. My three stars would have been Fontaine, Andersson and Gropp.
Gilmour and Bigras had terrible turnovers in the first period but neither one cost and the defense was pretty clean the rest of the game except for O'Gara's terrible throwing the puck out of play at the end of the game. Lindgren made a couple of nice offensive moves and played a strong defensive game. I thought he was the best defensemen. Hajek was strong in defensive end particularly around the goal but was quiet with the puck. Day was scratched.
Gilmour and Bigras had terrible turnovers in the first period but neither one cost and the defense was pretty clean the rest of the game except for O'Gara's terrible throwing the puck out of play at the end of the game. Lindgren made a couple of nice offensive moves and played a strong defensive game. I thought he was the best defensemen. Hajek was strong in defensive end particularly around the goal but was quiet with the puck. Day was scratched.
Irishguy42
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Hawk Crawford wrote a piece for the Rangers' website about Lindgren, who I think is the most overlooked player in Hartford.
"I've been very impressed with the maturity that he's shown," Wolf Pack head coach Keith McCambridge said of Lindgren. "He plays a real physical style, does a good job with the details of his game, finding sticks in front of the net, boxing out for the ability for our goaltenders to see shots coming through from the point. We really like where he's at, and on top of that, what's been a pleasant surprise is the stages that he can skate pucks out, coming out of D-zone coverage, on breakouts. When there isn't an option, he has that ability to make reads, and all of a sudden give himself two or three different options, because he has his feet moving, and he's skating pucks out of trouble."
Lindgren Growing his All-around Game
Lindgren is going to be a good player.
"I've been very impressed with the maturity that he's shown," Wolf Pack head coach Keith McCambridge said of Lindgren. "He plays a real physical style, does a good job with the details of his game, finding sticks in front of the net, boxing out for the ability for our goaltenders to see shots coming through from the point. We really like where he's at, and on top of that, what's been a pleasant surprise is the stages that he can skate pucks out, coming out of D-zone coverage, on breakouts. When there isn't an option, he has that ability to make reads, and all of a sudden give himself two or three different options, because he has his feet moving, and he's skating pucks out of trouble."
Lindgren Growing his All-around Game
Lindgren is going to be a good player.
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Skjei, Staal, Smith, Claesson, Hajek, Rykov, Lindgren will all be going for 4 spots on the Rangers next season. Gorton got to find a way to move Smith and his contract somehow.
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Notes from Friday's game.
Vinni loses his stick, receives the pass with his legs, opponent attacks him, but Vinni goes into soccer mode and literally out-soccers the guy by using his feet to "stickhandle" around the opponent. Extra effort every time.
Meskanen also willing to get dirty while having some skill. Good looking, underrated prospect.
Hajek gets in trouble behind his own net because he's still not quick enough with the puck on his stick. Fights hard along the boards to tie up the puck. This is good in the AHL, but it's not how an NHLer does it.
Halverson has no idea about positioning, so he cheats the high-percentage angles. He's probably quick enough for the AHL, but his positioning is that of a very mediocre ECHL goalie. He's wildly off, like feet away from where he's supposed to be.
Meskanen scored by being in the right place at the right time because of his high IQ.
Halverson gave up a second goal by giving up a huge rebound.
The third goal Halverson gave up is among the worst I've ever seen, including what you'd see in beer leagues. Just widely out of position and then trying to catch the puck with the glove the baseball way. This is not AHL hockey, this is not even ECHL hockey. It's a WTF goal at the beer league level, without exaggeration.
Gropp playing AHL hockey, both in the good sense (some skill) and bad (dumb turnovers).
Butler with a very beautiful move, but fails to score. The puck goes back and Hajek tries to play defense the Juniors way (with a stick instead of positioning) and gets undressed, so the Bruins score. Then to add insult to injury, O'Gara decided to take a penalty between the goal and the faceoff.
Lindgren playing Junior hockey on the PK - trying to put the puck between a pro's legs won't work unless you're spectacularly skilled.
Holland killing it this game.
Meskanen with good vision
Adam Graves is at the game.
Lias is invisible through the first 2 periods
Not a good game by Hajek
Bigras screws up, Meskanen cleans up for him on defense.
Meskanen looks like a future NHLer unless he stops improving at the age of 23.
Vinni loses his stick, receives the pass with his legs, opponent attacks him, but Vinni goes into soccer mode and literally out-soccers the guy by using his feet to "stickhandle" around the opponent. Extra effort every time.
Meskanen also willing to get dirty while having some skill. Good looking, underrated prospect.
Hajek gets in trouble behind his own net because he's still not quick enough with the puck on his stick. Fights hard along the boards to tie up the puck. This is good in the AHL, but it's not how an NHLer does it.
Halverson has no idea about positioning, so he cheats the high-percentage angles. He's probably quick enough for the AHL, but his positioning is that of a very mediocre ECHL goalie. He's wildly off, like feet away from where he's supposed to be.
Meskanen scored by being in the right place at the right time because of his high IQ.
Halverson gave up a second goal by giving up a huge rebound.
The third goal Halverson gave up is among the worst I've ever seen, including what you'd see in beer leagues. Just widely out of position and then trying to catch the puck with the glove the baseball way. This is not AHL hockey, this is not even ECHL hockey. It's a WTF goal at the beer league level, without exaggeration.
Gropp playing AHL hockey, both in the good sense (some skill) and bad (dumb turnovers).
Butler with a very beautiful move, but fails to score. The puck goes back and Hajek tries to play defense the Juniors way (with a stick instead of positioning) and gets undressed, so the Bruins score. Then to add insult to injury, O'Gara decided to take a penalty between the goal and the faceoff.
Lindgren playing Junior hockey on the PK - trying to put the puck between a pro's legs won't work unless you're spectacularly skilled.
Holland killing it this game.
Meskanen with good vision
Adam Graves is at the game.
Lias is invisible through the first 2 periods
Not a good game by Hajek
Bigras screws up, Meskanen cleans up for him on defense.
Meskanen looks like a future NHLer unless he stops improving at the age of 23.
Rangers should bring up Meskanen and send down Howden once Hayes is back.
Should also consider giving Lindgren a call up in the next 2-3 weeks
Should also consider giving Lindgren a call up in the next 2-3 weeks
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I thought that Lindren was doing well? O'Gara and Gilmour are not NHL defensemen. I have no problem with giving Lindgren a shot. But there's just no room with the S's taking up lots of space.
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O'Gara and Gilmour not being NHL defensemen is debatable (for another day) but at this point they are probably more ready than a first year pro Lindgren. Then there's Hajek who's directly ahead of Lindgren as LD and also Bigras.
The only one I would entertain calling up is Meskanen... he's 23 and it can't hurt to see what we have with him at this point. Leave the others in Hartford... makes no sense to throw into the cauldron of doo doo we that's quickly coming to a boil
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Meskanen definitely deserves a shot, but I'd also give a shot to Bigras, too.
Meskanen and Bigras are the two players i'd promote too, Holland and Gilmour are better imo but Hartford need them and they're older.
While O'Gara and Gilmour might be more ready than Lindgren right now the Rangers are focused on the team two years from now. The team probably feels that giving Lindgren a taste of the big time may help his development. O'Gara and Gilmour are older and had lengthy tryouts last year that didn't go so well. I doubt the team sees either as part of the rebuild. Based on Saturday night's game I thought Lindgren was better than Hajek. The team must feel Lindgren is more ready than Hajek. I would have thought the Rangers would have called up Bigras. The fact that they didn't says something.
Perhaps we will see Bigras after the trade deadline when the team may need to bring up some defensemen.
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The Nashville Predators have acquired forward Cole Schneider from the New York Rangers in exchange for forward Connor Brickley.
Makes zero sense, unless Schneider asked to be traded... Brickley has 7G, 4A for 11 points and is -11 in 39 games with Milwaukee (AHL)... ummm. No me gusta.
Rangers, Predators trade AHL forwards | TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League
Makes zero sense, unless Schneider asked to be traded... Brickley has 7G, 4A for 11 points and is -11 in 39 games with Milwaukee (AHL)... ummm. No me gusta.
Rangers, Predators trade AHL forwards | TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League
Irishguy42
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Checking in on Ville Meskanen
Not sure if anyone saw this, but Ville Meskanen is 3rd in even strength rookie points in the AHL. He's one point behind Adam Mascherin and Troy Terry, who are both tied with 22. That's great production!!
Not sure if anyone saw this, but Ville Meskanen is 3rd in even strength rookie points in the AHL. He's one point behind Adam Mascherin and Troy Terry, who are both tied with 22. That's great production!!
His production isn't too dissimilar to Zuccarello's when he first came over (25 points in 39 games vs 29 points in 36 games). Both 23 years old. Zucc had 5 PP goals though whereas it doesn't sound like Meskenen has been afforded an opportunity to play on there regularly quite yet
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