For sure it is good but has not progressed, really, as he is at the same pace in SM-Liiga as he was in 2017-2018.
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He clearly wasn't ready for the AHL this year. This partial year in the W may or may not get him ready.
I think this will be a TC decision. Could go either way. He might be ready to rip up the A next season.
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I may be mistaken but I thought even late birthdays for draft purposes got 2 more years of Jr before becoming overagers. Lambert will still be 19 when the season begins, turning 20 in Dec. I believe he could then play the season after that as an overager, turning 21 during the season.
It used to be that teams could only have a limited number of overagers on the roster. IIRC, it was limited to 2. Again, correct me if I am mistaken.
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Considering he came over and had his style of play completely overhauled it's nice to see him getting back to what made him a first round pick.
It’s done by birth year. This year, the 2002s are overagers, after this season they will graduate and will be ineligible to play junior hockey (except for Junior B, but no major junior players will go there). Next year the ‘03s (and Lambert) will be overagers.
Teams in the CHL can carry three overagers on their roster.
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An interesting note, this past weekend was parents weekend for the birds. Didn’t expect to see Lambert’s parents in Kent, if I’m being honest. I thought they lived in Finland?
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Aggie204
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That settles it, the Jets should only draft goalies with surnames at least 9 letters long.
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Lambert looks incredible at times, just so fast and slick with the puck. What a skater.
Bauer is tough as nails. Best fighter in the AHL?
Bauer is tough as nails. Best fighter in the AHL?
Aggie204
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I hope Lambert can figure out how to utilize all that skill when he graduates to the NHL.
It would be amazing to see Bauer in the NHL just for the entertainment value alone. Modern day gladiator.
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About the only thing this tells me is his development was really stagnant, either by his own machinations or by the development system in Winnipeg.
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If Vesalainen came over immediately after being drafted, I wonder if he would be still playing in the NHL.
I remember wondering how Ehlers would have fared in the A after that absolutely dominant year in the Q where he was scoring at will.
If Ehlers 1.8 hits the A next year with more strength, smarts and confidence we will have some idea.
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I think they had a difference in opinions of what he could be in the NHL. The Jets felt they had a guy that was probably not a top 6 player but someone who could play hard minutes on the 3rd line and chip in offensively because of a tremendous shot. A physical 3rd line winger who could PK. His camp felt he was a top line guy and they went to the KHL and he came back with that mindset and well he was largely ineffective when he did play. He likely stays overseas unless someone sees a top 6 player there
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Chibrikov with 1G3A in an 8-1 win, up to 8 points in 4 games in the MHL playoffs.
I think Vesalainen’s failure was a combination of the Jets/Maurice having to typecast players and completely reinvent their games to fit a desired role as well as Vesalainen’s work ethic not being up to snuff and he never had great hockey IQ.
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I don’t think it would have fixed his skating or how fast he reads the game. When I watch him play he’s always behind the play never in it. There’s the puck and 3 seconds later Ves shows up.
So did the Jets typecast him to reinvent his game to fit a role? Or is it because he has low IQ, speed and work ethic that he was never going to be the goal scoring machine they hoped for so they tried to find a spot for him on the 3rd line where they hoped to teach him to use his size to work with Lowry and play a slower pace of game he could handle and still be playing in the offensive zone? Turns out he couldn’t do either.
The Jets did everything they could last year to give Ves every opportunity even long past knowing he couldn’t cut it. His failures are squarely on his own shoulders.
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Agreed. If it makes us feel any better, Jason Robertson was picked 15 spots after Vesalainen lol.
Which means every team in the league passed on picking him once, and 7 teams passed on him twice.Agreed. If it makes us feel any better, Jason Robertson was picked 15 spots after Vesalainen lol.
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Low IQ, lack of speed, poor work ethic. So ........ Jets never should have drafted him. That is squarely on them.
And Oettinger was picked 2 picks later. A young stud goalie would look pretty good in this organization with Hellybuyck's questionable future with the Jets.Agreed. If it makes us feel any better, Jason Robertson was picked 15 spots after Vesalainen lol.
Everyone can point to Robertson as one pick they could have had instead. But there weren’t many others in that area of the draft that were very good.
One of the biggest mistake Chevy made was trading back just to keep a shitty Enstrom for a few more games. There were a few good forwards that went off the board in that area.
Come on. That’s just not logical. The Jets have one of the best goaltenders in the league signed long term and they should have picked a goalie Rather than try to fill actual holes?
