Moose Season Discussion

[voyageur]

What is Project 11 School Day game?

So what's wrong with Moose? Our good prospects should have made them better this year but they stink.

Project 11 would be Rick Rypien (RIP), mental health. 10:30 starts are just brutal, I imagine the whole pregame routine, everything is off, that's when you are on the ice for practice. Moose don't have any depth right now and the prospects are stuck in the mud. Lambert -3 in this game. JAD came back at least, but he's a whole lot of -s on the Moose. Maybe it's Morrisson, but tough to say this early. No big saves, no game breakers.

 

[surixon]

What is Project 11 School Day game?

So what's wrong with Moose? Our good prospects should have made them better this year but they stink.

Imo they didn't bring in enough good vets to insulate the kids. The NHL tweeners they have play a bottom 6 type game which doesn't fit the skilled prospects.

Lambert has also really struggled at 5 on 5 to start the year and Chibrikov has been just ok. But if those two aren't going there isn't much else in terms of skill upfront on the team especially with Lucius playing so sparingly.

 

[voyageur]

Imo they didn't bring in enough good vets to insulate the kids. The NHL tweeners they have play a bottom 6 type game which doesn't fit the skilled prospects.

Lambert has also really struggled at 5 on 5 to start the year and Chibrikov has been just ok. But if those two aren't going there isn't much else in terms of skill upfront on the team especially with Lucius playing so sparingly.

Last year AJF was pretty good at keeping up with Lambert when he got the chance. Maybe he's not as hungry this year down the depth chart. I think the Jets/Moose wanted to play Lucius and Chibrikov together, Zhilkin would be the 2nd choice, and neither of them are playing so I imagine that has some impact.

I just wonder if Lambert wouldn't be better on the Jets right now if there was an opportunity available. Put Fetts in the box for a game and I guarantee he comes out hungrier. Not that the Jets need competition right now internally, I think it's more chemistry at this point.

But you do want to see your prospects moving forward not backwards in terms of development. Maybe it's just finding the right chemistry on the team and that could take awhile. Maybe takes until the end of SEL, WHL and OHL seasons this year.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

Project 11 would be Rick Rypien (RIP), mental health. 10:30 starts are just brutal, I imagine the whole pregame routine, everything is off, that's when you are on the ice for practice. Moose don't have any depth right now and the prospects are stuck in the mud. Lambert -3 in this game. JAD came back at least, but he's a whole lot of -s on the Moose. Maybe it's Morrisson, but tough to say this early. No big saves, no game breakers.

Pfft, the 10:30 start didn't seem to bother the Wolves. That's just excuse making. The team just sucks.

 

[surixon]

Last year AJF was pretty good at keeping up with Lambert when he got the chance. Maybe he's not as hungry this year down the depth chart. I think the Jets wanted to play Lucius and Chibrikov together, Zhilkin would be the 2nd choice, and neither of them are playing so I imagine that has some impact.

I just wonder if Lambert wouldn't be better on the Jets right now if there was an opportunity available. Put Fetts in the box for a game and I guarantee he comes out hungrier. Not that the Jets need competition right now internally, I think it's more chemistry at this point.

But you do want to see your prospects moving forward not backwards in terms of development. Maybe it's just finding the right chemistry on the team and that could take awhile. Maybe takes until the end of SEL, WHL and OHL seasons this year.

Why would you put a player performing to expectations on the big squad in the box for a struggling prospect? Thats a good way for a coach to piss the room off. No coach of a 16-3 team does that.

 

[voyageur]

Why would you put a player performing to expectations on the big squad in the box for a struggling prospect? Thats a good way for a coach to piss the room off. No coach of a 16-3 team does that.

I think any player that gets on to the team has to practice with them first, that's where Scott Arniel makes his assessment. And it's obviously not going to happen now, because there's no roster spots. But once Heinola goes up to the team, I wonder if there wouldn't be a good time to maybe give him a chance to play at a higher level for a period, just practice with the pros on a daily basis, and be on a higher lever team, during some of the home stretch in December. Try to turn the speed level up another notch.

Seems like it's been a bit of a wasted season for BBB, with all the preseason hype.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

Seems like it's been a bit of a wasted season for BBB, with all the preseason hype.

Gotta be the dreaded sophomore jinx. What else could it be?

 

[JetsFan815]

Didn't watch the game but I take Heinola only being a -1 when the score was 5-0 to be a positive sign.

 

[nobody imp0rtant]

Didn't watch the game but I take Heinola only being a -1 when the score was 5-0 to be a positive sign.

 

[surixon]

Was able to catch the last period of today's game. First things first those blue jerseys are slick. I might want to buy one.

Ville was very good and having him back there in control of his game made a big difference for the Moose. He calmed things down with his defense and poise. Looks pretty close to game ready imo.

Most confident that I've seen Lambert in a while. He was back playing a more direct game. He scored a real nice goal off his own rebound.

Chibrokov looked solid, was disrupting and cycling well. Set up a real nice chance off of him intercepting a pass.

Didn't really notice Wagner in the third.

Salomonsson played solid but was a bit off with his breakouts.

 

[ICdave]

Moose defeat the Wolves 4-2 in 25th Anniversary Game:







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