In the OHL ever since it was affiliated with NHL teams the main goal of the teams is to develop hockey start and great members of the community.
While winning games is a buy product of it If you look at the good caoches they developed their winning teams through developing their players.
All this noise abut the facilities means Jack crap How many 67's have beenthescholastic winner in the league. Every team has a great school package that is required by the OHL
Training facilites again every team has them. Kingston has one of the best med facilites and elite therapists and docotrs at QUEEN'S AND RMC. The office facilites are a match. A team like Ottawa could have unlimited access to the Snes systems a Toronto team could have acces to the Marlies and leafs system and the schools there.
BUT THAT MEANS JACK SQUAT IF THE TEAM DOES NOT HAVE THE staff to develop players and make them better hockey players and members of society.
Ottawa does not have a system to devleop layers nor a coaching staff that knows how to do it.
Itis hit and miss the on ice product sucks. Do you think that Misa, Martone et al would be better players if they played here.
Why did the picks refuce toplay here. Why is HB a top stud but would not play here if things as so GREAT.
THE ANSWER IS THE TEAM SUCKS
The players ability sucks
Probably their attitude sucks
their development sucks
What does that come down to simple the coaching sucks. The GM is a wimp.
Do you think that if Boyd had said Lisen Luca we are going to be in a rebulding year. and therfore we are after the deadline going to be playing our younger players more so ou will lose your ice time that Pinelli would have stayed.
As to teams tht know they are losing how do the Petes attract players if they have been so bad over the last couple of years. How is Niagara doing.
Teams go through cycles player know that. look at Killers teams He told Alyn that they were going to build the team around him and they gam\vbe him the ice time to develop. Same with Monahan and a lot of other players.
I strongly doubt Quinn wuld be in the NHL if DC was his coach because DC would not have given him the coaching and ice time that Andre did.
DO you have a clue how difficult it is to make the NHL as a regular? The Ottawa 67’s have sent many players on to the NHL as regulars. You keep pointing to DC but it takes time for players to move from the OHL to the NHL as a regular. DC has had four years with the 67’s. How many players should he have graduated to the NHL as regulars?
I’m not even close to being on the DC Fan Club but I at least try to be balanced and realistic. Teams do not average one regular NHLers per year. If each NHL Team adds two players per year as guys that stick, then there are under 75 players annually. The CHL accounts for about half of those players. The OHL should account for about 1/3 of those (there are three leagues). So, what does that work out to? About a dozen players per year are added to the NHL from the OHL? And that number declines annually as the rest of the World continues to catch up.
It is not realistic to point to DC and suggest that he hasn’t graduated enough players to the NHL when he has just finished his 4th season with the 67’s. Realistically, they only had a handful of players that had even a sliver of a chance. Matier and Boucher ans 2021 draft picks are the only two that realistically could be in the NHL right now that played under Cameron. Maybe you could point to Rohrer but his head was never on straight and he packed it in and when home for personal reasons. Pinelli, Gardiner, and Mews are the next three poised to potentially make the NHL. Unless you can point to another player that he “messed up” and ruined his career, I am not sure you can honestly suggest he has killed a kid’s development. It is not like we can point to Tolnai, Barlas, and Jack Beck and suggest that if they were ont he London Knights, they’d be high end NHL prospects right now.
So, can we tone down the rhetoric a little bit?
I don’t think there are many out there that would suggest Cameron is the right person for the 67’s. The reason for that is his ability to develop the middling players into quality “OHL” players. It has nothing to do with developing NHL players. There is a big difference between being a high end NHL prospect and being a quality OHL players. There are a bunch of graduating OA’s in their league heading to the NCAA next season that are high end OHL players that aren’t even on ?nHL radar, Gerrior and his 30 goals this year being one of them.
A lot of people point to the negatives and that ends up being the focus. But, let’s look at some f the positives. Pinelli has developed very well. Mews turned the corner this season and is now an elite D-Man in the league. Eshkawkogan has excelled in his first season. Gerrior, a deep OHL pick, scored 30 goals as an OA this season. Marrelli has become a very consistent defender. Mayich, a player with very average skill, has developed into a quality pro prospect.
The 67’s had a weak 2022 draft. The 2023 draft across the entire league was weak in depth. That combo has hurt the 67’s and has made it difficult for them to bounce back. There is a smattering of ok players from the 2023 draft picked in that 2nd to 5th round range but it really seems weak overall. The 67’s have signed and played quite a few of the players fromt he 2023 draft but they mostly all look like depth players. Nothing that stands out. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing. Top to bottom! Only Nelson looks like a go to player. Whitehead, Dietsch, Yanni, Houben, White, and Kingwell are all mostly capable but how many bottom 1/3 of roster players do you need? You need at least 2-3 players every draft to eventually make an impact at the top 1/3 of the roster. The 67’s have one from the 2022 draft (Marrelli) and maybe one (Nelson) from the 2023 draft.
