FLYguy3911
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- Oct 19, 2006
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Everett has a period to go to avoid a sweep. Seattle is up 4-1 in the game going into the third.
If the Flyers wanted him to to their could sign him to a try-out contract to backup Lyon for the playoffs if his team gets eliminated tonight.
It seems like LV could definitely use him as a backup, but Hextall often says that he thinks these kids play too much. One would think Hart would fit the bill as someone who has played a ton of hockey this year. Both WHL and the whole WJC experience with camps and the tournament.
My only thought process with Tomek was he didn't play last year & North Dakota returned both goalies ahead of him this year.
The same thing happened to Madsen his freshmen year but the starter from that year graduated & the starter was wide open leading into the next year.
It's disappointing but was it really unexpected at this point? I would say not really & there's a good chance it happens again next year.
I don't mean to argue here (obviously this is all speculation and I'm just thinking out loud) but don't you think that it would be considered disappointing that Tomek wasn't able to win a better role when the Flyers did invest a solid pick in him? I assume when they drafted him they thought he'd be the kind of player who earns a spot on a college team over two undrafted guys. I know there's a college pecking order due to what year they're in, but I doubt they'd stick with that if they felt one gave them a better chance to win, right?
But we came into this year knowing he lost out to Cam Johnson. He backstopped them to a national championship last year. It was going to be tough to really unseat Johnson on the year from the get go.
It's disappointing but to me I just don't really think it was all that surprising at this point. It very well could happen again next year. Laberge had the concussion but he wasn't playing too hot before it & after it. I'd imagine expectations were a lot higher on him coming into the year than Tomek.
It's all pointless though as who really knows but we've probably got who he's talking about narrowed down here. I doubt it's Goulbourne. So it possibly could be one of Laberge, Tomek, or Marody (I'm only thinking him because his issue was really self-inflicted & could have easily been avoided).
It would be disappointing to some extent, but goalies are generally crapshoots anyway, so the expectations for Tomek relative to Laberge were pretty low, especially given his status at UND going into this season as well. Plus there's a sizable difference between the 36th overall pick and the 90th pick. If "disappointment" is the difference between expectations and reality, I'd say Laberge was much more disappointing given those two factors. I think most of us were hoping/expecting Laberge to have a relatively prolific year this season, so it's a bit of cold water that he didn't even maintain .75 PPG despite the concussion.