I have grown an appreciation for Parekh over the past year, still think he’s a head case to some degree but on the ice he’s legit.
I view Deangelo as Parekh’s floor. A 50 point defenseman you have to hide for him to maximize his talents. I also think Deangelo only ever hit his floor, just had this innate cockiness that made him never really work on his flaws or even improve his game much. Parekh may be a huge personality on the ice, but off ice he seems extremely dedicated to working on his game. There’s obviously graduating high school at 15, but he’s admitted in interviews he doesn’t want his defensive side to be a weakness and he’s been putting in work to correct it.
This is a strange complaint to have about Parekh specifically, whose shot is far more translatable than most OHLers.
I predict he is back in the OHL has to work on defence. But because kid has an ego I wonder if we see another Cutter Gauthier situation
He cant cuz he already signed hes elc. Its gonna be interesting to see what him and dickinson do, both in similar boat, signed elc, cant play in ahl.
For someone who talks all the time about the superiority of the NCAA relative to the CHL, you sure don't know much about the eligibility rules.
It's an imperfect situation for both teams. If I were the GM for either team, I'd park either of them on my third pairing for a year, maybe occasionally healthy scratch them for motivational/teaching purposes, and live with the results. Neither team is contending for a Cup, so may as well give these guys an actual challenge and see if they meet it.
Another year of junior is not going to hurt these guys. Look at Matthew Poitras. Kept up by the Bruins in his 19 year old season. This year his going back and forth between the AHL and NHL. He'd be in the exact same spot if he had played his 19 year old season in the OHL. If the options are CHL or NHL, always always always send them back unless they can actually contribute at the NHL level. Now in the future you will probably see these types of guys in the AHL at 19 but for now, better to side with sending them to junior.
It's too bad, because he would have been a great NCAA candidate.
I don't really see the comparison here. First of all, you're comparing the 54th pick to guys who were taken with the 9th and 11th pick. There are different expectations for what these players are going to become. Second, you haven't made a case for his D+2 year having hurt his development. He played 35 games and had season ending shoulder surgery.
I guess my main point was if they stick, fine. But the reasoning behind it has to be that they can hold their own and contribute to their NHL squads. Not that the CHL is a waste of time.
Shouldn't all players just score at ease? Or do they only suck against Parekh?
Unfortunately i think he’s just a s contractually not allowed to play in NL/SHL just as much as he wouldn’t be allowed in the AHL. Every contract is breakable of course but I doubt anyone is going to deal with the nonsense that it will entail.
The AHL stuff is different. You’re right that CHL players don’t test it, but there’s nothing actually stopping him from leaving to another league.
