RW Liam Greentree - Windsor Spitfires, OHL (2024, 26th, LA)

[Hockeyville USA]

Not everyone has to be a difference maker. Personally I’d rather have Greentree over:

-Cataford
-Howe
-Pinelli
-Rehkopf

And could also make arguments for:
Beaudoin, Gauthier, Luchanko but all are defensive as well. Thats 7 players you could make an argument about.

If they quit the politics and just take the best players I don’t know how he doesn’t make it even still with Misa, Cristall added. Guys like sennecke, Heidt could make their own cases too about making the team too.

If they remove Cataford, Howe, Pinelli, Gauthier, Rehkopf and bring Cristall, Sennecke, Greentree, Heidt and Misa instead that is a FAR better team and is “game changing”

Rehkopf had justified making it if he was used properly with Martone. Agreed everywhere else here. Greentree also needs to be in a top of the lineup role to be effective.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Guy keeps chugging along, I love it.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Michael Misa/Andrew Cristall/Zayne Parekh/Carter Yakemchuk are the guys left off that would have made a difference for Canada.

Not Liam Greentree lmaooo, a guy who is good but not a difference maker in a best on best tournament. You’re funny.

And I'd argue the weakest position on the Canadian roster by far was RW

 

[Hockeyville USA]

60 GP 110 PTS

 

[Trash Panda]

Michael Misa/Andrew Cristall/Zayne Parekh/Carter Yakemchuk are the guys left off that would have made a difference for Canada.

Not Liam Greentree lmaooo, a guy who is good but not a difference maker in a best on best tournament. You’re funny.

This take continues to get hotter & hotter as time goes on.

 

[LeProspector]

This take continues to get hotter & hotter as time goes on.

I have season tickets and have seen him play 40x more than most people on this site.

Sorry I’m realistic with one of your favourite prospects.

 

[SI90]

Kids a Tank

 

[ReimanSum1908]

Desperately wanted the Habs to draft him last year, because he was precisely the kind of player that we needed.

What a gem LA's acquired.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

This take continues to get hotter & hotter as time goes on.

Silly comment indeed, nobody knows.

Thing is, Greentree is doing everything what you want to see from a prospect. Shorthanded, powerplay, passing, dangling, goals, you name it.

Either the OHL is very weak or Greentree was a great pick @ 26. Its Vilardi all over again and faster but Gabe has terrific hands and hockey IQ.

 

[LeProspector]

Silly comment indeed, nobody knows.

Thing is, Greentree is doing everything what you want to see from a prospect. Shorthanded, powerplay, passing, dangling, goals, you name it.

Either the OHL is very weak or Greentree was a great pick @ 26. Its Vilardi all over again and faster but Gabe has terrific hands and hockey IQ.

I think he’s an excellent prospect, and should have went top-15 at the draft, Vilardi is a good comp IMO.

I don’t think he would have been a difference maker at the world juniors though, not fast enough, not physical enough, not enough of a play driver to do that as an 18 year old. Ilya Protas is the play driver and best player on the Spitfires this year, though.

Misa/Yakemchuk/Parekh!!!/Cristall would have been play drivers for that WJC team and maybe guys that could have lead the team to more success. Not Greentree.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

I think he’s an excellent prospect, and should have went top-15 at the draft, Vilardi is a good comp IMO.

I don’t think he would have been a difference maker at the world juniors though, not fast enough, not physical enough, not enough of a play driver to do that as an 18 year old. Ilya Protas is the play driver and best player on the Spitfires this year, though.

Greentree is the best player for the Spitfires. Everything starts with him and not Protas who is an superb pick so far for Washington. Greentree runs the powerplay, shoots the puck, is making the passes and enters the offensive zone with the puck.

Like Greentree is so slow that he cant compete at a junior tournament. No idea what to think of that argument. His skating wont hold him back to be a NHL player, let alone to compete @ the WJC.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I dunno man. Not trying at all to invalidate the opinion of a season ticket holder but in a small sample size vs peers and pro men at camp neither his skating nor his physicality was an issue in any way, if anything both were above average, particularly in terms of how he uses contact to shield the puck, like Kopitar. I don't know if I said it in this thread or elsewhere but he looked absolutely pro ready from that standpoint and unlike many other high draft picks used his teammates very, very well.

Edit: seems like the disagreement might be semantic? I can see the argument that Greentree isn't going to be the one driving the play or a line centerpiece...but if he can be a great complement to one of our playdriving tenacious centers (ie Byfield or Turcotte) that seems like a perfect fit. That's where the Vilardi talk came in I think, like he's an amazing player but he's also not going to be the one lugging the puck from his own faceoff dot to the opposing blueline every shift.

 

[LeProspector]

Greentree is the best player for the Spitfires. Everything starts with him and not Protas who is an superb pick so far for Washington.


Like Greentree is so slow that he cant compete at a junior tournament. No idea what to think of that argument. His skating wont hold him back to be a NHL player. Thats just fine.

No, he has not been the best player for Windsor. He has been great, but Protas is the best player on that team. Ask ANYONE who has watched the team a significant amount this year. (ME, IN PERSON, for example)

I’m not saying he wouldn’t be able to compete, I’m saying wouldn’t have been able to be a difference maker this year. Next year, if he was put in the top-6 with someone like Misa, a guy who can push the pace and create space for Greentree, yeah he can be a core member. It if you believe that a reason Canada lost because they left Greentree off the team this season, you’re simply wrong. He would not be a difference maker.

I like Greentree, a lot. And as I said he should have been drafted higher. And he will be a good piece to an NHL franchise in the future. But I have problems with people like you coming in here and spewing blatant lies because of your bias because your team selected him.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

No, he has not been the best player for Windsor. He has been great, but Protas is the best player on that team. Ask ANYONE who has watched the team a significant amount this year. (ME, IN PERSON, for example)

I’m not saying he wouldn’t be able to compete, I’m saying wouldn’t have been able to be a difference maker this year. Next year, if he was put in the top-6 with someone like Misa, a guy who can push the pace and create space for Greentree, yeah he can be a core member. It if you believe that a reason Canada lost because they left Greentree off the team this season, you’re simply wrong. He would not be a difference maker.

I like Greentree, a lot. And as I said he should have been drafted higher. And he will be a good piece to an NHL franchise in the future. But I have problems with people like you coming in here and spewing blatant lies because of your bias because your team selected him.

Why should I ask anyone. This is my opinion. Weird.

Dont put words into my mouth with why Canada lost. I respond on the matter that neither you and me know what could or should have been. If anything, that Canada lost in the QF and played like crap anyway, is actually the only fact right now.

Problem with people like me coming in here and spewing blatant lies because of my bias because my team selected him, IN A TOPIC with the TITLE Liam Greentree, is one of the most ridiculous things I have read in months.

For once there is one LA prospect that is doing well, in his OWN thread which will attract LA fans but LeProspecter will tell us all how it is, comes up with things beside the topic and than calls everyone a homer who disagrees with anything he says. Thats a fine piece of work.