Prospect Info: Sharks Prospect Info & Discussion Megathread XXI: "New, improved, and wayyyy too much info" Edition
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The Nemesis
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Vancouver Giants throttled Prince Albert 10-1 tonight.
1) I have to imagine that watching this as a Giants fan is what it's like for all the other teams playing the Sharks. It's weird on the other side of the equation.
2) Colton Roberts had no points and was only a +1. #Shorks
1) I have to imagine that watching this as a Giants fan is what it's like for all the other teams playing the Sharks. It's weird on the other side of the equation.
2) Colton Roberts had no points and was only a +1. #Shorks
Gecklund
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Pohlkamp scored his first for Denver in game 2 vs Northeastern. there's a link to an interview, didn't watch it yet.
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The Nemesis
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I know you're just joking, but a little bit of more semi-serious analysis: He does have 6 assists in 8 games so far, but he's also felt a bit slow out of the gate because he missed a good chunk of training camp, the pre-season, and the first couple of games of the regular season because he was at Sharks camp.
The other thing that's kind of hurting him is that he was probably originally cast as the team's undisputed #2 d-man behind team captain Mazden Leslie, but he's kind of had that job stolen by the breakout of a 16-year-old rookie named Ryan Lin. Lin plays on the top pairing with Leslie at even strength, but has been good enough and comfortable enough moving the puck that he's pretty much been handed the PP2 QB duties and now Roberts is relegated to "the guy least involved in the offence because he's there to cover for everyone else if there's a turnover."
That said his pro future is mostly dependent on him working defensively so maybe I shouldn't be too worried about that. He's been OK defensively I think, but is still a little uneven.
And he did do this a couple weeks ago
So..... shrug.
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Oh definitely joking. I like Roberts. Fun toolsy type guy. Don’t think he has much of an NHL future but hey people are getting mad at me in the roster thread for thinking Thrun has an NHL future so what do I know?
The Nemesis
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I think Roberts' development is going to be a bit of a referendum/test case for how much you can teach guys to think and read the game well enough if they don't have high innate hockey sense. Because he has all the tools, he just still makes questionable choices. Maybe that improves if he gets force-fed tougher situations and can work through them with feedback. Or maybe they can teach him a simplified decision tree that limits how much he has to "think". Or maybe it's all futile and he'll never process the game well enough to take that next step. Because if you take away the hockey sense issues, he's a 6'3/6'4 smooth skating defender who can keep up with skilled forwards, make breakout and outlet passes, and get his shot on net.
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Cross-post of my summary of Grier's surprise presser b/c he said some things about Cagnoni, Haltunnen, Askarov, Musty, and of course Macklin and Will.
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While he doesn't have game breaking speed, a cannon of a shot, or imposing size, I see Thrun as somebody who will be capable of slowing the game down with their decision making. Giving him a couple years to figure things out isn't the end of the world with this roster. And if we do so, I...
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Sharks’ Grier running out of patience with Sudbury-Musty standoff
San Jose Sharks general manager Mike Grier would like to see stalemate end between Quentin Musty and Sudbury Wolves
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I see Svoboda has a goal in his first 3 games. Has anyone watched the BU games to see how he looks?
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Northeastern hopes hard-working Cam Lund can help it get back to the NCAA men’s hockey tourney - The Boston Globe
The forward from Bridgewater brings size, skill, speed, and an admirable work ethic into his junior year with the Huskies.
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We're going to suck next year too:
Eklund-Celebrini-Martone
Musty-McKenna-Smith
Cherny-Bystedt-Zetterlund/Halt/Graf
Watched that play like 10 times and can't figure out how Dickinson ended up with the puck on his stick. That should of been a 2 on 1 going back the other way.
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Great start for Pohlkamp. Hensler was on D in the slot there, didn't make any mistakes but reminds me to go check the box score or look for a shift by shift.
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4 goals in the last 4 games for Lund. The hand-eye coordination on this is crazy.
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Boy, wouldn’t be nice if Lund took his game to the next level this year.
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It sounds like he may be doing that.
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We need a new Lund to step in, to replace an outgoing Lund (Granlund)
