beautiful SHG goal by Petan. He and Walker were on a 2 on 2, Walker slipped him a nice pass at the blue line, and Petan squirted in between the two defenders, made as if to deke, but flip/roofed it, like Kaprizov on a SO.
PRONOUNCIATION ALERT.!!!!!
It is now Marco Row-si, not Marco Raw-si.
Hunt is out with illness, not injury.
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3-0 in 2nd. Petan with another, Hentges with his 1st. Rossi has no points, but fed Hicketts who cleanly beat the goalie but rang it off the bar... Rossi looks very good. Petan is scoring like crazy, but plays a very "light" game, and made two careless backpasses that ended up putting the team in a bad spot.
MiGod, another penalty... 5 in only two periods, so far. Sadly, this is normal.
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Ended up being 5-3 win.
Petan with a HT….nice finish close in on a nice feed. Walker with the ENG, on a smart lob pass to Center ice where Walker was able to use his speed to pull away. Wallstedt with the win…didn’t see two of the goals, but on one he was fine, making multiple saves, then one of our Dmen ( Hicketts?) was puck watching and Didn’t get a stick on a guy right beside him, who popped it in. Unforgivable, IMO, for a Dman. That was his only job.
Petan is killing it down here. Not the greatest defender, and sometimes careless with the puck, but is scoring at a prodigious rate. Some similarities to Mayhew. Not as quick, but better handles.
Rossi looks vg down here. Would like his face offs to be better( O’Leary is the best FO guy), but is responsible defensively. Has wound up on a rush from his own end a couple of times and shows good speed. Getting better at dealing with physicality, but I still wouldn’t call it a strength. He tends to dominate the puck on the PP from the half wall. Makes good decisions, and uses creative ways to get better passing angles - at one point he made a circle three times with the puck before moving it. Going strictly by how he is doing now, he is worthy of a call up, but trying to project, my thoughts are;
- he is best in space,and I have doubts whether he will get that in a bigger, faster NHL, where space is hard to find.
- seems to need time before making his passes. Not Suter exactly, but too deliberate, even though the results are good in the AHL. Needs to able to process quicker.
- FO’s are mediocre.
- average acceleration/ quickness.
- his game is based on puck possession. Will he be able to do that in the NHL, or simply get the puck taken from him? He’s not strong or big enough to physically shield the puck, and not quick enough to evade defenders, though he is creative.
Don’t mean to be negative. He looks really good, and seems to be improving, but these things don’t happen overnight. I would bring him up if there was an open C spot, but we might be looking at next year for him, as Walker, to me, should be the first call up.
