NTDP
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Time to start the season thread for the program. U-17's routed the Wilderness last night and the U-18's should do something similar tonight. Although I'm not sure it'll be 12-1.
Just one game but the young guys looked good last night. It was a team in the NAHL and they had a lot of rookies playing for them as well, but the NTDP still looked good. They moved the puck really well, were quick to lose pucks, used the ice well and got a lot of pucks towards the net. Boldy was good, Turcotte was all over the ice. He's quick and looks really hard to knock off the puck. I didn't see that part to his game when I saw him at youth nationals last year. He stripped the puck off quite a few players sticks last night. Marshall Warren was a beast out there. Made real smart passes but was also the biggest physical presence on D. A big surprise was Vlasic, who I thought would be more of a bigger shut down D really stepped up at the line and had good gap control all game. Showed offensive flare and he has a lot better hands than I thought.
Quinn Hughes was fantastic too, his speed through the neutral zone was evident especially when he went around 2 guys over the blue line to set up a goal in the 2nd period. Wilderness we just overmatched all game but they had a few d men that made some nice plays getting out of their zone. Can't really blame them, they were just over matched in all aspects.
This U-17 team will get it's fair share of games they get knocked around in the USHL, happens every year. Remember last year when the opening game they beat the Muskegon Lumberjacks 7-1 and then got brought back to reality when they played Youngstown the following weekend.
Just one game but the young guys looked good last night. It was a team in the NAHL and they had a lot of rookies playing for them as well, but the NTDP still looked good. They moved the puck really well, were quick to lose pucks, used the ice well and got a lot of pucks towards the net. Boldy was good, Turcotte was all over the ice. He's quick and looks really hard to knock off the puck. I didn't see that part to his game when I saw him at youth nationals last year. He stripped the puck off quite a few players sticks last night. Marshall Warren was a beast out there. Made real smart passes but was also the biggest physical presence on D. A big surprise was Vlasic, who I thought would be more of a bigger shut down D really stepped up at the line and had good gap control all game. Showed offensive flare and he has a lot better hands than I thought.
Quinn Hughes was fantastic too, his speed through the neutral zone was evident especially when he went around 2 guys over the blue line to set up a goal in the 2nd period. Wilderness we just overmatched all game but they had a few d men that made some nice plays getting out of their zone. Can't really blame them, they were just over matched in all aspects.
This U-17 team will get it's fair share of games they get knocked around in the USHL, happens every year. Remember last year when the opening game they beat the Muskegon Lumberjacks 7-1 and then got brought back to reality when they played Youngstown the following weekend.