RD Sam Rinzel - Univ of Minnesota , NCAA (2022, 25th, CHI)

[Mrfenn92]

He was shockingly bad at the World Juniors.

All these Minnesota fans told us how well he was playing this season, but he didn't look like he belonged.

We were told by them how bad Chesley was playing this season (along with Snuggerud and Moore supposedly), but he looked very good, was the top defensive player player on the Gold Medal winners, and the +/- in Gopher games didn't seem to match that view either.

Not accusing Gopher fans of not saying what they see, but I don't believe all the helium for Rinzel after the awful Juniors he had.

He wasn’t bad.

 

[pvr]

He wasn’t bad.

…Let alone “shockingly bad”. Like all of the defensemen on the US team, he had some really fine and really bad moments, but the majority of the time he was reasonably good. Inconsistent like most 19 year old dmen.

 

[TLEH]

I personally thought Rinzel was playing better than Chesley at Minnesota the last month before the WJC as well.

For the record I thought Rinzel was "fine" at the WJC.. had an awful SF and a decent final, but based on what I had seen at Minnesota for the last month I thought he might have a coming out party. He didn't but that doesn't mean he wasn't playing well at Minnesota beforehand.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Nearly PPG now

24
1 G
22 A
23 pts
+10

 

[Mrfenn92]