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USHR.com has just posted that Robbie Schremp has left OHL this evening and has arrived in Ann Arbor to play on the NTDP u18 Team.
Well I would hope a young guy entering the draft does not dog it because he does not like who he's playing for. I'm sure his teammates wouldn't appreciate it.Charlie_Girl49 said:and he was SO unhappy with Mississauga that he had 2 goals and an assist in this afternoon's game, and took the 1st star....
Mobey said:More blame should be placed on the Ice Dogs in my opinion. The USA U-18 Team just got really, really good.
cdnhky1 said:Of course more blame should be placed on the Ice Dogs in your opinion, Mobey. After all, we are dealing with a young red-blooded American hockey player. And, of course, they can do no wrong in your always objective eyes. I wonder if you would feel the same way if say Sidney Crosby walked out on his Rimouski Oceanic teammates after they started the season 3-0. I suspect you would think differently of him since he's from Halifax, Nova Scotia instead of Fulton, New York.
I'd like to hear your reasoning why the Ice Dogs are to blame here. Perhaps you will adopt the same reasoning Schremp and his highly regarded agent Scott Norton did. The Ice Dogs won't be competitive this season, the team's goaltending won't be very good and Robbie will get beat up on a routine basis because they Ice Dogs aren't tough enough.
While it's still early in the OHL season it's obvious the Ice Dogs will be more than competitive this season. Their 3-0 start is no fluke. This is a good young team that will emerge as a competitor for an OHL championship in the next year or two. It's definitely a much better, and deeper team than the Ice Dogs team Schremp loved playing for last season.
The Ice Dogs also decided not to bring their OA goalie back for another season. Instead, they handed the reins over to David Shantz, an outstanding young goaltender who led his Junior B team to the Ontario final last year as a 16 year-old and who has started this season 3-0, with a gaa of 2.00, save percentage of .946, and 1 shutout.
I also haven't seen too many teams taking liberties with Robbie this year even though he doesn't have a meat head riding shot gun on his line.
Perhaps Schremp really has left the team because the Ice Dogs had the audacity to demand that a 17 year-old kid attend high school and graduate. For that, the Ice Dogs should definitely be blamed for Schremp and his agent's behaviour.
I'm looking forward to your response since you're obviously much closer to the situation than the rest of us living in that junior hockey hotbed of Sunny California.
Well, if the guy (Mobey) rationale for virtually evey issue he takes a position on is grounded in geography, nothin wrong with calling a spade a spade.nomorekids said:hey guys, look at me! i like to turn everything into a canada\usa issue! weeeee!
Sammy said:Well, if the guy (Mobey) rationale for virtually evey issue he takes a position on is grounded in geography, nothin wrong with calling a spade a spade.
Brock said:If you think about it, whats going to happen to him the following year? He goes to the NDTP to play the rest of the year, and then gets drafted. Ok, what if he doesn't crack the NHL that following year? Where does he go? He can't get a scholarship to play NCAA hockey because he's already played in the OHL. He can't play another year of NDTP because he'd be too old. He can't go down to the AHL because he'd be too young.
This sounds like Bullcrap to me.
Brock said:I don't see anything about this on the Official US Hockey, Under 18 NDTP site.
Nor is there anything on the Mississauga Ice Dogs official site.
This sounds like Bullcrap to me.
cdnhky1 said:Of course more blame should be placed on the Ice Dogs in your opinion, Mobey. After all, we are dealing with a young red-blooded American hockey player. And, of course, they can do no wrong in your always objective eyes. I wonder if you would feel the same way if say Sidney Crosby walked out on his Rimouski Oceanic teammates after they started the season 3-0. I suspect you would think differently of him since he's from Halifax, Nova Scotia instead of Fulton, New York.
I'd like to hear your reasoning why the Ice Dogs are to blame here. Perhaps you will adopt the same reasoning Schremp and his highly regarded agent Scott Norton did. The Ice Dogs won't be competitive this season, the team's goaltending won't be very good and Robbie will get beat up on a routine basis because they Ice Dogs aren't tough enough.
While it's still early in the OHL season it's obvious the Ice Dogs will be more than competitive this season. Their 3-0 start is no fluke. This is a good young team that will emerge as a competitor for an OHL championship in the next year or two. It's definitely a much better, and deeper team than the Ice Dogs team Schremp loved playing for last season.
The Ice Dogs also decided not to bring their OA goalie back for another season. Instead, they handed the reins over to David Shantz, an outstanding young goaltender who led his Junior B team to the Ontario final last year as a 16 year-old and who has started this season 3-0, with a gaa of 2.00, save percentage of .946, and 1 shutout.
I also haven't seen too many teams taking liberties with Robbie this year even though he doesn't have a meat head riding shot gun on his line.
Perhaps Schremp really has left the team because the Ice Dogs had the audacity to demand that a 17 year-old kid attend high school and graduate. For that, the Ice Dogs should definitely be blamed for Schremp and his agent's behaviour.
I'm looking forward to your response since you're obviously much closer to the situation than the rest of us living in that junior hockey hotbed of Sunny California.
Sea Bass said:Brock, if I recall correctly, if he were drafted out of the NDTP program, he in fact would be able to play in the AHL next year. According to my understanding, it's only guys drafted out of the CHL that can't play in the AHL until they're 20. College guys, USHL guys, Tier II guys, NTDP guys, they're not subject to that rule.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong?
Brock said:I thought that because he had played some time in the CHL, that ruined that route for him. I was under the impression that if a player plays a certain number of games in the CHL that he would then become unable to play in the AHL until the age of 20.
Maybe there is a loophole somewhere that Schremp's agent has found?
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Mobey said:Congratulations on your ignorance, but this has nothing to do with him being American. When top players for your team, whether or not they're American or Canadian (Spezza) consistently state their unhappiness in the program, I'd tend to say that the Ice Dogs are doing something wrong, they're the one consistent factor in it.
So what if California isn't a "junior hockey hotbed." What bothers you more, that kids from California are making great strides in hockey, or that you, as a Canadian, can't hold their jock strap, but you sit behind your computer, turning everything into something it's not, like you're some scout?
VOB said:Considering that there has been a wholesale change in both management and ownership for the IceDogs, bringing up past events such as the Jason Spezza fiasco make little sense.
He is asking why is that you place the blame on the management rather than the player or his agent?
You have no idea who cndhky1 is Mobey but let me tell you this, you wouldn't have enough money even if you robbed Fort Knox to hold his jock strap. He is on a much higher level than you and just about everyone who uses this message board Mobey.
Sea Bass said:Stock Rocks - that's what I'd thought too.
Brock - maybe Schremp saw that O'Sullivan's position fell, but I don't think the two situations are very comparable. Schremp certainly saw that demanding a trade from the Dogs didn't hurt Spezza at all.
nomorekids said:oh, please.
hockey's future scene points?
give me a break. your pal made a cheesy argument. i don't care who he is. if his credibility is as substantial as you'd suggest, then he should know better than to quickly assume that Mobey was making a statement based solely on the nationality of Robbie Schremp.
Sheesh.