Levitate
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- Jul 29, 2004
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eh how about another rangers one
The good: Henrik Lundqvist (cmon, this one is easy, he's dominating in the playoffs as well, the guys is amazing)
The bad: Al Montoya (I say this more based on stats...he still had a ton of wins, finished the year strong, and had a great CCHA tournament. If he keeps it up through the NCAA tournament I think he'll overall have had a good development year)
The ugly: Hugh Jessiman (Based on his injury...this was to be a real kind of defining year for him...worked out like crazy over the summer to prepare and then got hurt in the 4th game of the season and missed almost an entire year of development)
Additional categories:
The surprising: Jakub Petruzalek (Tiny, 9th round pick, comes in and averages over a point per game as a rookie euro import in the OHL, out performing 1st rounder lukas kaspar)
The mistreated: Petr Prucha (Burried back on the 4th line because of NHLers after a breakout year for him last year. Getting more icetime now in the playoffs and making things happen)
The misunderstood: Jozef Balej (Struggled some in scoring this year but is playing a better all around, gritty game than people will give him credit for)
The underwhelming: Garth Murray (I swear this kid has got more game in him than it seems just by looking at his stats...the coaches need to do something to draw it out)
The overdiscussed: Al Montoya (Is he a bust? Was it a waste to take him at #6? etc etc etc...too much crap speculation too early in his development)
could put a lot of different guys in some of the categories but just went with one for each
Comments on other peoples selections:
I'm not sure why this is surprising...he had a solid year last year and led his team too.
The Rangers sent him back to Russia, he didn't bolt.
The good: Henrik Lundqvist (cmon, this one is easy, he's dominating in the playoffs as well, the guys is amazing)
The bad: Al Montoya (I say this more based on stats...he still had a ton of wins, finished the year strong, and had a great CCHA tournament. If he keeps it up through the NCAA tournament I think he'll overall have had a good development year)
The ugly: Hugh Jessiman (Based on his injury...this was to be a real kind of defining year for him...worked out like crazy over the summer to prepare and then got hurt in the 4th game of the season and missed almost an entire year of development)
Additional categories:
The surprising: Jakub Petruzalek (Tiny, 9th round pick, comes in and averages over a point per game as a rookie euro import in the OHL, out performing 1st rounder lukas kaspar)
The mistreated: Petr Prucha (Burried back on the 4th line because of NHLers after a breakout year for him last year. Getting more icetime now in the playoffs and making things happen)
The misunderstood: Jozef Balej (Struggled some in scoring this year but is playing a better all around, gritty game than people will give him credit for)
The underwhelming: Garth Murray (I swear this kid has got more game in him than it seems just by looking at his stats...the coaches need to do something to draw it out)
The overdiscussed: Al Montoya (Is he a bust? Was it a waste to take him at #6? etc etc etc...too much crap speculation too early in his development)
could put a lot of different guys in some of the categories but just went with one for each
Comments on other peoples selections:
The surprising: Jarkko Immonen - Solid year for JYP.
I'm not sure why this is surprising...he had a solid year last year and led his team too.
The underwhelming: Fedor Tyutin - So-so in Hartford till he bolted back to Russia.
The Rangers sent him back to Russia, he didn't bolt.