I know Sean Avery has been named as a comparable player for Kovacs, but does anyone else see potential for him to be a Marchand-esque player?
Yeah, but with European players there is always a bit of a mystery as to how their agitating game will transform to NA if at all. Some just completely put that side away, others keep going like usual. We had Jamtin in HFD, he never got under anyone's skin. Someone like Komarov have kept it up in Toronto.
Fogarty just his 10th of the year to bring ND within a goal of BU with 57 secs left game is on NBcSN
Big kid
Fogarty is exactly the kind of player this team needs to add in the bottom-6.
Skates like luc robitaille though from what I saw hope I'm wrong there but very ugly
Fogarty's first close up was within one minute of NBCSN bcast of ND v BU. Grzelcyk then Fogarty. Big star, he must be?
Fogarty and Nieves will get contracts, I think.
They should let the following guys go:
Noreau
St. Croix
Tarnasky
Kantor
Gibbons
Nicholls
Then sign a bunch of NCAA free agents. Just get a handful and see who makes it.
Lynch, Denham (RM), Vesey (Harvard), Kossila & Prow (St Cloud), Oksanen and O'Regan (Boston uni) are players I would be interested in to join the organization.
Fogarty, Nieves, Butcher should definitely get contracts. I would not, however, bring in Gropp. He's better off staying for an overager Junior season. Mantha will probably be signed, but will go to the ECHL, at least to start the season.
I'd re-up Hrivik, Jensen, Bourque, Hughes. All still have a chance, some greater than others, to play in the NHL and if not, they are useful in the AHL. They may choose to try their luck elsewhere, however. I could see re-signing Paille. Megna can definitely stay if he wants to.
I'd go with other vets over Gibbons, Adam, Lindblad. I'd like someone high scoring because the Pack really can't score this year with these guys.
I would re-sign Tarnasky if he wants to stay on an AHL deal. He's never sniffing the NHL again, so he should be willing to do that unless he's delusional. At this point, he's an AHL 4th liner, as likely to wear an NHL sweater as I am. Same for Summers: AHL contract only or he can leave. Desjardins is presumably gone.
Bodie, Noreau, Nicholls, Kantor, McCarthy, St. Croix are busts who need to go play in the ECHL or on another AHL squad.
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F: Megna, Hrivik, Rambo, Nehring (AHL contract), Jensen, Ryan, Paille, Nieves, Fogarty, Tarnasky (should be on an AHL contract). That's 10 forwards. Add 2-3 high scoring guys like Chris Bourque, and a few guys on AHL contracts and the team can be solid.
G: Hellberg, Skapski, Halverson in the net should be solid. Hellberg is good for the AHL, and either Halvy or more likely Skapski should win the other spot.
D: Skjei, Graves, Hughes, Calle are a decent start, but would need to bring in at least two high quality AHL vets since either Graves or Skjei is likely to spend significant time in the NHL next year.
Fogarty, Nieves, Butcher should definitely get contracts. I would not, however, bring in Gropp. He's better off staying for an overager Junior season. Mantha will probably be signed, but will go to the ECHL, at least to start the season.
I'd re-up Hrivik, Jensen, Bourque, Hughes. All still have a chance, some greater than others, to play in the NHL and if not, they are useful in the AHL. They may choose to try their luck elsewhere, however. I could see re-signing Paille. Megna can definitely stay if he wants to.
I'd go with other vets over Gibbons, Adam, Lindblad. I'd like someone high scoring because the Pack really can't score this year with these guys.
I would re-sign Tarnasky if he wants to stay on an AHL deal. He's never sniffing the NHL again, so he should be willing to do that unless he's delusional. At this point, he's an AHL 4th liner, as likely to wear an NHL sweater as I am. Same for Summers: AHL contract only or he can leave. Desjardins is presumably gone.
Bodie, Noreau, Nicholls, Kantor, McCarthy, St. Croix are busts who need to go play in the ECHL or on another AHL squad.
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F: Megna, Hrivik, Rambo, Nehring (AHL contract), Jensen, Ryan, Paille, Nieves, Fogarty, Tarnasky (should be on an AHL contract). That's 10 forwards. Add 2-3 high scoring guys like Chris Bourque, and a few guys on AHL contracts and the team can be solid.
G: Hellberg, Skapski, Halverson in the net should be solid. Hellberg is good for the AHL, and either Halvy or more likely Skapski should win the other spot.
D: Skjei, Graves, Hughes, Calle are a decent start, but would need to bring in at least two high quality AHL vets since either Graves or Skjei is likely to spend significant time in the NHL next year.
Bodie lacks size and probably will never be an NHL player but he does add some offense to the Wolfpack blueline and just going by his +/- this year it would seem his defending has improved. I'd have no problem bringing him back.
Scored on PP today.
Play-offs: The six best teams at the conclusion of regular season proceed directly to quarter-finals. Teams placing between seventh and tenth (inclusive) will play preliminary play-offs best-out-of-three – the two winners take the last two slots to quarter-finals. Starting from the season 2007–2008 all series since then are best-of-seven. Losers of the semi-finals play a bronze medal match. Teams are paired up for each round according to regular season results, so that the highest-ranking team will play against the lowest-ranking, second highest against the second lowest, and so on. Higher-ranking teams play the first match at home, then by turns away, home, away, etc. Each play-off match consists of a 60-minute regulation time which in the event of a tie is followed by extra 20-minute periods of sudden death overtime, in which the first team to score wins.
Just five more regular season games
Assat is tied for 11th. Top ten teams make the playoffs. Five points behind 10th but they have played two less games.
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