2019 College Free Agents

[old kummelweck]

May as well accept no UFA's from college this year. Who can blame them.

 

[N.Y. Orangeman]

College Hockey: We'd rather eat ramen.

 

[flashsabre]

May as well accept no UFA's from college this year. Who can blame them.

How do you know this? Not all players have signed and some are still playing. Most of these guys end up being AHL players or bottom 6 forwards.

Not one source linked Sturm to Buffalo.

 

[Paxon]

When you are in no way a credible NHL organization and the people running your team do everything to prove to would-be College UFA's that they basically won't even be given a chance to make the team this is the price you pay. Horrible team, horrible organization, no chance for quick career advancement: Why would ANYONE choose to come here?

You say that like it should've been a slam dunk for him to come here if not for poor management.

 

[Reddawg]

Cale Morris, G, NOTRE DAME - Please. Now that ND has been eliminated, it is time to pounce.

I've been wanting us to sign Morris for over a year, that would be a huge boost to the goalie corps.

 

[flashsabre]

I've been wanting us to sign Morris for over a year, that would be a huge boost to the goalie corps.

I would agree but with UPL heading to Rochester next year I don't know if this is a great destination for him. What is Wedgewood's status, did he sign for 1 or 2 years?

 

[sabremike]

You say that like it should've been a slam dunk for him to come here if not for poor management.

A team with very little competition to get a starting job on a team with a franchise center and defenseman would in theory seem to be attractive, but for all the reasons stated NOBODY of any value is even going to take our calls much less come here. I guarantee you he didn't even consider us for a split second, and nobody else will either because this organization is a disgrace to the sport.

 

[Paxon]

A team with very little competition to get a starting job on a team with a franchise center and defenseman would in theory seem to be attractive, but for all the reasons stated NOBODY of any value is even going to take our calls much less come here. I guarantee you he didn't even consider us for a split second, and nobody else will either because this organization is a disgrace to the sport.

You can't guarantee that because these guys sign into all sorts of situations. Schultz spurned the Ducks to join the Oilers. Meanwhile just last year the 23 (?) year-old voted top defenseman in the SHL signed here.

Who is to say Sturm didn't entertain coming here? If he didn't, that doesn't indicate anything about what the next guy would do. Our situation is embarrassing enough without just making stuff up or assuming the worst about every little thing.

 

[sabremike]

You can't guarantee that because these guys sign into all sorts of situations. Schultz spurned the Ducks to join the Oilers. Meanwhile just last year the 23 (?) year-old voted top defenseman in the SHL signed here.

Who is to say Sturm didn't entertain coming here? If he didn't, that doesn't indicate anything about what the next guy would do. Our situation is embarrassing enough without just making stuff up or assuming the worst about every little thing.

And that 23 year old was finally brought up roughly 40% into the season, was very good (including being the only guy on the roster who could make one of our biggest liabilities on our roster a positive player) and was rewarded with a seat in the press box and a ticket back to Rochester. Think that goes unnoticed?

 

[old kummelweck]

How do you know this? Not all players have signed and some are still playing. Most of these guys end up being AHL players or bottom 6 forwards.

Not one source linked Sturm to Buffalo.

It's, like my opinion, man.

 

[Chainshot]

I'd still like to see Craggs - that sort of edgy energy game is something they don't have much of in their prospect pool.

As for signing or not, eh, Buffalo usually is in the hunt for these people and if they close the deal great. Let's not let the big club on-ice disfunction intrude overly much into this conversation.

 

[Reddawg]

I would agree but with UPL heading to Rochester next year I don't know if this is a great destination for him. What is Wedgewood's status, did he sign for 1 or 2 years?

One year deal, but RFA at the end of it.

 

[Icicle]

We signed that 23 year old because we were trying earliest team who talked to him. Others came late and he said he didn’t trust their vision in him.

Signing these UDFA can be for all sorts of fickle things. Silly to expect one of thirty one GMs to get the top guy year after year.

 

[Chainshot]

13. Minnesota State defenceman Connor Mackey will likely decide by Wednesday if he’s going to the NHL or staying for his junior season. Bowling Green’s Lukas Craggs is expected to announce by the end of the week. Michigan’s Will Lockwood told Vancouver he’s going back to school. He can be a free agent after next season. The Canucks are also waiting on Northeastern’s Tyler Madden, who just finished his freshman year.

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Mackey of course was at Sabres dev camp and Craggs is the sort of high energy physical winger they have very little of.

 

[truthbluth]

Jobst to the isles

 

[jBuds]

Jobst to the isles

Damn

 

[Chainshot]

Jobst to the isles

Rats.

 

[Jim Bob]

Patrick Johnston: Canucks believe in ‘hire’ education with college hockey players

Former Clarkson University netminder Jake Kielly, who signed Monday and is already in Vancouver to work with goalie coach Ian Clark, noted the interest the Canucks had shown in him, knowing players like Brock Boeser — he’s played in the summer time Da Beauty League and they share agents — and Teves — they faced each other in last year’s ECAC hockey championship — and an awareness that Canucks’ staff members were paying attention to him.

“Obviously knowing guys, it’s huge you can come into the locker-room and be comfortable, guys who can tell you about what to do what not to do,” Kielly said. “It was also having familiar faces, like scouts, who had been talking to me from Vancouver.”

He didn’t hear as much from other teams, he admitted. And he liked what he heard from the Canucks about what they thought was possible to add to his game — he’s long and lean, the kind of goalie Clark and his staff like.

I guess the Sabres weren't that interested in Kielly.

 

[Chainshot]

Patrick Johnston: Canucks believe in ‘hire’ education with college hockey players



I guess the Sabres weren't that interested in Kielly.

Bleh. I wonder if they are setting their hopes solely on Shepard.

 

[Chainshot]

Not that Buffalo was in on him, but that it will make Hab fans angry is a small nugget of schadenfreude.

 

[Chainshot]

Butcher / Kerfoot territory:

 

[Jim Bob]

I wish the Sabres had been able to sign Sturm...

 

[Chainshot]

I wish the Sabres had been able to sign Sturm...

Same. He fits what they lack.

 

[flashsabre]

Justin Brazeau signs 2 year AHL deal with Toronto Marlies. Kid can score at junior level but his skating is going to need a ton of work to be anything close to NHL average.

 

[truthbluth]

Same. He fits what they lack.

No disagreement that they lack the stuff Sturm has, but this statement could be true of basically any hockey player.