old kummelweck
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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.May as well accept no UFA's from college this year. Who can blame them.
You say that like it should've been a slam dunk for him to come here if not for poor management.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?
I've been wanting us to sign Morris for over a year, that would be a huge boost to the goalie corps.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.
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 say that like it should've been a slam dunk for him to come here if not for poor management.
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.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.
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?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.
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.
One year deal, but RFA at the end of it.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?
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.
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.
Patrick Johnston: Canucks believe in ‘hire’ education with college hockey players
I guess the Sabres weren't that interested in Kielly.
I wish the Sabres had been able to sign Sturm...
No disagreement that they lack the stuff Sturm has, but this statement could be true of basically any hockey player.Same. He fits what they lack.