Prospect Info: 2020 Draft #142: Carson Bantle (LW)

[rt]

Team is on hiatus.

So their website is just a piece of shit and has filtered out all stars from that team from all time. Good look.

 

[rt]

I’m not seeing a site feedback option on mobile either. Lol.

 

[Dr Quincy]

Played on a horrible team. Big and tough but decent straightline speed and a nice shot.

 

[Mosby]

Tocchet was among the Coyotes staff to call him and welcome him to the org. Yuck.

 

[XX]

Tocchet was among the Coyotes staff to call him and welcome him to the org. Yuck.

Didn't mention Tocchet by name. Just "the coach". Could be anyone from Tucson or the development staff. Likely the latter.

 

[Mosby]

Good call.

 

[_Del_]

Didn't mention Tocchet by name. Just "the coach". Could be anyone from Tucson or the development staff. Likely the latter.

That's a bigger reach than Mitchell!

 

[moosemeister]

That's a bigger reach than Mitchell!

Ayyyy lmao

 

[rt]

Carson Bantle = Our HONORARY #1 Pick!!!

 

[Mosby]

I liked his Zoom interview. Not so much Mitchell's.

 

[rt]

I liked his Zoom interview. Not so much Mitchell's.

He said “my body” 16 times in 90 seconds. Lol.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

The more I think about it, the more I hope this kid pans out. All the Tom Wilson comparos make me salivate. We have needed a Tom Wilson type for forever on this team. Instead, we've had Josh Grattons, Daniel Carcillos, and Max Domis.

 

[Mosby]

Wish he was going to a stronger program than Michigan Tech.

 

[XX]

Wish he was going to a stronger program than Michigan Tech.

A smaller program means more playing time potentially. Better there than buried.

 

[Bandit34]

He's majoring in business.

 

[Alberta Yote]

He's majoring in business.

Maybe he can work part time in the organization’s accounting dept. Help get those bonuses paid on time.

 

[Name Nameless]

He said “my body” 16 times in 90 seconds. Lol.

How many times did he say "you know"? I get the feeling that's what the players are told to say when they don't know what to say.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

How many times did he say "you know"? I get the feeling that's what the players are told to say when they don't know what to say.

It's a vocal tic, very common among kids of that age. "Like" is the other major one.

 

[TopC0rner]

He has small guy skills in a large body. If he can improve his skating, he will be a huge steal.

 

[TopC0rner]

"Particularly, his first few steps are incredibly slow. More than once, he should have had a breakaway but was caught by a defender because he wasn’t fast enough."

The main red flag seems to be his skating. Hopefully he can improve and can overcome that.

On the bright side, he still had close to one breakaway per game I watched. He also beat the defenseman on the outside more than once.

He also played a ton, 5vs5, top PP, top PK. That also played sometimes in him looking "slower".

 

[rt]

It's a vocal tic, very common among kids of that age. "Like" is the other major one.

When I was in elementary school school (public school) they made everyone take some kind of test (IQ or something similar). All the kids who’s results happened to be above a certain number were then bussed to a separate location one school day per week to take part in a “gifted” program. Five different schools would use the location, one day per week.

They hired all of these hippy dippy nut job teachers. I mean, they’d make us listen to whale songs in the dark for fifteen straight minutes and bizarre shit like that.

I remember well them doing an exercise where at first 10 kids preferred democracy to communism and only one kid liked communism better. Then they gradually converted all the kids to communism but one. Then they had the kids argue until it was an even split.

It was an absolute freak show.

There were only two positives. They introduced algebra to us in third grade and they really spent a ton of time explaining what it actually was and how it actually worked, so we would understand algebra rather than simply memorizing stuff. That was good.

The other thing they taught us that was useful is what you described. They forced every kid to give a speech in front of the class every week. They were flexible on subject, delivery, etc. the only thing you were really graded on was being confident, comfortable, not stammering, or saying ummm, uhhh, like, or ya know to fill spaces. That you could accept silence as line breaks while speaking.

I don’t use algebra anymore. But I do still have to speak in front of large groups. So that one lesson is all I have to show for being bussed to a hippy school every Wednesday for four straight years. Well, that and a healthy distrust of commies and hippies.

 

[hbk]

When I was in elementary school school (public school) they made everyone take some kind of test (IQ or something similar). All the kids who’s results happened to be above a certain number were then bussed to a separate location one school day per week to take part in a “gifted” program. Five different schools would use the location, one day per week.

They hired all of these hippy dippy nut job teachers. I mean, they’d make us listen to whale songs in the dark for fifteen straight minutes and bizarre shit like that.

I remember well them doing an exercise where at first 10 kids preferred democracy to communism and only one kid liked communism better. Then they gradually converted all the kids to communism but one. Then they had the kids argue until it was an even split.

It was an absolute freak show.

There were only two positives. They introduced algebra to us in third grade and they really spent a ton of time explaining what it actually was and how it actually worked, so we would understand algebra rather than simply memorizing stuff. That was good.

The other thing they taught us that was useful is what you described. They forced every kid to give a speech in front of the class every week. They were flexible on subject, delivery, etc. the only thing you were really graded on was being confident, comfortable, not stammering, or saying ummm, uhhh, like, or ya know to fill spaces. That you could accept silence as line breaks while speaking.

I don’t use algebra anymore. But I do still have to speak in front of large groups. So that one lesson is all I have to show for being bussed to a hippy school every Wednesday for four straight years. Well, that and a healthy distrust of commies and hippies.

We had a similar thing as well. I didn’t make the cut and spent the rest of my years in grade school making sure I kicked each and every one of their asses on every test, exam, assignment.

 

[rt]

We had a similar thing as well. I didn’t make the cut and spent the rest of my years in grade school making sure I kicked each and every one of their asses on every test, exam, assignment.

I got expelled from high school, went to a school for juvenile delinquents, and graduated a year early with straight D grades (I believe my final GPA was a 0.9) and started junior college a year early. I dropped out after two semesters and went into construction.

The “gifted” program was absolute nonsense. lol.

I brought it up only because I remember well going into middle school and seeing my classmates forced to give their first real presentations in front of the class. And I saw them fall to pieces and do terribly. And I knew the only difference was experience, rather than aptitude.

 

[Heldig]

It's a vocal tic, very common among kids of that age. "Like" is the other major one.

Earlier in his career, the jets had a "you know" count on Mark Scheifele interviews.

 

[rt]

We all liked this pick better than the Miller pick anyway. Can we please commit to a ridiculous level of support for this kid? Can we channel all of those emotions from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rounds into positive vibes for this kid? Let’s hang our hopes here. And let’s really buy into it.