Great news. I think he's been playing C during his short stint in St. John's, but I will be very interested to see where they slot him in next year full time.
As others have said, it would be great if they think of him as a C, and want to develop him into our own Hanzal type to go against the bigger C's of the league.
This would be great. At a minimum if we could get 30-50 points from Lowry as a consistent 2nd-3rd line, two-way forward, I'd be very happy. I'd love to have a center Lowry's size playing in the 2-3 slot who we could put out against the big bulls of the Western Conference - Getzlaf, Toews, Kopitar, etc.
Yea Guerzy I look at this group as the first grads from juniors and collage on "the program" that TNSE wants to use.....we are getting close to populating the NHL roster with a few of them and we might have 1 more year (perhaps less) where the three get some AHL time and then away we go.
People downplay the natural void that was left between when Burmi joined the NHL and the next drafted Jet will join the team. If you throw out Reds and Postma because they were both older than Burmi and actually developed through the system there will be a 3 to 4 year lull in young high end prospects populating the roster. That is a growing pain that I really hope pays off by bringing in more NHL ready talent who have developed a bit more fully.
Scheif, Lowry, and Trouba should be the first wave and I think being able to take 6 picks in the first three rounds this year could be huge as well. It's really hard to have patience and often GM's are not afforded the luxury by their ownership group or the market they play in. I am really looking forward to next season and watching these three in particular young men come of age in our Org.
Adam was a heck of a 3rd round draft pick hats off to TNSE for getting that one right.
Well said. The next couple to few years will be very exciting as we see our prospects graduate their junior leagues and join the pro ranks of the Jets system.
As much as Lukas Sutter is looking like a not so "ideal" 2nd round pick "talent wise", I still have hopes for him to be a pain in the ass, pest, tough, in your face, PK'ing bottom 6 forward. There are a lot of 2nd round picks that don't amount to squat but have some talent, and in hindsight you may look back and think "I wish we took a guy like Brandon Prust in the 2nd round" even though he was never 2nd round "talent". Prust was taken in the 3rd round of the 2004 draft. So long as we can get useful players out of our draft picks, I am game for that given how hit or miss drafting actually is. I understand though that you still have to draft and take a chance on talented kids whether they are hit or miss or not. Drafting is such a hard task in terms of where the kids actually develop and pan out years after being drafted.
