Good for him. Happy to have another prospect that they actually felt was worth signing. And curious to watch him in the AHL next season.
Token European summer signing
Have any of them really worked out? I think we just get excited because they're European.
Martinsen's a nice 13th man/4th liner as long as he's scratched intermittently to keep him on form. He even got to show off his hands a little down the stretch.
I'm pretty sure EVB could've established himself as an NHL bottom 6er if he had a little better luck with health/injuries-to-our-crap-players this season.
Noreau was awesome in the AHL, and had crap luck with being injured every time there was a chance he'd get called up. Ultimately he wouldn't have been anything but a smarter & smaller Redmond, if he had gotten a shot, but I really like what he was able to do for our AHL club. Having him leading the way down there, definitely helped both Bigras & Zadorov get comfortable & make the progress that they did.
Rendulic was always a raw project that might not stick around, and we didn't do much to help him with Dean as the coach down in the A.
And Henley is a kid I still like as a potential 4th line C & PK-specialist...basically what we once thought Winchester would be for us...he's a NCAA UFA, not a euro, but he still came in during that initial wave of prospect signings from outside the organization; so in my mind he's connected to the euros.
So I'm not expecting an impact NHLer, but that doesn't mean he can't be useful for this organization until he gives up on cracking the NHL.
Decent. Why not if we have space.
Lets see if he can earn that deal and if we ever see him in the NHL.
I'm not one who celebrates getting these kind of deals done, remember people jumping up and down over Geertsen.
Why shouldn't we have been thrilled that they didn't throw Geertsen away? Does he have bad corsi or something?
I could see Guenin sticking around for another year to see how it goes. The Avs know what a good locker room presence he is and could offer some help to the new staff in SA as a liaison between the staff and players. He would have to know and accept that as his role but if the Avs want him back, I could see him doing the organization that gave him so many opportunities with the big club a solid. I would really like it if he was the vet on D (prefer him over Clark). I could see Corbett splitting time with Ft. Wayne again too, depending how the organization and new coaching staff feels about him.
Up front, I could see Street and Beck both returning for the vet roles there. Probably some others as well. I would personally like to see Pepin get a shot on an ELC to develop his game further but we would definitely have to have the right coach for him to get the most out of him.
I really hope we see the general back on a fat AHL deal. He's a great locker-room presence, he's great for the young guys, and he's a good Dman at that level. He was a lot of help last season for Grigorenko & Zadorov, and if he accepts that role for next season I think he'd be great for us again. If someone else is offering him an NHL shot then I can't blame him for going, but if his NHL days are behind him for good; I do hope his next few years are in SA.
Corbett is a guy I just don't rate, like an AHL Ryan Wilson. He has some skills, some size, and every now n then pulls off a ridiculously big hit that you don't completely understand how he pulled off; but he's just blah to me. At best a passable dman at that level, but so often not even that. He'd need to take a huge developmental step this season.