Techbert
Registered User
I was not a fan of the Thrashers taking Boris Valabik at the time, but it grew on me and I see the reasoning. At pick #10, Boris had the best chance of anyone left of becoming a game-changing force. He's got some work to do on his compass skating, but huge guys have time to develop.
I don't expect anyone here to take my word for anything, so I reference what writers & scouts said in HF's "OHL Top 40 prospects for the 2005 draft". His name kept coming up, like he was the only defenseman in the league. None of it sounded like Boris was being used as a human turnstile.
I realize the OHL is not the NHL, but it sounds like Boris is doing something right. Both Coburn and Valabik are big and strong enough to have 30 min per game potential, so once Valabik grows into his body one of these two should be on the Atlanta ice pretty much all the time. That's in front of Lehtonen and behind Kovalchuk and Heatley. I would hate to have to play Atlanta then.
I don't expect anyone here to take my word for anything, so I reference what writers & scouts said in HF's "OHL Top 40 prospects for the 2005 draft". His name kept coming up, like he was the only defenseman in the league. None of it sounded like Boris was being used as a human turnstile.
Ryan… was one of the few Attack forwards who kept going to the net right to the end as many of his teammates had been intimidated by the nasty Ranger defense led by Boris Valabik.
I saw Boris Valabik completely control Erie one night in every sense and so Blunden comes off the bench and sticks up for all his teammates, gets the crap beat out of him but he kept getting up to try and land one or two blows.
Fraser gives the Rangers coaching staff a nice one-two punch with Boris Valabik when it comes to matching up against the scoring lines of the opposing teams.
(Hesh) In Kitchener he played with Boris Valabik, a guy with his own size and limited abilities who went 10th overall, but this kid must be dense because he apparently didn’t learn a thing.
I realize the OHL is not the NHL, but it sounds like Boris is doing something right. Both Coburn and Valabik are big and strong enough to have 30 min per game potential, so once Valabik grows into his body one of these two should be on the Atlanta ice pretty much all the time. That's in front of Lehtonen and behind Kovalchuk and Heatley. I would hate to have to play Atlanta then.
Last edited: