czechhockeyfan
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Adlergirl said:Brendl got cut by the Krefeld Pinguine as well
However the reason is Krefeld wanted to keep Brendl for the whole season and he has contract with Canes.
Adlergirl said:Brendl got cut by the Krefeld Pinguine as well
czechhockeyfan said:However the reason is Krefeld wanted to keep Brendl for the whole season and he has contract with Canes.
Vlad The Impaler said:Why is he wasting his time over there anyway? Can't he play in the AHL this year? If he can, he definitly should.
DaveG said:I think he would have to clear waivers in order to go down to the AHL level this year.
Reveille said:And he'd be claimed how?
FWIW, after the lockout, FL signed several of its older prospects that would have to clear waivers to independent AHL contracts. Kwiatkowski, Beaudoin, Olson, & Payer all played in the NHL last yr and signed 2-way contracts before the CBA expired and all would've had to clear waivers to be sent down I believe.DaveG said:he would have had to clear waivers earlier... before the lockout. I'm not sure what the date was but there was a big fuss on the Canes part of the forums that Zigomanis was being put on waivers to play in Lowell.
Vlad The Impaler said:Giving up is not much better than being kicked out, IMO.
Vlad The Impaler said:I haven't seen him in the AHL but I don't know if I would call his numbers there "lighting it up". He's 22-23 years old. Those are very ordinary numbers (33 points in 33 games) for a mature, experienced guy who is all about offense.
I did see him in Carolina, however, and was not too impressed. When I read that he was a more intense players, I couldn't wait to watch him. I was disappointed. He's still the old Brendl with the occasional effort boost but stretches of floating and he is still extremely unidimensional to me.
My biggest problem is that he is not even *offensively* well-rounded. This is what kills it for me. If he was all (great) offense and no defense, I could live with it. But I find deficiencies in his offensive game.
It was the same thing back in Philly. You had guys with rose-colored glasses saying he was improved and there was the occasional good comment in newspaper from the coaching staff... and then he would disappear once again.
Vlad The Impaler said:It's Carolina. They have to, they're starving for any kind of talent over there. They're expectations are more hope and optimism than anything else. Not that Brendl doesn't have a chance but he's rather ordinary so far and everytime he switches to an upper level, it becomes harder for him to cheat his way and his impact becomes less and less important.
Vlad The Impaler said:That I find hard to believe. With all the red flags about Brendl's attitude, this is definitly one more concern for me. I would not touch this player with a ten foot pole. Not because he's the most awful ever but there's much better out there.
There are guys who are more promising and many who will probably score just as much in the NHL while giving you a more well-rounded game.
Vlad The Impaler said:This is just anoher instance where Brendl gave up. Another in a long line of red flags. You have to give some room and a margin for players to blow a fuse or play subpar, or have problems adapting. These things happen. But with Brendl, there's always something happening.
Vlad The Impaler said:Why is he wasting his time over there anyway? Can't he play in the AHL this year? If he can, he definitly should.
VO #23 said:Obviously you didn't see a whole lot of Brendl in junior then. Sure he was lazy and a cherry picker (we used to call him "Brenda Euro Goal Suck"), but he was about as dominant a player as I've seen in the WHL in the last 15 years, including phenoms like Iginla and Hossa.
Habs33 said:MS,
With all his improvements in the past 2 years...how do you explain his lak of abailty in the Euro league...not being able to make the cut?
MS said:You say there's 'always something happening' like this is one of a string of off-ice problems. But that's just not the case. The only other major off-ice issue he's had that I can think of was the training camp in NY where he was really out-of-shape. Outside of that, everything I've ever read is that he's a pretty nice guy and isn't much of a distraction at all. He doesn't really have a history of missing curfews, refusing assignments, criticising coaches, or anything along those lines. All of the other 'red flags' have been in relation to his effort defensively, which is a hockey criticism, not a personal one.