Confirmed with Link: Brett "Joe" "Steve" Pesce signs - 3 years/two-way deal - 809,166 avg

[DaveG]

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=760095&navid=DL|CAR|home


Good deal, we're set to cut loose some from our AHL team next year (Levi and Schmitz I would suspect) and he really doesn't have much left to prove at the NCAA or WJC level.

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[Carolinas Identity*]

What are grits?

 

[What the Faulk]

^ Uh... everything that guy just said is ********... Thank you.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I posted this in the prospect topic, but it's worth a re-post here:

Watching UNH vs. Boston U.

Eichel is good. Also, lots of praise for Pesce. Announcers said he is the "stabilizing force on UNH's blueline"

 

[GoldiFox]

Haven't watched him since we drafted him but seemed to have a conservative 2-way game. Can't have enough of those types in the depth chart.

 

[Vagrant]

Big fan of his. Good skater. All situations kind of guy. I can't really see him being dynamic at the next level, but he's pretty solid. Maybe something like we lost with Dumoulin. Lots of similarities. Both guys got a lot of NCAA experience due to being late birthdays in their draft seasons. Can move well, aren't ridiculously physical, and can move the puck.

 

[RodTheBawd]

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=760095&navid=DL|CAR|home


Good deal, we're set to cut loose some from our AHL team next year (Levi and Schmitz I would suspect) and he really doesn't have much left to prove at the NCAA or WJC level.

Hopefully a chance for Levi to get out from this organization that is holding him back and to find a place that values defensive defensemen.

 

[SeaBasstian]

Wait so we're moving away from the Checkers....that brings up something I ahve always wondered.....do the players on that team we move away from stay with that team and leave the organization, or follow the organization to whatever team is the new affiliate?

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Wait so we're moving away from the Checkers....that brings up something I ahve always wondered.....do the players on that team we move away from stay with that team and leave the organization, or follow the organization to whatever team is the new affiliate?

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Wat

 

[SeaBasstian]

oh wait i definitely misread what he said haha. nvmd

 

[Joe McGrath]

Is this yoot, better than the other yoots in Charlotte?

 

[garnetpalmetto]

What are grits?

Were these magic grits?

Wait so we're moving away from the Checkers....that brings up something I ahve always wondered.....do the players on that team we move away from stay with that team and leave the organization, or follow the organization to whatever team is the new affiliate?

Misread aside, for the purposes of education, any players under contract with Carolina or were Carolina's property otherwise would move to the new affiliate. Players that were under contract with Charlotte only would stay in Charlotte if they were to be brought back.

 

[Unsustainable]

Does his contract start now or next season?

 

[DaveG]

Starts next season, will report to Charlotte for the end of this season though.

Haven't watched him since we drafted him but seemed to have a conservative 2-way game. Can't have enough of those types in the depth chart.

I'd agree with the caveat that the player also has to have a good level of skating and puck skill to go with it. Pesce's a good prospect because he has both those, same as Dumo and before that Borer had. All 3 were defense-first guys but they were also guys that are capable of at least skating and moving the puck when they want/need to.

Guys that struggle with puck skills are where the problem lies to me. You can either be Nic Wallin or Brett Bellemore and still be a player. Or you could be Matej Trojovsky, Igor Knyazev, and countless others that we've drafted to fit that mold and completely bomb out.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Good job of RF getting the two yutes under contract (needaspelcheck and Pesce).

Wait, the two what?

Edit: Damn...Joe beat me to it.

 

[bluedevil58*]

Well.... as far as i can tell the best d men right now are the guys who can skate and play a solid positional game. Does this guy fit that role? Could he in the near future?

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

The best defenseman is Ryan Steve Eddie Murphy

 

[HisIceness]

 

[Unsustainable]

Overpaid