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Bruins prospect Mason Lohrei is on pace for NHL impact: 'I didn't know he was going to become special'
Some blurbs from the Flute Man's article in the Athletic on Lohrei for those of you who don't subscribe, appears to be some reason for excitement here hopefully:
"His stay with the Buckeyes may not last long. It is a nice timeline for the Bruins’ 2020 second-round selection. Lohrei is arguably the organization’s brightest amateur prospect.
“I knew he was going to be good. I didn’t know he was going to become special,” Mikesch said. “That’s what he’s kind of become now. He’s just a different defenseman than you get to see very often these days with his size, skating and offensive instincts.”
It was around February or March 2020 when the gangly Lohrei’s parts started to align more neatly. He wasn’t repeating mistakes. Pucks stuck to his stick instead of bobbling onto opponents’ blades. Lohrei became an offensive play-driver while defending against top players.
“That’s where I give the Boston Bruins’ scouting staff huge credit,” Mikesch said. “Our season, all of a sudden, gets stopped because of COVID. But they had seen enough of that transition already that they were like, ‘There’s something big-time going on here.’ ”
From what Mikesch could gather, the Bruins and Kings were hottest for Lohrei in the 2020 draft. Boston’s first pick was in the second round as the club had wheeled its first-rounder to Anaheim in the Ondrej Kase trade.
“No offense to the NHL Network people that were covering it, but they had no idea who Mason Lohrei was,” Mikesch said. “It was hysterical. We were laughing, because we were like, ‘They have no idea.’ But they wouldn’t have known. Because he didn’t get to go on a great playoff run with us or do something special like he would have done had we finished out that season. Here’s this unknown kid. ‘What is Boston doing?’ Well, Boston did a great job, along with a couple other teams, that really thought that highly of him.”
“I’m not going to even pretend I saw Mason, in the two years we had him, going as far as he did,” Mikesch said. “He went from being a pro prospect to a future NHLer. It changed that much.”"
Some blurbs from the Flute Man's article in the Athletic on Lohrei for those of you who don't subscribe, appears to be some reason for excitement here hopefully:
"His stay with the Buckeyes may not last long. It is a nice timeline for the Bruins’ 2020 second-round selection. Lohrei is arguably the organization’s brightest amateur prospect.
“I knew he was going to be good. I didn’t know he was going to become special,” Mikesch said. “That’s what he’s kind of become now. He’s just a different defenseman than you get to see very often these days with his size, skating and offensive instincts.”
It was around February or March 2020 when the gangly Lohrei’s parts started to align more neatly. He wasn’t repeating mistakes. Pucks stuck to his stick instead of bobbling onto opponents’ blades. Lohrei became an offensive play-driver while defending against top players.
“That’s where I give the Boston Bruins’ scouting staff huge credit,” Mikesch said. “Our season, all of a sudden, gets stopped because of COVID. But they had seen enough of that transition already that they were like, ‘There’s something big-time going on here.’ ”
From what Mikesch could gather, the Bruins and Kings were hottest for Lohrei in the 2020 draft. Boston’s first pick was in the second round as the club had wheeled its first-rounder to Anaheim in the Ondrej Kase trade.
“No offense to the NHL Network people that were covering it, but they had no idea who Mason Lohrei was,” Mikesch said. “It was hysterical. We were laughing, because we were like, ‘They have no idea.’ But they wouldn’t have known. Because he didn’t get to go on a great playoff run with us or do something special like he would have done had we finished out that season. Here’s this unknown kid. ‘What is Boston doing?’ Well, Boston did a great job, along with a couple other teams, that really thought that highly of him.”
“I’m not going to even pretend I saw Mason, in the two years we had him, going as far as he did,” Mikesch said. “He went from being a pro prospect to a future NHLer. It changed that much.”"
