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Had he actually accomplished anything before he went over though?What the hell happened to the guy? Did he fall through once he got to NA or did his development just stall?
What the hell happened to the guy? Did he fall through once he got to NA or did his development just stall?
Those things are hard to say before he has played against men really.He's good enough to become a professional player for a long time - if not in the NHL, then Sweden or Switzerland at least. Still hope he'll get more than a cop of coffee in the NHL though.
Don't care about kids before they play a game of high-level junior. No one should be seriously talking about someone still in elementary school as a legit NHL prospect. Just way too many variables, from puberty, injuries, and just being a big fish in a small pond. Pettersen is a better prospect, but this is basically Patrik Koys part 2.What the hell happened to the guy? Did he fall through once he got to NA or did his development just stall?
Don't care about kids before they play a game of high-level junior. No one should be seriously talking about someone still in elementary school as a legit NHL prospect. Just way too many variables, from puberty, injuries, and just being a big fish in a small pond. Pettersen is a better prospect, but this is basically Patrik Koys part 2.
Yeah, pretty sure Koys emerged right when there was serious hype around the newfound emergence of elite Slovak players (Gaborik, Chara, Hossa, etc), and people didn't realize how far their development system had fallen.What a disappointment in Shawinigan he was. Cataractes not been lucky with their slovak import picks recently with him and Sam Bucek last year.
He just wasn't that good. He had some impressive highlight packages from when he was playing in Norwegian juniors, but Norwegian juniors are very mediocre and hence easy to dominate. This is why I wouldn't put much weight in a player's junior performance unless it's in a junior league with a good reputation and many comparables(USA, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Russia, etc.). When he got to USA and an actual high level junior league, it was clear that he wasn't nearly as good as he was hyped up to be.What the hell happened to the guy? Did he fall through once he got to NA or did his development just stall?
10 years in the making
I couldnt remember for sure off the top of my head, I think I first read it in 2009. Still crazy10? 12 years this thread started in 2006
Did you save the paper?i wrote his name down