Mike1167
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Sorry, that posted twice for some reason
Yeah, he seemed like he kind of dialed it back a little bit yesterday. Not that he was lazy or anything, but he was visibly less intense than the day before. I think fatigue is starting to set in, by design as the coaching staff is pushing the players to find their limits and work on them.
One thing I thought was interesting, is that they consistently use Svechnikov as the “guinea pig” when they want someone to walk through an exercise for the group. Clearly being placed in the leadership role among his peers. Also, as noted elsewhere, he’s being paired with Necas during drills and the two consistently hang together on the ice. They did a self-directed one timer drill after practice ended and most players had left.
As far as his level of play, he consistently beats these defenders in ways that we don’t see from the other players present (including Necas). One play you see him turnstile a defender with pure speed, next play he skates right through an attempted check, next he puts the puck through traffic and finds it on the other side. He makes it look easy, while other guys are getting the puck swatted away or dangling themselves into a corner.
Probably the biggest thing to me, is he consistently pushes defenders out of his way to establish himself in front of the net. Not just the fact that he CAN do that, which for example a Skinner or Aho would struggle to do. But that he has a strong inclination to just bull his way to the crease and look for a dirty goal. He plays a very NHL-style game and looks to me like he’s already been coached on how to avoid getting contained for any sustained period of time.
Also, those one-timers looked damn good.
That kid didn't do himself any favors today. Some really poor decisions/turnovers.Zimmer just scored with a nice shot using the dman as a screen. I think he may have scored another previously?
Jarry is not that good though. He's not much better than Nedeljkovic if at all. If he's coming back in a trade with Pittsburgh he better be the the 3rd or 4th most valuable piece.
He didn't look bad to me either, most of the issues he had were when he was getting caught by great plays from Fox. Frankly the plays he set up even prime Hasek would have had a hard time stopping.So Helvig didn't look any good? I'm intrigued by him as he was the 2nd best goalie in the OHL last year statistically.
9 years of missed playoffs is a cold dark place. Changes a man.
i have to admit though, it was great seeing eetu luostarinen showing off some development. that's way too high of a pick to miss on entirely. hopefully he's prepped for a breakout year.
Having been Drafted at under 20 from outside NA, the Canes keep his rights for four years, so until June 1st, 2021. He's 20 now as far as the ELC is concerned, so there's no Slide possibility. He's signed to KalPa in SML until 19/20, so signing him on NHL SPC on the duration would mean paying a ~$220k transfer fee.
= No hurry.
So Helvig didn't look any good? I'm intrigued by him as he was the 2nd best goalie in the OHL last year statistically.
I believe he's implying they'd "miss" in the sense of Luostarinen being a poor player or bust relative to his 2nd round expectations....not that the Canes would miss out on getting him under contract.
There was much hand-wringing over his selection by HFCanes for whatever reason. He was a fine selection though...never understood the concern...even when he got cut from the Finnish WJC team.
It's easy to understand. The 2nd round is still a round where people have strong opinions about prospects because there is still a lot of info about guys into the 2nd. Like I mentioned before the draft though, we rarely pick those guys we on the message board are targeting. People still lose their minds though.
That, and Eetu has shown nothing to date which suggests he should have been a 2nd rounder rather than a 3rd or 4th rounder. Swinging and missing at that point in our rebuild would be really unfortunate and seemingly an unforced error.
McKenzie had him as a 2nd rounder in his final ranking prior to the 2017 draft.
This past season he saw time as the number 1 center in Liiga.
His name is Kooch now, and you have no say in it. Sorry.
We were right on the white goal line. (The didn't change between periods.) He was parterned with Helvig. Two 15m periods, first 4v4, second 3v3, and then the shootout. Helvig would start the periods and then Kooch would come in around Midway through.
He flat outplayed Helvig, I thought, but no one was particularly great.
Svech only tried the fancy shootout shot because Eliot actually scored with that shot during the game. I don't know how good Eliot actually is, but he's got cojones to try that shot in a game.
I texted him last night and he responded with "hahahaha" when I told him that his nickname is "Kooch" now. Sounds to me like he likes it. His mom thought it was pretty cool too!
"They're not booing, they're saying Koooooooooooch!"