Spooner is around the same weight atm, and he's ready for a NHL spot. I don't think DP has to go crazy. But maybe gaining 5-10 pounds before sept wouldn't be so bad. He'd still be able to be agile. He's so hyper, that I hope the brass would tell him not to go crazy. I could totally see him going into beast mode to make them happy. He seems really determined to make the team happy and I love that.
But IA, let's see how he does in training camp before we start speculating about this and that. What I do know is that he has been really impressive and looks like a steal. He's one to watch come sept, and I'd be lying if I said I'm not excited about the possibility of him making the team.
His play and personality is infectous. I hope they film him meeting DK for the first time.
I believe Krejci will have been traded by then
....actually the Krejci thread will be changed over how Krejci signing ruins the team and now Soderberg cant be signed. And then when Soderberg is signed it will be Hamilton....or we cant sign FA....Krejci will be blamed though count on it. The Whack-a-Krejci group will appear at the first sign of a problem or one of his slumps....always starting with "I love (or like) Krejci bhhhhhuttttt......"
as for Pastrnak the climate as the radio commercials say about other stuff has never been better for him to play in this league. Three years ago he would be targeted going across the middle- some of his zigs and zags and drop passes and dispsy do's leave him more open than a duck taking off in an open field amid a group of hunters.
Today? I like him going back to the SEL, they drive 55 over there, but they drive safe and smart. He will get the fundamentals down, learn the right way to play. Me- I would not send him to the AHL, he would be run from behind, targeted, and the skill level is much more conducive in the SEL. I go to easily double digit AHL games and I've seen the crap that goes on- trust me, Suave was very good until he got a couple of bad concussions and he never looked the same.
I hear he is deceptively strong but needs to get the natural maturation of strength that comes with the normal growth process supplemented by training.
Let him play a game with DK and Lucic and let everyone dream of things to come, but to me it would be epic mistake if he goes to AHL and probably Boston. I have visions of him getting hammered- and Don Sweeney even said it already he will have his helmet on sideways more than once.
Be excited, very excited, but try and be patient.
Oh, and Spooner is not some skinny runt- he's pretty strong, and he likes to lift weights maybe not as much as others, but he does. I saw him a few times last year away from rink and I was somewhat surprised and impressed- he's more solid than you think and sporting 8.8% body fat- the Bruins want you under 10% and RS was at that and with the aging his body is starting to get man strength and the gym stuff as well
