Prospect Info: CHL, NCAA and European 2018-19 Prospects Thread

[Brodeur]

Hopefully Walsh can use it in a positive sense and have a "prove them wrong" mentality. Guys like Alex Debrincat and Alex Tuch didn't make the cut as 19 year olds either. Sometimes the D selections can be a bit specialized in terms of PP/PK specialists, so Severson got squeezed out in 2013 while guys like Derrick Pouliot, Griffin Reinhart, and Chris Bigras made Team Canada.

Should be an interesting tournament. It's lacking some star power compared to other years, so the field seems a little bit more wide open.

 

[Triumph]

Making or not making the WJCs is not a huge deal - the only unfortunate part is that we don't get to see him in those games. WJC selection is done by the same dumb process that selects Olympic teams - routinely leaving off better players in favor of people who play the roles they want.

He thought it was COL. Not everyone follows prospects that closely. Aside from my teams and the big ones, I couldn't really tell you where most of the 1st rounders went last draft either.

I've never seen you here. We're all going to keep telling you that he knew exactly who drafted him and pretended he didn't.

 

[Lou is God]

Wait, Walsh didn't even get invited to tryout? That is very odd, how is a player that was one of the final cuts not even allowed a shot at making the team? I bet there is politics involved.

 

[My3Sons]

Wait, Walsh didn't even get invited to tryout? That is very odd, how is a player that was one of the final cuts not even allowed a shot at making the team? I bet there is politics involved.

Last year he gave an on air interview and was cut very soon after it. I wonder if he rubbed the brass as entitled in some fashion? It seemed weird last year and it seems weird to me this year. Hopefully he learns from this and it motivates him to focus harder on his deficiencies

 

[OmNomNom]

sidenote, i love mike morreale for getting this kind of stuff. something other beat writers should aspire, if they intend to move up the ladder

 

[Goptor]

What does that even mean? They need a balanced roster and cannot go with a team full of guys that can shoot and pass the puck?

The US hockey committee has always been crap so i'm not surprised at all with this response.

 

[OmNomNom]

What does that even mean? They need a balanced roster and cannot go with a team full of guys that can shoot and pass the puck?

The US hockey committee has always been full of crap so i'm not surprised at all with this response.

fixed

sounds like a bullshit excuse. wish NCAA had TOI stats - couldn't find anything to back his argument up

maybe johnny boy is still mad we didn't win him a cup in '01

 

[OmNomNom]

A Philly prospect beat him out.
Wonderful

to be fair to this kid, he's 6'-3", 198, and only 3 months younger than walsh, despite the draft year difference

i change my mind. there seems to be an argument for size, esp to shut down shiftier attackers

 

[Billdo]

What does that even mean? They need a balanced roster and cannot go with a team full of guys that can shoot and pass the puck?

The US hockey committee has always been crap so i'm not surprised at all with this response.

It means he's not as good as the players selected above him at actually playing defense and they wanted to find a more balanced group instead of guys who are too one dimensional.

 

[Triumph]

There's certainly an argument to be made for balancing a WJC roster slightly - if no one the US takes regularly kills penalties, fine, they've probably made some bad choices. But there's also an argument for just selecting the most talented guys (some of whom almost certainly kill penalties) and going with that.

 

[Nubmer6]

 

[HischierSeDgewOrk]

Ty Smith 2 assist last night. 39 points in 26 games. 1.5 ppg. Bust is slowing down.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Final box score

Hockey vs Penn State on 12/7/2018 - Box Score - UND Athletics

 

[bodda]

Boqvist baby!

 

[Csonked Out]

Ty Smith 2 assist last night. 39 points in 26 games. 1.5 ppg. Bust is slowing down.

23 of them being even strength points too.

 

[Sun God Nika]

Hoelscher scored a f***ing beauty

 

[Ol Dirty Bstrd]

Boqvist baby!

Looks like a Johansson clone (that can shoot)

 

[NjDevsRR]

Boqvist baby!

Sex.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Looks like a Johansson clone (that can shoot)

Looked like Aho there

 

[OmNomNom]

hellickson finished the game with 1g2a

 

[PKs Broken Stick]

I'm quite excited for boqvist. hope he pans out.

 

[Devils Dominion]

hellickson finished the game with 1g2a

ND plays PSU again tonight

 

[Zippy316]

Boqvist baby!

He's going to be the Johansson replacement either next year or the following year.

Kid is good.

 

[Better Call Sal]

 

[bodda]

Hoelscher scored a ****ing beauty

holy shit