What are you expecting? Going from junior to the A is a major step, and going from the A to the NHL is another major step. It is hard to be a consistent player in the NHL your first year. Of course there are players that can do it, but the majority can not, and the Coyotes, in my opinion do not have any prospects that can. That's why some of us didn't want to see alot of rookies make the team out of training camp. I think our prospect pool is the best it has ever been, so I see a light at the end of the tunnel.
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What are you expecting? Going from junior to the A is a major step, and going from the A to the NHL is another major step. It is hard to be a consistent player in the NHL your first year. Of course there are players that can do it, but the majority can not, and the Coyotes, in my opinion do not have any prospects that can. That's why some of us didn't want to see alot of rookies make the team out of training camp. I think our prospect pool is the best it has ever been, so I see a light at the end of the tunnel.
Rink Rage
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I would rather call up an AHL vet without a future, and wait for the prospects to get close to mastering the inferior league before coming up to play in the even that much tougher one.
That is the way it's done most times, unless the rookie is as good or better than the vet. Bringing up a kid at this time of year, and in especially in the Coyotes case, I see no harm. Gives them a little better idea of his progression, and you never know, maybe this player could be involved in a trade.
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I don't know why there is any controversy about bringing up Hank. It seems to be following the custom many teams have of bringing up a kid for short stay to give him a taste of what its like in the NHL, then later a longer look, and finally up for good.
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Walsh: In the cold, austere Scandanavian country where a boy named Ulf became a man, one can imagine a gruff, hard-bitten father with calloused hands rough from hard work gently placing those hands on his son's face and saying, lovingly, "Stora ögonblick kommer från stora möjligheter, Ulf." From moments such as these, determination flows. A determination that is absorbed into every corpuscle, every tissue, every piece of marrow or gristle that buttresses the human form... that creates the hockey player. And it is THIS DAY... this cold, austere day in the Big Apple, a city whose determination flowed from a different fountain that sprang from the ruins of a national tragedy... this day that is so reminiscent of that far-off land called Sweden... where determination becomes realized opportunity for one of the sons of Ulf... a young man named Henrik. I'm Todd Walsh, and it's the first intermission, and I'm here with Henrik Samuelsson, who threw his first body check in the National Hockey League only a handful of minutes ago. Tell me, Henrik, you have been called upon by heroes - ICONS - of the sport, from one of hockey's great coaches in Dave Tippett to a general manager who made his own name here in Madison Square Garden with the name "Donnie" sewn to his blue shirt, to bring a spark to a lineup that is under siege. You want to bring that spark to this assemblage of hockey brotherhood, do you not?
Samuelsson: Um. Yeah. I just took the body.
Matias Maccete
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wow, post of the season I think.Reminds me of the great post when tie domi scored a shootout goal in the preseason for Toronto.
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It probably says something bad about me that I can so easily and swiftly switch into Walshspeak.
Wouldn't it be a real brain-smasher if I actually ended up being Todd Walsh?
Oh, and speaking of The Velvet Frog:
Wouldn't it be a real brain-smasher if I actually ended up being Todd Walsh?
Oh, and speaking of The Velvet Frog:
roadrunner
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Great job, really!
Rink Rage
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Samuelsson is suppose to come in here and solve everything? There's no way he actually believes that.
roadrunner
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It probably says something bad about me that I can so easily and swiftly switch into Walshspeak.
Wouldn't it be a real brain-smasher if I actually ended up being Todd Walsh?
Oh, and speaking of The Velvet Frog:
I don't totally believe DM here. Also, LOL at the Velvet Frog! Wait, is that Don or Todd?
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Hmm, good question. Probably Todd, because you can just picture him scat-singing an interview.
I think its aimed to kick the vets into gear too.
"Hey you fu**ers arn't scoring, so we have to promote a 20 year old from the A who we think can do better than you"
"Hey you fu**ers arn't scoring, so we have to promote a 20 year old from the A who we think can do better than you"
zerekstar
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They have given a lot of the guys from Portland some games. I just think it's Hank's turn. If he did not get an opportunity, I think that would be considered a snub.
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ck26
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We "need scoring?" For what purpose?
At what point do we stop trying to dump water overboard from the Titanic with buckets and abandon ship? The longer we wait, the less time we have to swim away and the more likely we are to get sucked into the vortex and the more likely we are to end up at the bottom of the North Atlantic.
At what point do we stop trying to dump water overboard from the Titanic with buckets and abandon ship? The longer we wait, the less time we have to swim away and the more likely we are to get sucked into the vortex and the more likely we are to end up at the bottom of the North Atlantic.
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