Confirmed with Link: Hurricanes Sign 2012 5th Round Pick Brendan Woods

[What the Faulk]

http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/201...urricanes-brendan-woods-early-departures-wcha

Woods, who calls Yorba Linda, Calif., home now with his father, Bob, an assistant coach with the Anaheim Ducks, played a large role for the Badgers in their second-half surge to the Broadmoor Trophy as WCHA tournament champions. Nine of Woods' 12 points came in Wisconsin's final 16 contests.

The 20-year-old came to Madison with good size and big upside and has turned himself into a quality player. A two-way player, Woods can handle duties at both the center position and wing. Woods excelled as a face-off man this past season, winning .569 percent of his draws, which led the team.

That's now two picks from 2012 that have signed already. Sounds like JR is planning for at least a turnover in Charlotte after this year.

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[Vagrant]

I am still entirely baffled not only by this pick, but why we would want him to skip out on two years of development at Wisconsin to play professional hockey at 20 when he can't even score at the NCAA level. I know that not all prospects are meant to be scorers, but what the hell is this? 10 goals in 75 career games.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

.... but what the hell is this? 10 goals in 75 career games.

THIS....is Hurricanes hockey!

 

[dammit100]

winning .569 percent of his draws,

holy ****, he's winning less than 6 out of 1000 draws!

 

[tomdundo]

holy ****, he's winning less than 6 out of 1000 draws!

That's when you refer back to the post above yours for answers.

 

[garnetpalmetto]

That's when you refer back to the post above yours for answers.

Or refer the blogger to how to properly write out statistics. Jeez, even this liberal arts major knows that should be properly expressed as 56.9 percent.

 

[bleedgreen]

Apparently desperate for cheap help. Maybe building the plugger depth in Charlotte?

 

[tomdundo]

Or refer the blogger to how to properly write out statistics. Jeez, even this liberal arts major knows that should be properly expressed as 56.9 percent.

That's a lie. Everybody knows that liberal arts majors know nothing.

 

[cptjeff]

Apparently desperate for cheap help. Maybe building the plugger depth in Charlotte?

Maybe he's just a defensive prospect expected to play most of his career in the minors?

Not every role player signing is an outrage, folks. If this guy is good at banging bodies and playing sound defense, that too is a valuable skill in the NHL, it's not all about scoring. Right now our depth forwards can't score and can't play defense. They're nowhere. Playing great D and not scoring is an improvement over playing mediocre D and not scoring, isn't it?

 

[cptjeff]

I am still entirely baffled not only by this pick, but why we would want him to skip out on two years of development at Wisconsin to play professional hockey at 20 when he can't even score at the NCAA level. I know that not all prospects are meant to be scorers, but what the hell is this? 10 goals in 75 career games.

Maybe, just maybe, they're not expecting every prospect to be a scorer? Role players have to come from somewhere too, and you don't really care if a guy who you want to play like Tim Wallace scores a whole lot. If he's already good enough to play in the pros doing what you want him to do, why not move him to the pros for a higher level of competition?

 

[StormCast]

Maybe, just maybe, they're not expecting every prospect to be a scorer? Role players have to come from somewhere too, and you don't really care if a guy who you want to play like Tim Wallace scores a whole lot. If he's already good enough to play in the pros doing what you want him to do, why not move him to the pros for a higher level of competition?

And you never know how some guys will develop.

I'm not suggesting in the least that he will be another Sami Pahlsson but he was a later round pick who didn't score much but played great D and could win draws. He also was a Selke finalist playing a key role on the Ducks' checking line while scoring only about 25 points or so.

 

[Anton Babchuk]

Maybe, just maybe, they're not expecting every prospect to be a scorer? Role players have to come from somewhere too, and you don't really care if a guy who you want to play like Tim Wallace scores a whole lot. If he's already good enough to play in the pros doing what you want him to do, why not move him to the pros for a higher level of competition?

Why would you draft a guy who you want to play like Tim Wallace when you can sign such a player for nothing every offseason? Tim Wallace required a $105,000 commitment for his services. Obviously such talentless players are in high demand.

This was a terrible pick as usual. A mediocre grinder who was passed over in two drafts that we had to have. It's the exact same story with Matt Kennedy, who was so awful that they traded him a few months into his first pro season because they didn't want to pay the rest of his signing bonus.

Yeah, not every prospect has to be a scorer, but it would be nice if some them were. Especially when you trade your 1st round pick, spend your 2nd round pick on a small energy player, two picks on a defenseman and another on a goalie in the same draft.

About two prospects worth a damn in the entire organization and people are still defending this organization's elite ability to toss away picks on garbage. We've already traded our 4th and 7th this year for 20 games of waiver fodder players who do nothing. I'm excited to see how they can screw up the rest of the draft.

 

[DaveG]

Holy overreaction here. Guy was a 5th round pick. Who cares if he isn't an offensive dynamo, if the guy can contribute even as a physical defensive role player he's a few steps ahead of the average 5th round pick.

 

[bleedgreen]

Maybe he's just a defensive prospect expected to play most of his career in the minors?

Not every role player signing is an outrage, folks. If this guy is good at banging bodies and playing sound defense, that too is a valuable skill in the NHL, it's not all about scoring. Right now our depth forwards can't score and can't play defense. They're nowhere. Playing great D and not scoring is an improvement over playing mediocre D and not scoring, isn't it?

I wasn't outraged. I agree with what you're saying.

 

[QuitStaaling]

Cup please.

 

[TheBigKahuna]

The Checkers are scouting Mecklenburg County beer league games for injury replacement players, so this is a slight improvement!

 

[Razputyn]

This was a terrible pick as usual. A mediocre grinder who was passed over in two drafts that we had to have. It's the exact same story with Matt Kennedy, who was so awful that they traded him a few months into his first pro season because they didn't want to pay the rest of his signing bonus.

About two prospects worth a damn in the entire organization and people are still defending this organization's elite ability to toss away picks on garbage. We've already traded our 4th and 7th this year for 20 games of waiver fodder players who do nothing. I'm excited to see how they can screw up the rest of the draft.

Holy overreaction here. Guy was a 5th round pick. Who cares if he isn't an offensive dynamo, if the guy can contribute even as a physical defensive role player he's a few steps ahead of the average 5th round pick.

Yep.

 

[NorthStar4Canes]

Everyone knows if a player isn't one of those hockey rarities...the smurfy, scoring-dangler afraid of contact....then they obviously now-and-forever will be dime-a-dozen grinder garbage.