Rants Mulliniks
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Kind of nuts that he leads all of juniors in scoring despite most of them having played 33% more games than he has.
Does he have AHL eligibility next year or stritctly OHL/NHL? I think a year in the AHL could do wonders for him before bringing him up into the NHL.
Unfortunately can't do AHL.
Such a stupid rule
The Nylander/Tavares line has quite a bit of goal scoring ability as well so it's a tough call where he'd slot in long term. On one hand I don't like the idea of having two shoot first players on the same line, but on the other hand it could make the line even deadlier. Right now Matthews and Marner for the most part just ignore Hyman and let him do his own thing. It's effective, but it's predictable because everybody in the building knows Marner is passing to Matthews, not Hyman. Over the last year you can see how teams have cheated more and more towards Matthews to take away his shot any opportunity they get. But you replace Hyman with another threat on that line and Marner would have a field day with setup options.
Hyman has 19 goals in 43 games, that's almost a 40 goal pace ...... and almost all of these goals come at 5v5.
Hyman is a threat .... I don't know what game we both are watching
got to pander to junior hockey man. In a business as big as the nhl bowing down to a junior league is crazy.
Who gives a shit about their profit making, if the ahl would be best for the player then they should be able to do it. They are the ones who are going to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into developing the player they should decide where he goes. 90% of players would end up back in chl still anyway
pretty sure the CHL produces more players for the NHL then any other league, and if it folded it would directly affect the quality of the NHL product. so yes there financial well being is important to the NHL.
Yeah if it folded all those talented prospects will just give up hockey right?
It's 60 teams, in leagues that have been around for decades. You think the NHL should wipe it out because of a few 19 year olds that could handle the AHL instead?
No I don’t you made my point. Some 19 year olds leaving wouldn’t break it. I didn’t say the nhl should break the ohl I said they shouldn’t pander to it forcing their prospects to play in a league they have outgrown. And as I said 90% of prospects would end up going back anyway
Is Europe and option for him next season? I think he's outgrown the OHL.
The option is to let those better players go overseas.
How does that help the CHL? It doesn't.
I think there should be exception status for the AHL, just like there is for CHL, but I'd go with each NHL team getting 1 exception option.
So if the CHL folded over 31 players, at most, it isn't viable except for the fact it's money is made on the backs of the kids.
Why? Because he's scored a lot of goals?
Yeah if it folded all those talented prospects will just give up hockey right?
Well, they would end up playing in lesser leagues, which I think is the problem you had with the system in the first place.
what would be the point of a player scoring 60 goals in a league going back to that league?
This isn't NHL Be A Pro where the computer clicks "sort by" and you get promoted because you're at the top of a list, otherwise our very own Justin Brazeau wouldn't be in the ECHL. Marner spent his D+1 year explicitly focusing on his game without the puck, getting reps in at center, and learning how to PK, to his and the Leafs benefit, and he was a much better junior player than Robertson is. Robertson is supremely talented but he's not a perfect player at a very physically immature 18 years of age.