News Article: NCAA 2014 UFA Class

[radicalcenter]

The players who interest me the most are:

Daniel O'donoghue
Oleg Yevenko
Christian Folin

Yevenko, Why? because he's big lol?

He's got 1G and 4A in 96 games, that's bad

 

[hototogisu]

They do?

Here are the top free agent signings from last year:

http://unitedstatesofhockey.com/2013/03/20/nhl-college-free-agent-tracker-updated-march-20/

Only DeKeyser is a regular in the NHL.

Also found this article, and it highlights the ones who did make the NHL (ignoring the dozens who didn't), and it's not exactly a murderers row of free talent.

http://eyeonthesens.com/2012/08/10/free-agent-college-signings-in-the-post-lockout-nhl/

Signing NCAA prospects is a nice swing in the dark, and on a very rare occasion it works out well, but generally you're just signing AHL depth.

I forgot about Antoine Laganiere, lots of bellyaching around here when the Habs missed out on him. 15 points in 62 AHL games so far this year...

 

[Analyzer*]

The players who interest me the most are:

Daniel O'donoghue
Oleg Yevenko
Christian Folin

Based on stats, that Daniel O'Donoghue guy looks intriguing. Unlike the guy who got the PTO, Daniel is continually improved instead of an explosion out of nowhere.

 

[BigHabs]

Yevenko, Why? because he's big lol?

He's got 1G and 4A in 96 games, that's bad

He's a defensive dman. I don't care about how much he produce offensively. He is a project dman that could turn out to be a solid big dman. I say offer if a deal.

 

[Treb]

Based on stats, that Daniel O'Donoghue guy looks intriguing. Unlike the guy who got the PTO, Daniel is continually improved instead of an explosion out of nowhere.

Nick Sorkin was also close to 1 ppg in his 2nd year, so not exactly from nowhere.

 

[Whitesnake]

I forgot about Antoine Laganiere, lots of bellyaching around here when the Habs missed out on him. 15 points in 62 AHL games so far this year...

Just did a search to see if I was amongst the "bellyachers".....Only things I've said was:

- Was amongst my HM in the 7th round for 2008 or this...

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showpost.php?p=61255881&postcount=143

To be honest....I haven't seen him play that much. So I'm not going to give an opinion on a guy I might have seen play once. Based on stats....always a red flag to see a guy having having either similar stats or even less stats as a senior which he ends up having. Though 2 things could be the reasons why....a weaker team this time around. Or changing his role, trying to make him more responsible defensively and all. But you would have to rely to Montreal for that. He probably saw him play more often than I did.

So I'm happy to report that I was never bellyaching him....