Prospect Info: Nick Paul
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Sens92
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He's no 3 PPG McDavid, but he looks great so far this year. 
Big body, good skater and strong on the puck. Definitely fits into the mold of this team.
Big body, good skater and strong on the puck. Definitely fits into the mold of this team.
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He's no 3 PPG McDavid, but he looks great so far this year.
3 goals is good enough
1 goal behind mcdavid overall
ReginKarlssonLehner
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LW eh? I wonder why they don't have him at center? Either way I believe he's a huge peice if this team going forward.
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He's no 3 PPG McDavid, but he looks great so far this year.
He almost has as many goal as McDavid
BondraTime
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He is nowhere near a lock to make the team, even with his strong start.
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He also hasn't regressed in the slightest since the summer dev camp, and he was one of the standouts there.
He has a very, very good chance to make it if he continues with his strong play.
BondraTime
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He certainly hasn't. He has been fantastic this year, as have ~20 other guys this season.
We all were planning on watching Ceci and Puempel as well. There seems to be no method to Hockey Canada's madness sometimes. Paul is playing better than those guys were no doubt, but if there is one thing that we should have learned over the last 10 years, the hype train many of us create for our prospect is huge, and we almost always put the wagon before the horse.
I think Paul will end up on the team as well if he keeps it up, but he is certainly not a lock to be there.
Someone who already knows how to play strong team defense as a winger... AND scores goals in that Butler system... AND has the size/speed package he has... they'd be crazy to keep him off.
Sadly though, I agree with the poster that said he's not a lock for the team. I get the feeling these rosters are 90% filled before the summer camp and only exceptional events change minds.
Sadly though, I agree with the poster that said he's not a lock for the team. I get the feeling these rosters are 90% filled before the summer camp and only exceptional events change minds.
BondraTime
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I think Paul will be there in the end, but he will have played his way on. He is not one of the 15 guys we can say will be there for sure, he will have earned his right to wear the jersey.
He is playing his way on as an unexpected low pick, Ceci and Puempel played their way off as expected high picks.
Not enough can be said about the points in Brampton/North Bay system. Have to go back to Cody Hodgson 6-7 years ago to see a point producer, Matt Duchene notwithstanding.
I look at the Spezza trade as a positive and I can't wait to see who we get with the extra 2nd Round Pick
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Hockey Canada is incapable of putting together a good team for the WJC
It's all politics now that the tournament has gotten to be popular
ChocolateLeclaire
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Bingo.
For the last 5 years, they've become the Kevin Lowe Management Team. Believing they know better than everyone else and taking players based on favorites rather than actual skill.
Every year, these morons find new ways of messing up the roster. Last year, it was the plugs they chose as goalies.
Samsquanch
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He's not a lock by any means, but I think most if us can at least agree that Paul's chance of making it seems greater than the chance of him being cut, at this point in time.
Not only that, but along with his good start and the impression he's made on them so far, he fitts the exact mold of guys that they like to bring along.
I'll be very surprised if he doesn't make it personally.
He seems at the point where mark stone was the year he made it.
A later round pick impressing at NHL camp and summer WJC camp and taking that into the season.
It didn't take long until the eval camp for it to seem as though stone went into camp as a guy they had on the roster. Could easily be the case with Paul as well.
A later round pick impressing at NHL camp and summer WJC camp and taking that into the season.
It didn't take long until the eval camp for it to seem as though stone went into camp as a guy they had on the roster. Could easily be the case with Paul as well.
I don't understand the hockey canada hate....Canada has dominated this tournament for a solid stretch then hit a bit of a bump. There haven't been that many great canadian goalies which have come through and you can see they have tried to add the best players avaliable but remember they are making a team and there are just so many players with similar skill sets and you can't take them all
I remember people being angry that they didn't take younger guys who were better in the CHL then they took Mckinnon and he was okay but not dominant
I remember people being angry that they didn't take younger guys who were better in the CHL then they took Mckinnon and he was okay but not dominant
