Nine year old phenom...?

[Aarex]

Sounds like a puckhog. He should pass more.

Apparently you didn't read the article

"By all accounts, he's not a puck hog, likes to dish out assists as much as anyone and sticks up for kids who get picked on."

 

[Daily Special]

I think scouts are growing increasingly desperate, almost as much as Winniepeg Sun beat writers are for feel good stories.

 

[Raging Bull]

My little kid is a phenom. He isn't born yet, but I can tell from the ultrasounds that he has immense potential, and most of all, puck poise.

The Fenominal Fetus is his nickname right now.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Hawryluk>Crosby?

 

[mattihp]

Too bad a name like Hawryluk precludes him from ever being a star.

That sounds awfully much like a hockey name though...

"Hawryluk comes flying down the wing, he dekes, GOOOOAL by Hawryluk!"

 

[FlamesFan22]

How fast is a normal ball in base ball at his age? I've got no idea, but I Know that I can't through that fast, but I've got relly weak arms...

The fastest pitcher when I was 10 playing in a 10-12 league threw 70 mph. He was 12, and as he got older he was invited to Division 1 colleges in the States. But he blew out his arm. 70mph as a 9 year old is amazing.

 

[Doomsday Device]

58 MPH as a 9 year old is pretty crazy.

 

[Transported Upstater]

That sounds awfully much like a hockey name though...

"Hawryluk comes flying down the wing, he dekes, GOOOOAL by Hawryluk!"

That does sound like a hockey name.


Can we change the CHL draft rules to allow 9-year olds to be drafted?

 

[gbl1p]

Hawryluk>Crosby?

Crosby is so overrated. Hawryluk sounds like a detriment to his teammates with his attitude. His answers are so generic, he's like a robot. Al Iafrate > Crosby = Hawryluk.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

That sounds awfully much like a hockey name though...

"Hawryluk comes flying down the wing, he dekes, GOOOOAL by Hawryluk!"

Reminds me of Korolyuk from San Jose

 

[EventHorizon]

I wonder how badly Gary Thorne would butcher this name.

 

[Hiishawk]

So, where do you think he would go in this year's draft? After Kessel? Before Frolik and Toews?

 

[Roy G Biv*]

BUST

He's gonna end up being an accountant.

 

[Skroob*]

If the kid is smart, he will stick to baseball.

its just a matter of 20M vs 200M contracts.

 

[Le Golie]

So, where do you think he would go in this year's draft? After Kessel? Before Frolik and Toews?

I overheard McGuire saying 13 of the 29 GM's he's talked to would take him 1st if he was in this draft. That's pretty remarkable.

 

[turnbuckle*]

Maybe he'll follow in Bo, Deion and Brian's foootsteps and become a two-sport player.

Tom Glavine was drafted by the LA Kings in 1984, 102 picks ahead of Luc Robitaille, but he gave up hockey when it became apparent that he was going to be a pro pitcher. Not a bad choice given his pitching career. Kirk McCaskill, another MLB pitcher (former), was a 4th round pick of Winnipeg in Hawerchuck's draft year.

I once wrote an article on a kid in Cobden, Ontario that was just tearing up his league and tournaments, averaging four to five goals per game with ease. He would stickhandle through everybody seemingly at will, and he was certainly drawing raves. He was 11, and he wasn't very big.

He never got very big, and it would prove to be his main detriment, along with a lack of killer instinct as he entered his teen years. He just didn't want it as badly as other kids, and after bouncing around the OHL for a couple of seasons he ended his junior eligibility playing tier ll hockey. Kid's name is Josh Patterson, and it's not the one that played 5 OHL seasons with Peterborough and Erie, even though I can guarantee you that he was a better player thaqn his namesake at 11.

 

[TomWaits]

Many this kid reached puberty faster, I got alot better at hockey when I got pubes.

Too bad you were playing in the 35+ men's league when it happened.

 

[NobodyBeatsTheWiz]

Completely unimpressive. Dustin Rose put up better numbers as a 2 year old.

 

[Sherlock]

How easy is it to get some good steroids in Canada?

 

[Le Golie]

How easy is it to get some good steroids in Canada?

Unless your name starts with 'B' and ends with 'en Johnson', I think it's very difficult.

 

[Avery4Byng*]

Completely unimpressive. Dustin Rose put up better numbers as a 2 year old.

He put up better numbers before birth. Those days were known as BR... "Before Rose".

 

[Transported Upstater]

My little kid is a phenom. He isn't born yet, but I can tell from the ultrasounds that he has immense potential, and most of all, puck poise.

The Fenominal Fetus is his nickname right now.

X 100

 

[BlueJays]

Fastest young pitcher?

The fastest pitcher when I was 10 playing in a 10-12 league threw 70 mph. He was 12, and as he got older he was invited to Division 1 colleges in the States. But he blew out his arm. 70mph as a 9 year old is amazing.

When I was 12 I played in the Little League World series and I played against an AMAZING pitcher. His name was Danny Almonte and his fastball was over 70 mph, he was unbeleivable for our age group.
(Almonte was a left-handed pitcher for the Rolando Paulino All-Stars, a Little League team from the Bronx, New York. The team made it to the 2001 Little League World Series, where Almonte's 70 MPH pitches made him nearly unhittable; on 18 August 2001 he pitched a perfect game against Apopka, Florida, striking out the first 16 batters he faced. His team, made up mostly of Latinos from the Bronx, became media darlings and earned the nickname of the Baby Bronx Bombers. After the tournament a Sports Illustrated reporter found documents in the Dominican Republic suggesting that Almonte was born in 1987, not 1989, making him two years too old to compete in Little League. Investigation by Little League and Dominican officials determined that Almonte's father had registered the boy's birth twice, with the second registration shaving two years off his age. Little League erased Almonte and his team from the tournament records, and Dominican officials said they might file charges against the boy's father, Felipe de Jesus Almonte, for falsifying documents).

I also played hockey against this huge defenceman named Devereaux Heshmatpour when he played for the North York Rangers in the Metro-Toronto Hockey League. That guy was incredibly large for his age too
But I wouldn't think that anyone in hockey would lie about their age like the Almonte family did, would they??

 

[Steve Latin*]

I heard Ken Hitchcock called this kid a whiner and a diver, so it's a de facto fact that he'll bust.

 

[El_Scoobo]

What a worthless article. They probably lifted it from an elementary school newletter.