hoosierpred
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- Apr 4, 2008
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My thoughts:
Defense first:
Couple of the guys seem like very good skaters and puck movers (e.g. Allard and Fabbro) and the new guys seemed fine, but worried about lack of potential for a cycle stopping, board pinning defensemen, and I didn't see much that impressed me regarding hardness or accuracy of point shots (but maybe the drills run were not intended for this purpose).
Forwards:
1) Jachym Kondelik: Just for background, I remember going to previous camps to see Diaby and coming away certain that he would never play in the NHL due to a lack of skating ability and I worried that I was going to see something like this. I was very, very pleasantly surprised. Much better skater than I thought possible at this stage of development. Nice hands with a very hard to follow, accurate hard shot in the partial time that I oberved.
2) Other forwards that caught my eye: Tolvanen looked fine, McMann seemed much better than I expected.
Goalies: There is good potential here I think. The Czech Goalies seemed a step above and Svoboda in particular looked very polished and precise in his movements.
Defense first:
Couple of the guys seem like very good skaters and puck movers (e.g. Allard and Fabbro) and the new guys seemed fine, but worried about lack of potential for a cycle stopping, board pinning defensemen, and I didn't see much that impressed me regarding hardness or accuracy of point shots (but maybe the drills run were not intended for this purpose).
Forwards:
1) Jachym Kondelik: Just for background, I remember going to previous camps to see Diaby and coming away certain that he would never play in the NHL due to a lack of skating ability and I worried that I was going to see something like this. I was very, very pleasantly surprised. Much better skater than I thought possible at this stage of development. Nice hands with a very hard to follow, accurate hard shot in the partial time that I oberved.
2) Other forwards that caught my eye: Tolvanen looked fine, McMann seemed much better than I expected.
Goalies: There is good potential here I think. The Czech Goalies seemed a step above and Svoboda in particular looked very polished and precise in his movements.
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