So did Victor Mete.......he was an Attacker wasn't he.....Nick Suzuki scored his first NHL goal last night in a 4-0 Habs win over the Wild.
So did Victor Mete.......he was an Attacker wasn't he.....
Depends on how you spin it, if you consider a draft prospect who never reported to the team a player for that organization then yes.
Personally the minute he chose not to report and back management in to a corner looking for a trade which ended in London.
Then I'd say no he wasn't, he was more an asset to a deal than a piece in the organization and looking at where the team is now and how the cards fell after that moment in time I'd say the Attack had won that deal time and time again.
Looking at the big picture now and how it played out, here's how I see it.
Management drafted Mete who refused to report to the team in turn setting the base for management to draft Markus Phillips and Nick Suzuki who would go on to win the league in Guelph and give the team Barret Kirwin, Mark Woolley today?
Looking at it from the outside in by my count we got 4 players plus picks of the time for one defective player who refused to report. All in all I think it was a win in managements books.
Mete decision had absolutely nothing to do with Nick SuZuki being drafted
I beg to differ if his decision to refuse to report to Owen Sound never happened then Owen Sound wouldn't have had 2 draft selections in the 1st round that season and in turn management may not have had a 2nd chance to pick up Nick with the 2nd 1st round selection.
So I'd say that Mete not reporting played a fairly significant part in Suzuki being drafted by Owen Sound, at the time it gave the scouts and management a chance to pick 2 quality players in the first round of that draft where if Mete did report he may have shown up to camp and walked before main camp and managment would've got nothing for him but what the Knights traded in picks and not the compensation pick awarded by the league for a defective player who refused to report.
Ranked 6th.....without a single player having enough points to crack the top 20.The boys are now ranked 6th in the CHL keep it goin fellas!
Ranked 6th.....without a single player having enough points to crack the top 20.
Great goaltender.
Great Defence
Great team effort!
As I look closer at the stats I see that the highest ranked point getter for the Attack is Dudas at 47th.Ranked 6th.....without a single player having enough points to crack the top 20.
Great goaltender.
Great Defence
Great team effort!