Prospect Info: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc. [Post draft 2020]

[IronMarshal]

Well I would have to assume that if you are a citizen of the Home nations, that you would have studied this amazing event during your history classes or something like that....here in Canada I had never heard of it until I was much older and decided to do my own reading on this subject....The UK certainly has many moments of incredible history......

I am not a citizen of the UK, my wife is English, but I am a Yank. My paternal grandfather is from Hamilton, Ontario though.
I do love history though and the Wars of the Roses were incredible.

 

[Larry44]

I am not a citizen of the UK, my wife is English, but I am a Yank. My paternal grandfather is from Hamilton, Ontario though.
I do love history though and the Wars of the Roses were incredible.

Cheers from one HammerBoy to another!

 

[Devonator]

I am not a citizen of the UK, my wife is English, but I am a Yank. My paternal grandfather is from Hamilton, Ontario though.
I do love history though and the Wars of the Roses were incredible.

Okay...cool......yes our British ancestors have many episodes of fascinating history....The War of Roses just being one of those stories....

 

[Maurice of Orange]

What about the Scottish they are the lowest of the low.

 

[IronMarshal]

What about the Scottish they are the lowest of the low.

I have lots of Scottish ancestry. That probably explains me being be LOL.

 

[Appleyard]

If it were not for the weather Scotland would be high on my places to live list.

I think the best of the 4 "Home Nations" in a lot of ways.

Glasgow and Edinburgh are awesome places. And some of the most amazing scenery in the world.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Pain.

 

[wasup]

I watched both games back-to-back Ted. I got flashbacks to last year and dozed off a couple times.

Say what ya want ND won both games . Offence is entertaining but Defense wins games . It,s why i like NHL regular season more than playoffs the regular season play is more entertaining .

 

[FLYguy3911]

Say what ya want ND won both games . Offence is entertaining but Defense wins games . It,s why i like NHL regular season more than playoffs the regular season play is more entertaining .

You still have to score more goals than the other team unless that changed recently.

Notre Dame is the older team with more experience so it’s not really surprising they got the better of the youngest team in the Big Ten. It was just boring hockey. That was the only way they were going to win and they did. Most college games are boring tbh but Michigan was playing at a breakneck pace the first two weeks that was a welcomed change. I think Penn State will let them play at that tempo again.

 

[TB87]

Pain.

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[wasup]

You still have to score more goals than the other team unless that changed recently.

Norte Dame is the older team with more experience so it’s not really surprising they got the better of the youngest team in the Big Ten. It was just boring hockey. That was the only way they were going to win and they did. Most college games are boring tbh but Michigan was playing at a breakneck pace the first two weeks that was a welcomed change. I think Penn State will let them play at that tempo again.

Yup , Penn State has no clue to how to play defense and has not since they entered 4/5 years ago . They would just try to outscore 9-7 and then when they got to teams that had reasonable offence and good defensive structure they were done , aka Ohio and ND . Now i did not like the style Ohio and ND played but they won with it .
Guys on here just pee themselves with offense but if you want to win in playoffs you better be able to defend and defend well . Winning a lot of times is boring

 

[deadhead]

In college, defense works even better than the pros b/c when you play a young, talented team full of freshman and sophomores that will go pro, they are going to lack the structure and discipline of less talented but more experienced and better coached teams and get frustrated and make mistakes.

 

[deadhead]

How good has Destroyer been so far - Halifax scoring:

Desnoyers 16g 12-13 25 +8; PP 2-3 5 SH 1-0 1, ES 9-10 19 [leads the league in ES scoring]
L'Heureux 12g 7-6 13 -3; PP 1-1 2; ES 6-5 11
Robert Orr 15g 6-7 13 +5; PP 2-0 0; SH 0-1 1; ES 4-6 10
Markus Vidicek 16g 5-8 13 +2; PP 1-3 4, ES 4-7 11
James Swan 16g 5-6 11 +1; PP 1-0 1, ES 4-6 10
Jordan Dumais 13g 4-7 11 -6; PP 2-2 4, ES 2-5 7

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Unsurprisingly York & Brink there.

I honestly had to look Cam McDonald up. Undrafted 19 year old who plays at Providence (their head coach is coaching Team USA this go around).

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Yup , Penn State has no clue to how to play defense and has not since they entered 4/5 years ago . They would just try to outscore 9-7 and then when they got to teams that had reasonable offence and good defensive structure they were done , aka Ohio and ND . Now i did not like the style Ohio and ND played but they won with it .
Guys on here just pee themselves with offense but if you want to win in playoffs you better be able to defend and defend well . Winning a lot of times is boring

If you want to win you better be able to do everything well.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

Unsurprisingly York & Brink there.

I honestly had to look Cam McDonald up. Undrafted 19 year old who plays at Providence (their head coach is coaching Team USA this go around).

Luckily the HC is an anointed professional and thus won't be tainted by his personal feelings towards a player and will play everybody purely on their ability to help the team.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I honestly had to look Cam McDonald up. Undrafted 19 year old who plays at Providence (their head coach is coaching Team USA this go around).

Over Fensore who was easily the second best '01 for the USNTDP! Of course Vlasic is there. Gonna be another one of those years I feels.

 

[Prominence Problem]

Zuke and Milly: Best friends for life

 

[Ghosts Beer]

That’s a pretty solid US prelim roster.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Luckily the HC is an anointed professional and thus won't be tainted by his personal feelings towards a player and will play everybody purely on their ability to help the team.

We’ll see. You assume archaic mindsets & favoritism but you just hope it’s kept to a minimum.

Sandelin last year was on par with Dave Lowry, Tim Hunter, Steve Spott, etc. as one of the worst coaching jobs in the last decade between Canada & US coaches.

 

[Appleyard]

We’ll see. You assume archaic mindsets & favoritism but you just hope it’s kept to a minimum.

Sandelin last year was on par with Dave Lowry, Tim Hunter, Steve Spott, etc. as one of the worst coaching jobs in the last decade between Canada & US coaches.

Being at the tournament a loooot of people were pretty much openly laughing at Sandelin. I dont think I have seen that before. Scouts and others shaking their heads and making audible comments...

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Being at the tournament a loooot of people were pretty much openly laughing at Sandelin. I dont think I have seen that before. Scouts and others shaking their heads and making audible comments...

Like maybe Turcotte, Caufield, etc. would have had shitty tournaments regardless. That’s ultimately life in a two week tournament. But he did nothing to help them to possibly get going with ice time/usage.

He brought a bland college grind them down with experience style to a tournament that doesn’t really do that.

 

[Appleyard]

Speaking of bad coaches.

HV71 3-0 down.

Their best Dman Kinvall is playing as basically a #4-5 again today.

Rahm should be gone soon.

Which will be good news for Andrae and Sandin.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I keep forgetting Sandin is on the team. Possibly not ideal.

 

[GapToothedWonder]

We’ll see. You assume archaic mindsets & favoritism but you just hope it’s kept to a minimum.

Sandelin last year was on par with Dave Lowry, Tim Hunter, Steve Spott, etc. as one of the worst coaching jobs in the last decade between Canada & US coaches.

Isn't this kind of proven by how many coaches you can list from the last what 5? 10 years of the tournament?