hey spirits fans who are the Oa ,s next year.
Right now the potenial OA's are Davies, Barwell, Kreis,Crawford and Cormier if he is sent back down which is highly likely. I would expect one of Barwell or Kreis plus Cormier and Crawford to start the season with an differnent OA being dealt for either in the offseason or shorty into the season in place of Kreis/Barwell.
hey spirits fans who are the Oa ,s next year.
hearing Nicholas Porco lw Vaughan kings...named top prospect gthl banquet awards
Did the grapewine tell you any names?
Is he a top 10 pick?
Sorry dont agree, if we blow another 4th pick overall that does not sign that going to sting. Obviously our 3 2nds will provide depth and talent. We are all keyboard GM's thats the fun of doing this. To say 1 guy makes no difference is losing a skilled player who can step right into the line up.
Sorry dont agree, if we blow another 4th pick overall that does not sign that going to sting. Obviously our 3 2nds will provide depth and talent. We are all keyboard GM's thats the fun of doing this. To say 1 guy makes no difference is losing a skilled player who can step right into the line up.
The problem is this, you aren't going to (or very seldomly) are going to get a game changer who wants to report here. Its the nature of the beast here in Saginaw. So you have to either draft the top kids anyway and pray they show up/move them for a large pool of assets or reach on kids who are willing to report with less talent, letting the Windsors, London's, and Kitchener's of the league draft the talented kids later in the first, further spreading the talent gap of the league.
Problem is if you continue down the second path, the league will never change. Top teams will grab higher skilled players with later picks in the draft and small market teams are relegated to essentially a 2nd tier team for them to tune up on before the playoffs.
If you go down path a and small market teams started taking these kids anyway, you can either hold out for 8 draft picks ala Flint with McLeod or 6 draft picks like Mete with Owen Sound and the drafting teams are far better off. Sure, the top team gets the high rated kids anyway. But if you are going to be drafting 2nd round talent in the 1st in order to get players to report, you might as well have the extra number of 2nd round picks these trades provide and draft 3 or 4 of these kids where they were ranked in the first place.
Thank you for the information!
I think I came off harsher than I intended. Like I said before, if it is Porco that comes here and he wants to be here that's all I care about at the end of the day. I'll support anyone that wants to be here till the cows come home.
The league has an issue though with kids reporting to certain teams and not others. That is more so what I was getting at. I actually support these kids getting to pick and choose where they play, after all they are just kids. But I think the teams that have the issues should make it more difficult on the other teams for doing so.
Thank you for the information!
I think I came off harsher than I intended. Like I said before, if it is Porco that comes here and he wants to be here that's all I care about at the end of the day. I'll support anyone that wants to be here till the cows come home.
The league has an issue though with kids reporting to certain teams and not others. That is more so what I was getting at. I actually support these kids getting to pick and choose where they play, after all they are just kids. But I think the teams that have the issues should make it more difficult on the other teams for doing so.
The NHL Draft?
Gimour-6th rd, 26G +21A smart player
Coskey- 7th, stats are not everything, +2 underrated worth a pick