Where is he? I remember hearing he'd gone to camp with Shawinigan, but now it seems he's playing in the Slovak league? Does anyone know what's going on with this kid?
He was supposed to visit Shawinigan in early September and perhaps play a pre-season game or two and then decide on QMJHL vs Slovak junior league.
I remember seeing a picture of his Shawinigan jersey #8, but he never showed up because of injury.
He has played a bunch of games so far in Slovakia, doesn't look like he'll show to Shawinigan this year. Too bad because, the Cataractes suck, he would have probably gotten 30 minutes of ice time per game. For 68 games, that would have been amazing for his developpment.
Then next year (his draft year), Shawinigan would have been better, and he could have lead them like a boss.
It will be interesting to follow his developpment, I hope he shows up next year.
PS I posted an english version of the article and there's even a photo of his Shawinigan's jerseys
If the only choice for him in Slovakia would be junior league, there's no doubt he would already be in Canada. However GM of Dukla TrenčÃn Andrej Kollár offered him a spot on senior team of Dukla and Patrik has already played there.
IMO he has got two totaly different choices how to start his pro career (don't forget he was drafted to KHL by Slovan Bratislava):
1. Do it like Martin Reway and play junior hockey in Canada.
2. Do it like Marko Daňo. Play the whole season for your home team in senior Slovak Extraliga and then try to make it to Slovan roster/KHL.
Both ways can help his development and his chance to be drafted pretty high to NHL.
PS I posted an english version of the article and there's even a photo of his Shawinigan's jerseys
Nice pic!
I personally think he should go the CHL route. It has a proven track record of producing good NHL talent and Slovakian's are no exception. I actually can't think of the last Slovak player who played exclusively in Europe before coming to the AHL that actually MADE the NHL. Tomas Tatar could be that player.
However, plenty of guys come here and do very well. Martin Marincin, Richard Panik, Martin Gernat, Peter Ceresnak, Marek Tvrdon, Tomas Jurco, Jaroslav Janus, Marek Viedensky, Marek Hrvik have all been in junior recently and look to have bright futures (not all will obviously make an impact at the NHL level); and current NHL players: Zdeno Chara, Marian Hossa, Andrej Sekera, Andrej Meszaros, Peter Budaj, Tomas Kopecky, Jaro Halak all came to the CHL and have had productive careers or look to be doing so over here.
Nice interview with Koyš. Talks about his injury, playing with Dukla's senior team and a possibility of coming to NA.
Why leave halfway though the year ?
Shawi are awful this year..
And... he's coming !!!
http://blogues.lapresse.ca/turcotte/2012/10/19/koys-samene-a-shawinigan-pour-y-rester/
Very high number of quality prospects in the Q this year... best year we've had in a long while.
Yep, it's true, Patrik is coming over to help the Shawinigan Cataractes.
the question is if he is good enough to be able to help them...