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Post by 50belowzero on Mar 12, 2024 18:22:33 GMT
Lots of blocked shots for the Irish. Another 6' 3" right Dman, me like, time to get bigger again on the Dcore, Brunet is 6' 3" as well down in Providence, hope he works out as well. Seeya Gryz!!
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 15, 2024 12:18:42 GMT
Bring in some more studs.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 17, 2024 23:16:29 GMT
Saturday Wrap
Hendrickson 1 shot +1 3-1 win
Langenbrunner 1 shot -1 4-1 loss and so ends Harvard's season
Walsh 16 for 23 faceoffs and Cornell lives to fight another week
Duran 2 shots 2 for 5 faceoffs. Svedebäck 22 saves and it's extremely likely PC's season is over with the 3-1 loss. Let's see if Duran turns pro
On the winning side Dans Locmelis had 1 shot and went 9 for 17 at the dot
Gallagher +1 4-2 win over Northeastern
Gasseau 2 assists 1 shot +3 2 for 4 faceoffs. Another strong 2 way game from Diesel. Jellvik 1 assist 3 shots +2
Schmaltz 2 assists 1 shot +1 4 for 8 7-1 win
Olson 1 shot 5-2 loss and that's all she wrote for Minnesota Duluth, we'll see what Boston does with Olson as he's out of College eligibility.
Be interested to see if Cole Spicer hits the transfer portal"
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Post by drewski6 on Mar 18, 2024 17:27:15 GMT
Saturday Wrap Hendrickson 1 shot +1 3-1 win Langenbrunner 1 shot -1 4-1 loss and so ends Harvard's season Walsh 16 for 23 faceoffs and Cornell lives to fight another week Duran 2 shots 2 for 5 faceoffs. Svedebäck 22 saves and it's extremely likely PC's season is over with the 3-1 loss. Let's see if Duran turns pro On the winning side Dans Locmelis had 1 shot and went 9 for 17 at the dot Gallagher +1 4-2 win over Northeastern Gasseau 2 assists 1 shot +3 2 for 4 faceoffs. Another strong 2 way game from Diesel. Jellvik 1 assist 3 shots +2 Schmaltz 2 assists 1 shot +1 4 for 8 7-1 win Olson 1 shot 5-2 loss and that's all she wrote for Minnesota Duluth, we'll see what Boston does with Olson as he's out of College eligibility. Be interested to see if Cole Spicer hits the transfer portal" I was at that game :/
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 18, 2024 19:47:54 GMT
Goalie find!
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Post by 50belowzero on Mar 18, 2024 22:53:25 GMT
Whew, good thing, the B's have a shortage!!
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Post by chappy28 on Mar 19, 2024 18:29:59 GMT
Whew, good thing, the B's have a shortage!! succession plan has begun. Ullmark is a goner this summer. Bussi comes up to back up. Dipietro takes the lead in Providence
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Post by islamorada on Mar 19, 2024 18:36:45 GMT
Whew, good thing, the B's have a shortage!! succession plan has begun. Ullmark is a goner this summer. Bussi comes up to back up. Dipietro takes the lead in Providence Yeah, that is a good point. I wonder though that the goalie coach is having an effect on these signings?
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Post by Fletcher on Mar 20, 2024 12:21:50 GMT
succession plan has begun. Ullmark is a goner this summer. Bussi comes up to back up. Dipietro takes the lead in Providence I was kinda hoping they would sign undrafted sophomore Cooper Black from Dartmouth. He's 6'8 and surprisingly agile and was invited to two NHL camps last summer. I think he'll come back to campus for his junior year, but I'll bet he'll have a bunch for FA offers. He helped completely turn Dartmouth's fortunes aorund, from dead last a year ago to playing in Lake Placid this weekend at the ECAC championship tourney. Attachments:
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Post by chappy28 on Mar 20, 2024 13:39:35 GMT
succession plan has begun. Ullmark is a goner this summer. Bussi comes up to back up. Dipietro takes the lead in Providence I was kinda hoping they would sign undrafted sophomore Cooper Black from Dartmouth. He's 6'8 and surprisingly agile and was invited to two NHL camps last summer. I think he'll come back to campus for his junior year, but I'll bet he'll have a bunch for FA offers. He helped completely turn Dartmouth's fortunes aorund, from dead last a year ago to playing in Lake Placid this weekend at the ECAC championship tourney. 6'8" is one HUGE goalie. Big Z in goalie pads. Wow
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 24, 2024 20:23:03 GMT
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Post by Fletcher on Mar 24, 2024 22:10:21 GMT
I wonder if anyone else will signa and depart NCAAs early. Gasseau and Jellvik might not be interested in playing with a bunch of new top-6 forwards next year. Gallagher might want to avoid transferring and ask the Bruins if he can come to Providence...
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 25, 2024 12:18:37 GMT
I wonder if anyone else will signa and depart NCAAs early. Gasseau and Jellvik might not be interested in playing with a bunch of new top-6 forwards next year. Gallagher might want to avoid transferring and ask the Bruins if he can come to Providence... "Bruins will be well represented in the NCAA tournament. Gallagher (BU), Walsh (Cornell), Locmelis (UMass), Schmaltz (North Dakota), Gasseau & Jellvik (BC)." Definitely going to be interesting. I think Jellvik and Locmelis could crack the PBruins lineup skill wise maybe not role wise. Gasseau has the role of 4th line grinder down. Think he might stay but not Jellvik...he's ready. Probably a conversation that McQuaid and Evan Gold are having. Can Gallagher get into next seasons PBruins lineup ? I kinda swing the way that he should play one more year in college.
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Post by Fletcher on Mar 25, 2024 19:14:19 GMT
I wonder if anyone else will signa and depart NCAAs early. Gasseau and Jellvik might not be interested in playing with a bunch of new top-6 forwards next year. Gallagher might want to avoid transferring and ask the Bruins if he can come to Providence... "Bruins will be well represented in the NCAA tournament. Gallagher (BU), Walsh (Cornell), Locmelis (UMass), Schmaltz (North Dakota), Gasseau & Jellvik (BC)." Definitely going to be interesting. I think Jellvik and Locmelis could crack the PBruins lineup skill wise maybe not role wise. Gasseau has the role of 4th line grinder down. Think he might stay but not Jellvik...he's ready. Probably a conversation that McQuaid and Evan Gold are having. Can Gallagher get into next seasons PBruins lineup ? I kinda swing the way that he should play one more year in college. Yeah, I think Ty Gallagher should play another year of NCAA hockey, as he's a late bloomer type anyhow that maybe has Ryan Lindgren upside. No need to rush that. I just think the BC roster will be so different next year, assuming that Smith, Gauthier, Leonard and Perreault all jump ship for the Pros, and Jack Malone will leave too (unless he plays a grad year...). So they'll lose 5 of their 7 best forwards right there. BC is always re-loading on the recruiting front, but I really wonder if Jellvik or Gasseau want to come back as 21-year olds in the Fall, with a whole new team. They are probably tired of babysitting cocky 18-year old freshmen as it is. I agree that Jellvik probably leaves. I expect BC to make a hard sell on keeping Gasseau as a leader and upperclassmen, but I just doubt he wants to be the last shoe to drop back there. If the B's make him any offer to leave, I bet he wants to. Locmelis needs to stay at UMass in my opinion, for another year at least.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 29, 2024 20:39:02 GMT
Jellvik had him a nice day in the opening round of the NCAAs.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Mar 31, 2024 21:41:26 GMT
Jellvik to Gasseau for the hammer.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 1, 2024 18:37:15 GMT
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Post by 50belowzero on Apr 2, 2024 14:47:12 GMT
The B's sign Jaxson Nelson out of U of Minnesota, big C, 24 yrs, stats are nothing to write home about but who knows.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 2, 2024 16:13:15 GMT
The B's sign Jaxson Nelson out of U of Minnesota, big C, 24 yrs, stats are nothing to write home about but who knows. Throw the big kid out there n see if he can be another, "LucaBassa" project. Good on faceoffs and blocked shots. 5th year senior so expectations are low. When you give up draft picks, like the last two deadlines, the College UFA season can sort of become a partial draft. PS. Looks like the Bs are out on Graf.
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 3, 2024 0:14:56 GMT
The B's sign Jaxson Nelson out of U of Minnesota, big C, 24 yrs, stats are nothing to write home about but who knows. Throw the big kid out there n see if he can be another, "LucaBassa" project. Good on faceoffs and blocked shots. 5th year senior so expectations are low. When you give up draft picks, like the last two deadlines, the College UFA season can sort of become a partial draft. PS. Looks like the Bs are out on Graf. Yup. Sign size if you can. Enough of trying to get skill guys to Marchand their way up from the 4th. Get some guys who want to gi out and play fourth line roles and if they suddenly find that magic...great. They have one contract spot left right now. Wonder if they'll use it.
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Post by sandogbrewin on Apr 3, 2024 1:56:10 GMT
Good experience.
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Post by Fletcher on Apr 3, 2024 14:06:29 GMT
I was kinda hoping they would sign undrafted sophomore Cooper Black from Dartmouth. He's 6'8 and surprisingly agile and was invited to two NHL camps last summer. I think he'll come back to campus for his junior year, but I'll bet he'll have a bunch for FA offers. He helped completely turn Dartmouth's fortunes aorund, from dead last a year ago to playing in Lake Placid this weekend at the ECAC championship tourney. 6'8" is one HUGE goalie. Big Z in goalie pads. Wow And off Cooper Black goes to Florida. I hate seeing a prospect I like head to a rival, so hopefully I'm wrong about his actual NHL potential.
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Post by drewski6 on Apr 3, 2024 15:58:50 GMT
Throw the big kid out there n see if he can be another, "LucaBassa" project. Good on faceoffs and blocked shots. 5th year senior so expectations are low. When you give up draft picks, like the last two deadlines, the College UFA season can sort of become a partial draft. PS. Looks like the Bs are out on Graf. Yup. Sign size if you can. Enough of trying to get skill guys to Marchand their way up from the 4th. Get some guys who want to gi out and play fourth line roles and if they suddenly find that magic...great. They have one contract spot left right now. Wonder if they'll use it. I think its a mixture of where they draft. Lysell , if he had size wouldnt have been there when we got him. Merk was undrafted, I bet his size contributed to that. But maybe to your point - use your high picks on size because you can find the undersized guys who can still contribute outside of first 2 rounds of draft.
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Post by bookboy007 on Apr 3, 2024 16:26:52 GMT
Yup. Sign size if you can. Enough of trying to get skill guys to Marchand their way up from the 4th. Get some guys who want to gi out and play fourth line roles and if they suddenly find that magic...great. They have one contract spot left right now. Wonder if they'll use it. I think its a mixture of where they draft. Lysell , if he had size wouldnt have been there when we got him. Merk was undrafted, I bet his size contributed to that. But maybe to your point - use your high picks on size because you can find the undersized guys who can still contribute outside of first 2 rounds of draft. That's not quite where I'd take it. I'm more of the opinion that you draft guys in two streams - guys who you see as being part of the top half of the roster, like Lysell, whose NHL prospects are really tied to being scorers whether that's primary or secondary. Sure, it's good if they have size, but as you say, the guys with both skill and size are almost ALWAYS taken higher than you would think. I don't think Lysell's size was a knock against him so much as questions about his attitude and the usual question of him transitioning from Sweden to the NA game. But he's an inch shorter and 10 pounds lighter than Pastrnak, so he's not "small" especially for a guy with highly touted skating abilities. On the other hand, Tyler Boucher plays the same position and he went 10th overall for no reason other than being 6'1" and 205. He's never been a scorer and he had a history of injuries. He's never scored 11 goals or more in a season, and never played more than 24 games. Good pick, Ottawa. Point is, you need some very specific skills to be a good top half of the roster player. It's not enough to have size, and in some cases, it's better to have a ton of skill and no size if you can shake and bake well enough. No one expects 150 hits from the top line RW anymore. But the same logic applies to the bottom six forwards and bottom three D. Those roles align to a different algorithm of skills and physical talents. Size and skating might be more important than puck skills for a guy whose job will be to make life miserable for the opponents for 15 min a night, block shots, and fire it off the glass and out. You can work with that guy to make better first passes, be calmer with the puck, etc., as long as he's also finishing checks with some mass behind them and standing up for his teammates. You can find more of these guys if you look; they aren't just top 60 picks. What almost never works is putting a guy you drafted for the top six on the fourth line. Because if they don't have the puck skills to play in your top six with other top six players, they don't have the puck skills to play with lesser players and show what they can do. And the odds of them having a physical/energy game and the instincts to keep it simple are low. In fact, you don't want that. If they learn they can keep it simple and stay in the lineup, they never develop into the guys who take smart risks and create. I think job one is the top of the roster, and then you look to get the best possible players for the bottom of the roster and the roles they need to play.
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Post by drewski6 on Apr 3, 2024 17:56:09 GMT
I think its a mixture of where they draft. Lysell , if he had size wouldnt have been there when we got him. Merk was undrafted, I bet his size contributed to that. But maybe to your point - use your high picks on size because you can find the undersized guys who can still contribute outside of first 2 rounds of draft. That's not quite where I'd take it. I'm more of the opinion that you draft guys in two streams - guys who you see as being part of the top half of the roster, like Lysell, whose NHL prospects are really tied to being scorers whether that's primary or secondary. Sure, it's good if they have size, but as you say, the guys with both skill and size are almost ALWAYS taken higher than you would think. I don't think Lysell's size was a knock against him so much as questions about his attitude and the usual question of him transitioning from Sweden to the NA game. But he's an inch shorter and 10 pounds lighter than Pastrnak, so he's not "small" especially for a guy with highly touted skating abilities. On the other hand, Tyler Boucher plays the same position and he went 10th overall for no reason other than being 6'1" and 205. He's never been a scorer and he had a history of injuries. He's never scored 11 goals or more in a season, and never played more than 24 games. Good pick, Ottawa. Point is, you need some very specific skills to be a good top half of the roster player. It's not enough to have size, and in some cases, it's better to have a ton of skill and no size if you can shake and bake well enough. No one expects 150 hits from the top line RW anymore. But the same logic applies to the bottom six forwards and bottom three D. Those roles align to a different algorithm of skills and physical talents. Size and skating might be more important than puck skills for a guy whose job will be to make life miserable for the opponents for 15 min a night, block shots, and fire it off the glass and out. You can work with that guy to make better first passes, be calmer with the puck, etc., as long as he's also finishing checks with some mass behind them and standing up for his teammates. You can find more of these guys if you look; they aren't just top 60 picks. What almost never works is putting a guy you drafted for the top six on the fourth line. Because if they don't have the puck skills to play in your top six with other top six players, they don't have the puck skills to play with lesser players and show what they can do. And the odds of them having a physical/energy game and the instincts to keep it simple are low. In fact, you don't want that. If they learn they can keep it simple and stay in the lineup, they never develop into the guys who take smart risks and create. I think job one is the top of the roster, and then you look to get the best possible players for the bottom of the roster and the roles they need to play.ALso - if you draft and develop a top 6 guy theres ample cap savings there. If you draft and develop a 4th liner, you really arent saving yourself any money. How much less does a homegrown 4th liner cost vs a journeyman 4th liner like Boqvist. So I agree, swing for the upside.
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