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  • Birthday 08/13/1982

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  1. Well said! I'm outta here too. This is my last post on CDC. It's been a slice y'all. See you on the new forum. As one door closes, another opens my friends. Change is good if you accept it. Cheers everyone. Hope to see you on the other site.
  2. And with bangin old school colours! Sign me up and see you guys there!
  3. Damn, I erased him from my memory. I so badly wanted him to turn out!
  4. He was an amazing mentor. I agree, he was a huge reason our players back then made it to the NHL. Unfortunately they don’t have anyone like that in Abby…then again it’s rare to have a Stanley Cup winner/amazing NHL vet like Keane to play out their final years in the AHL. Hard to replicate a guy like that. Chris Chelios played into his mid 40’s for Detroits farm team back in the day too. These days you don’t see that too much. Abby has a young leadership group for sure. It’s hard to say who leads the pack but guys like Wouters and Bains definitely seem to have the young kids listening to them. As for a saavy vet option, I agree a guy like Irwin would fit that mould for sure.
  5. We like to draft "the other brother" a lot...lol Hello Fedor Fedorov and Steve Kariya...
  6. There definitely is a difference in my opinion. In Utica we could barely turn a 1st/2nd round pick player into an NHLer...so many failed picks. Gaunce, Lind, Gadj, DiPietro, Jasek...the list is quite large. Fast forward to Abby not only are our drafted players trending well but our undrafted players like Bains, Nielsen, Wouters etc are also making noise and will be pushing for NHL minutes. There is a huge contrast in development between the Utica vs Abby teams. I've watched all our AHL clubs back to the Manitoba Moose days and for myself this has been such a refreshing change to see. We haven't had good development of our prospects in the AHL since the Manitoba Moose. A lot of our 2011 cup run players were groomed in Manitoba (Edler, Schnieder, Bieksa, Kesler, Burrows, Hansen). No matter where the prospect was drafted whether 1st round or 7th round they were turning out gems. Abby has similar vibes to me.
  7. They have at least another 2 years to make NHLers out of these 2 kids. Lots of runway left. You signing up for AHL live again Stawns? Was good to have you in the Abby chat group last year.
  8. Someone a while back compared JTM to Iginla, I thought that was actually a pretty solid comparison…major difference between them is the fact JTM can play center too. Prime Iginla was awesome to watch as a hockey fan in general I always wanted him on our team.
  9. Still learning. He’s moving up the depth chart in Utica. His first season was very much AHL role player. Last season he come out in a big way. He is a defensemen first but he performed very well as a 4th line agitator as well. I will be watching him close this year. He misses assignments here and there and can be a bit choppy on plays but as last year went along a lot of that started smoothing out. You could tell he’s found a role on his team and relishes it. It would be a huge plus if he actually ends up being a decent replacement level NHLer. A spare player who can play forward and D…not had to have as a depth guy on your team. As for the Ryp comparison, for sure fighting wise yes. But AKL isn’t as hot headed as him so he’s a bit more trust worthy to play actual minutes than Ryp was. IMO
  10. I’m gonna leave this here for you all to enjoy. We got this kid cooking on the farm and i’d really like to see him on the big club some day. He can play defence and forward too. The kid is awesome to watch and he’s gotten better each year on our farm. Could be a 4th liner in a year or two/spare forward. (Sorry if I didn’t add the videos correctly) https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n266677 https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n263171 https://m.facebook.com/hockeyrecapnewsletter/videos/-511-alex-kannok-leipert-fights- and-beats-68-adam-klapka/501961558531257/
  11. I think they forgot to add the link. I checked out nhl.com and it’s doing the same weird 404 error thing. That being said it would be sad to see the forum go. I’m not on any social media and I really do enjoy peoples updates here.
  12. Finally a person who can explain NHL salary cap to me without using numbers and such!!...lol, thank you for making this digestible. I get lost in the numbers and find it hard to follow. If this truly is the case then it definitely makes sense why Myers is still around. And I agree, he is still useful to us and could be very underrated this year by our fans. He's going to move back into a lower role than last year. Trim his minutes back, match him against the bottom 9 forwards of a team, simplify his game a bit and he can do good again. I thought he was dynamite for Team Canada this summer. Shows if he plays his game and doesn't play over his head he is still VERY effective. Hopefully Hronek just jumps in and does what we need him to do. That way we won't be forced into using Myers too much.
  13. It’s a very good point to bring up. Although I give our Utica years a bit of a shot in the arm here. They were never given much talent wise to work with…no one major really was sent to them. They got Baertchi and Goldobin at the back end of their NHL careers. A crappy attitude Jake Virtanen. Gaudette here and there…all our prospects were rushed to the NHL and our farm club suffered . They constantly had to bring in ECHL veterans to fill the gaps. It was frustrating as a fan developmentally... Yet they always made it to the playoffs so they were fun to watch in that sense. The only guy I can say right now that Utica helped develop and can call a success is Jacob Markstrom…all the rest of our lower tier prospects that went to the team never made it…Jett Woo is still hanging in but every other guy is now gone basically. It was a dead end road. 2 years in Abby and a big change in philosophy from management to support the kids there has been a huge boon for us. It’s such a stark contrast compared to Utica. I’m really loving it. Plus the fact they are taking in undrafted players and even they are finding some diamonds there too and developing them properly. So fresh to see.
  14. I think he’s a bit chippier than Granlund. But that’s a good comparison. For his size he is a bull in the corners and has lots of jam to his game. Which I think if Granlund had he may have stayed longer. I don’t see top line potential but he’s a bottom 6 glue guy for sure. He scores lots of goals in close too, kinda has a knack for it. Just not sure he can do the same against NHL defenders. Definitely will be excited if he can tho!
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