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  1. i wonder if it is as simple as motte being hurt in camp and therefore not being waivable right now. he gets healthy and switches seats with barrtschi assuming gaudette stays up. meanwhile, canucks are carrying 7 centres right now and utica is one short.
  2. quiet player. he never caught my eye in la even though i think of him as a scoring threat watching him here it's the same. rarely heard his name called. then he scores a nice goal. i will wait the obligatory ten games to see what we have when the adrenaline wears off. cautiously optimistic.
  3. that is a good point. i don't think sutter has been 100% since his first injury so if he is not fully healthy they might ease him in on the wing while keeping and dressing gaudette up the middle.
  4. i agree he is fairly complete but he needs to upgrade his skating to really impress me. i see a strong straight liner who played a power game in the ncaa that he is likely not big enough for in the nhl, but i don't see a guy yet who can out turn a dman or beat him off the boards. the thing i like most about him is his obvious drive and focus to be better (as opposed to being just an energy guy). that can move mountains and is why he stands out to me.
  5. decent careful by the book game and looks like a player. needs to be more physical but that's expected. a little bit slow on decision making and had trouble deciding what to do when it got chaotic and sometimes did nothing. all in all, a respectable start.
  6. maybe he gets papered, but i think gaudette will make it very hard to get demoted again.
  7. nice to see him make stuff happen. you get the feeling he has the drive to overcome the shortcomings in his game.
  8. jd burke is a blogger who in the past has trashed the drafting/signing of adam gaudette, zack mcewan and matthew tkachuk just off the top of my head. i appreciate the guy's dedication and statistical knowledge but he is a stat hound who knows nothing whatever about developing players in the minors, having never spent a nanosecond in the minors being developed or developing guys and having no useful insight that i can see (full disclaimer, i was down on tkachuk also but i don't evaluate hockey players for a living). i also want to be quick to say i don't know what's going on in utica either and nor do i know the pros and cons of cull's approach. i am just saying burke's opinion on this subject had no weight for me one way or the other. i am much more interested in the comments of comets fans who go to games and watch closely. by and large, they have supported the idea that several in this crop of canucks prospects were not ready to play regularly in the ahl when they got here and have been brought along appropriately relative to how they have performed. i will also say that, anecdotally, junior kids other than the cream of the crop taking half a season at least to adjust to the ahl seems like par for the course.
  9. you gotta love that our ahl team now has to play our goalie who got claimed on waivers by another team. it certainly seems like someone in philly is trolling the canucks.
  10. you are comparing different skating skillsets. rathbone is more like brett hedican, who was an incredible natural graceful power skater but lacked stick handling skills and sneaky elusive edgework. he could outrun you forwards of backwards but he was rarely going to trick you into turning the wrong way.
  11. that's just not fair. i think even the strongest critics of the canuck's strategy for utica do it within a framework that respects that utica is a farm team that must put development of prospects first. their argument is that a well built farm team with its own structure and veteran mentors is good for everyone and especially for the prospects. i actually think it's remarkable how few "utica first" comets fans there are posting here given human nature.
  12. i don't say "play the kids" or at least i am not complaining about the fact some kids are seeing limited action. i just say that there were times in the fall when the kids who were playing were playing on a team that was a mess.
  13. not to excuse the most extreme manifestations of what you describe, but i think it's fair to say it's been a bumpy ride and there were points where the plan was not working and the youngsters were not in a nurturing structured environment and saying that was fair comment. you can blame that on injuries i guess but there was reason for concern. i also am skeptical he recent moves benefiting the comets were initiated to benefit the comets. we just happened to pick up some assets that help the farm/ that being said, you are somewhat right. the lesson that "it all comes out in the wash" is probably a good one for purposes of farm team watching. plus we got saucerman
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