He's the best faceoff guy in all of junior hockey. He's way too polished for junior hockey but letting kids stay in juniors has rarely hurts a players development.
Funny how many people on here said hunter bustkaruk was the better to prospect and more NHL ready.
Like others have said, he's way over ppg this year while having less offensive talent up front and playing shutdown role. It's awesome
Check out his stars for November, it's ridiculous and he's moving up ohl scoring fast.
Gaunce is going to be a 4th liner in the NHL like Sutter said.
In the NHL you have to push the pace of play instead of slowing it down. This isn't juniors anymore where that style can thrive.
This is backed up by what torts said and is why Schroeder hasn't lived up to draft expectations. Both players like to slow the game down but that doesn't work in NHL.
Horvats assist against Windsor was amazing. That small clip showcased the potential he has not only offensively but defensively too.
According to knight fans, that's just a typical horvat type play. Steal in neutral zone and create a scoring opportunity.
He plays such a direct game, he's goin to beast it up in a few years after some physical maturity
Cole Cassels, who will finally get a chance to play a more offensive role, is going to surpass Gaunce after his upcoming junior year. Now that is a potential 3rd line center with gritty, skills and better speed. He actually makes things happens and shows physical side to his game.
Now that Laughton from Flyers and Jenner are most likely NHL bound, he's going to have a large role this year.
He did, and I agree with him. His skating is crap, doubt it will get to an NHL calibre needed to be a top 9 player. Probably end up a decent defensively responsible, non dynamic, non physical, no energy 4th line center that can eat up 5 mins a night.
He's already played in two memorial cups, with him being a key player last season for the team.
Is the memorial cup really that important for a player development?
It's early into the season but when it's a 48 game season it's hard to stay patient with what I consider a pretty "sub-par to awful" debut for the Canucks defenseman.
All I've been hearing throughout the off-season about Jason Garrison is how he's a younger Sami Salo with great defensive abilities and all around game. From what I've seen throughout the season so far is that he is a terrible skater with average speed and very little mobility. Something that's going to expose him in a lot of puck battles and turnovers in neutral zone. This has been very evident in 5 of the last 6 games we've played so far this season.
He just doesn't have the skating to stay in great position and he tends to lose his man a lot. That's not Sami Salo at all. I think this is something that hurts him in the offensive zone too like the PP when he doesn't have the skating ability to get to open ice and hammer the puck. He seems to take a long time to wind up and get his shot off so it's no surprise that rushing it has made his accuracy abysmal.
I commend his hard work, because he truly does play like he gives a damn but just because you try hard doesn't mean you'll get the results.
Anyone else worried about his skating? His stride is horrific and very short and when he is forced to pivot and turn on a dime he consistently gets beat. Him and Edler have been a nightmare in their own end, unable to move the puck up the ice.
I'm only concerned because our window to win a stanley cup is rapidly closing with this core and we don't exactly have that great of a promising prospect pool in the calibre of Edmonton's talent.
He fit in very seemlessly on the 2nd 4th and 1st line throughout the game. Very impressive.
We never saw Cody have this kind of chemistry with anyone on the team this year.
Didn't get knocked off the puck like Cody would in the defensive and offensive zones. His vision is good too, Not CoHo good but still impressive.