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  1. Sadly, Kenny, the lead singer passed away last night. My absolute favorite growing up. RIP.
  2. Yup, it would burn a year if Kostin played in Sweden, while being under contract with St Louis. It does mean they can usually control whether he signs in the KHL. As per my earlier post, best protocol (just my opinion) would be to let him play a year in Sweden. Then sign him. It is great development. The player likes it, because they get paid way better than the AHL.
  3. I believe some of the players have out clauses. In which case it would be possible. It is also semi-common to ''loan'' players under contract back and forth. Joel Eriksson Ek had concurrent contracts last year. But I suspect the Nucks will be more than happy to have him play in Sweden. It also lets them sign him next year. Which gives us an extra year before we have to gravitate from an ELC to a big bucks contract. There is, however, no park a contract in junior rule for European leagues. If he is signed, does not make the Nucks, and is loaned to Europe. It does exhaust one of his ELC years.
  4. Ha, I love it! Forsberg was however, a center & even more high energy version of Corey Perry. A bull in the china shop, who got his nose very dirty taking the puck to the net. I believe Petterson is more of a finesse player? But, Forsberg was also just as dirty on the fore-check. And hounding guys defensively. That is a component I think Petterson has, if not the power game?
  5. LOL, well, err, ahh, uhm... I wan't trying to intentionally use quite so many silly references. But there you have it. Its a BIG line!
  6. That top line almost makes me horny! But I think I like the looks of a Kane / Horvat / Virtanen 2knd line even more? Awfully big, fast, imposing & in your face, to the net line! It would have to draw some of the Kesler type big centers. Just to handle the matchup complications? The genius of some of the semi-recent So Cal teams.Which would leave a Petterson line to run amok against lesser matchups? And call me a homer, but I think Baertschi will make for some awfully stiff competition with Dahlen. To play with Petterson & Boeser. Baertchi is also awfully slick, like Dahlen. But also a touch bigger and faster (I think?)! We could also then offer the wicked speed and skill game the league is, quote/unquote, gravitating towards. Baertschi Petterson Boeser Kane Horvat Virtanen Dahlen Gaudette Gadjovich Lockwood Gaunce Lind Who am I forgetting, Granlund?
  7. Depends if said 220 lb player's signature playing style is throwing his weight around? Or if said playing style consisted of darting in & out of traffic while dangling the puck. Evasive maneuvers, slick passes, body & puck control, clever shots. Getting out on the break? Guys of varying different weights, including Evgeny Malkin who is also 220 lbs, have exhibited such a playing style at an even greater level than Johansen has exhibited. Johansen & Malkin do use their weight from time to time. But its about playing style. Malkin is my style comparison, Johansen is Button's. Even then, Petterson also has an enormous motor, and endurance. He'll get in on the fore-check, the back check. And disrupt plays to create turnovers and more chances. You guys will ultimately like this pick. Even if he is not 220 lbs.
  8. They both have size. But Jake is about the legs and bulk. And is a gifted athlete, speedster. Gadj is about the hands, coordination. He won all the upper body strength tests, bench, grip strength, etc., at the combines. Soft hands, tip ins, tap passes, banging on rebounds, plays in tight. All ''taught'' skills btw, versus the blessed athletic ability of Virtanen. Yes a big body, a fair bit taller as well with long arms, who parks his butt in front of the net, and holds D on his back in board battles with it. Jake could learn a lot from Gadjovich! If you could combine the two of them you would have Shanahan?
  9. Someone else noticed? Also received an invite for more talks in Vancouver I heard.
  10. I went to a Calgary / Van pre-season game his rookie year. He was the best player on the ice. Vets, rookies, no matter. Easily! He's also proven not just effective, but dangerous at times. I would not write him off yet. That said & not actually knowing, I also would not be the least bit surprised if injuries related to (lack of) strength 'were behind why he's also had bouts of ineffectiveness. Guys who have that level of competitiveness, especially with the athletic ability to sometimes be effective without strength. usually, figure it out and also become competitive in the gym.
  11. Gold! Gretzky is aces. Could not run over people. Not the most imposing specimen. Defies so much actually? With ease... But I'll be fracked, you made me laugh so hard. Partly because it was so correct.
  12. His fitness scores for endurance were ok. Power in terms pounding the bike for max levels (a decent equivalent physical output to max skating exertion, maybe slightly harder) were actually very good. Thats probably the best measure of how overall hockey fitness stands up? Pull up & bench press upper body strength are a concern. But not necessarily a deal breaker. Not in the top 10 anyway, probably in the top 5. Elias Petterson was something like 7th and 2knd in same Wingate rating of an athlete's ability to generate power over 5 and 30 seconds. He can go harder than virtually anybody for the average 30 second ice hockey shift. Thats first more important than the ability to do a pull up. As much as being too skinny for such an event does stand out, with that athleticism, there is simple logic he can develop strength over his whole frame.
  13. Both Patrick & Nico look pretty dang fit! Maybe Nico a little more so, but there is a reason they are top of the heap. Patrick's agility test was really good for a big guy.
  14. William Nylander owned VO2 Max / Wingate results. It was where he demonstrated he wasn't just a skinny kid anyway. A simple summary is aerobic endurance & ability to produce power while going absolutely full tilt.
  15. An ectomorph, like the Twins who cant seem to be bumped off a puck, with uncanny agility athleticism. If he can do this there is an underlying strength? Just needs to put on enough weight he doesn't get pushed around.
  16. This argument is turning. Starting with we should get BPA. To the stereotyped forwards are easier to predict. Therefore safer, therefore BPA regardless... Hogwash! Guys like Luke Schenn and Bogosian, to a lesser extent Gubranson, were a product of a different stereotype. That you needed that big, ugly, mean bastard defenseman to clear the crease & punish forwards. Particularly with Schenn ignoring simple fundamentals like foot speed, the ability to skate backward, turn while doing so, some endurance in your athleticism and a reasonable semblance of being able to handle and pass the puck. Composure and vision are now surfacing as perhaps the best predictor of a D man's future success? The ability to quickly identify where you should pass the puck and make the first pass. These are all observable skills. Skills a scout can rate. Skills Gudbranson displayed in being drafted. Has displayed at times as a pro. He's a good serviceable defenceman, if not the elite all star some thought we would get because we traded McCann for him. Or because he was drafted top 3? Especially because we lost Tryamkin, he's also an important, and rare commodity. A D with size. People rave about Nashville. But Subban is still a 220 lb defenceman. Josi is over 6'1'' and over 200 lbs. Elkholm is still 6'4'', 215 lbs, as heavy as any of our current guys. The argument here about not selecting D was raised by yourself applied to top picks? I remember it also being overbearingly argued here on CDC when we picked Jensen, when we picked Shinkaruk, Schroeder. Its hogwash at all levels including later in the first round when everyone blathered the same thing. I remember CDC chastising Anaheim for being dumb enough to pick Lindholm 6th overall. How a forward who scored 80 or 90 points in junior, a Canadian (another stereotype), would have been better. The fact is that Hampus Lindholm had all the hallmark great attributes to be BPA at his selection. Lindholm was many things Schenn was not. He was still big, he could skate, close out pucks & approaching forwards, could move the puck, had vision, an eye for making plays. Juolevi, BTW, has all those same attributes? Is taller, faster & more athletic than Tkachuk. Has great composure! There is no reason to think Juolevi won't be a great pick just because Tkachuk came out of the gate faster. The reality is scouts need to figure out what attributes make a D man BPA. And if the D man is BPA, by god they should select him? That a forward is better because they are a forward is bull cookies.
  17. Yes, they could? But aren't you stretching a bit... Each on your list has physical attributes a scout would say did not measure up to, for example, Patrick. Suzuki is pretty damn fast, and smart, and plays hard. Really hard! He reminds me a lot of Robbi Fabbri. Who has been a great pick for all of those same reasons? But Ekblad and Nylander were still more obvious choices higher up the draft in 2014 for equally good reasons. If anything the success of a Claude Giroux has paved the way for a Necas to be picked earlier in the draft. Fabbri for Suzuki. But RNH was skinny like Petterson is when he was drafted. And it has hurt him. Maybe we should not completely ignore obvious limitations? Your odds are still better with Hischier and Patrick.
  18. I understand some of the issues raging in this conversation. But let's give the scouts some credit? Understand they rate speed, agility, puck skill & all the various combinations of physical skills, mentality, results... Dane Fox, for example again, wasn't drafted. The scouts knew something. The coaches also should get credit?. He lasted barely a day with Travis Green before being shipped to the ECHL. Nico Hischier did not lead his team, the Mooseheads in scoring this year either. Max Fortier, draft eligible in his second year of eligibility did. It wasn't a complete fluke either. Undrafted after he also led the team, which had first rounder Tim Meier on it at that time last year. Clearly the scouts saw / see something better in Hischier and Meier which set them apart from a guy who also (just) scores a ton? And when I stream games to watch Halifax, Fortier does look fast, skilled? But he's still only rated to fo 3rd or 4th round this go round. I wonder where he will get drafted?
  19. I completely agree with your post. Including the part suggesting we lose the sense of the value of the player. Hutton still won't get us Drouin for example. Hutton + Bartschi, plus a mid pick, maybe?
  20. I saw Dave Gleeson a few months ago here in Melbourne. Doing his gig with the Angels now that Doc Neeson has passed. Good gig of Rose Tatoo. Here is one of Anderson's less exciting one's. Meatloaf is also banished for a worse infraction...
  21. Got turned onto this song about a dozen or 18 years ago? By a Rod Stewart version on a concert dvd I bought... Speaking of? Here is a fabulous version of an old Ronnie Wood song, his mate from the same video.
  22. ^ ^^ Some Aussie music history last two entries. From deeper in the vault, here is some Canadian music history;
  23. Clarify what? Kuznetsov has way more value than Tanev. Full stop.
  24. I was introduced to JB in Edmonton, maybe a dozen years ago? A blues hawker who worked for me at a-b Sound said I had to go see him. Then I moved down under, lived and worked in his hometown. Seen him now maybe a dozen more times? As a one man act, his roots are he started as a busker in the old port Freemantle. And with JBT in front of big crowds at festivals. Anyone here into him? One of the best pickers I have ever seen!
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