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Love what I have seen. McCann has shown a lot of creativity. After watching him play I think even I have under estimated his skills. Love what hes displayed hope to see more. Wouldnt be surprised if he stuck around for a while.

I know this is lesser competition then the nhl but McCann may not be far off of Vey in the short term if his game can translate over. Would love to see him in some regular season games. I think we need to clear some vets to make room for guys like McCann/Virtanen. Virt looks ready for bottom 6.

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Love what I have seen. McCann has shown a lot of creativity. After watching him play I think even I have under estimated his skills. Love what hes displayed hope to see more. Wouldnt be surprised if he stuck around for a while.

I know this is lesser competition then the nhl but McCann may not be far off of Vey in the short term if his game can translate over. Would love to see him in some regular season games. I think we need to clear some vets to make room for guys like McCann/Virtanen. Virt looks ready for bottom 6.

And people laugh when I say McCann and Horvat could be our 1b and 2a centres in the future...

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Love what I have seen. McCann has shown a lot of creativity. After watching him play I think even I have under estimated his skills. Love what hes displayed hope to see more. Wouldnt be surprised if he stuck around for a while.

I know this is lesser competition then the nhl but McCann may not be far off of Vey in the short term if his game can translate over. Would love to see him in some regular season games. I think we need to clear some vets to make room for guys like McCann/Virtanen. Virt looks ready for bottom 6.

I think McCann will head back to junior for another year, probably one of the last cuts at camp. I loved his play yesterday, and I agree that he's close, but I don't think we're going to add to much youth at once and Virtanen seems to have the inside track this year. Add the fact that we have players like Gaunce and Shinkaruk lined up for call-ups, I just don't see him fitting yet.

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I think McCann will head back to junior for another year, probably one of the last cuts at camp. I loved his play yesterday, and I agree that he's close, but I don't think we're going to add to much youth at once and Virtanen seems to have the inside track this year. Add the fact that we have players like Gaunce and Shinkaruk lined up for call-ups, I just don't see him fitting yet.

His biggest knock at this point IMO, is he needs time to add muscle/strength/size.

One more year in junior, and at least a good portion of one in Utica and he'll likely be ready for a bottom 6 role to start.

He could probably play in Utica this year if he was aloud.

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And people laugh when I say McCann and Horvat could be our 1b and 2a centres in the future...

1b and 2a is something to laugh at. There's only room for 4 centers not 8. Just say 1 and 2.

Glad he's got the cobwebs out of his head after that silly and basically pointless(pun) summer evaluation camp. He looks like Mike Babcocks estranged son so he must be good.

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1b and 2a is something to laugh at. There's only room for 4 centers not 8. Just say 1 and 2.

Glad he's got the cobwebs out of his head after that silly and basically pointless(pun) summer evaluation camp. He looks like Mike Babcocks estranged son so he must be good.

The b and a generally denote the quality of their ceiling and have nothing to do with having 8 centres.

I don't think either of them will be elite first line centres. They'll merely be good /average in that regard, hence the 1b. I think both have it in them to be elite second line centres though, hence the 2a.

My personal opinion is that McCann has more natural offensive instincts (shot, passing, puck distribution) and skills compared to Horvat and is more likely to be the 1b centre of the two when developed but we shall see.

Either way, they're likely our 1st and 2nd line centres once Hank retirees.

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