HerrDrFunk Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 That gaudreau kid should have some good consideration. for the calder hes 21 but a steal of a pick at 104.dont like the douchey nickname though I know where you're coming from but he's an undersized rookie racking up points. I'll begrudge him the nickname for now. Honestly? I'm kind of happy for Calgary that they have a rookie like him to be excited for. Nothing would give me more of a s**t eating grin than for the Canucks and flames to bounce a couple of California teams out of the playoffs and continue the playoff wars of the early 2000s. Anyway though, Bo knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurai Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 i discovered him first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William_Clarkson Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Also worth mentioning he missed the first part of the season and didn't really start producing until about the calendar year of 2015. Not to mention he probably has a defensive advantage over Drouin (3rd overall pick in the same draft) and Forsberg. Very happy with him so far and it's great to see him producing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Sestito Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 any nickname is fine with me if you're doing fine in your role. johnny football = bad because manziel is currently in the news for everything other than football. swaggy p = &^@#ing terrible because nick young is terrible . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowYaDrouin Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 yeah but Alex Biega has the best PPG for any rookie in the league this year #biegaforcalder #biegafornorris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoaltenderInterference Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Bo Score-vat is one of my favourites to watch on this team. Keep the goals coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakrami Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Oh please... Horvat is good.. But what are you trying to do? Compare him to Forsberg and Ekblad? They are in a different class than Horvat, for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph. Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Among all NHL rookie forwards, Bo is: 17th in goals, 14th in assists, 17th in points, 58th in ice time All of his points are even strength; he hasn't been on the power play much until recently, and even still it's much less than... Filip Forsberg. Just for a silly example, he averages 2:50 PP time per game. He has 17 PP points (5G/7A) which accounts for 34% of his total points. He has 33 even-strength points (14G/19A), playing 14:09 ES-TOI). He gets one ES point for every 24:02 ES minutes played or so. Horvat, over the course of the whole season, has been averaging an ES point for every 27.53 ES minutes played. As we all know, he's been improving his play and producing more lately (specifically, the second half of January and on). In the last 13 games, he's obtained 9 points (5G/4A) playing about 12:05 at ES, improving to an ES point for every 17:30 ES-TOI. (Edit: I should've just included all of 2015 for a better sample size, which would admittedly bring down those stats.) Now obviously, he's probably not going to sustain that. That would be... something else to say the least. I think it's probably about 60-65% getting hot and 35-40% actual improvement in his game and growing into his potential as an NHL player. Forsberg is only 9 months older than Bo, but was drafted a year earlier and has played parts of two NHL seasons coming into this one (a total of 6P in 18GP). In the seasons prior to being drafted, he played for Leksands IF, which was at the time still in the second-tier league in Sweden (still playing against men, however). Also played a little over half a season in the AHL, accumulating 34 points in 47 GP last year. Compare this to Horvat: OHL groomed (obviously respectable, but still competing with kids), and of course never playing in the AHL as he got his full time NHL gig before he was old enough. Obviously Forsberg is on a higher level for now and has the best chance at the Calder. This is more of a way to spitball where Borvat could potentially improve to in the next year or two. With their junior careers and current team roles considered, I feel while Bo may be a little behind Filip in terms of 'development,' he has the potential to be putting up as good a season or better than Forsberg's current one within the next two years. I also feel Bo is on par or better than Forsberg defensively (taken with a grain of salt, I haven't seen Forsberg play as much). Anyways. It's late and I'm tired. My major point was supposed to be although I don't want to jump the gun, all I want is MORE HORVAT. MORE MORE MORE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandmaster Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 That trade losing Cory is now paying off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Oh please... Horvat is good.. But what are you trying to do? Compare him to Forsberg and Ekblad? They are in a different class than Horvat, for now. Hard to really compare as they are different players in different roles. Would Forsberg being a potential 40g - 100pts player be more valuable than the Norris-potential Ekblad who will put up 50+ points? And how does that compare to Bo Horvat whose trajectory will make him a 60-70pts shutdown Selke-level centre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentine Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 That trade losing Cory is now paying off Isn't taking as long as I'd expected to pay off either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnum P I Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I'm glad he isn't going to win the Calder. He avoids the Calder curse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FijianCanuck Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Hopefully Bo doesn't suffer a sophomore slump, kids playing better and better every game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Has officially surpassed my point total expectations For 82 games in nearly half the time. WTG bo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timberz21 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015   Forsberg pretty much has the Calder locked up  Totally disagree, pretty sure Ekblad is right up there in the votings, if anything for me he has the edge. Actually, this is Forsberg's 3rd year in the league, yes he only played 5 and 13 games the past two years, but still, it's not it's first camp, games. Ekblad came in at barely 18 years old and played solid against men. 32 pts for a rookie defenseman, likely 10+ goals, 2nd in scoring on his team, with a below average team... He has my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McClane Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 His quickness to loose pucks and speed with the puck have taken a huge jump forward in the last few weeks. He never really look slow or out of place early in the season, but now he is starting to win races and go around guys down the wings. Feeling the game more at the NHL level. Truly fun to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger-Hearted Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I hated to say goodbye to Schneider-Man but I was thrilled to get BoHo in the draft. Horvat will win multiple Selke Trophies down the road and no Canuck has ever won multiple postseason awards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Where are all the idiots that say that you should develop in the chl and Ahl????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Standing_Tall#37 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 As a rookie: Bo 42gp 7G 9A Henrik 82gp 9G 20A Bo actually has better ppg slightly. Keep in mind the sedins were very slow developers and didnt really hit their stride til 25/26 years old. I think this kid is gonna be unreal at 23, hopefully Virtanen can compliment him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totes McGoats Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Previous regimes haven't given our rookies a legit shot at the NHL . Horvat has been given a fair shake and he's earning his ice time big time. He's one of the most important players on this team / going forward in the future. You didn't need to make a new thread with a bunch of cherry picked stats for us to know all that. BO is doing just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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