Junkyard Dog Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 OJ, Rathbone, Jurmo and a Darkhorse in Tryamkin. A lot of solid LH D in the system. Good chance we see one of these guys pan out as a top 4 D. Would kill for a solid RH D in this next draft. Could use one more RH winger too in the top 6. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKnight Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said: OJ, Rathbone, Jurmo and a Darkhorse in Tryamkin. A lot of solid LH D in the system. Good chance we see one of these guys pan out as a top 4 D. Would kill for a solid RH D in this next draft. Could use one more RH winger too in the top 6. Brandt Clarke, Guenther!! Matt Coronato looks like a player to keep an eye on for the 2nd round. Also, I wouldn't rule out Lind becoming that player for us. Edited February 28, 2021 by KKnight 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Pettersson Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said: OJ, Rathbone, Jurmo and a Darkhorse in Tryamkin. A lot of solid LH D in the system. Good chance we see one of these guys pan out as a top 4 D. Would kill for a solid RH D in this next draft. Could use one more RH winger too in the top 6. Jett Woo is going to a player. And also Viktor Persson who we drafted in the 7th round. Another Benning gem in the later rounds. I think we need a partner for Hughes. A Brandon Carlo, Erik Cernak type. That player would complete our defence for the next decade. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedinyoureyesontheprize Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 BPA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniwaki Canuck Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 47 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said: So will his nickname be "Boner" in the big leagues? Huggy and Boner... Seems inevitable, I mean look at what was going on here several pages back. CDC may have its mind in the gutter, but you can't count on the team to be any better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duodenum Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Rathbone looking like a stud so far in the A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kootenay Gold Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, Maniwaki Canuck said: Seems inevitable, I mean look at what was going on here several pages back. CDC may have its mind in the gutter, but you can't count on the team to be any better. Much prefer Rathman over the previous iterations. Personally I think it is would be very insulting and demeaning to him for the fans to call him the gutter version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyard Dog Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 39 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said: Jett Woo is going to a player. And also Viktor Persson who we drafted in the 7th round. Another Benning gem in the later rounds. I think we need a partner for Hughes. A Brandon Carlo, Erik Cernak type. That player would complete our defence for the next decade. Yeah Woo and Persson give us a good chance of one of them topping out to a solid 3rd pair type. Woo I could see becoming a 4/5 Brendan Dillon level player. Need a really solid one but there are various ways to acquire if we can't get one this draft. Only RHD is Clarke who wouldn't be bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ray_Cathode Posted February 28, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2021 41 minutes ago, Junkyard Dog said: OJ, Rathbone, Jurmo and a Darkhorse in Tryamkin. A lot of solid LH D in the system. Good chance we see one of these guys pan out as a top 4 D. Would kill for a solid RH D in this next draft. Could use one more RH winger too in the top 6. Rathbone had been flipping sides with his right shooting partner, Woo or Elliot in both of these games. He plays equally well on either side, both Woo is a very good skater able to take excellent body position no matter on which side he plays and is very assertive physically. Rathbone is an extra-ordinary skater, that as far as I can tell, gives up nothing in either end of the rink. Who did Cull (or maybe Agnew) have out there in the last minute of a game with a one goal lead? Woo and Rathbone with Lind, Jasek and Baertschi. The result? Out of their own end, slick as a whistle - Lind makes a generous play to Baertschi for the empty netter. So, I played back the game, isolating on Rathbone. After two games, of course, nobody has a read on him, so it is admittedly early, but there were three times in this game where Rathbone anticipated a pass to the winger on his side of the ice and stepped up in the neutral zone. The first guy he took out with a strong physical play - no flies on Jack. The other two times he stepped up and made the winger turn over the puck. It is an auspicious beginning for both of these rookie defenders. Rathbone also runs a pretty good power play. It is amazing to think that he hadn’t played a game in the better part of a year before these two. He is not flashy like Hughes, at least not so far, but based on two games where he has snuck up on the opposition, he has been remarkable. The announcer remarked the coach Cull, commenting on Rathbone’s first game, noted that he had played well, but that they did not expect him to get three assists every game. When told that, Rathbone remarked that he would have to try and get four in this one. He didn’t, but he and Woo were outstanding enough that Cull had them out there in the last minute o& a game where they were nursing a one goal lead. That is not common for Cull. Two years ago, when a Juolevi was a highly touted AHL rookie, he did not get that kind of responsibility and last year it took Cull a couple of weeks to warm to Rafferty running the power play, and half a season before Rafferty saw the PK - and only a Brisebois had a better +/- than Rafferty. But the coaches have warmed to these two kids immediately, and the team leads the North division at 5-1-0-1 with a game in hand. This is without Goldobin and Boucher (both now in Russia), and (Sautner, Rafferty, Brisebois, Juolevi, Chatfield, Bailey, MacEwen, and DiPietro) who were all standouts last year with Utica, and Graovac who is outstanding this year with the Moose. Granted they have the St Louis farm team sharing, but for the most part they are not the players who are outstanding on this team. I was looking forward to seeing Sam Anas play, and he did not disappoint, lining up with Cole Lind early, but Anas has missed the past two games (injured?). The two Stevens brother have been very good for the team, but John is a Utica property, while Nolan belongs to the Blues. I have to confess to not being as focussed on the Sat Louis properties as I have on our own prospects, so there is stuff I may have missed on them. 2 3 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alienhuggyflow Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 14 hours ago, Fred65 said: There will come a time when they can no longer over look this kids talent, maybe once JB has left and Juolevi has to stand on his own merit, to me it's a competition between Rathbone and Juolevi. I'm equally shocked that Chatfield has not been given a longer strech ditto Rafferty. If the season continues like it is we need to groom these young D for the future. Why Vcr signed Hamorlic and frankly Benn eludes me. Here we are up to our eye's in Cap problems and rather than give the youngsters a boost we spend $3+ million Chatfield is garbage and Raff is 25? and still can't crack the roster. The goal was to make the playoffs, not relying on 3-4 rookies on D. Rathbone is right where he needs to be. No point in rushing him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filthycanuck Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 5 hours ago, Duodenum said: Rathbone looking like a stud so far in the A. Im tempering my expectations here unlike some of the little overzealous CDCers here hoping for an all rookie D corps next year. Jordan Subban was pretty good in the A and he didn't turn out too well. Good to see Rathbone is doing well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hogs & Podz Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, filthycanuck said: Im tempering my expectations here unlike some of the little overzealous CDCers here hoping for an all rookie D corps next year. Jordan Subban was pretty good in the A and he didn't turn out too well. Good to see Rathbone is doing well Nope.... Horrible comparison. Edited February 28, 2021 by Hogs & Podz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filthycanuck Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 1 hour ago, Hogs & Podz said: Nope.... Horrible comparison. How so? What, you're already sold after 2 games? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Anyone know why rathbone isnt a rookie on the ahl statistics page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzukes Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 16 minutes ago, filthycanuck said: How so? What, you're already sold after 2 games? LOL Subban was hot garbage, Rathbone is good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UticaHockey Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 (edited) 8 hours ago, filthycanuck said: Im tempering my expectations here unlike some of the little overzealous CDCers here hoping for an all rookie D corps next year. Jordan Subban was pretty good in the A and he didn't turn out too well. Good to see Rathbone is doing well You are right in saying Rathbone is only two games into his pro career and we should wait and see a larger body of work. I wish I could see this kid play in person instead of a stream on TV because he looks like the best skater we've had in Utica. Coach Cull himself said that Rathbone is the best defenseman he has seen at walking the line in this league. Pretty high praise. There is no comparison between Rathbone and Jordan Subban. While Subban did put up AHL points he just simply could not defend. I don't think I ever saw Subby make a play like this. (Credit Cody Severtson and his "Comets Harvest" game summary for the video) https://streamable.com/yhula5 Edited February 28, 2021 by UticaHockey 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appleboy Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 Let's hope Benning isn't show casting him to use as trade bait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawns Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 1 hour ago, appleboy said: Let's hope Benning isn't show casting him to use as trade bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 39 minutes ago, stawns said: I see this and I think of Night Court. A very grumpy, and borderline evil woman is dealing with Harry. He says that maybe she has good inside of her. Just something happened to ruin that. "Like she was kicked out of the Rockettes or something?" Her reply: "That director was blind! My legs were better than anyones!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnBurner Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 2 hours ago, UticaHockey said: You are right in saying Rathbone is only two games into his pro career and we should wait and see a larger body of work. I wish I could see this kid play in person instead of a stream on TV because he looks like the best skater we've had in Utica. Coach Cull himself said that Rathbone is the best defenseman he has seen at walking the line in this league. Pretty high praise. There is no comparison between Rathbone and Jordan Subban. While Subban did put up AHL points he just simply could not defend. I don't think I ever saw Subby ever make a play like this. (Credit Cody Severtson and his "Comets Harvest" game summary for the video) https://streamable.com/yhula5 What is most impressive about that play is, not only did he throw a solid body check on the forward, but he also gained control of the puck and moved it up ice quickly. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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