Bridgeport and Prospect Roundup 11/14
by Mark D on Nov 14, 2010 11:41 AM EST
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Anyone who thinks the answer might come from BP may want to rethink that. In 3 of the 4 games since last Sunday the SoundTigers have given up 19 goals. A 6-1 loss, a 7-1 loss and a 6-5 loss before last night's OT win 3-2 over Norfolk. In 8 of the 15 games played this season, BP has only managed a single goal.
Robin Figern [Joensuu, Hamonic] was the lone goal scorer in the 7-1 loss to Hartford. Nathan Lawson had 24 saves on 31 shots, although 4 goals did come on the Hartford PP. In the 6-1 loss to Charlotte Tony Romano [Kohn] scored the lone goal as Lawson was again bombarded, making 35 saves on 41 shots. To be fair, BP only managed 18 shots for the whole game, while Charlotte had 18 shots just in the 3rd. In the rematch BP fell to Charlotte 6-5, but did show more life, finishing with 39 shots. Tony Romano [Rakhshani, Reese] Robin Figern [Wotton] Rhett Rakhshani [Reese] Brandon Svendsen [Yablonski, Figren] and Jeremy Colliton [Reese] were the goal scorers. Kevin Poulin took the loss with 24 saves on 30 Shots. Dylan Reese finished the night with 3 points and a +2.
In the final game of the week, BP beat Norfolk 3-2 in overtime. Dylan Reese [Ullstrom, Wotton] Jesse Joensuu [Ullstrom] Mark Wotton [Ullstrom] were your goal scorers. Mikko Koskinen finished with 20 saves on 22 shots. Somehow David Ullstrom wasn't named one of the game stars despite assisting on every goal.
Natural Born Kirills
Kirill Petrov played one game but failed to register a point. His season totals are 15 GP, 4 G, 6 A, 10 Pts +2
Kirill Kabanov did not play in Lewistown's win last night. That was their only game of the week. I did find an amusing video of a friendly competition between Trevor Gillies and Kabanov back at camp, no worries, Gillies doesn't just deck him and declare victory.
WHL, OHL, NCAA and Europe
Nino Niederreiter had one goal and two assists in 4 games this week. He's now at 8 GP, 2 G, 4 A, 6 Pts. If you wanted to see his fight, it's been posted on youtube.
The Oshawa Generals played two games this week. In the 4-0 rout of the Belleville Bulls Calvin De Haan assisted on 3 goals. In the following game De Haan was pointless, while DeHart seems to be cooling off since his fast start and didn't add to his season totals. De Haan has 15 GP, 2 G, 14 A, 16 Pts and a +6, DeHart has 19 GP, 1 G, 8 A, 9 Pts and a +8.
Mississauga St. Michael's Majors played four games this week. After a close 2-1 loss to Erie, they proceeded to put up 17 goals in the next 3 games to their opponents 9. Casey Cizikas added two goals and three assists to his season totals, now at 18 GP, 12 G, 10 A, 22 Pts, and +14.
David Toews played three games with the Wheat Kings this week. He finished the week strong, 2 assists and a +2 in Friday Nights game. For the week he had 3 Assists and even, putting his totals at 11 GP, 4 G, 6 A, 10 Pts and -2.
Anders Lee played two games with Notre Dame, registering an goal and assist. For the season he is now 11 GP, 8 G 3 A 11 Pts. I never realized that Anders was a pretty good football player too, as he was a finalist for Minnesota's Mr Football award.
Matt Donovan played two games with the University of Denver. He added a goal and three assists, putting his season total at 12 GP, 3 G, 5 A, 8 Pts. Not sure if I shared this, but Donovan had a beautiful goal from a game against UND two weeks ago. Gregoire and Nelson are also in that clip towards the end.
It was the week to catch Islanders prospects as the University of North Dakota and Wisconsin played back to back games. Jason Clark played in both games for the Badgers, notching no points and finishing -1. Jason Gregoire finished with the game winning goal in the first game and an assist in the second with a +1 while UND teammate Brock Nelson finished with no points and an even +/-.
Aaron Ness and Minnesota had no games this week.
Corey Trivino added a goal and assist in two games this week for Boston U. He has 8 GP, 2 G, 3 A, 5 Pts.
Brian Day played two games this week but was held off the scoresheet. He still has 4 G, 3 A, 7 Pts in 8 GP.
OSU and Shane Sims played two games this week with Sims picking up an assist. He's now at 11 GP, 1 G, 7 A, 8 Pts.
Blake Kessel got back on track adding a goal and assist in two games this week. His season total is 9 GP, 1 G, 6 A, 7 Pts.
Anders Nilsson had no games as the SEL appears to be on a ten day break? This is Dave's territory, if he knows why, I'll edit in the answer later.
Cody Rosen is still 3rd on the depth chart for Clarkson University and has yet to see the ice after eleven games. On the bright side, Clarkson got blown out against Dartmouth 7-1. They pulled their starter and allowed the backup to play the final period, and he gave up 2 goals on 13 shots. So Rosen might be threatening to move up.
BTW: Do you guys notice all the videos I add? Should I keep doing it or make it more obvious when I add the links t them? Or stop bothering with them?
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We should sign the box in the Kabanov video
To back up Roloson!
Thanks Web!
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I agree this clearly is not ...
a playoff team. Admittedly, at the start I thought there was chance they might squeak into the 8th spot, maybe even the 7th, but never did I think this was a REAL playoff team. BUT THIS! I don’t agree that as someone suggested they are “playing about as well as it can right now.” Other than the Philly game – what 36 losses ago ? – I don’t think this team has played near as well as it can. I don’t know why that is. But when Tavares, Moulson, Bailey all aren’t scoring AT ALL, something is seriously amiss with the approach or the motivation or yes – the system. Trent Hunter hasn’t scored yet this year. That’s bizarre. Maybe Rakhshani, Joensuu, Hamonic, DeHaan are not all ready for full time NHL duty. But are they all so far away that they can’t benefit from a look. A few games to get their feet wet and at least begin to get acclimated to the rest of the guys that are part of this supposed rebuild? I mean, would it hurt to make some changes in the mix here? It seems like there’s total passivity. They keep putting the same guys out there with almost no creative attempts at something new, and they getting the same results. It’s baffling, and frustrating.
Do SOMETHING. Change SOMETHING. TRY SOMETHING!
The problem with Rakhshani, Joensuu and Hamonic is that BP is struggling just as much to score goals. Jon Sim with 5 goals in 4 games leads all BP players in goal scoring. In 15 games no one on BP has more then 4 goals, meaning that their leading scorers are scoring less then 1 goal in every 3 games.
"...while Larry Brooks continues to be a sloppy disgrace, sigh" Quin8722
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had thought about Ullstrom because the Isles seem to be missing a lot of shots
and he is known for, among other things, a hard, accurate shot. Of course, I haven’t been able to actually watch him to see what he can do. BTW, I think for Brian Day, 4 goals, 3 assists = 7 points. As for Lee, yes, he was an outstanding hs fb player and that was the only reason he did not go MUCH earlier in the draft: many assumed he would play fb and not hockey.
thanks, I switch back and forth between 3 screens (last weeks Prospects, this weeks and Hockey DB) and screw up the numbers in my head.
"...while Larry Brooks continues to be a sloppy disgrace, sigh" Quin8722
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
But sometimes things happen ...
beyond the numbers. Sometimes guys rise to the occasion or start to emerge not necessarily when you’re expecting it. I’m not saying bring these kids up all at once and leave them here even if they all fall flat on their faces. But somehow we see other teams’ prospects catch on, or light a fuse or change the mix enough to stir some progess. Who knows how Joensuu might react this time if you put him out there with Bailey, or JT?
What I’m saying is, 10 losses in a row isn’t just the rebuild hitting a bump in the road. It could be driving it right off the freakin cliff. How exactly can giving some of these kids a shot in place of zero production from old and worn out pieces make things worse? How can it hurt the rebuild? I don’t think it can, I think it can only help.
The video links
Wow, the Bridgeport-Hartford highlights were ugly. No one looked good in that montage.
I for one like the video links, but you may want to add a note at the beginning (or else bracket [video: link]?) to make sure people know.
Thanks for doing all this.
Lighthouse Hockey: You say that like Streit and Okposo and MacDonald were important.
by Dominik on Nov 14, 2010 12:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
No problem, and as always thank you for doing everything you do.
It’s funny watching the Hartford clips and hearing “Redden” and remembering he’s actually down there playing for them.
I’ll give that a try next week with the clips.
"...while Larry Brooks continues to be a sloppy disgrace, sigh" Quin8722
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
It did make me chuckle to see Redden appear in the celebration.
Lighthouse Hockey: You say that like Streit and Okposo and MacDonald were important.
Anders Lee
Football is the reason he fell to the sixth round. It was assumed he would take that route so no one wanted to waste a pick on a guy that would never play hockey. Well guess what, hockey is his true love and he stuck with it so now the Islanders have a 2nd round talent at a 6th round price.
There is a lighthouse at the end of the tunnel.
by Anarcurt on Nov 14, 2010 1:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
arguably even a first round talent
He certainly is at least comparable to Nelson if not (IMHO) a bigger talent.
Elitserien Break
I think all the Euro leagues are on a bit of a break right now as there is the European Hockey Tournament (International) plus preliminary Olympic qualifying for the lower ranked countries (Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia ect. Basically all the countries that have no shot what so ever at making it to Sochi fight it out to see who gets to be lambs to the slaughter against Norway, Denmark and Germany.) so they’re basically on IIHF break right now.
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apparently AL hasn't been racking up the points just yet this year
It has been said that he is still showing the same talent and skill level, but teams are keying on him more.
He’s also an 18 year old playing against men. I think people too easily forget how good some of the talent in the Elitserien is. It is a veteran heavy league where almost everyone playing has a sound two-way game and if you don’t you’re either have to score over a point per game like a Zuccarello Aasen did or you’re riding pine. So for someone Larsson’s age to even be playing in the league is impressive, just as it was for Hedman two and three years ago.
Larsson is also playing on a blueline with two former first rounders (Rundblad and Tim Erixon) as well as former Pred Ville Kostinen, so it’s also not a thin blueline where he’d be playing a ton of minutes, he has to share with Rundblad, Erixon and Koistinen. So yeah, he has three assists in 17 games but hell for an 18 year old playing in a league where the average age is 26, I’ll cut him a break.
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by David Hanssen on Nov 15, 2010 1:07 AM EST up reply actions
Yes, as I say
the comments are that he is playing as well and showing the same ability. Skelletea is really up there. Have to check on Google to see whether it or Terrace is farther north.
JJ
Time to give him a shot. I’ll be honest, I usually don’t call for roster moves but I think Joensuu has proven all he can at Bridgeport and he’s flexible as he can play both center and wing (How about that, someone who is willing to be flexible up front and isn’t locked into a specific position!). I don’t know who he would replace (Sim, Gillies, PA), or time to bring him up and phase out Trent?
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He’s on his last year too, so they are going to have to figure out his future.
"...while Larry Brooks continues to be a sloppy disgrace, sigh" Quin8722
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
That sounds like the kind of shake-up I could get behind
Like Webby said, they have to fish or cut bait on him this year anyway; don’t know what more he can do at the AHL level — either he can become an NHLer or nyet.
Lighthouse Hockey: You say that like Streit and Okposo and MacDonald were important.
Agreed.
Really the Isles should be all about right now figuring out what they have with certain guys: Martin, Schremp, Parenteau and some of the Bridgeport guys. There’s no point playing Sim for example over any guys with potential. At all. (Gillies also in my opinion)
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