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Post by BadCompany on Jun 12, 2008 7:35:39 GMT -5
The Junior de Montreal have acquired Angelo Esposito from the Quebec Remparts. Gave up a lot too, to get him... Esposito Feels At HomeSo Angelo realizes, sort of, his dream of playing hockey in Montreal... |
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Post by Skilly on Jun 12, 2008 8:54:45 GMT -5
Wonders if this kind of trade would have happened if the team stayed in St. John's .....
Anyhoo ... the best player in the deal is J.S. Allard. It mentions that there are clauses in place if Esposito makes Atlanta .... but Allard has a decent shot at making Buffalo. J.S was a #1 draft pick in the Q, and came to a place that just as well may have been the outer reaches of Siberia as far as he was concerned... he was in a complete state of culture shock his rookie season. But the past two years has seen this kid mature and get better each time he takes the ice ..... it was a treat to watch him.
Oh and I wouldn't worry about Esposito being cut three times from the WJC team .... the other guy made out ok, that would be Stanley Cup Champion Daniel Cleary.
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Post by jkr on Jun 12, 2008 9:11:07 GMT -5
Wonders if this kind of trade would have happened if the team stayed in St. John's ..... Anyhoo ... the best player in the deal is J.S. Allard. It mentions that there are clauses in place if Esposito makes Atlanta .... but Allard has a decent shot at making Buffalo. J.S was a #1 draft pick in the Q, and came to a place that just as well may have been the outer reaches of Siberia as far as he was concerned... he was in a complete state of culture shock his rookie season. But the past two years has seen this kid mature and get better each time he takes the ice ..... it was a treat to watch him. Oh and I wouldn't worry about Esposito being cut three times from the WJC team .... the other guy made out ok, that would be Stanley Cup Champion Daniel Cleary. Yeah but it took Cleary 4 teams (Chicago, Edmonton, Phoenix, Detroit) and almost hitting his 28th birthday until he bacame a bona fide NHL player. |
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Post by Skilly on Jun 12, 2008 11:50:25 GMT -5
Wonders if this kind of trade would have happened if the team stayed in St. John's ..... Anyhoo ... the best player in the deal is J.S. Allard. It mentions that there are clauses in place if Esposito makes Atlanta .... but Allard has a decent shot at making Buffalo. J.S was a #1 draft pick in the Q, and came to a place that just as well may have been the outer reaches of Siberia as far as he was concerned... he was in a complete state of culture shock his rookie season. But the past two years has seen this kid mature and get better each time he takes the ice ..... it was a treat to watch him. Oh and I wouldn't worry about Esposito being cut three times from the WJC team .... the other guy made out ok, that would be Stanley Cup Champion Daniel Cleary. Yeah but it took Cleary 4 teams (Chicago, Edmonton, Phoenix, Detroit) and almost hitting his 28th birthday until he bacame a bona fide NHL player. ahhhh but to quote the important part ... " he became a bona-fide NHL player" ... that's the part that counts. |
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Post by jkr on Jun 12, 2008 15:09:31 GMT -5
Yeah but it took Cleary 4 teams (Chicago, Edmonton, Phoenix, Detroit) and almost hitting his 28th birthday until he bacame a bona fide NHL player. ahhhh but to quote the important part ... " he became a bona-fide NHL player" ... that's the part that counts. I think it's a great story. At 27-28 most teams won't give a guy a chance. The story they told on CBC was that only 2 teams, Detroit & Toronto, were interested in Cleary. Picking Detroit shows that, besides being a good hockey player, he's also a pretty smart guy.  |
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Post by CrocRob on Jun 12, 2008 22:18:18 GMT -5
There's a difference between Cleary and Esposito. Espo is useless as a bottom 6 forward. He either needs to produce goals (or points), or he won't make The Show.
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Post by Doc Holliday on Jun 13, 2008 12:45:09 GMT -5
...Espo will have a much better shot at making himself an NHL nich in Atlanta than he did in Pittsburgh but I'm not sure he needed the additionnal pressure of being the franchise player of a newly formed junior hockey team in Montreal...
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Post by habmeister on Jun 19, 2008 19:02:17 GMT -5
a kid from the vancouver giants probably passed him on the young center depth chart, casey pierro-zabotel, besides as i said back on draft day, bust written all over him.
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