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Post by seventeen on Feb 20, 2012 23:12:28 GMT -5
Thanks NWT.
Tinordi has taken a big step up this year. I know that big guys (especially defensemen) take longer to mature and reach their potential, but I keep forgetting that and getting disappointed when a prospect doesn't seem to improve much. That was my feeling last year with Tinordi. He was excellent at the WJC and his OHL year also seems to be going very well with that strong +/- stat.
Can Beaulieu play the right side? I see a combo of he and Tinordi as sweet and sour, bacon and eggs, Harry and Sally...in other words, wonderful together.
Schultz is another guy I really want to see succeed. I think he can be our Lucic, a guy who can score, who can also throw them, and hopefully Schultz doesn't shy away from the heavyweights, like Mr. Lucy. Good to see the points starting to come from him.
Geoffrion - Maybe he is just suffering a sophomore jinx. His totals this year are horrible, or should I say, were horrible until he donned a red and blue Bulldogs uni. I don't have high expectations, but if he can be a better scoring Blunden, that works for me.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Feb 21, 2012 21:24:58 GMT -5
I have seen Beaulieu on his offside on the PP not sure how well he can do it longer term.
He now has a seven game point streak with a trio of helpers tonight.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Feb 22, 2012 8:23:49 GMT -5
Patrick Holland with a big night offensively last night. He had a goal and three assists in his team's big 7-2 win. He now has 84 points in 59 games, far surpassing his 62 points from last season. Not a bad "throw in".
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Feb 24, 2012 10:27:36 GMT -5
Friday Night CHL Hockey on Sportsnet will be featuring Darren Dietz and the Saskatoon Blades hosting the Kootenay Ice tonight. Game time is 8:00 pm ET. It is been shown on Sportsnet West and Sportsnet One.
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Post by Lord Bebop on Feb 24, 2012 19:17:02 GMT -5
Friday Night CHL Hockey on Sportsnet will be featuring Darren Dietz and the Saskatoon Blades hosting the Kootenay Ice tonight. Game time is 8:00 pm ET. It is been shown on Sportsnet West and Sportsnet One. Good to hear!!! I think Dietz can become a solid defenseman someday. I understand his d game needs some work though. Not really fast either but he's got another year in junior to work on his weaknesses. With guys like Beaulieu and Tinordi topping a list that also includes Ellis, Bennett, and Pateryn. Our future defense is in good hands..... IMO anyways  I also see St. Denis fitting on that list too but he's alittle old to fit on the prospect list though |
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Post by Lord Bebop on Feb 24, 2012 19:22:54 GMT -5
Thanks NWT. Tinordi has taken a big step up this year. I know that big guys (especially defensemen) take longer to mature and reach their potential, but I keep forgetting that and getting disappointed when a prospect doesn't seem to improve much. That was my feeling last year with Tinordi. He was excellent at the WJC and his OHL year also seems to be going very well with that strong +/- stat. Can Beaulieu play the right side? I see a combo of he and Tinordi as sweet and sour, bacon and eggs, Harry and Sally...in other words, wonderful together. Schultz is another guy I really want to see succeed. I think he can be our Lucic, a guy who can score, who can also throw them, and hopefully Schultz doesn't shy away from the heavyweights, like Mr. Lucy. Good to see the points starting to come from him. Geoffrion - Maybe he is just suffering a sophomore jinx. His totals this year are horrible, or should I say, were horrible until he donned a red and blue Bulldogs uni. I don't have high expectations, but if he can be a better scoring Blunden, that works for me. Schultz has been on my radar for a while as well... I was thinking he could top out in a Chris Neil type. Disappointed with his season last year but he's improved a lot. You have a good eye for the type of players that fit a need on the big club. |
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Post by oldhabsfan on Feb 27, 2012 6:19:19 GMT -5
In his last four games, Patrick Holland has 3 goals, 12 assists, 15 points, is +8. Maybe he will be an NHLer.
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Post by Willie Dog on Feb 27, 2012 8:58:01 GMT -5
In his last four games, Patrick Holland has 3 goals, 13 assists, 16 points, is +8. Maybe he will be an NHLer. According to Habs I/O Holland has 26 points in 10 games. They say he might be the key to the Cammy trade |
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Post by sjhabsfan on Mar 2, 2012 10:11:49 GMT -5
Beaulieu will be on Sportsnet nation wide again March 23 as the Sea Dogs open their playoffs at home.
No word yet on the opponent......
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 2, 2012 11:16:35 GMT -5
The big man, Jarred Tinordi, and the London Knights will be on Sportsnet tonight against Oshawa. Game time is 7:00 pm ET.
The Score will be showing Kristo and MacMillan's game against Minnesota State tomorrow afternoon at 5:00 pm ET. As per usual, this is a replay of the game that will be played tonight.
p.s. Gallagher now has both the all time goals and points records for the Vancouver Giants franchise. He is 14 assists short of the assist record, which I expect will be very hard to accomplish given the number of games left. Darn impressive though.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 6, 2012 11:17:48 GMT -5
Darren Dietz and the travelling Saskatoon Blades will be in PA tomorrow night (Wednesday) against the Raiders. For those Shaw subscribers in the west, they will be on Shaw TV starting at 7:00 CT. The Blades are on an extended road trip as their Credit Union Place home is currently the host venue for the Brier. I actually headed back from the Brier and Saskatoon on Sunday to see Dietz and the boys against the Oil Kings on Sunday night. It was my second live viewing this year (and once last season), and I do like this kid.
He does nothing fancy, but he is their top defender right now with Duncan Siemens not playing. 2012 draft pick Dalton Thrower is pretty impressive too. Dietz was pretty solid all game, although his most memorable moment likely wasn't quite what the coach ordered. With just over 14 minutes to play down 2-0, he took the Oil Kings top centre (a much smaller guy) into the boards hard, and then started pounding him. He ended up with 14 minutes of penalties (2+2+10) on the play, and put his team down for two minutes and sat in the box for all but the last shift of the game. I had not seen that little edge to his game before. He has decent size, is a good skater, and has a good first pass. He gets time on both the PP and PK. He also played on both sides at points in the game.
For the first time in three straight Oil King games featuring a Habs prospect as an opponent, the said Hab prospect did not finish the game as the first star. That happened when both Patrick Holland and Brendan Gallagher came to town in January.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 9, 2012 12:04:01 GMT -5
A chance to see not one, but two Hab prospects on Sportsnet CHL Friday Night Hockey tonight. Rimouski is in Shawinigan, visiting the Memorial Cup hosts and Hab prospects Michael Bournival and Morgan Ellis. Both have already signed their entry level deals so will be playing pro hockey next season in Hamilton or Wheeling. Morgan Ellis really has taken huge strides in his development this season, and this may be a chance for most to get a first look at this young defenseman. He will also get lots of airtime in May, when they host the Memorial Cup as Sportsnet shows all those games too. Game time is 7:00 pm ET.
Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday), the latest instalment of NCAA hockey on the Score will feature Danny Kristo and Mark MacMillan and their North Dakota Fighting Sioux as they host Bemidji State in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. As usual, this will be a tape delay from tonight's game. Game time is 5:00 pm ET.
Happy viewing!!
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Post by Lord Bebop on Mar 9, 2012 17:32:46 GMT -5
A chance to see not one, but two Hab prospects on Sportsnet CHL Friday Night Hockey tonight. Rimouski is in Shawinigan, visiting the Memorial Cup hosts and Hab prospects Michael Bournival and Morgan Ellis. Both have already signed their entry level deals so will be playing pro hockey next season in Hamilton or Wheeling. Morgan Ellis really has taken huge strides in his development this season, and this may be a chance for most to get a first look at this young defenseman. He will also get lots of airtime in May, when they host the Memorial Cup as Sportsnet shows all those games too. Game time is 7:00 pm ET. Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday), the latest instalment of NCAA hockey on the Score will feature Danny Kristo and Mark MacMillan and their North Dakota Fighting Sioux as they host Bemidji State in the first round of the WCHA playoffs. As usual, this will be a tape delay from tonight's game. Game time is 5:00 pm ET. Happy viewing!! It's a good weekend for prospect watching.......... Ellis has been making some noise lately and it will be fun to see what all the excitement is about. Shawinigan have two of our safest prospects IMO. Bournival is just a hard working two way center. Kristo had me worried with his off year last season but fortunatley he has come back with a solid season...... he's got some amazing wheels and developes scoring chances out of nowhere using his speed and slick stickhandling. His wrister gets him his goals so i hope that shot can translate to goals in the pro leagues. I hope to see him in Hamilton next year. |
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 10, 2012 10:02:42 GMT -5
Sorry guys, the North Dakota game is not on until Sunday afternoon on the Score.
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Post by Lord Bebop on Mar 10, 2012 13:31:08 GMT -5
Sorry guys, the North Dakota game is not on until Sunday afternoon on the Score. Thanks for the heads up!!! Watching Ellis last night as he had a very good game scoring a goal as well as winning a fight handly, he reminded me of watching a young Craig Rivet. Tough moble and skilled. |
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Post by jkr on Mar 10, 2012 15:21:03 GMT -5
Bulldogs now on TV against the Marlies on the Rogers channel. Started at 3PM
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Post by Lord Bebop on Mar 10, 2012 15:23:53 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Bebop on Mar 10, 2012 15:26:04 GMT -5
Bulldogs now on TV against the Marlies on the Rogers channel. Started at 3PM thanks for the heads up!!! |
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 11, 2012 15:38:05 GMT -5
North Dakota on the Score right now. End of first.
Edit: if you watched the game, you saw Mark MacMillan had three assists (career highs)and was named player of the game. Way to go rookie. Kristo and his top line were held scoreless.
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Post by seventeen on Mar 11, 2012 23:10:22 GMT -5
Watched part of it and saw a heads up play on the two on one, where he did a great job of faking a shot, and sliding the pass over to his right winger, who had a third of the net to pop it into . Kristo and the top line didn't seem to get a lot of ice time. Looked like the coach was rolling 4 lines (?).
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 13, 2012 12:53:07 GMT -5
Watched part of it and saw a heads up play on the two on one, where he did a great job of faking a shot, and sliding the pass over to his right winger, who had a third of the net to pop it into . Kristo and the top line didn't seem to get a lot of ice time. Looked like the coach was rolling 4 lines (?). I have watched a few MacMillan/Kristo games this year. I really like how MacMillan is developing. He has decent speed (that seems to have improved as I saw him live a few games while he was still in Penticton and he had an awkward skating style) and I do like his vision and puck skills. It seems like a broken record, but he will need to get bigger to be able to play at the next level. He is still a lot more of a long shot than Kristo. Kristo did not do too much offensively that game, but then again neither did his whole top line. I like that the coach does use Danny on the PK as well as the PP. He still is a very skilled player who can play the game at high speed. I look forward to seeing if he makes the jump to Hamilton next season. |
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 13, 2012 13:02:47 GMT -5
A host of Hab prospects are on TV again this week and weekend.
For those Shaw cable subscribers out west, you can catch Darren Dietz and the Blades at home to the PA Raiders tonight. Game time is 7:00 pm CT on Shaw TV. The Blades will be glad to get Credit Union Place back now that the Brier has wrapped up. They have been on the road for a while.
Shaw TV is also showing Brendan Gallagher and his Giants at home to Kelowna this Friday night as well. Game time is 7:30 PT.
On Friday night, the dream matchup of watching Nail Yakupov versus Jarred Tinordi took a left turn with that head shot that Yakupov took recently. He is now out for the season. The very nice consolation prize is that Alex Galchenyuk (one of my top Hab hopefuls this June!) will be back from knee injury and will be playing, although without his top ranked linemate. What a shame, those two will go a whole season without playing together. Game time is 7:00 pm ET on Sportsnet.
The Score is wrapping up its NCAA coverage this weekend with a couple of WCHA playoff games on Saturday. They are showing one of the two WCHA semis at 4:30 pm ET (a replay of the Friday night game) and then they are showing the WCHA final LIVE at 8:00 pm ET. Not sure if our Denver (Didier) or North Dakota (Kristo, MacMillan) prospects will be in any of the televised games as both those teams play Thursday night for the chance to advance to the semis on Friday night. Will keep you all posted...although these games are up against St Patty's Day activities. Tough call.
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Post by sjhabsfan on Mar 19, 2012 13:29:50 GMT -5
Nathan Bealieu and his Sea Dogs open their playoffs Friday night against the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. Broadcasted Nation wide on Rogers Sportsnet.
Time to defend the 2011 Memorial Cup title all ready!
The Sea Dogs also have the following NHL picks on their squad which means most nights they can be quite entertaining
Jonathan Huberdeau (FLA)
Zack Phillips (MIN)
Charlie Coyle (MIN)
Charles Oliver Roussel (NSH)
Tomas Jurco (DET)
Stan Galiev (WSH)
Ryan Tesink (STL)
Stephen McCauley (STL)
Danick Gauthier (TB signed)
Mathieu Corbeil (CLB)
Wow thats more than 1/2 the roster!
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Post by seventeen on Mar 19, 2012 16:56:59 GMT -5
Think they're favoured?
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Post by Boston_Habs on Mar 20, 2012 8:48:18 GMT -5
NCAA tournament starts this week, culminating in the Frozen Four April 5/7 in Tampa of all places.
Michigan (Mac Bennett, Greg Pateryn) is the #2 seed and will play Cornell on Mar 23. North Dakota (Danny Kristo) is the #4 seed and will play Western Michigan on Mar 24.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 20, 2012 15:01:33 GMT -5
NCAA tournament starts this week, culminating in the Frozen Four April 5/7 in Tampa of all places. Michigan (Mac Bennett, Greg Pateryn) is the #2 seed and will play Cornell on Mar 23. North Dakota (Danny Kristo) is the #4 seed and will play Western Michigan on Mar 24. There are six Habs prospects playing in total. In addition to those three, Mark MacMillan also plays for North Dakota (and is playing awesome hockey right now, especially for a freshman), Josiah Didier plays for Denver, and Scott Kishel (who should not get a contract after this season) plays for defending champs Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. |
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Post by seventeen on Mar 20, 2012 19:32:55 GMT -5
Macmillan set up another goal on the weekend that showed good hands and really nice vision. He's moved up a notch.
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Post by oldhabsfan on Mar 24, 2012 7:44:21 GMT -5
Patrick Holland's regular season is over. In 72 games he had 25 goals, 84 assists, 109 points, was +42. His goal total is nothing special, but he was 6th in the WHL in points and 1st overall in assists.
He had 0.9 points per game last season, 1.4 PPG this season when got him, and finished this season with 1.5 PPG; so a nice progression.
At 180 pounds nothing is certain, but he's fast and appears from his statistics to be defensively responsible at least. So I'd say we have some reason to be hopeful of a useful player.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 24, 2012 8:21:03 GMT -5
Well, the CHL playoffs kicked off on a good front for most of our prospects last night. Beaulieu, Ellis and Gallagher all had three point nights and their team got the W. Bournival and Holland also had two point nights in a winning cause.
The NCAA story is not as good. Highly ranked Michigan were upset in extra time and so Bennett (with one assist) and Pateryn see their season come to an end. In fact, that was Pateryn's last NCAA game. Kristo, MacMillan and Kishel all play tonight.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 26, 2012 10:05:04 GMT -5
The season is over for all of our NCAA prospects. Both North Dakota and UMD lost in their regional finals yesterday, so none of our kids will advance to the Frozen Four. Danny Kristo had a goal yesterday in a losing cause, and both he and Mark MacMillan added an assist on Saturday when they won. Scott Kishel did not play as UMD lost. A new NCAA champion will be crowned and that was Kishel's last NCAA game.
The news is more cheerful on the CHL front, as our lads and their teams keep on trucking for the most part. On Saturday night, Bournival had the GWG and Ellis added two helpers as Shawinigan is now up 2-0 in their series. Beaulieu had a goal and an assist, Gallagher netted two goals and two assists, and Holland had a 1+1 night as all of their teams also went up 2-0 on Saturday night in their opening round matchups.
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