First Pre-Season Loss
The Kootenay Ice rolled into town and handed the Americans a 5-4 pre-season loss. Holy mother of Jesus I always forget how sloppy pre-season hockey is. The Ams iced a nearly all-rookie roster, only Wilgosh, Dow, and Sutherland provided some veteran presence. The behbeh goalie played like a behbeh goalie, I wasn't overly impressed, but wasn't particularly unimpressed. In my little world he's got pretty big skates to fill after losing Drew.
After 1 game, my keepers:
Malte Milk Balls
Lucas Nickles
Justin Gutierrez
Fluter Flakes
Riley Guenther
Justin Hamonic
Brian Williams
my "meh"s:
Tyson Dallman
Michal Plutnar (word is his game is improving so he'll move up and stay, obvs)
Marcus Messier
Max Moline
Clint Filbrandt
Brennan Bosovich
my "uh....no"s:
Matt Hughesman
Mackenzie Royer
Realistically, not sure about Gutierrez sticking, he's still a behbeh, though he's a big enough kid. I thought Malte looked good, he's got energy, not afraid to get in there and get gritty. Lucas Nickles just looked fine. Period. Damn, son. He got in a good scrap too, that was hot. Then he got a game misconduct and ended up in the stands in a suit. Woah Billy.
Max, Marcus, I love you boys but you're fighting some youngsters for a spot, better step it up. Marcus I'm not AS worried about, he's quick and has some puck luck, Max...not so much. Moline has the size and some skill, but has never been one to have a lot of puck luck. I want him to do well, I want them all to do well, but there's quite an impressive young crop eager for their chance.
Obviously the team that played last night is nowhere near what will be the final product, there's the other overagers--Shinny, Hughey, Big Mac--fighting for spots but they're off at NHL camps (yay for them!) so 2 20s will still have to be trimmed. Which makes me sad.
I thought Dow played really well. I've always like his play but I think that time he got at forward last spring did wonders for him. Especially for his confidence. It didn't hurt his skating or puck-handling either.
Yes, I'm well aware these are observations being made after ONE pre-season game.
6 comments:
Marcus played an excellent game last night, anyone with half a brain for hockey could have seen that. Figure it out.
Marcus messier had an awesome game last night. Anyone with half a brain for hockey could see that. Put your camera away and open your fucking eyes. Figure it
Out.
Thank you for your very kind words.
Figure it out that different people have different opinions of the game.
And actually, at no point did I say Marcus had a bad game. Or even a mediocre game. But *IN MY OPINION* there's a bunch of young guys and Marcus (and others) are going to have to work even harder to ensure their spot on the roster. The spots are theirs to lose. If Marcus continues to have great games in pre-season that bodes well for his future on the team.
Hey amsfan87, don't be a dick.
One thing to realize is that where you sit in the arena has a huge impact on how one views the game. Dave takes a lot of pics and therefore sit very close to the glass to get good pics. Mistakes made by a player right in front of you will seem more obvious and a good play at the other end of the rink may go unnoticed. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and nowhere on this site have I read the Dave has proclaimed to be a professional hockey scout.
I disagree about the Royer opinion. I think he's played well and will be a top 9 forward for this team.
But I'm fairly sure Bob Tory is not consulting Dave to see who the last few guys are that should make the team.
You're wrong Mr. Spokant, Bob and I are on the phone all the time discussing the future of the organization.
LOL J/K I wish hahahaaa
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