Meet the tallest player in Divison 1 Hockey:
22 Year old Junior at Omaha Nebraska from the Czech Republic
Listed at 6'8'' 225lbs on the UNO website
NCAA Stats:
2010/11 39GP 2G 7A 9P +5
2011/12 33GP 4G 13A 17P -2
2012/13 26GP 6G 12A 18P +13
His size alone should make some NHL scouts drool.
Pierre McGuire on Sustr last season:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...2452/index.htm
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Scouts from at least 20 NHL teams have journeyed to the heartland to watch 6'8" defenseman Andrej Sustr, a 20-year-old Czech-born sophomore at Nebraska-Omaha. Slow to develop, he went untouched through three drafts, which means he is now an unrestricted free agent. His role model is 6'9" Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, though most scouts feel Sustr will be less of a developmental project than Chara.
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http://thehockeywriters.com/player-p...man-on-campus/
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You’ll notice that while Sustr doesn’t put the puck in the net with much regularity, his assist total indicates a player with good vision and the ability to distribute the puck. Those who watched Sustr play for Nebraska-Omaha during the Ice Breaker tournament in Kansas City last weekend, surely noticed that the young man also makes an excellent first pass out of the zone, plays a calm and collected game under pressure, and skates surprisingly smoothly for a big man.
He’s also capable of absolutely wiring the puck when given space, as Notre Dame goaltender Steven Summerhays found out in the championship game of the Ice Breaker tournament.
Although Nebraska-Omaha ultimately fell to Notre Dame in the championship game, Sustr was one of the players that stood out all tournament long.
A major factor in Sustr’s development to this point is the fact that he left home when he was 18 to play for the Kenai River Brown Bears of the NAHL, where in addition to finding himself in a different country and surrounded by an unfamiliar culture, he had to adjust to the North American style of game. Sustr’s leap of faith has served him well, though. As Nebraska-Omaha head coach Dean Blais alludes to in the below video, Sustr is a mainstay on the Mavericks’ penalty kill, and has a solid set of hands for a man as big as he is.
Sustr’s most obvious comparable is without a doubt big Slovak Zdeno Chara – for obvious reasons. That said, to hear Pierre Maguire tell it, Sustr’s play may be more akin to that of Buffalo tower of power Tyler Myers, who doesn’t play quite as physically punishing a game as Chara, but instead relies on smart, heads-up decision making.
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