Agostino and his Yale teammates are taking on Brown as we speak.
Providence (Jankowski, Gillies, and Gilmour) plays Miami (Oh) at 4 PT
Michigan State (Deblouw) plays against Mass.Lowell at 4 PT
Colgate ( Tim Harrison) plays St Cloud State at 4 PT
BC Eagles (Gaudreau and Arnold) play Minnesota at 5 PT which should be a good game
Regina Pats (Klimchuk) play the Edmonton Oil Kings at 6 PT
Victoria Royals (Kanzig) play Kelowna Rockets at 7 PT
Brandon Wheat Kings (Roy) play Spokane at 7 PT
Vancouver Giants (Kulak) play Everett at 7:30 PT
Like I said, lots of action tonight and tomorrow night as well.
My time must be wrong for the Providence game. Thanks for the info Getbak!
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1-0 Providence after 1. Miami outshot PC 17-11 and had 2 PPs. Gillies has been playing strong, again.
They showed an interview with Janko during the intermission. Without his gear on, you can tell he has bulked up quite a bit in the last year. He looks a little smaller than Monahan, but he's definitely close.
Yale lost their first official game of the season 4-1.
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The Friars got into penalty trouble in the third and Miami was able to get 2 PP goals past Gillies to tie the game and force OT. PC ended the third and started OT with a 2 man advantage and got a goal just as the first penalty expired to win it.
Providence remains undefeated. Miami was ranked 3rd in the nation going into the game, so the win should help boost PC's ranking (8th last week).
Post game interview, the coach calls Janko's goal a "big time play by a big time player".
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man, Klimchuk and the Pats are getting slaughtered out there ... 7-0 Edmonton at the end of the 2nd. Klimchuk is a -1, which isn't THAT bad considering the scoreline. Not a good day for our WHL prospects so far ... the Wheat Kings are down 1-0 vs Spokane and the Royals are down 2-0 vs Kelowna.
But they'll probably keep him considering he'll have another junior year after this.
I hope they keep him. Watch his interview on draft day. He even states that though it is tough playing on a losing team, he gets loads of development opportunities that he would not have if he played on a powerhouse. Monahan seems to be doing pretty good
I get your point though - we all want to see as many of our prospects (especially the more highly touted ones) have long playoff drives. There are always two sides to the coin.
Monahan's team sacked last year but they were fairly good in the years before that. If you're an elite guy you're going to get tons of ice on any junior team. You'll get more chances as a 16/17 year old on a bad team, but klimchuk would get top line/1st pp unit time on any whl at his age.
Monahan's team sacked last year but they were fairly good in the years before that. If you're an elite guy you're going to get tons of ice on any junior team. You'll get more chances as a 16/17 year old on a bad team, but klimchuk would get top line/1st pp unit time on any whl at his age.
I definitely agree he would get top line/1st PP time on almost every team in the WHL (very few exceptions I would think), and you also get the benefit of a playoff drive. That is huge and not to be underestimated in a prospect's development.
It is just that if you are 'the guy' on a bad team, your responsibilities increase and so does the quality of competition, as it becomes easy to line-match against you (like Monahan last year facing the highest quality of competition in the OHL (possibly the CHL?). Leadership opportunities would also be bigger as well.
I remember Kulak talking about it last year and about his development opportunities playing for the Giants, and how he would probably not get those same opportunities if he was playing on a contender - both on and off the ice.
Pros and cons to both scenarios was my only point really, which I never thought of before. I am undecided which is the 'best' way (would imagine someone like Klimchuk who is fairly well-rounded would benefit more from an elite team and the long playoff drive than someone who is just offensive), but there are definitely advantages to a player's development playing on a lousy team.
