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belsarius · 03-10-2014, 03:52 PM

It's such a funny thing to match expectations to reality. You look at the Boston Bruins and only one player in their current top 10 scoring was picked in the first round, and that just happens to be Iggy. Otherwise it is a collection of second/third rounders who panned out. Of course they might just be the exception to the rule but considering that Weisbrod was at the forefront of a good chunk of our current prospects I think it might be fair to say we could end up with the same kind of influx of solid player talent without the flash.

I truely believe this time we can let ourselves be more excited about our prospects, because they play differently than any batch of prospects in the last decade. They all seem committed to both ends of the ice, they give their all but most importantly except for some rookie moments they all seem to have very high hockey IQ.

It seems that every single one of the call ups have a good nose for the play. Sure there are rookie mistakes, and without NHL experience that will happen but the improvement shows they understand their mistakes and work to make them better. They have a desire to benefit the team first and their stat line second. Sure they may mostly be third liners with a couple that could play top 6 but you don't need a team full of point per game guys to win. So I may not be optomistic that any of them will be a superstar, I think the group of them are exactly what we need to build a core of a very good hockey team.

What I wouldn't give to add 20 year old Iginla to this team over the one he was forced with.

03-10-2014, 03:52 PM	#38
belsarius First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Cranbrook Exp:	It's such a funny thing to match expectations to reality. You look at the Boston Bruins and only one player in their current top 10 scoring was picked in the first round, and that just happens to be Iggy. Otherwise it is a collection of second/third rounders who panned out. Of course they might just be the exception to the rule but considering that Weisbrod was at the forefront of a good chunk of our current prospects I think it might be fair to say we could end up with the same kind of influx of solid player talent without the flash. I truely believe this time we can let ourselves be more excited about our prospects, because they play differently than any batch of prospects in the last decade. They all seem committed to both ends of the ice, they give their all but most importantly except for some rookie moments they all seem to have very high hockey IQ. It seems that every single one of the call ups have a good nose for the play. Sure there are rookie mistakes, and without NHL experience that will happen but the improvement shows they understand their mistakes and work to make them better. They have a desire to benefit the team first and their stat line second. Sure they may mostly be third liners with a couple that could play top 6 but you don't need a team full of point per game guys to win. So I may not be optomistic that any of them will be a superstar, I think the group of them are exactly what we need to build a core of a very good hockey team. What I wouldn't give to add 20 year old Iginla to this team over the one he was forced with. __________________ @PR_NHL The @NHLFlames are the first team to feature four players each with 50+ points within their first 45 games of a season since the Penguins in 1995-96 (Ron Francis, Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Tomas Sandstrom). Fuzz - "He didn't speak to the media before the election, either."