[Matty81]

No shocker here but saw Bob Murray the flames scout at the rockets cougars game tonight - with iginla and parascak both playing and the flames having 2 1sts not really a big surprise. Rockets have played a lot better than expected.. they are down 3-1 but just an OT goal / bounce from the series being tied against a much better juggernaut team with 7 or 8 20 year olds and were good value for the win tonight. Though none of the draft eligible guys really stood out. tij worked hard but wasn't very impactful.

He wanted a goal really bad and tried to do that by jumping ahead of the play maybe even cherrypicking on the breakout a few times and forcing play a bit resulting in a couple turnovers inside the blueline. But does stand out as one of the better players still and always shows a strong desire to imapct the game and high competitiveness. Thornton on pg was following him around the ice slashing his ankles trying to goad him a couple times and he pushed back a little but mostly just skated away. No temper/long fuse

Never like to see 20 year old overagers bullying the 17 year old kids like that but it's a competitive league and kid has to have a bit of a target on his back between his name and draft ranking. Junior has changed so much 90% of the kids are super non confrontational and avoid escalating things as a few years back even the rockets would have had a bigger older player attack a guy for targeting a smaller star 17 year old like that.