Scout
11-06-2007, 07:17 AM
Courtesy Alan Caldwell:
Monday, November 5, 2007
Monday musings
Slow news day today, it seems....
The Ice are down a player this week after 19 year old defenceman Paul MacDonald left the team last Friday for "personal reasons". It's believed he was unhappy with his ice time, but when you're still a 6th/7th defenceman calibre player at 19, you can't expect 20-25 minutes a night. MacDonald had injury troubles in his career but also never really progressed over what he was at 17 either.
A sign Brent Sutter might not be a mad junior hockey genius: his decision to ditch Alex Poulter this summer in favour of younger players. The Rebels got a 5th round pick for the 18 year old Poulter, who is playing very well in Prince George and has 10 goals so far. Uh, that's twice as many goals as anyone on the offence-starved Rebels has. Are the Rebels really going to be better off next year for having a 17 year old like Willie Coetzee or Mike Krgovich or Spencer Edwards or the 18 year old Tyler Penny play there this year instead of the 18 year old Poulter, whose spot one of them took?
UPDATE: speaking of players Sutter gave up on, Chilliwack has picked up Evan Pighin. Pighin was the other player traded to Prince George by the Rebels this past summer, but the Cougars dropped him (and thus the Rebels got nothing for him) when he told the Cougars he would rather play in the BCHL this year. He currently leads the BCHL in scoring with 42 points in 21 games, and has apparently decided to give the WHL another shot with Chilliwack. We'll see how he does.....he was nothing special last year in Red Deer as an 18 year old rookie.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Monday musings
Slow news day today, it seems....
The Ice are down a player this week after 19 year old defenceman Paul MacDonald left the team last Friday for "personal reasons". It's believed he was unhappy with his ice time, but when you're still a 6th/7th defenceman calibre player at 19, you can't expect 20-25 minutes a night. MacDonald had injury troubles in his career but also never really progressed over what he was at 17 either.
A sign Brent Sutter might not be a mad junior hockey genius: his decision to ditch Alex Poulter this summer in favour of younger players. The Rebels got a 5th round pick for the 18 year old Poulter, who is playing very well in Prince George and has 10 goals so far. Uh, that's twice as many goals as anyone on the offence-starved Rebels has. Are the Rebels really going to be better off next year for having a 17 year old like Willie Coetzee or Mike Krgovich or Spencer Edwards or the 18 year old Tyler Penny play there this year instead of the 18 year old Poulter, whose spot one of them took?
UPDATE: speaking of players Sutter gave up on, Chilliwack has picked up Evan Pighin. Pighin was the other player traded to Prince George by the Rebels this past summer, but the Cougars dropped him (and thus the Rebels got nothing for him) when he told the Cougars he would rather play in the BCHL this year. He currently leads the BCHL in scoring with 42 points in 21 games, and has apparently decided to give the WHL another shot with Chilliwack. We'll see how he does.....he was nothing special last year in Red Deer as an 18 year old rookie.