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The Chicago Blackhawks made two roster moves today, sending defenseman Sam Rinzel and forward Landon Slaggert to the Rockford IceHogs of the American
[See the full post at: Hawks Send Rinzel, Slaggert To IceHogs]What is Rinzel? Is he an offensive D man who is going to produce enough points that the coach will put up with his bad defense or is he a guy who is going to struggle to gain the coach’s confidence until he learns how to be more dependable in his own zone? Let’s hope he goes to Rockford and Nightingale molds him into a solid D man who brings offense when it’s there. My guess is we have seen the last of him at the NHL level for the season. With the playoffs slipping away, it is time to find out if KK, Allen, and Del Mastro can play or need to be traded away. Duncan Keith played 99 AHL games and turned out OK, Rinzel can spend a season or 2 in the AHL.
Duncan Keith played 99 AHL games and turned out OK, Rinzel can spend a season or 2 in the AHL.
I’ve used Keith as an example for years when it comes to developing defensemen.
No, these youngsters are not likely to become a Hall Of Famer who gets ranked among the best 25 or 30 D-men of all time.
Yes, most of these youngsters (except EDM?) were drafted higher than Keith, which would point to a quicker development.
Duncan Keith played his first ever NHL game 3 months after his 22nd birthday.
KK has been around “forever” it seems. If he stays in RFD and only comes back to the NHL at the beginning of the 26/27 season,
he will still only be one month older than Keith, when Keith made his NHL debut.
And Keith was *not* a finished product even at that point. He still had growing pains.Hjalmarsson: He came up part time during his 20 and 21 year old seasons, but did not stick until his 22 year old season.
Vlasic: Got 15 games at age 20 and 6 games at 21 before coming up for good at…. age 22.
Kaiser got 32 NHL games at age 21 but still split 57 NHL / 17 AHL last season, at 22.Seabrook and Leddy are the only home grown D-men of recent memory who came up younger and stayed.
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