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I remember watching a clip of a Blackhawks practice last season. The players were skating at a not so brisk speed during this drill, and I thought, ” Wow if you practice at this speed, no wonder some teams take advantage and hem the Hawks in their own zone for most of the game.” I saw a couple of clips from yesterday’s practice, and the tempo was much faster. I’m glad Blashill and staff has the team skating faster and harder from the get-go. It’ll be a higher bar for the standard of practices that these younger players will get accustomed to.
Kantserov sure can fire the puck. Wicked just wicked!!
+ (3) out of this group of Grizelda and 6 youngsters (Lev, Del Mastro, Korchinski, Allan, Crevier, Harding) <<<< all (6) here are waivers exempt
Crevier is no longer waiver exempt. Serves well as a 7th D-man.
Kaiser’s been participating in a lot of team on/off ice events including yesterday. He doesn’t seem too worried about it.
Hopefully Lardis and the other prospects can learn from both Nazar and Vlasic that not making the club right off the bat can be time well spent in the AHL. They both appeared to have worked hard on their deficiencies and have earned their way back on the squad with nice long term contracts. In the case of Reichel, not so much, but I’d like to see if this summer’s training regimen has worked out for him. Hard to give up Reichel’s speed and skill. I’m hopeful that he prevails.
Nice read by Ben Pope on how Lucas Reichel spent this summer training overseas. I remember reading some of the comments on HB about his play and those comments were spot on with some of the comments made by his current skills coach regarding Reichel’s deficiencies. Hopefully he has learned enough from this training and can take the next step forward towards his development.
Very fun read Coach. I think you and Ellis see things pretty much eye to eye, however Pronman’s list seems a little flawed. Of course, rating prospects is a task in itself as we are only predicting what holds for the future for these young players. And this is without seeing them in person, speaking with them, understanding their work habits etc.
However, I thought several names on Pronman’s list were questionable. Mason West is an athlete pure and simple, but a player that is labeled as raw. But how can you gauge what kind of player he will be at this point, and place him high on a list, when there are other prospects who have a more distinct hockey history. I think that’s why I think GM Davidson said that he was going for a grand slam on West’s pick, kind of a gut feeling lottery pick. I think Nestrasil would make more sense if you were to pick a young giant sized prospect for the list.
He chose Allen over Del Mastro, which isn’t that big of a deal, but I just thought Del Mastro was fine and not noticeable in a good way while up with the Hawks. Allen was ok too, but seemed to have penalty problems, which probably had him sent back to Rockford to be worked on.
He also chose Green, who by all accounts should be a good player, but nothing shows that he will be destined to a top 6 role.
Since Chicago’s pipeline is rated so high amongst the hockey writers, you’d figure that their top 10 list would be littered with top 6 forwards and top 4 D-men. I think your list and Ellis’ list show this.
