Memorial Cup

[thegibby.]

What's the deal with Bryce Pickford? Breakout season; not drafted?


Lindstrom getting reckless.

He won’t be passed over this year.

forgot you brought him up on page one; interesting talent to say the least.

4-0!

[thegibby.]

Lindstrom again. geeeeez!

[Pierre McGuire]

McKenna pulls Medicine Hat within two

[Pierre McGuire]

Review takes the goal away…

[SameOldBlues]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

[STL fan in MN]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

It’s why I like to watch the Jr game. Their offensive skills are almost NHL caliber but they all stick suck defensively (by NHL standards). Makes for an exciting style of game usually as there’s lots of goals scored off of defensive miscues/turnovers.

Good game. A little anticlimactic. I still didn’t see the puck touch a high stick on McKenna’s 2nd goal that was called off. But great game from London. They were the better team for sure. Brzustewicz with a great outlet break pass on their 1st goal and a great play in the 2nd to break up a 2 on 1, deflecting the puck away from McKenna. I just don’t see why he’s not ranked higher. I’d be absolutely happy with him at 19.

[SameOldBlues]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

It’s why I like to watch the Jr game. Their offensive skills are almost NHL caliber but they all stick suck defensively (by NHL standards). Makes for an exciting style of game usually as there’s lots of goals scored off of defensive miscues/turnovers.

Good game. A little anticlimactic. I still didn’t see the puck touch a high stick on McKenna’s 2nd goal that was called off. But great game from London. They were the better team for sure. Brzustewicz with a great outlet break pass on their 1st goal and a great play in the 2nd to break up a 2 on 1, deflecting the puck away from McKenna. I just don’t see why he’s not ranked higher. I’d be absolutely happy with him at 19.

Yea, it always seems to be a player’s defensive acumen that is the last skill to come around Ive noticed.

[Aesa]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

It’s why I like to watch the Jr game. Their offensive skills are almost NHL caliber but they all stick suck defensively (by NHL standards). Makes for an exciting style of game usually as there’s lots of goals scored off of defensive miscues/turnovers.

Good game. A little anticlimactic. I still didn’t see the puck touch a high stick on McKenna’s 2nd goal that was called off. But great game from London. They were the better team for sure. Brzustewicz with a great outlet break pass on their 1st goal and a great play in the 2nd to break up a 2 on 1, deflecting the puck away from McKenna. I just don’t see why he’s not ranked higher. I’d be absolutely happy with him at 19.

I thought it was a questionable call BUT the pick did come off the glass and barely touched the stick..I didn't really see it on the replay until they cropped the video and enlarged it. Made the video grainy and fuzzy but you could definitely see the puck very slightly change direction after touching the stick. Still a nitpicky call IMHO..

[STL fan in MN]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

It’s why I like to watch the Jr game. Their offensive skills are almost NHL caliber but they all stick suck defensively (by NHL standards). Makes for an exciting style of game usually as there’s lots of goals scored off of defensive miscues/turnovers.

Good game. A little anticlimactic. I still didn’t see the puck touch a high stick on McKenna’s 2nd goal that was called off. But great game from London. They were the better team for sure. Brzustewicz with a great outlet break pass on their 1st goal and a great play in the 2nd to break up a 2 on 1, deflecting the puck away from McKenna. I just don’t see why he’s not ranked higher. I’d be absolutely happy with him at 19.

I thought it was a questionable call BUT the pick did come off the glass and barely touched the stick..I didn't really see it on the replay until they cropped the video and enlarged it. Made the video grainy and fuzzy but you could definitely see the puck very slightly change direction after touching the stick. Still a nitpicky call IMHO..

I didn’t even realize something like that was even reviewable? Idk. My kids were very distracting during that part so I probably missed some of it. Super ticky tack call IMO. Technically correct but I’ve never seen that reviewed before.

[Aesa]

Awesome game there for awhile. Im lookin forward to watching more of these (junior?) games in the future. There’s more skill and flow to the games than I thought there’d be with kids so young.

It’s why I like to watch the Jr game. Their offensive skills are almost NHL caliber but they all stick suck defensively (by NHL standards). Makes for an exciting style of game usually as there’s lots of goals scored off of defensive miscues/turnovers.

Good game. A little anticlimactic. I still didn’t see the puck touch a high stick on McKenna’s 2nd goal that was called off. But great game from London. They were the better team for sure. Brzustewicz with a great outlet break pass on their 1st goal and a great play in the 2nd to break up a 2 on 1, deflecting the puck away from McKenna. I just don’t see why he’s not ranked higher. I’d be absolutely happy with him at 19.

I thought it was a questionable call BUT the pick did come off the glass and barely touched the stick..I didn't really see it on the replay until they cropped the video and enlarged it. Made the video grainy and fuzzy but you could definitely see the puck very slightly change direction after touching the stick. Still a nitpicky call IMHO..

I didn’t even realize something like that was even reviewable? Idk. My kids were very distracting during that part so I probably missed some of it. Super ticky tack call IMO. Technically correct but I’ve never seen that reviewed before.

I think the call came from the league. It wasn't a request from the coach. Seems to me it should have been let go especially in a championship game. Very strange call.

[seattleblue]

Good game in the first, Cowan/London really broke it open in the second and McKenna's 3d period heroics were not going to be enough. Even if that goal had counted London was on a mission last night. McKenna would go first overall this year, that kid is on another level.

[STL fan in MN]

Good game in the first, Cowan/London really broke it open in the second and McKenna's 3d period heroics were not going to be enough. Even if that goal had counted London was on a mission last night. McKenna would go first overall this year, that kid is on another level.

McKenna’s stickhandling ability is simply next level. Elite of the elite. He’s a LW, which is perhaps the least valuable position in hockey but he’s that good. I’d perhaps even put him ahead of Bedard. He’s going to be electric. I bet that was his last Jr game last night.

[seattleblue]

Good game in the first, Cowan/London really broke it open in the second and McKenna's 3d period heroics were not going to be enough. Even if that goal had counted London was on a mission last night. McKenna would go first overall this year, that kid is on another level.

McKenna’s stickhandling ability is simply next level. Elite of the elite. He’s a LW, which is perhaps the least valuable position in hockey but he’s that good. I’d perhaps even put him ahead of Bedard. He’s going to be electric. I bet that was his last Jr game last night.

They had a clip of him and Frankie Corrado doing a one-on-one chat on the ice and he mimicked the Kane "sticklhandling one puck through a maze of pucks at center ice" thing, Corrado asked him if he knew the Kane thing and he said yeah he also practices it then proceeded to do it.

College hockey is going to get much better. My dream is that one year, one day, my team will make the 16 team tournament at the end. It's getting close to 5 decades since that happened, which is pitiful beyond words.

[STL fan in MN]

Good game in the first, Cowan/London really broke it open in the second and McKenna's 3d period heroics were not going to be enough. Even if that goal had counted London was on a mission last night. McKenna would go first overall this year, that kid is on another level.

McKenna’s stickhandling ability is simply next level. Elite of the elite. He’s a LW, which is perhaps the least valuable position in hockey but he’s that good. I’d perhaps even put him ahead of Bedard. He’s going to be electric. I bet that was his last Jr game last night.

They had a clip of him and Frankie Corrado doing a one-on-one chat on the ice and he mimicked the Kane "sticklhandling one puck through a maze of pucks at center ice" thing, Corrado asked him if he knew the Kane thing and he said yeah he also practices it then proceeded to do it.

College hockey is going to get much better. My dream is that one year, one day, my team will make the 16 team tournament at the end. It's getting close to 5 decades since that happened, which is pitiful beyond words.

Going to be hard for Dartmouth to compete unfortunately. Just not a big draw for hockey. And do they even lower their academic standards for athletes or do you actually have to be smart to play hockey for them? That’s a pretty limiting hurdle for some athletes…

Agree college hockey is about to get much better. And eventually I think the talent will spread out a bit more. It seems a handful of schools are getting most of these CHL players but my guess is some top prospects will now get disgruntled as they just won’t have the ice time they need to develop. I mean, the Wolverines have gotten so many top recruits that some guys that’d normally slot in on the 1st line with lots of special teams play will now be fighting to get 3rd line minutes. I doubt it trickles down to Dartmouth too much but hopefully it evens out some or there’s going to be 5-6 power schools and then the other 50ish teams that just get clocked by those top 5-6.

[seattleblue]

Good game in the first, Cowan/London really broke it open in the second and McKenna's 3d period heroics were not going to be enough. Even if that goal had counted London was on a mission last night. McKenna would go first overall this year, that kid is on another level.

McKenna’s stickhandling ability is simply next level. Elite of the elite. He’s a LW, which is perhaps the least valuable position in hockey but he’s that good. I’d perhaps even put him ahead of Bedard. He’s going to be electric. I bet that was his last Jr game last night.

They had a clip of him and Frankie Corrado doing a one-on-one chat on the ice and he mimicked the Kane "sticklhandling one puck through a maze of pucks at center ice" thing, Corrado asked him if he knew the Kane thing and he said yeah he also practices it then proceeded to do it.

College hockey is going to get much better. My dream is that one year, one day, my team will make the 16 team tournament at the end. It's getting close to 5 decades since that happened, which is pitiful beyond words.

Going to be hard for Dartmouth to compete unfortunately. Just not a big draw for hockey. And do they even lower their academic standards for athletes or do you actually have to be smart to play hockey for them? That’s a pretty limiting hurdle for some athletes…

Agree college hockey is about to get much better. And eventually I think the talent will spread out a bit more. It seems a handful of schools are getting most of these CHL players but my guess is some top prospects will now get disgruntled as they just won’t have the ice time they need to develop. I mean, the Wolverines have gotten so many top recruits that some guys that’d normally slot in on the 1st line with lots of special teams play will now be fighting to get 3rd line minutes. I doubt it trickles down to Dartmouth too much but hopefully it evens out some or there’s going to be 5-6 power schools and then the other 50ish teams that just get clocked by those top 5-6.

With D1 sports there is a bit of wiggle room for the normal academic standards. It'a a team that is often 4th in the ECAC out of 12 and can never ever ever ever ever break through. They have had NHLers and Reid Cashman looks like he's going to be a good coach. They have an awesome recruiting tool for a guaranteed home crowd festival once a year that a student once conjured for them because he loved it when everyone jumped up at The Arena. Maybe McKenna will take one look at Michigan and realize Ann Arbor is not Yukon-ish enough so he'll transfer.

[thegibby.]

I agree with the best team won statement. I also found that when Lindstrom did wake up he took stupid penalties. plus are we going to be interested in picking Bryce Pickford? regardless I'll be interested in seeing who does gamble on him.

five the leafs should consider article from thehockeywriters: (just added here because Pickford is mentioned)

https://thehockeywriters.com/5-players- ... nhl-draft/