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2019-20 Hurricanes Prospects and Checkers Thread

Nothing on the AHL move . Maybe the Checkers are trying to make a better offer or maybe Chicago's offer needs to be tweaked before the Canes sign with them. It's not like the Canes are that busy now with other items.
 
Domenick Fensore was invited to the USA Hockey World Junior Showcase. Jamieson Rees and Ryan Suzuki were invited to Canada’s camp.
 
Patrik Puistola was invited to the Finns junior camp. Tieksola wasn’t.

Andrew Zadarnowski, who writes for a Habs blog tweeted that Oliwer Kaski, a right shot dman, who was obtained from the Red Wings for Kyle Wood in December, has signed with Avgard in the KHL. He signed with Detroit as a free agent last summer after 3 years in Liiga with Helsinki and Pelicans. His contract had $850k in performance bonuses on top of a $925k NHL salary, but he spent all year in the AHL, first with Grand Rapids, then with Charlotte. He had 11 goals, 9 assists in 35 games for the Checkers
 
Kaski had just about zero chance of playing in the NHL with the Canes so his moving on is no big deal.

Kaski has an interesting skill set...certainly he has an ability to put the puck in the net, at least he has shown that for the past 3 seasons. It will be interesting to see what happens to his numbers in the KHL. I suppose its possible that someday some other NHL team will take a flier on him if he ever cares to come back to North America.
 
andyt said:
The Greenville Swamp Rabbits have not renewed the contract of head coach Kevin Kerr. He was 54-71-11 in 2 seasons. They were 3rd in the South Division, 29 points behind Florida and South Carolina when the 2019-20 season ended.
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The Swamp Rabbits hired Andrew Lord as head coach. He’s been the head coach of the Cardiff Devils of the Elite Ice Hockey League, the top league in the UK. He was 221-75-22 in 6 seasons He’s never coached in North America he’s from British Columbia and played 3 years in the BCHL, 4 years at RPI and 3 seasons in the ECHL/AHL before heading across the pond in 2012.

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Andrew Lord Named Head Coach of Greenville Swamp Rabbits

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Swamp Rabbits are excited to announce that Andrew Lord has been named head coach of the team, effective immediately. Lord, 35, joins the organization from the Cardiff Devils of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) in the United Kingdom, where he has spent the...
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Interesting. I think it's all but impossible to judge the quality of a coach based solely on results in such a weird off-brand league like the UK league, but hey ... shoot your shot. The ECHL is certainly a good place for confirmation.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
TSN ranks a guy from Germany as #2 draft prospect. Doubt that has happened before.
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I'd love to see the Canes take a center in the first round based on need in the system, in that 19 range where they currently "might" be projected to pick, Dylan Holloway from the University of Wisconsin is a feisty center that seems to be projected in that range of the draft currently. Holloway played on a Badgers team stacked with top talent in Cole Caufield, Alex Turcotte and K'Andre Miller to name a few along with Canes draft pick Max Zimmer.
 
CanadaCanes said:
I'd love to see the Canes take a center in the first round based on need in the system, in that 19 range where they currently "might" be projected to pick, Dylan Holloway from the University of Wisconsin is a feisty center that seems to be projected in that range of the draft currently. Holloway played on a Badgers team stacked with top talent in Cole Caufield, Alex Turcotte and K'Andre Miller to name a few along with Canes draft pick Max Zimmer.
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There isn’t a lot of depth in Charlotte beyond Geekie, but we have Suzuki and Rees from last year‘s draft, Cotton on his way in and Drury maybe the year after, unless he stays 4 years at Harvard. The braintrust also has to decide if Necas is a center or wing, although bringing Trocheck in takes less pressure off that decision.
 
andyt said:
There isn’t a lot of depth in Charlotte beyond Geekie, but we have Suzuki and Rees from last year‘s draft, Cotton on his way in and Drury maybe the year after, unless he stays 4 years at Harvard. The braintrust also has to decide if Necas is a center or wing, although bringing Trocheck in takes less pressure off that decision.
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From what I've heard the braintrust is convinced that Necas best position will be center, but that they don't feel like he can contribute there right now so ... he's a pretty darned good winger in the meantime.
 
Necas sure has some dynamic talent. I mean, a guy like Elias Lindholm has some high end skills, but Necas's speed and puck handling skills are way the heck up there. If it takes him a while to grow into being an effective center that is ok, he sure as heck has plenty to contribute from the wing in the meantime.
 
Necas makes Lindholm look like a stick boy when comparing pure puck skill. Lindy has more of an all zones game than Necas, but with the puck on his stick, Little Marty is in a different league than Lindholm.
 
jeffbear said:
Necas makes Lindholm look like a stick boy when comparing pure puck skill. Lindy has more of an all zones game than Necas, but with the puck on his stick, Little Marty is in a different league than Lindholm.
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Replay his goal in this game. It’s just sick.

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It was, but the reason the wrap around was so open is that Kessel was late dropping low to support his defender. Like, just skating into the frame while the horn is blowing late.
 
andyt said:
Replay his goal in this game. It’s just sick.

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I'm still honored to have personally witnessed that sickness from close range. Since Svech's LAX goal happened at the other end of the ice, that one is my personal season highlight.
 
jeffbear said:
I'm still honored to have personally witnessed that sickness from close range. Since Svech's LAX goal happened at the other end of the ice, that one is my personal season highlight.
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Same but opposite. Svech was in front of me and I got “Lacr” out before he stuffed the puck in. Seeing Necas coming at you though...that’s a winner.
 
Article is behind a login wall and I don't really feel like giving my info to a newspaper in NoDak. Does the article explain his reasoning?
 
NoMich said:
Article is behind a login wall and I don't really feel like giving my info to a newspaper in NoDak. Does the article explain his reasoning?
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I got there from Twitter but ran into the paywall from the above link. It really doesn’t say why, although speculation is that it’s a plaging time issue. He spent an extra year in the BCHL because of injury. That delay may have seen some players jump him in the pecking order.

You can try getting to the article from this Tweet, I didn’t run into the paywall.

 
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