Laval Rocket Thread

[Habs4ever]

The Rocket jersey looks good on the wonder, he better get used to it lol

 

[hairnova]

 

[hairnova]

 

[Habs4ever]

Is there a chance Poehling may recover and be ready for this round or later?

 

[Sal_Butera]

Is there a chance Poehling may recover and be ready for this round or later?

Doubt it with wrist surgery

 

[GGpX]

We're going to be seeing a lot of Québécois signings in the next few months for Laval & Trois-Rivières.

Desruisseaux's a guy I've never noticed, one way or another. He got over a goal / game as an overager, so I have no expectations at all for him.

 

[GrandWazoo]

Timmins said the same thing, that we should expect more provincial signings with the TR team.

 

[Habsy]

We're going to be seeing a lot of Québécois signings in the next few months for Laval & Trois-Rivières.

Desruisseaux's a guy I've never noticed, one way or another. He got over a goal / game as an overager, so I have no expectations at all for him.

They're fishing right now

 

[Habsy]

Cool

 

[hairnova]

 

[GGpX]

Looks like former NHLer Éric Bélanger will be the Trois-Rivières head coach.

Ãric Bélanger serait le 1er entraîneur des Lions

Éric Bélanger serait le premier entraîneur-chef de l'histoire des Lions de Trois-Rivières dans la ECHL

www.rds.ca

 

[Habsy]

Are they going to be Habs affiliated? That would be great. Finally a proper system if so?

 

[GGpX]

Yup, they will be.

 

[GGpX]

I've always been a big proponent of the ECHL. It has its uses.

If you have a late-round player, for example Michael Pizzetta, and he's not able to play every game because there are too many bodies on the AHL roster, there should be a way for players like him to play in the ECHL and get quality minutes.

The Trois-Rivière team is going to be largely Québécois players, which is fine with me. Most of them have no NHL prospect in their future, but it also gives players coming straight from the Q a chance to try their hand at pro hockey. There's going to be a lot of Québécois players getting opportunities with that franchise.

 

[Habsy]

And allows the possibility of finding a hidden gem. As we all know, the NHL is not a training league. This is a great move.

 

[GGpX]

Yup. There's a much larger amount of players in the NHL right now that have played in the ECHL than you'd think.

In our case, when we were associated with the Cincinnati Cyclone, we had Ryder, Halak, Desharnais that all played in the ECHL. Some notable players like Jordan Binnington played in the ECHL too.

There's about one player per team on average that's played in the ECHL.

 

[CH1]

also more places to develop our next Hart Trophy netminder.

 

[GEEMAN]

I've always been a big proponent of the ECHL. It has its uses.

If you have a late-round player, for example Michael Pizzetta, and he's not able to play every game because there are too many bodies on the AHL roster, there should be a way for players like him to play in the ECHL and get quality minutes.

The Trois-Rivière team is going to be largely Québécois players, which is fine with me. Most of them have no NHL prospect in their future, but it also gives players coming straight from the Q a chance to try their hand at pro hockey. There's going to be a lot of Québécois players getting opportunities with that franchise.

Any players in the ECHL that went to have decent NHL careers ?

 

[Habsy]

This season

ECHL has 56 former players on NHL Opening Day rosters

The ECHL has 56 players on National Hockey League opening-day rosters, marking the 20th season in a row with more than 50 former ECHL players on opening-day rosters. In addition, there are 35 former ECHL players who have been named to NHL Taxi Squads.The Premier ‘AA’ Hockey League, the ECHL has...

www.echl.com

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Any players in the ECHL that went to have decent NHL careers ?

Our current powerplay coach spent some time there.