Flashsabre

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/ottawasun.com/sports/nhl-draft-67s-sniper-jack-quinn-and-his-long-journey-to-top-prospect/wcm/19f17c63-135a-4955-852c-4d2c956b198c/amp/ Here is a great article on Quinn that explains his unique journey. He was never the dominant kid.

I didn’t realize James Patrick coaches the Winnipeg Ice. I’m sure the Sabres used his insight on Krebs and wonder if they will tap into him regarding Savoie and Geekie if the end up with a top 5 pick.

Quinn is a unique case. He played AA hockey coming up. The top players in Ontario play AAA, AA is the secondary team, a step down for the age group. He finally played a year of AAA the year before he went to the OHL. I think Quinn is a natural but it took time to finally explode as his strength and confidence came together. He has tremendous brains, instincts and co-ordination.

UPL was solid again. Hopefully he is coming out of his funk. I know they were trying to spread the wealth but Mersh didn’t really fit with Quinn and Krebs. Let the kids play together, they all ply the game the same and have chemistry. Everyone wants Quinn Krebs Peterka, let them work their magic. They have enough depth with Murray, Mersh, Malone, MacInnis, Weissbach, Biro, Pekar etc to make up solid lines. I liked both Samuelson and Laakssonen tonight.

If anyone was wondering if Krebs and Quinn have chemistry the answer is yes

What a play by Krebs. Didn’t finish it off but drew the penalty.

Bad for them but good for Samuelson. Kid is a horse. Let him eat those minutes up.

Not including lockouts this has to be the most talent Rochester has had in a long time. Rousek would have been fun watching fly around the ice with Weissbach stride for stride.

Is Samuelson allowed to leave the ice?

That was beautiful. I could get used to that for a decade. Krebs can absolutely fly out there.

If Peterka keeps his number then him and Tuch can rekindle the 77-89 late 1980s magic😁

I thought Krebs scored earlier for sure. I don’t know how that missed. He now has a penalty. Kid has a lot of jam/compete.

A dman’s ability to play d. Everyone is a puck moving dman. If you ask every team in the league what they need they would all say a dman that is a rock in the defensive zone. It is never valued in dmen drafted early.

The key is not to pick talented headcases, the Anthony DeAngelos, Evander Kanes of the world. Regardless of talent, they tear rooms a part. Focus on talented players that will fit well in the room.

I don’t think anyone knows. Nobody had Tage as play driving two way centre coming into the season. Kid is developing by leaps and bounds. I’m just going to enjoy the ride with him and Asplund.

ROR is a complex case. He was everything you wanted on the ice. But the Tim Horton’s incident cost him the C, his brother brought a lot of drama and his “lost his love of the game” comment was strategic. St. Louis was a perfectly built team for him to succeed and he has. Hats off to him. The return on that trade will always tint people’s views even with Tage developing and Johnson looking promising. You know you have done an awful job of team building when ROR and Eichel are your top centres and you finish last.

Yes, they want to target good players with good character.

And for a slump Savoie has 21 points, 4 off the league lead.

Krebs is a better centre. He is a better distributor and thinks the game better then Cozens

Gunnerwolfe Fontaine is about as good a name as you can get.🤣

There is an interview out there with Alex Killoran where he says he used to practice with Levi when he was 15-16 and that he couldn’t score on him.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/video/luongo-pushed-panthers-draft-devon-levi/ Bill Zito says it was Luongo that identified Levi and pushed Florida to draft him. Sounds like they would have drafted him earlier but Luongo said hold off we can grab him later.

I haven’t watched Rutger McGroaty play but he his reports seem to say he would fit the mould here.

I think by the end of the season Levi is squarely in the conversation for the Sabres top prospect. Power, Quinn,, Krebs, Peterka and Levi is a really balanced top 5 prospect group.

I watched him play tonight. He was Levi. He is always Levi. And by that I mean he is as consistent as any young goalie I have seen. North Eastern are pretty structured but Levi shuts everything down so calmly. He seems to have that elite anticipation and ability to read the play that all the great players have regardless of position. Young goalies are a crapshoot but every once in a while you see one that just had “it”. Levi seems to be one of those. Tonight I was really impressed with how he handled the puck.