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That's ok. Anyways, seems like Juolevi may not be ready, although still early.
If he isn't my vote would be Salo over Hunter.
Where it could be said the positive things in his game came from Hunter, but wouldn't that also be true of the weaknesses.
A change of scenery, I think maybe better.
BladesofSteel wrote:Hunter's Knights are an exceptional institute for developing young talent.
It appears as though management has put the wheels in motion to advance Olli to the next level of competition.
I'm not too concerned about Juolevi's development path. He's a terrific talent who's in very good hands.
What was Doc's statement? "Try to focus...
The only thing is though, last year, the games I watched, Hunter had him playing in very specific roles.
Heavy on the PP, not so much on the PK.
Can't argue about the amount of 1st round picks that have come from that franchise for many years, this is true.
SKYO wrote:
I can see Sutter pushed to the 4th line, but get 3rd liner minutes with penalty killing and taking key faceoffs, before jumping to the bench to get the scorers back on the ice.
Good point, our fourth line might see a lot of icetime... for a fourth line.
Although I would think Gagne would be the guy pushed to the 4th, rather than Sutter.
Gagne had that kind of role the last 2 seasons in Philly and Columbus: 4th line + PP.
Sutter on the 4th line makes perfect sense imo. Why? because as a scoring winger you don't want to play with that black hole of a center in Sutter, he's a lone wolf type, he's not looking to make tape to tape passes and make plays as he has poor creativity and vision, he's all energy and throwing the puck on net type, he's perfectly suited for the 4th line to play with a muck it winger in Dorsett and whatever poor soul RW that has to play with them.
Sutter as a RW would score like 17-20 and get like 5-10 assists in 82 games, as a center though he's fortunate to get some added assists just by the very nature of being a center and getting a lot of touches.
I mean really Sutter has averaged like FIFTEEN assists per season if not less, he's not a center you want to play with if you are a scoring winger.
So that's why Sutter should center the fourth line, and hey if he's on the 4th line, he just might waive his NTC for a bigger role, and there are actually more than few teams who can actually upgrade their 3rd line by acquiring Sutter.
Sutter has averaged 17 minutes per game over the last 8 seasons.
If you think they're gonna drop that to... what?... 10 minutes per game?
... well I don't know what to tell you friend.
Sutter is our best faceoff guy by far...
Over most of those last 8 seasons he has played a shutdown role
