Dan Petriw: Prospect Report: Catching up With Ryan Pulock

Dan Petriw: Prospect Report: Catching up With Ryan Pulock
- Dan Petriw

Isles need to bring in veteran D to help guide this kids and teach them better than what this coaching staff is doing, or else these kids talents will be ruined....

great stuff Dan.. thank you. I love the picture this kid posted of his first time in Pee Wee hockey in head to toe Isles gear too.. great story.

Grabner had a Hat Trick & Vanek an assist in their losing effort against Finland.

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Isles need to bring in veteran D to help guide this kids and teach them better than what this coaching staff is doing, or else these kids talents will be ruined....
- Ur Not Me

Agreed. I have no faith in Thompson or Capuano helping their development. You only have to look at our defensive strategy to figure that out.

Dan Petriw: Prospect Report: Catching up With Ryan Pulock
- Dan Petriw

Good blog again Dan. Very happy you came on. Nice to have some good/informative material to read about our team as opposed to the garbage we had before.

Dan Petriw: Prospect Report: Catching up With Ryan Pulock
- Dan Petriw

As has been said already, great blog.

I love hearing about the prospects and look forward to some more blogs about them. I would like to hear how close you think he is, given that the Isles almost kept him and Reinhart up this season.

I wish we had a coach who was good at developing prospects.

Agreed. I have no faith in Thompson or Capuano helping their development. You only have to look at our defensive strategy to figure that out.
- Cptmjl

our passive defensive play has irritated me all season. It's not bad enough that we lost LV, Strait and Hamonic for a while, and played Carkner, Martinek and Ness in their place, but I would compare our current defensive strategy to the prevent defense in the NFL, but without safety support over the top. We let every team set up on the perimeter, don't pressure them, and then when they make a play into the slot or a good shooting position we don't prevent that either.

Oh, and Dan, keep up the good work sir.

Another great blog Dan! Forgetting the head coach for a second, the Isles need a very good and well respected former NHL dman on that bench that can work with kids like Puloch. Thompson does not close to cutting it.

Tavares looks awesome in the Can vs Aus game.

Austrias goalie plays like Poulin

Tavares looks awesome in the Can vs Aus game.
- David_Volek

He still hasn't registered a point. He plays like 15 second shifts.

Tavares looks awesome in the Can vs Aus game.
- David_Volek

The fact that Jeff Carter was actually availalbe and traded twice a year ago really is amazing.

Kunitz knee on knee hit... .shortly after Crosby takes a baseball swing at a player.. u can take a guy out of pitssburgh.

Austrias goalie plays like Poulin
- mighty13duck

Are you sure it wasn't him....

Austrias goalie plays like Poulin
- mighty13duck

Yeah, we have Austria's goalie and Slovakia's defense.

The Flyers win the Mike Milbury stupid move of the decade trophy for moving Bobrovsky. The guy is a vacuum. If we only had a goalie that was anywhere near that good.

Also, as you can see, Halak would be about as good for us as he is for Slovakia, and for the same reason. It's hard to play goal when four of your own guys screen you, no one hits anyone, and you can't smother a rebound if your life depended on it.

How in the (frank) can anyone say with a straight face that Okposo not only belongs on this team but that he'd be one of their important players?

How in the (frank) can anyone say with a straight face that Okposo not only belongs on this team but that he'd be one of their important players?
- potvin05

Brown is useless- that's why he is taking penalties, because he's slow. Okposo is better than him. He's a garbage picker like Moulson, which makes him useless on the huge sheet. That said, I still think Canada beats either of these teams.

Also, as you can see, Halak would be about as good for us as he is for Slovakia, and for the same reason. It's hard to play goal when four of your own guys screen you, no one hits anyone, and you can't smother a rebound if your life depended on it.
- dcb1

Yep! It's not as easy as the Isles just getting another goalie. Would take a very special goalie with this lousy D and system.

Can someone please explain to me what exactly just happened? How come the order was the way it was?

Can someone please explain to me what exactly just happened? How come the order was the way it was?
- potvin05

In international, it's something like after the first three you can use whoever you want as many times as you want. I never really liked that format, but I can see that it does make for a good folk hero story like today.

Yeah, we have Austria's goalie and Slovakia's defense.
- dcb1

Brown is useless- that's why he is taking penalties, because he's slow. Okposo is better than him. He's a garbage picker like Moulson, which makes him useless on the huge sheet. That said, I still think Canada beats either of these teams.
- dcb1

Brown's good in the trenches when you need him though. The only player I was really shocked got picked over Okposo or Ryan was Wheeler. And the only time I saw him today was when he took a penalty.