Agreed those write ups were pretty old, pretty much the opposite (excluding mantha) actually occurred as far as the years each of those players actually had. Gersich was not that bad but I thought he had higher offensive talent given the team he played on....that team scores like 5 goals per game. With another year of juniors I think poganski and Wilkie will be nice.
I actually witnessed a game where schmaltz was loafing big time, however the offensive talent is very apparent. He needs a ton of work in his own zone though.
I think he is ready for the next level to be honest, I'm guessing he'll finish this year off in the A and play there next year too. The AHL is a great league and he showed to be a very good player in the college ranks. I thought he looked good from what I saw. CC won't be a national contender next year and there is no way the kid was going to stay his junior year.
Agreed...Zengerle (sp?) is good too. Mersch (sp?) looks super slow, however he looks as thick as a lineman. Wisconsin's regular season was not that impressive outside the MN sweep. They barely beat OSU and that team was so bad in their own zone (luckily their goalie was solid). If we don't take dumb penalties and we work hard the whole game we'll get lucky. The Badger's goalie did not impress me against OSU.
I thought he looked fine on Saturday....that icing at the end of Friday's game was not smart but overall I didn't think he played that bad. On Friday, the team in general looked sluggish and unlucky.
How Grimaldi misses some of his chances is beyond me. This is a huge win. I just ran a pw scenario where OSU wins and we still get in...sound right?
Edit: never mind goal