I checked and it doesn't appear so. I have no issues if he makes the switch either, it means he gets used to the long season at a younger age and we won't have to potentially wait 3+ years before he signs.
Karlsson with an assist last night. He now has 4 asists in 10 games and +5 rating. FO`s over 54%. He`s tied at 8th on team in scoring. His ice time is increasing and now he is averaging just a bit more than 16 minutes per game.
Heed got -1 rating
Friberg with the first goal of the season. Hes second on team in scoring with 1+4. He was on the ice for all 2 opponent goals though and again missed the shootout attempt. His ice tim is decreasing a bit.
Highlight of Karlssons assist on a goal by Marcus Nilson (at 2.24). If you're watching the whole thing, note that W. Karlsson has #71 on his jersey, since he's not the only Karlsson on the team.
Highlight of Karlssons assist on a goal by Marcus Nilson (at 2.24). If you're watching the whole thing, note that W. Karlsson has #71 on his jersey, since he's not the only Karlsson on the team.
Nice goal by Friberg, he seems to have nice shot and release. Karlsson seems to have nice vision, but nothing spectacular from hat goal. Really excited about Karlsson, though. He and Friberg should go overseas as fast as next season, imo.
OT: one of the advertisements before highlights (that Canon one), was filmed in Riga
All Ducks offense here at Northeastern. Manson opened up scoring by getting in on the rush. He looked great out there considering he had 0 goals last season. L Karlsson (not Ducks prospect, but was at their camp) got fed a nice pass by Roy on the power play. Roy looks really quick out there. Really excited to watch him mature. Huskies up 2-1.
I've never liked the college route anyway. While it's smart that Kerdiles wants to get his education, I've always liked the CHL->AHL developmental path.
Watched the last Karlsson game and here`s few thoughts of mine:
*he uses his body to win the faceoffs. It works in SEL, as the 54% win says, but he needs to get bigger and stronger if he wants to do that in NHL
*he wasn`t as soft as i thought he was. He was nowhere near physical dominant, but he uses his body at times.
*he just lacks something at times. Dunno what it is. Experience? Probably, since i dont believe it`s effort given that he`s a 19 yo in SEL, playing 16+ minutes a game on the third line in currently league leading team. He`d most likely be at least 2nd liner on most of the other teams. This game was an off game for a lot of his teammates, so i write it off because of that, for now.
*his passes at times looked a bit to weak. IDK maybe it just looked like that because of the big ice. This point goes to the previous one, probably.
He played on 2nd PP and PK units.
*adding more size to his frame and more strenght, along with experience, should help very well.
Overall, he looked like a nice 3d line C with some skill (at his current team, not potentially wise). But like i said, he lacks that extra 5-10% on most of the plays to be reaaaly effective. Well, the bright side is, that he is only 19 yo and have time to develop and he is not ended growing (hopefully). Other good news is that this was only one game and i think he have good potential to become NHL regular. He somehow reminds me of Bonino, with great defensive ability and little offense too, except that Karlsson should be better. A bit more physical and better FO ability. Hard to say, but probably more offense too, he`s just few (i`d say 2 years) away from playing some games in NHL.
The NCAA is a joke, they make billions off of student athletes and come down on them for things like this?
Wow. No money was even made, or at least none that was brought up about in the article. The NCAA has got to be crazy. Here's a freshman and it's the NCAA's responsibility to be teaching these kids what they can or can't do. How is an incoming freshman know what to do if the NCAA hadn't instructed Kerdiles on the matter or any other player. So they're going to go down hard on him because they didn't do their job of explaining the rules? WTF?
When my sister played water polo at University of Michigan, the made it sure as hell to the players they can not autograph anything unless the coach says its an appropriate time to sign autographs.
He somehow reminds me of Bonino, with great defensive ability and little offense too, except that Karlsson should be better. A bit more physical and better FO ability. Hard to say, but probably more offense too, he`s just few (i`d say 2 years) away from playing some games in NHL.
I've yet to see him play this year, but the thing i thought Karlsson was missing the most to excel in senior competition was strength; not sure if with "more physical" you meant more involved physically or stronger physically than Bonino.
The main difference between the 2 players imo is Karlsson is clearly a more dynamic skater (and that makes them quite different in their style of play, as youngsters at least).
On the other hand, despite his # of assists i'm not sure W.Karlsson will be as good a passer as Nick is.
I've yet to see him play this year, but the thing i thought Karlsson was missing the most to excel in senior competition was strength; not sure if with "more physical" you meant more involved physically or stronger physically than Bonino.
The main difference between the 2 players imo is Karlsson is clearly a more dynamic skater (and that makes them quite different in their style of play, as youngsters at least).
On the other hand, despite his # of assists i'm not sure W.Karlsson will be as good a passer as Nick is.
I meant more involved in physical play. It just seemed that Karlsson made a hit where Bonino probably wouldnt.
And, yes, Karlssons skating should be better than Boners, but he needs to improve too. Seems like he could very well be an exelent (or at least very good) skater, he just needs to improve a bit.
I could agree that Boner is a bit better passer than Karlsson would ever be probably. But the gap is not big anyway.
I don't think there's a chance he doesn't go to Kelowna now.
And this is going to deter other prospective NCAA players from going this route. Full year suspension for something so ridiculous? And a requirement that means you must stay at school to serve the suspension? This is obviously the NCAA's intention to keep top prospects in their system and not in the juniors. But the prospect has been drafted by a professional team, they have priority and should be able to decide what his best interests are, and forcing a kid to miss a full year of hockey...a kid who wants to play professionally, is just ridiculous. For something so petty.
He can technically opt for another year in the USHL and then head back to Wisconsin, but from a Ducks perspective, that is not a great outcome and could easily add time to his development.
