What prospect's are benefiting most from the lockout

[Smallz]

Sami Vatanen
Zac Dalpe
Matt Frattin

[Huffer]

Originally Posted by DuckJet

Have you watched Burmi play lately?

There has been a lot of discussion on him on the Jets board.

The coaching staff (as well as Ice Caps fans), have said that he has been playing very well. The best player most nights for the Caps.

That's not going to show up looking squarely at the stat sheet though. The entire team has had a terrible time scoring, and has an atrocious shooting %.

Basically, only looking at Burmistrov's points, and concluding that he's not playing well in the AHL, seems overly simplistic.

[TS Quint]

Originally Posted by Huffer

There has been a lot of discussion on him on the Jets board.

The coaching staff (as well as Ice Caps fans), have said that he has been playing very well. The best player most nights for the Caps.

That's not going to show up looking squarely at the stat sheet though. The entire team has had a terrible time scoring, and has an atrocious shooting %.

Basically, only looking at Burmistrov's points, and concluding that he's not playing well in the AHL, seems overly simplistic.

I only looked at the stats. But he is up there on scoring for a poor offencive team. He's shown that he has decent all around game in the past. By no means does it look like he his carrying the team offensively like most had hoped to help push him to a NHL second line centre. Or at least that was my assumption. But I didn't think he had regressed.

[funky11]

Originally Posted by TS Quint

I asked the Flames board about Horak as I noticed he hasn't done much over the last 10-15 games. And this is the reply I got

Basically the same thing that happened to him last year after 10-15 games - hit a wall.

Don't know if it's a conditioning issue, or if he's just run out of adrenaline by then.

Seems like he's been over rated because of a great 10 games and hasn't done much consistantly lately.

He has picked it up as of late, with 5 points in his last 5 games.

[Guru Meditation]

Any number of Grands Rapids Griffins. They're showing that they can be a good team when they've got decent players, which hasn't been the case in the last few years.

Tatar in particular is showing he can be an offensive force when he has somebody to get him the puck.

[garret9]

Originally Posted by DuckJet

Have you watched Burmi play lately?

I have. Lots.

I did a few (but huge) write ups on why Burmistrov's lack of points aren't something that should be considered exclusively and predominately on him:
http://hfboards.hockeysfuture.com/sh....php?t=1298329

I see two main things:
*Burmistrov and many of his line-mates have had terrible puck luck
*Burmistrov is a playmaking/two-way centre, and St. John's doesn't really have any real finishers. They are more a team of grinders and blue collar guys