Who is this NHL player 3?

Question

This player was drafted by LA and about in 00-01 LA traded this player to Colorado and that year they won the cup. It got a bit tougher.

Answer 1

Rob Blake

Zapcity....are you referring to Zhitnik and Sydor? I remember a lot of old defencemen on that team such as Huddy, Hardy, McSorley etc

Zap
Probably Darryl Sutter. He wasn't as refined as Brian...and Duane was a better junior despite being a year younger. We took him at 179th because he really wasn't on anybody else's radar. We had players drafted worse play in the NHL, but none have had the impact he had. Brian Noonan was drafted 179th as well and played more games, but wasn't an impact player. Hasek was drafted 199th, but he was drafted at a time (1983) when you never knew if a Czech or Russian would materialize in your lineup.

Zap
Your Marleau story was a common thing before Sports Channels. I remember going to watch a game between the Cornwall Royals and the Hull Olympique. I was there to see some whiz kid named Hawerchuk. Well, I thought he was lazy, he had several giveaways, two that led directly to goals, and he took a couple of stupid penalties. He stood out - but for all the wrong reasons. Saw him again a month or so later against the Remparts. He still looked pretty bad. saw him a year later at the Stadium in Chicago.....he still looked bad....yet had 3 assists in a Winnipeg win. It wasn't until 2-3 years into his career that I saw him play and I was impressed.

Television/Video has probably provided the biggest advantage to scouting over time. In the 60s and 70s and most of the 80s.....you had to go to the games....it killed my marriage. Now, you watch a lot of video, identify prospecs, and then go to games to talk to them more than watch them. So, instead of seeing a kid 3-4x a year as I criss-crossed the Canadian junior leagues. You can see a kid play almost every shift. John Tavares will have every move he makes over the next year or two scrutinized just like Angelo Esposito did last year. He's impressed the scouts, now they are looking for mistakes or a backward step.

Answer 2

Marc Savard- This guy is purely a genious while it contains setting up performs. He can forsee performs previously they even take place and his hockey IQ is incredible. he's a humble guy, a snigger a minute, and could constantly %. up his group, even while he's no longer on the ice. the various passes he makes are purely rediculous, like how the hell did he get that %. by using 6 adult males and nonetheless be in a position to get that %. suitable on the tape of his teamate. Did I point out he could additionally placed the %. interior the internet? i individually wish he gets properly quickly and could re-connect the Black and Gold. Patrice Bergeron- he's between the toughest working gamers I easily have ever considered. he's likewise a extremely clever participant and possible constantly assume him to be at his perfect interest in and interest out. No ask your self he became into drafted for group Canada interior the 2010 wintry climate Olympics Sydney Crosby - i do no longer shield the Penguins in any respect, i'm happy the B's tore them a clean *** Wed nite, yet as a play, I beleive he's the perfect there is now and definalty interior the precise 10 constantly gamers. the way he sees and performs the interest is purely at an excellent-human point for an NHL participant. it incredibly is barely his third season, and so a methods each and every 3 hundred and sixty 5 days he's interior the precise 3 for scoring. he's very mature regardless of his youthful age, incredibly loves the interest, and has great Sportsmanship. he's definatly at a league of his own.

Answer 3

Who were the other 2 standout defensemen that were moved by the Kings after they helped take the team to the finals in '93?

EDIT: You got it, Like I'm Telling You ( we need to shorten that). I figured if people were going to keep asking the trivia equivalent of spelling c-a-t, I'd try to have some fun.

Nicely done. I'm blown away by some of the transactions the Kings made over the course of the 90's. I know there are mitigating circumstances that I am not privvy to, but Blake, Sydor, Zhitnik and later, Norstrom would have been a bedrock defense for that club.

Speaking of talent, who was the biggest diamond in the rough you scouted and drafted?

EDIT 2: Thanks, man. That side of the business has always fascinated me. I have a couple of friends who are agents that suffer my interests from time to time and I thank you for doing the same. I once had a chance to take in a Winter Hawks game with Brad MacGregor, who was an Oiler scout (in the mid-late 90's) at the time and was there to watch Marleau's Seattle team.

Anyway, we talked hockey (I was on the manufacturing side of the business) and scouting philosophy for a while and he suddenly asked me who I 'liked' out there. I noted something about Marleau looking lazy and that the only guys I liked on the Portland side were Andrew Ference and Brendan Morrow.

I've gotten a lot of mileage out of that one, particularly with Morrow's subsequent success at the NHL level. That's my big 'scouting' story, but I can only imagine the volumes of tales you have stored away. Just having the knowledge of what trades nearly occurred or what offers were made and rejected has to change your perspective of the game.

Anyways, thanks again for the response. That Sutter clan made my life as a Ranger fan a living hell, so I'm glad someone has positive memories associated with the name.

Answer 4

Rob Blake

Answer 5

Rob Blake