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So they moved Okposo to centre the last two shifts?

Well, Schuldt is probably playing the best I've ever seen him play.

Bad defence and bad goaltending is not a great combination.

Don't want to get too repetitive too early, but how many of the 11 goals against have been "goalie had no chance" types?

He can stand at the front of the line over there. He's a big boy. I can see him behind Peterka. 😁 Seriously though, winding back the tape, outside of Derek Roy and maybe Peterka, I think we have to go all the way back to John Tucker since we had a 2nd-rounder showing this much offensive upside. Pominville obviously had it, but I didn't think that way the year after we picked him. And I see a fire and an edge to Poltapov's game that none of those guys had.

Poltapov is my favourite pick outside the 1st round in years.

Small, fast and plucky, Hinostroza was a longshot drafted in 2012 by the Chicago Blackhawks out of the USHL in the 6th round. Three years later he was leading Notre Dame in scoring, skating with old friends like Anders Bjork, Cal Petersen and Conor Hurley. He signed with the Hawks and after one very good season in the minors made the jump to the NHL, where he's spent most of his time as a middle six forward. In 2018, he was traded to Arizona as an incentive to take on the Marian Hossa contract and responded with his best season, 16 goals and 39 points. He's a product of the Chicago suburbs and played for Don Granato when he was an assistant with the Blackhawks. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=130908 Coming out of the pandemic shutdown, Hinostroza was not qualified in Arizona, and reunited with former Hawks coach Joel Quenville in Florida. It didn't work out. He failed to crack the regular lineup and was traded back to Chicago at the deadline, where he saved his season and maybe his career with 12 points in 17 games. What do you expect from Hinostroza this season?

Did I say that? Two preseason games, one intrasquad scrimmage and two prospect challenge games and these are the trends I'm seeing. That's all.

I think we are starting to see the shine start to fade for most of the new guys. Murray uses his size, but can't keep up. Quinn's got great hockey sense but can't fight through Lukkonnen looks the part but he's letting pucks go through him. Weissbach's got the flash but he's not doing much away from the puck Dell, Hagg, Pysyk and Butcher look like their reputations. Peterka's been the best of the lot but that's two straight games he's flashed, then disappeared for large chunks. And from the returnees with promise, Bryson seems to have regressed, Cozens looks passive, and Tage, well, he Taged. On the bright side, Asplund seems to have come back strong and R2 seems to have taken a positive step - centre seems to fit him. Let's hope Joker, Casey and Dahlin show some progress as well tomorrow.

Murray trying to do something to stick around.

Malone did everything he could there. UPL has punched his ticket to the minors.

Peterka seems to have disappeared…

Hagg doing something good.

Jesus Dylan. Soft, needless giveaway.

Quinn’s got a long way to go, but what I like is that he understands space.

Can’t keep up. Was in the centre of the action at prospect camp, and has slipped further out of it every game. He’s doing fine in traffic but I’m not sure he’s going to get there in time against the higher competition.

The closer Murray gets to the regular season, the further he looks from the NHL.

Nice effort by R2. Stayed with it.

Oof. First Peterka, then Quinn. Ugly.

Cozens misses another Tage gift.

Anyone notice how Quinn came back hard there, broke up the rush and turned it back in the other direction and immediately out of our zone?

Backing up Devon Levi? 😜

It’s the scoreboard feed.

Bryson got owned in front on the 3rd goal.