Better know your Caps prospects - meet Mackan

Is he the miggida miggida miggida Mack Daddy?

nice compilation, YNC. Dare I say our 2C in 11-12?

Question:

Is getting the players’ nickname on his jersey considered a jersey foul? ie Mackan instead of Johansson?

he’s so baby faced! He’ll give Neuvy a run for his money.

Kid’s got a nice collection of colorful sweaters, for true.

Needs more exercise videos.

can’t wait to see this kid in the a caps sweater.

If/when he makes the team I will always call him sammich.

They keep saying this one Carelton player is from the Brandon Wheat Kings. Does that mean he used to play for them, or do some of the CHL players also play for Canadian university teams? I feel like CHL teams wouldn’t want their players risking injury and committing that much time to a second team.

Wow, good job compiling all of this. Rec’d.

I assume most of you don’t have 2 hours to kill watching an exhibition game among boys. Apparently I do. If you want to know how Mackan looked against Carelton, here’s your cheat sheet*:

14:40 (minutes) – His line has a great shift on the cycle and you can see some of his puck control and possession skills.

23:40 – he makes another great cross ice pass to find an open teammate.

1:40 (hours) – Carelton thinks they scored but the puck never goes in. Mackan’s line brings the puck up ice and then Mackan drives the D back with speed and leaves a nice drop pass for a one-time goal. Great acceleration and speed through the neutral zone.

1:42 – during the delay when the refs meet to discuss whether Carelton scored the announcers drop a gem of a line: “The Carelton goal judges have been known to be blatantly wrong.” (Emphasis in original). Review says Carelton goal never went in and the Mackan assist stands.

1:48 – Carelton drills a Swede into the boards and then rough him up a bit (off camera). A huge scrum ensues. Entertaining if you’re into that stuff.

1:51 – coming off the fight delay Mackan is on the PP and makes another very nice pass to an open player but the shooter is robbed.

2:05:15 – He makes another great pass from the corner to the high slot and his teammate snipes the top corner. Puck comes out right away and the refs allow play to go on and never credit the goal but even the announcers say it was definitely a goal. The camera angle is real good and you, too, will say it’s a goal.

2:10 – Carelton D drops a Swede with a solid hit. Looks like he probably just knocked the wind out of him but the Swede is down for a bit. You’ll probably have to rewind once or twice if you really want to see this hit. Keep your eye on the guy shooting the puck, not the puck or the guy going for the rebound. After release the far side D comes across and nails him on the follow through a-la Phaneuf. Clean hit, wasn’t high I don’t think.

2:17:40 – David Runblad does his best Nick Kronwall impression and almost kills a Canadian. Guy gets his head up just in time to avoid being destroyed.

Other notes: The first two periods Mackan’s line was real loose defensively. They gave up some of the best chances against but the Swedish goalie (FLA property) bailed them out repeatedly. In the third period they got it together and controlled/dominated almost every shift they were out there. Tedenby and OEL were the two best (non-G, Markstrom was awesome when Carelton did get chances) Swedes, IMO. The Swedish team clearly out-classed the Carelton team so take it all with a grain of salt. Some of the Swedes almost looked pissed after Carelton scored (late in the 3rd) and played noticeably harder than they had for the rest of the third.

 *All timestamps approximate. The scroll-clock wasn’t particularly accurate for me; it usually dropped me earlier than I wanted so aim late.

Thank you F&B!!!!

Stressing that this exhibition match (and the two others they played at Concordia and UQuebec-Three Rivers) are a shakedown tour for the WJC team to get some experience on the smaller North American rinks. The 2010 WJCs will be played December 2009-Feb 2010 in Regina and Saskatoon.

Sweden lost to Canada last year at Ottawa, so they are paying better attention to the details this year.

<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblank">www.swehockey.se%2FStartsidesnyheter%2F2009%2FOktober-2009%2FJuniorkronornaTeam-20s-tva-trupper-uttagna%2F&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=" target="new">Results for all three games here

Swedish TV interview with a couple more nice goals

seems to me all his goals are close, which is a good thing. But i’d like to see a goal from some distance with a good shot. Does he have that?