Capitals Farm Report - Feb 22-28
by EmilyB on Feb 28, 2010 11:41 PM EST
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PrintThis week's Capitals Farm Report is delighted to be able to spotlight the return of Marcus Johansson to competition in the Swedish Elitserien, after some time off for an injured wrist and also suspension of league play for the Olympic break.
Marcus Johansson, Farjestads BK (SEL)
Mackan has returned to the starting lineup of Farjestads BK. The team has made some personnel changes in anticipation of a playoff run and Marcus is now skating left wing on the top line. (Though I may be reading the Swedish "chains" the wrong way - but if he's actually skating on the fourth line that's a fairly high-scoring energy line!) The squad recently went for a manly teambuilding day of snöskoters and air rifles. I am sorry to report that my best efforts at acquiring pictures of this event have failed, but a team spokesman told me:
I am happy to say that Marcus Johansson right now plays very well, he was one of our best players in the first [exhibition] game (Linköping) during the Olympic break and performed well also in the second game against Djurgården.
Saturday we start up the league again with an away game against Peter Forsberg's Modo and then we only have six more games until the playoff starts.
Ice Warrior was kind enough to fill us in on the game against Modo:
In a 10-3 loss, Mackan went 0-1-1, even, 16:01 TOI. For the season (playing in 36 of FBK's 49 games so far), he is 8-9-17, minus-2, 10 PIM. Note: A Swedish stats website lists Marcus as a LW, but also includes his faceoff numbers - 256 faceoffs taken, 106 faceoffs won, 150 lost for 41%. How is Dave Steckel's Swedish?
Cody Eakin, Swift Current Broncos (WHL)
via The Southwest Booster (photo credit Steven Mah)
Cody and the Swift Current Broncos have had a bit of a breakout week, with 2 big wins earning them four much-needed points in a crowded race for the eighth and final playoff spot in their conference:
The win [on Saturday] now has the Broncos sitting in eighth place with 70 points in 66 games and trail seventh place Moose Jaw by one point. Moose Jaw has two games in hand. The Broncos are five points up on the Prince Albert Raiders. The Raiders have one game in hand.
However, the Raiders have a far more difficult remaining schedule than Swift Current: Prince Albert plays in Calgary, in Red Deer, in Regina, hosts Brandon, hosts Swift Current, is in Saskatoon, and then closes out the season hosting Saskatoon.
Swift Current on the other hand hosts Regina, visits Calgary, visits Red Deer, visits Prince Albert, hosts Moose Jaw and then closes out the season in Moose Jaw.
Moose Jaw is in Lethbridge, in Medicine Hat, in Brandon, hosts Lethbridge, in Saskatoon, in Brandon, in Swift Current, hosts Swift Current.
Cody scored his 42nd and 43rd goals this week and is now third in goals scored in the WHL. He went 2-0-2, plus-1, 4 PIM. On the season he is 43-37-80, minus-13, 61 PIM.
Dmitry Kugryshev, Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
Dmitry's wallet is $20 lighter this week, as he had to make good on a wager with teammate Jonathan Audy-Marchessault on the outcome of the quarterfinal game between Russia and Canada. Unfortunately, the Remparts' week looked a lot like Team Russia's, with one win and two disappointing losses. The team remains comfortably in the lead of its division and fifth overall in the Q.
He went 1-3-4 (that single goal being an OT GWG), minus-2, zero PIM for the week, and is tied for fourth in the Q scoring race at 27-52-79, plus-16, 46 PIM on the season.
Stefan Della Rovere, Barrie Colts (OHL)
One would think that a Farm Report ought to feature some farm equipment from time to time, so here is the best available representation of Captain Delly's Barrie Colts, currently mercilessly reaping and threshing their way across the Great Plains of the Ontario Hockey League. They've won six in a row including last week's win against their interconference rivals the Windsor Spitfires, and this week's win against their intraconference rivals, the London Knights.
Barrie concludes the month of February with a 10-2 record and has set a franchise record with 51 wins, and with just seven games left on the season the Colts are one point shy of their best season in their 15-year history.
The NHL scouts who vote in the CHL weekly poll have taken notice; the Colts have moved past the Q's Saint John Flaming Otters to take the top spot:
via CHL.ca
SDR had three assists and one fight this week. The totals are 0-3-3, plus-2, 9 PIM, and 17-23-40, plus-20, 117 PIM for the season. As promised, here's the video of Delly celebrating his 20th birthday the best way he knows how:
Garett Hunter vs Stefan Della Rovere (via JimKorn20)
And this concludes your Capitals Farm Report for the week of February 22-28, 2010.
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Love seeing these week to week so I really appreciate that. Never would know near as much about the caps prospect pool without the great works of you and the others on the rink, it is truly awesome.
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Great work. I’m loving these. You keep writing these and I’ll keep rec’ing them.
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I really hope we hang on to Delly. I have such a player crush on him.
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I agree. Man, what a shitbird. How are you running a goalie in that situation? He would be one of my most hated players if he was on any other team. I’m glad we have a guy like that now.
Cody Eakin looks like more of a steal every game he plays. Who knows, maybe he ends up being the future 2C. Great stuff, YNC.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
He wasn’t running “the goalie,” he was running “his close friend and former teammate.” On his birthday.
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He was in his stopping motion and the Goalie was actually moving out into him. Not sure if that counts as running the goalie. If I was on the other team it sure as hell would, but after replaying it a few times it doesn’t seem so malicious
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Delly, watch those brakes, friend! You can tell he was trying to stop and just lost his balance… It didn’t look malicious to me; it looked klutzy.
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With a guy like Delly? I doubt it. Maybe he was trying to snow the goalie and lost his balance, but there’s no chance his proximity was anything but intentional.
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by Knee high to a duck on Mar 1, 2010 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
Exactly. This is a guy that played on 2 straight Canadian World Juniors teams and a guy that’s expected to make the NHL in the not-too-distant future. He’s not the Latino kid from Mighty Ducks 2.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
Running may be too strong but I’m not sure how else to word it. However you characterize it, it was definitely unnecessary at that time and the response by the other team was entirely warranted.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
And what I’m saying is that this was absolutely unwarranted and entirely unnecessary, with the Colts up by two and 40 seconds left in the game. It was also probably mostly intentional – I think he wanted to snowshower his buddy and either slipped or Hutchinson came further out of the crease than he was expecting.
Either way, these two teams had been chippy and brawly all night. I still want to know what fellow Colt Alex Pietrangelo said to the ref in the second period that got him a “abuse of official” misconduct after taking kneeing and elbowing penalties. Lulz.
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Yup, we are in agreement. Love the inside scoop that the G was his buddy. Can’t state enough how much I appreciate these.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
This too. Delly accuses Hutchinson of embellishing! Haha.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
I had some correspondence with a reporter who covers Eakin and the Broncos, and here’s what he had to say:
You should be very excited about this kid, great skater, great lower body and core strength that can control the puck down low, very good penalty killer and forechecker as well. We just hope we get him for another season up here!
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by EmilyB on Mar 1, 2010 3:11 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Getting in touch with the reporters and primary sources like this is awesome. Thanks for the hard work and the great features, YNC.
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by Knee high to a duck on Mar 1, 2010 9:37 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, you just made my morning. That’s fabulous to hear about such a young, not-terribly-big guy.
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by CapitalCentre on Mar 1, 2010 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
A guy that can PK and has some offensive skill! I’m falling in love.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
Just now? I fell in love the day he was drafted. As for another year in Barrie, I hope not. I hope he is wearing a Bears jersey next season.
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Eakin is in Swift Current, not Barrie. I liked him at first, and it has continued to grow.
Killer_Carlson and Steckel Me Elmo are like brothers to me. And when I say brothers I don't mean like actual brothers. I mean it like how black people use it, which is more meaningful, I think.
He’s only eighteen and not exactly oversized. Wouldn’t it be better to let him play another year in junior, gaining skills and mass?
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