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Originally posted by ronaldo:
how can you validate what you are saying since you do not play against most of the icshl teams or players like latta milana cottle ignatuk and so on. you are basing your judgement off of the few teams that you have played in the icshl

What's your point? Just because he hasn't played every team in the Inter Count doesn't mean he can't comment on who he thinks is the Top Forward. Fact is we play quite a few Inter County teams and he knows the games and knows/has seen the others so I'd say he could validate his picks pretty easily if he really wanted.

Pb Nothing agianst Deluca but i think that Christie is a much more solid player, and is more Valuable to PV this year

deluca is a very good player but he should be mentioned in the best defenseman topic because he is a defenseman.

In re forwards at PV, I think Perkiomen Valley is best described as having "ensemble scoring". Any of 5 or 6 players could be on a list of fastest, most valuable, or most dangerous scorers. Fiorillo, DeLuca, Christie, Nickolson, and defenseman Ziegler combine all of the above-listed traits to provide solid group offense and each, individually, would be on many lists of "most valuable to the team", or "most dangerous scorers".

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Originally posted by Snipe:
The two best performances by a forward this year belong to Matt versus PV and Henderson. Is there any disagreement with that?

Cottles 8 point game v. Penncrest was the most dominating ive seen, ah play-maker and a hat trick, given it wasnt as quality a team but still crazy. I didnt see either of Matts games though.

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Originally posted by Mandell89:
MAscintonio would be no where near the top of the list. He is a good player, but he is also a huge hot head and does not do the smartest things he can with the puck. He, like most of Stoga is not a two way forward

He was on Bud's team last year when they got third at nationals, and he didnt try out this year. SO, i thiink he might be a little bit better than those kids who didnt make bud's team before this year, so you might want to consider him for one of the top forwards.

Frankly, I don't see a consistent game-controller or game-changer anywhere in the League. Milano can do it on occasion. Bartelmass has his good games. So do the duo from Henderson. All are very, very, good players. But, in my observation, none is a consistent game-controller. All of them can be and routinely are controlled by good defense and/or a hot goaltender.

I can somewhat agree with that. Theres really no one out there that I see as a forsure DI prospect like some of the players of the past. However most of the players talked about in this link are well above the rest of the league and some of them do controll the pace of the game when there out there.

What future D1 prospect have you seen in the past playing high school hockey, that dominated while he was in high school?

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Originally posted by Jigga Beef:
What future D1 prospect have you seen in the past playing high school hockey, that dominated while he was in high school?

Um from around here. Jeff Corey, from Ohara, Chase and Brett Watson, Chris Lawrence, Joe Testa, Campanale, from Malvern. Ryan Gunderson from Ryan, Chad Kolarik LaSalle, Barry Goes Council Rock, thers others but I got my point across.

You saw all of them play?

Its a little early to say Campanele, making a D1 team and getting ice time on a D1 team are two very different things.

Most kids who play D1 don't usually play for more than 2 years in this area, that was the only point i was trying to make. Kolarik only played 1 year at La Salle.

I played against or with all of them at one point or another in travel and high school. Besides Goes.

I was talking about Chris Campanele and he played every game he was healthy for and scored 13 points in 24 games. Lil Camp is still a bubble player at UNH your right.

Yes Kolarik only played 1 year here on a Lasalle team that wasnt really that good compared to normal and he deff stood out. I remember beating them like 6-4 and im pretty sure he had a hand in every point. Which shows his skill level cause at the time he was a tiny freshmen.
Speaking of him his bro played around here too and than went to Harvard to play.

I see, i got the impression you were a younger player so i didn't think you would have seen any of the kids play. My Mistake.

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Originally posted by Jigga Beef:
I see, i got the impression you were a younger player so i didn't think you would have seen any of the kids play. My Mistake.

No prob, I played back with the players I talked about before than I played in college away from here and now im back coaching.

I tend to agree with Jigga Beef that it is hard to imagine many of the current top players going on to play D1, simply because they're still here playing high school hockey. Even the typical good-level D3 freshman player is now 20 years old and has played Junior Hockey since he was 16 or 17. I have that directly from the head coach of a well-respected New England D3 team. Virtually all of his in-coming freshman players fit those specifications. So, it follows that unless a kid and his family have started moving in that direction as he is entering high school, he's probably not going to play college (or pro) hockey at any level except perhaps college club or intermural. In my view these are sad facts, but true nonetheless. As a pretty hard rule, your future D1 players have moved away from home by the time they are 16 or 17 at the latest.