Re: RPI 2010 Off-Season Thread II -- We Can Rebuild Them. We Have the Technology!
The article, perhaps by design, still does not do a good job of describing what the precise reason for JL not being here next here is. Did we not want him? Does he not want to show up? RC, can you shed any more light?
I realize that both you and/or Weaver may be working off sources such that you can't go into more detail.
I really ought to not delve much deeper, lest I cause some kind of international incident.
To my knowledge, language and academics really aren't an issue, it's the maturity the whole way.
True. But, playing in the CJHL is not an easy way to get the attention necessary from scouts to play in the pros. And it's also unlikely to get him to grow up any more.
Well, no, but if he knows what's best for a player of his size (he may not), college is the route to the pros for him. Major junior makes the road tougher, especially if his work ethic is lacking. He's likely to get swallowed up in the CHL anyway, but if he is lazy than he's got no chance whatsoever.
True. There are a large number of forwards fighting for ice time next season. A highly-touted recruit sitting on the bench / in the press box eating up scholarship money because he doesn't immediately succeed doesn't do us much good.
Well, it's not so much a case of whether he immediately succeeds or not as much as it is that hockey is a team sport. If JL comes into town as the crown prince and lollygags in practice and in games, it has a detrimental effect on other players. We already had an issue this season with some of the guys "wanting it to be easy" as Appert put it. But yes, with a number of solid forwards on our roster - and it's quite possible that Tinordi, Higgs, and/or Rogic will pan out to be solid forwards too (Burgdoerfer's going to be a solid addition to the checking line) - we don't want the soap opera to still be going on in Troy.
Again, true (unfortunately). All of your statements are true. But they don't delve into some of the semi-deeper issues. Of course, that's also a result of having to deal with this saga for the past two years.
That's by design. I don't need to go upsetting the apple cart, as it were. You might want to read the last two WaP entries through the scope of knowing that much of what Weaver wrote about JL was something I was mostly aware of at the time.
