Beiträge von kabidjan14

Zitat von Redbulls158

Fässler beim turnier in schweden mit 3 punkten aus 4 spielen. Fröwis zwar ohne punkt aber trotzdem sehr gute leistungen. Verstehe nicht wieso diese beiden noch keine WM gespielt haben. Die beiden haben bewiesen dass sie es dieses jahr verdient hätten dabei zu sein. 3 punkte aus 4 spielen sind eine sehr gute leistung. kabidjan14 i know you don‘t think so good of fässler but he did really good job now. First in zell am see and now karlstad.

Pewal and Pinter will decide. Summons for Vojens have already been released...if they want him there then they will call him!

U20 World Championship Pre-November Roster Release Questions

https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/u20…ease-questions/

Ganahl with his first assist!

This is what's up, and a sign of things to come

Is there a way to watch Alps games online?

My suggestion for them: lower the threshold for foreign juniors to get swiss licenses. Increases the swiss pool without raising the legio limit. Yes, I'm aware, that helps us far more than it helps them. But there are a lot of guys who lack only one or two years to receiving a Swiss license, not just Austrians, and that might be a minor source of competent supplements.

Will be a little late for the draft since I didn't know I had to download the app to draft and I don't have wifi presently.

No shame. Loko is the best junior team in all of Europe, and playing with a number of non-juniors. Good takeaway for a lot of athletes to see where they are and where they need to get to.

Previewing the Austrian U20 Hockey Team of the 2018-19 Season

https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/pre…2018-19-season/

Previewing the Austrian U18 Hockey Team of the 2018-19 Season

https://authockeytxreports.wordpress.com/2018/08/22/pre…2018-19-season/

Sure! I'll try be more active this year.

Zitat von Redbulls158

What about fässler and fröwis? Also vonbun how are they doing with the new coaching staff? kabidjan14

Both were positively mentioned at one point. Frowis stood out more, but here's the thing about him. He will be as good as he wants to be. I've watched quite a few games for him in the past year, he has good size, has always had good hands, vision. He drifts too much, sometimes stops moving, not very active on the forecheck, low energy. He's a good player, when he decides to hustle more he'll be a much better player. He was more active last season than he was, say two or three years ago, so I am curious to see how active he will be this season.

Vonbun scored a goal, I didn't hear much else on the subject.

Goalies were mentioned as a concern. I think Zimmermann starts there. Also, Bernhard Posch from Vienna impressed quite a bit.

Zitat von Redbulls158

kabidjan14 have you been to zell am see?

I have not, unfortunately.

I was planning on doing an actual write up but there are differing accounts on what actually happened within those walls. Here's what we know.

Game one ended 2-1. Maier and Kai Fassler scored, Konig for the other team assisted by Rossi. On the OEHV FB page it said game 2 was 4-3. Everyone agrees that is wrong. It was 5-4 in penalties. Harnisch scored twice, Baumgartner scored once and on the penalties, and also three assists. Lanzinger also scored a goal. On the other side, either Rossi scored twice and Konig assisted twice, or Rossi scored once and Konig scored once and they assisted each other. Either way, both got 2 points, Rebernig also scored as did Vonbun.

The biggest standout for everyone was Patrick Antal of Vienna.

On the U18s, a brilliant play by Johannes Patterer where he walked through 4 defensemen which led to a goal for Bohm. Standout in the U18 camp was Luis Lindner.

Zitat von Dornbirner50

Neue (hoffentlich hellere) Beleuchtung ist sehr zu Begrüßen Sofern es stimmt, dass der Verein dafür zahlen musste wäre dies jedoch schon sehr schwach von der Stadt

Unter den vielen Neuzugängen ist mMn Felix Vonbun etwas untergegangen, er durchlief die Nachwuchsmannschaften des SC Rheintals und des ZSC. Weiß jemand ob er das Zeug zum EBEL Verteidiger hat? kabidjan14 eventuell?

In the long run anything could happen. At least for this season, I would consider it unlikely. He should get chances to prove himself at Bregenzerwald, however.

Marco Rossi (18th) and David Maier (87th) were drafted today in the CHL Import Draft by Ottawa and North Bay, respectively.

Could be a huge pick up for their national team, which would be very good for them. Would also be nice for Austria if they could take Norway down a peg, so good news through and through.

Where can one stream the AlpsHL this upcoming season?

Zitat von SNIPER #74

blöde Frage,aber wer ist kele steffler?

Great athlete.

He has a lot of offensive potential, especially for a guy his age, good hockey IQ. He's a good PP QB in general. Incredibly smart and has good hands. His offensive stats are no fluke for sure. Weaknesses, he needs to improve his mobility. Faster top speed getting back on puck retrievals, lateral speed keeping up with opposing forwards. He can't take some offensive risks because he wouldn't be able to get back. If he improves his skating and continues to put on muscle, I think he'll be able to contend with the other, older, defensemen for a rotation spot.

Instead of Welser or Latusa for the Senior Men's team why not Welser or Latusa for the Alps Farmteam so that they can accrue a resume in an environment where they will be given chances to fail and to succeed?

I think something that should be noted.

Of the 16 teams that played, all of the 8 youngest teams made the playoffs. All of the 8 older teams did not make the playoffs. The three youngest teams are all in the semifinals as well.

Correlation isn't causation, but it's worth thinking about.

The same is true for Latvia-Denmark when Latvia went up 1-0. You can neutralize virtually any amount of offense, or even the best players, with a simple zone. That's what Latvia did to Connor McDavid and Patrick Kane. You can beat that, but in order to do so you need to have screens on net, put the puck on net with speed and turn rebounds into dirty goals. It's hard for a lot of National teams that don't have great chemistry or don't have power-forwards to consistently get effective screens on net to get rebounds.

I think the curious paradox of Austrian hockey is that, for some reason or another, youths simply aren't coming out prepared for senior hockey. And, always, I'm open to correction, or opposing opinions. This is just my opinion, and it could be wrong. Obviously the league situation is unfortunate. I wish something could be done about it, but the way it is currently is the way it is. It is unlikely to change. We have to adapt.

Austrian stardom in the EBEL (not including athletes who began their senior career elsewhere), seems to follow three stages. If we take the athletes under 30 years old, not say Thomas Koch who played in a different age. I will try to infer what happened at each stage. The first stage is basically, strictly bottom six roles. Usually an athlete in this stage gets around a dozen points or less. This was Michael Raffl in 2006-08. Alex Rauchenwald from 2013-16. Manuel Ganahl from 2009-12. Fabio Hofer 2010-13. Konstantin Komarek from 2012-13. Then, they break out to the next level, they pass some formerly established veterans or assume increased responsibility. With this new responsibility, they are productive. At this stage they will usually hit .33 PPG to .5 PPG. Michael Raffl 2008-09. Alex Rauchenwald 2016-17. Manuel Ganahl 2012-13. Fabio Hofer 2013-14. Konstantin Komarek 2013-14. The third stage is breakout. I remember Michael Raffl recounting this moment, Coach noticed that with the responsibilities he was given he was effective, and awarded him a powerplay spot, and that changed everything, it's why he always is talking in interviews about the powerplay. This is the point they surge over .6 or .7 PPG. Michael Raffl 2009-10. Two years later he entered stage four and moved to Leksand. For Alex Rauchenwald that was this season, 2017-18, maybe in a few years he'll make stage four. Manuel Ganahl in 2013-14. This off-season he entered step 4, to Pelicans. Fabio Hofer 2014-15. This year he took the 4th step to Ambri. Komarek 2014-15. In 2016 he took the 4th step to Malmo. Even consider Lebler. In 2010-11 he played mostly bottom 6 roles in the AHL/ECHL, so that was his stage one. Lebler in 2011-12 was stage two, because he came in already as a pro. 2012-13 Lebler was stage three for Lebler. He took stage four in 2015 to Ingolstadt, now he makes 150k euros.

If you are 23 years old, and passing 38 year old Philipp Lukas is an insurmountable task for you, I think you may have a situation that cannot simply be solved by putting you on the Powerplay. Yes, statistically you may score more points, but there will not be that upward trend, because you might score .5 PPG, but someone else if given the same powerplay time can do .7 PPG. Once you get taken off the powerplay, it's back to 10-12 points per season.

It seems that the more common situation is not many young athletes at stage two with 15-25 points or around .5 PPG ready to take the next step to supplant legios, but rather many athletes with many times athletes in stage one with less than 10 points who cannot supplant an older player with maybe 15-20 points. If you are 23 and you are unable to usurp an Andreas Kristler, you may just be a bottom-six forward. There's nothing wrong with that. They are necessary for every team. Many times we as fans forget exactly how important they are, but not well-made team is just four top lines. Each line has a purpose.

But when we talk about the failure of the league. I truly wish I could say "well there are many promising 20, 21 year olds who have shown they can score 20 points in a season. If you put them on the powerplay, they will score 50. However, the league and bad coaches aren't letting this happen." If a coach does not give a player good ice time and maybe even 2nd unit power play time in that situation, that is 100% in poor taste. We should all be able to agree that is wrong. If a young player has reached stage two, he should be given a passage to stage three. A young player is full of talent, unrealized potential. If you invest in a 20 year old who already has 20 points, he will learn many things, he will continue to mature physically and improve his technical skills, you may get 40 or 50 points from him very soon. However, I'm skeptical of this "I have 8 points a season, I cannot surpass Mario Fischer in the lineup, but if you give me powerplay time I will become Michael Raffl." You are skipping a stage. If you prove your are capable of maintaining stage two, stage three becomes a very reasonable discussion and then we must discuss how the league must do more to allow Austrians on the first unit power-play and overtime.

I'm excited for Valentin Leiler this season. He's not particularly popular in the Authockey community because he's not as exciting as some of the other prospects, but perhaps he could become something, and for the sake of Austrian hockey I strongly hope so.

Obrist is good in the exact capacity he was used in at the World Championship.

It must be illegal to put Zwerger on the left wing of the PP instead of Hofer, who doesn't finish around the net or have a powerful snapshot...

I'm not quite able to follow all of the developments with the Walderhalle but it seems exciting!

What's preventing the young athletes in the EBEL from getting off (basically) the fourth line? Is there some bias in favor of senior athletes? Being unable to surpass legios, I understand. But if you're a 21 year old, 22, 23 year old athlete and it's asking too much that you supplant Mario Fischer, or Michael Schiechl in Salzburg, or Marco Brucker for KAC, or Patrick Spannring in Linz, etc.

Now it could entirely be the case that there's some bias in favor of certain athletes, older athletes, I'm not aware of, or something else, which is why I'm asking. Is there some bias going on, or some old-fashioned attitude that these kids have to "wait their turn" or are they legitimately not as good as older non-National team (or infrequent and irregular) members?