maroon has some of the sickest hands of the flyers prospects. the issue with him has always been his conditioning and skating which he is making great strides this year. Was easily the best player in the prospect camp from what i hear. He might have a shot at making the lineup this year and depending on how philly sets their lineup he could put up 20 goals with a regular spot or he could be a year away. All depends on how he performs at training camp.
If your looking at one of the PHI goalies i would go backlund over errickson depending on your time table. errickson is supposed to take over the spot left by gust coming here and probably wont be ready to make the jump to NA for another 2+ years. I beleive he will be the better goalie out of the two though in the long run, but you never know.
Backlund should get the starts in the AHL this year (reason why Munroe wasnt resigned) and could have a shot at the starter or a backup role depending on how Emery turns out this year. Thought i remember hearing that the Flyers liked Backlund better than Gustafson but that could have been because they already signed backlund and wanted to keep the faith.
UFHP - Y! 12 GMs - 23/8 pro/farm - keep 17 + all farm
G, A, +/-, PIM, PPP, SHP, GWG, SOG, Hits, FW; GS, W, L, GA, GAA, SA, SV, SV%, SHO
C: Backstrom, Crosby, Little, Zetterberg, Rask
LW: Foligno, Ehlers, Skinner, Hartnell, Jokinen, Ladd
RW: Tarasenko, Kessel, Nash, Marner
D: Keith, Karlsson, Klingberg, Werenski, Barrie, Manson
G: Price, Murray, Andersen
Farm:
C: Keller
LW: Fiala, Heinen
RW: Gurianov
D: Sergachev, Beaulieu, Manning, Borowiecki
G: Forsberg, Driedger
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Originally Posted by sentium
But I'll be more than content to sit on him for a while. If nothing else, I can trade one of the other dmen.
