Matt D\'Agostini....Tearing up the AHL

[willdog]

Is this kid worth a flier? Anyone have any quality insight to offer on him?

I am in a uber deep 30 team league, I just dropped Lapierre to scoop him up. I thought Maxim would have a nice year, but so far he has been stinking the place out!

Will Matt D\'Agostini get a chance with the habs this year?

[willdog]

Seems most of his points came while at even strength.

[Maksim]

Saw him at the last two training camps. He showed tremendous vision of the ice, playing along Koivu, Kovalev or Higgins. He is a perseverant player and it really shows when compared to other young players.

Despite being small, he does not show any kind of skills with his skating or his stickhandling. However, his presence around the net, his body and stick positioning are above NHL average.

He\'ll get called up when a major injury occurs to a player of the 3 first lines. He\'ll never be a 70-pt player (at least on the Habs) since MTL has so many players like this.

He\'ll be on the starting line-up next year. As for this year, I guess he could get something between 5 to 20 games and score 3 to 12 pts. Same projection of games for Pacioretty but a better pts projection.

[willdog]

Thanks for the great insight Maksim! Karma for you.....

Confirms my move of dropping Lapierre, who seems to be settling into the NHL in more of a checking role.

Hopefully he gets his cup of coffee in the NHL sooner than later!