New Faces at Albany...
Matus Kostur- G
Matt DeMarchi - D
Phil Cole - D
Maxim Balmochnykh - LW
Ryan Murphy - LW
Ahren Nittel - C
New Faces Going to Albany...
David Hale - D (With the Exceptional play of Sean Brown, Ray Giroux, and Tommy Albelein ... most likely will be in albany)
Paul Martin - D (Same as Hale)
Tuomas Pihlman - LW (big surprise in New Jersey.. Big foward likes to use his size)
Ilkka Pikkarainen - RW (can also play Defense if need be.. good puck handling skills)
Aleksander Suglobov - RW (Better Talent than Berglund little less pesky)
if you ask me... i believe albany should get rid of all there older defensemen such as mettucci. i believe that they should let the younger guys play to gain more experience. They will have a good Defensive core. With Hale, Martin,DeMarchi, and Cole... they should pull up Kadeykin and Chvatal.. who are 2 very young defensemen on the rise.
There goalies should be much better this year. Ahonen came into camp ready to play. Clemmensen has improved since last year. If albany really wants to go places this year they should only go with one goalie and that should be Ahonen. They will do much better like this.
The fowards are a different story. They should call up Joey Tenute who had 112 pts in the OHL last season. they should leave some experience such as darby and kariya but other than that let the young guys go. I would have kept Vrana to play in albany. This is a developement league so there should be no reason to have players older than 28 on the roster.
My Projected for this years team line-up is like this...
Ahonen
Martin/Hale
DeMarchi/Cole
Uchetov/Redlihs
Pihlman - Darby - Kariya
Pikkarainen - Foster - Suglobov
Hartsburg - Guolla - Johansson
Clouthier - Nittel - Murphy