2013 NHL Draft: Oshawa Generals at London Knights November 15, 2012

November 15, 2012, Oshawa Generals @ London Knights (OHL)

OSH #14 RW Latour, Bradley (2013) – Bradley hit everything he could and won battles regularly. His skating…

[sociallocker] didn’t look good. But if he can improve on his skating, he shows the potential and the mindset to be a very good grinder/physical player.

OSH #19 RC Cassels, Cole (2013) – Cole is a very good skater. He wins races to the puck and battles hard. He was very reliable defensively for Oshawa for the most part. He is a key component to their penalty kill and breaks up offensive chances. He struggles a little when he has the puck in good scoring areas. He generally just throws the puck into the slot and hopes for the best when he does acquire it down low, sometimes after doing a great job winning a battle.

OSH #71 LC Dal Colle, Michael (2014) – Dal Colle shows tremendous work ethic. He gives everything he’s got every single shift. Michael has a great combination of size and speed. He closes gaps quickly and hits hard. He’s always in good position, or en route to ideal positioning. Dangerous combination of shooting and passing abilities, however he much prefers to pass over shoot. Dal Colle made an unbelievable defensive play to break up a big scoring chance and save a sure goal for London with a minute left and the Generals up by a goal.

LON #2 LD Maatta, Olli (PIT) – Unfortunately Olli showed us a lot of what we saw out of him last season. He struggled moving the puck in all three zones. Still throwing the puck into the skates of his teammates, and icing or turning the puck when he’s about to get hit. But as we’ve seen before he emerges from these mistakes to make a great play to set up a scoring chance. Outside the odd play here and there it was all panic with the puck. To his credit although he doesn’t win as many battles as we’d like to see he never quits on a play. He comes out every shift and works hard and certainly gets an A for his efforts.

LON #4 LD Liberati, Miles (2013) – Miles got some power play time and created chances with his patience and passing ability. He put a good point shot on net which directly resulted in a goal for the Knights and an assist for Liberati scoring the first of four unanswered goals starting the Knights big comeback run. He did a lot with the little amount of ice he was given, which resulted in the Knights’ coaching staff rewarding Miles as he was given a lot more ice in the critical moments of the game.

LON #16 LC Domi, Max (2013) – Domi was absolutely dominant tonight. But it didn’t start out so promising for him. He had two breakaway chances earlier on in the game and he fell both times. He made an outstanding behind the back pass to send his linemate on a breakaway. Max looked like he was on a mission and he really set the tone early in the third leveling a much bigger guy. His competiveness and willingness to pay the price out front rewarded him with the first of four unanswered goals for the Knights. He scored again with less than five minutes left making it a one goal game thanks to his great positioning at the side of the net. Finally, he made a great play in which he assisted on the third and tying goal with 22 seconds left on the clock. London isn’t even close in this game if Max Domi doesn’t put on this kind of performance.

LON #53 LW Horvat, Bo (2013) – Very opportunistic offensively. He doesn’t create offense on a consistent basis but he exploits openings that few see. Horvat battled at both ends of the ice showing great competiveness. He had a sure goal taken away from him with a minute left down 3-2 but he kept working, regrouped then regained his original positioning making no mistake with 22 seconds left to tie the game.

LON #65 LD Zadorov, Nikita (2013) – Threw a few solid hits but at times chases the hits. He panicked with the puck at times when he was going to be hit turning it over in the defensive zone or just icing the puck despite better options being available.

LON #81 LW Elie, Remi (2013) – Very physical and protected the puck well but couldn’t get anything going offensively in the first. He started to get more critical ice in the final two periods as a reward for his compete level in trying to help the Knights get back in the game. He rushed the puck very well on the power play making smart passes. At one point London tried to create a play on the power play directly designed to get Elie’s one timer off.

Scouts Notes: Oshawa absolutely dominated the Knights through 40 minutes. Jake Patterson (2013*) came in to relieve Kevin Baillie (Free Agent) and really kept the Knights in it after three early goals. While this game looked over entering the third period, London somehow found a way to score four unanswered goals; three in regulation and one in overtime for the win. To add a little controversy, the final three goals scored by London came off of three very questionable penalty calls on Oshawa in the final eight minutes of the game.

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