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Editor's Note: blue with age decided to take advantage of a meeting of two of Toronto's better offensive prospects and made his way down to the Remparts/Drummondville game. Here is his report on Mikhail Stafanovich and Chris DiDomenico.

Last night I ventured out in the insanely cold night with 14000 other insane people to watch a Remparts/Drummond game. In our barn, the beer is priced ($4.25) just slightly higher than bottled water and the sushi is called poutine ($6). Though I have seen our boy Stefanovich before this was the first time I have seen DiDomenico live. 

Tall, yet invisible, Stefanovich seems to often be in the right place at the right time to pot a goal. Which he did at even strength last night from the edge of the crease. He is big enough, fast enough and has the hands to play in the big show. The only question is whether he can do it right away. Think Pony (both positive and negative aspects). Personally,  I can hardly wait for the tag team wrestlemania cage match featuring our belarusians versus theirs (you know who you are).  Speaking of the negative side, being invisible is not always an asset when it means do-nothing-invisible. Plus, King Patrick had to actually go to Belarus (undoubtably with persuasive pineapples and sharp knives) to convince his parents to let Steffy come here. He will always be a higher maintenance player. Though hats off to the parents for making the crazy, wifebeating father of two junior rapping wifebeaters-in-training jump though hoops to get his way instead of just pouting in the local newspaper that he would take a back seat to anyone that would like to take his place knowing full well that the fawning over him of the said local population is the source of his hard-ons (in addition to wifebeating of course). 

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DiDomenico was recently traded to his new team. I hesitate using the nick name Dido, one typo away from being more news than I need to know. The PA announcer last night referred to him as Christophe (see previous sentence). Drummondville is now third overall in the Q (after last night) and DiDomenico is 1 of their 2 NHL drafted players - Quebec has 7. (Note to overcrowded TML executive suite - Please, please don't draft Tardif the goalie). DiDomenico has grown quite a bit in the recent past, so he is a thin guy. It is not surprising then that he is easily moved off the puck for now (including an awesome open ice hit last night that put him on his ass). On the positive side, he can play a role. This was not he same guy that set up Tavares over xmas. All his points last night (1g2a) were from the lip of the crease and he has a mean streak, probably from being pushed around when he was a smaller water bug. He was definitely the best player on his team last night, as well as the most penalized, and can evidently make an impact.

Overall, both players seem to be prospects that have yet to prove they can make the jump up. But good hands can't be taught, whether they develop with us or serve as trade bait. 

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I loves me some junior hockey and I am glad to see posts like this. Thanks.

Water at my arena is 3 bucks. Beer is 5.25. Might be 5.50 now. I dunno I can’t remember. I paid 2.75 for a pack of M&Ms and cried just a little bit.

Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.

by wrap around curl on Jan 17, 2009 3:46 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I paid 2.75 for a pack of M&Ms and cried just a little bit.

Ugh, I can hear yourself getting poorer.

I agree though, I really enjoy posts like these regarding junior/minor league hockey. I’ve said it before, it’s really a shame to see such a lack of MSM coverage given to other hockey despite living in the largest media centre in Canada.

by bkblades on Jan 17, 2009 5:14 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Look who is in first; http://theworldofjuniorhockey.blogspot.com/2009/01/updated-ohl-cup-rankings.html

Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.

by wrap around curl on Jan 17, 2009 6:18 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, just saw those rankings. And nice link – I had that site bookmarked some months ago randomly trying to find how to properly spell Magnus Svensson-Paarjarvi or look for his pictures. I can’t remember which one now.

by bkblades on Jan 17, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks for posting this, would love to see it as a regular feature.

I also agree that we don’t get enough coverage of Junior Hockey. Gare Joyce does a pretty good job of tracking the juniors over at Sportsnet, he may be the only one at the major outlets routinely filing on this.

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by mf37 on Jan 17, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

So I think we can agree;
More junior coverage?

Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.

by wrap around curl on Jan 17, 2009 7:47 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Yes, now we just need 27 more Helens.

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by mf37 on Jan 17, 2009 8:08 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Definitely

Who else lives near one of the Leafs’ junior-aged prospects?

Any Germans?

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by PPP on Jan 17, 2009 10:18 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I live in the same continent.

Don’t plan on going.

by article1 on Jan 18, 2009 1:01 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

if they draft Kane

I promise I’ll go to Giants games next year…

by Karina on Jan 18, 2009 12:55 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Do we have any prospects playing for the Guelph Storm? Kitchener Rangers? Mississauga-st,mikes-majors?

by The Meatriarchy on Jan 19, 2009 7:20 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Doesn’t look like it.

Dale Mitchell plays for Windsor though.

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by PPP on Jan 19, 2009 9:28 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

I’ll keep an eye on Tavares.

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by JaredFromLondon on Jan 19, 2009 9:38 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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