Sorry for a late comment - I don't have a lot of internet access while
visiting in Maine.
Ben's biggest problem - and one that every opponent knows - is that when he
goes down, he can't get back up again. When he gets into the butterfly,
you can go upstairs all day long because he looses his mobility and can't
get around to protect the rest of the net.
So, I would agree. He would not do well in any other level at this point.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if St. Louis told him to stay here for
another year to keep working.
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From: james acheson [log in to unmask]
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 09:13:29 -0800
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: testing the still water...
well, I was one of the ones who did not think that
skinny teddy had a chance in the upper leagues until
he put on about 30 pounds, I think that I said that he
had the upper body of a thin 12 year old boy. ....
well I was wrong, teddy is doing OK in the AHL, and
even better, it seems, than the very strong Greg Moore
(although it might be partly due to who their
linemates are).
That said, I do not see Ben as a servicable ECHL
goaltender at this point. how can he move on?
I really do not think that the "once-a-game softie"
can be blamed on terrible defense. A soft goal is by
definition, one that the goalie should have stopped.
(Joe Exter at Merrimack and Tom Welby at Merrimack had
terrible goals against averages (on a Jimmy Howard
Scale), but they did not give up softies as often as
Ben has for 3 years. They had something between NO
defense in front of them, and pretty weak D. Ben's
other glaring weakness seems to be his inability to
stop any pucks from going in over his shoulders. He
is 6'7 and almost tall enough to touch the cross bar
with his shoulders when he is in his butterfly, but
some how people can shoot from the point with Ben
about 5 feet out of the crease, in the butterfly, and
the shooters can still put it over his shoulder. He
is leaning too far forward, it seems. And he does
that all the time.
The echl is full of very skilled little guys like
Soares (who would be his teammate), derek damon, the
ferraro twins, and many others who were all americans
in college and the stars of their teams (as opposed to
skilled tall guys like Lemieux and Lindros). WHile I
would love to see Ben in the NHL and I think that if
he can play his best all the time he will get there,
RIght now I think that the ECHL will eat him alive.
Right now, I do not see Ben moving on.
--- Spiros Polemis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Just changed my email, and I wanted to see if it
took.Also wanted to see if anyone is participating
here.
So I pose a question. With goalie Darling's recent
commitment to Mainefor next season ('08-'09), are we
to assume that Ben will be moving on?What is your take
on it?
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