Papaduke
June 11th, 2008, 10:31:17 PM
The name that seems to come up most in mock drafts is Swiss born defender Luca Sbisa, here is a NHL.com profile of him. Please post your thoughts:
Luca Sbisa (http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=362959&page=NewsPage&service=page)
Sbisa happy with decision to give WHL a shot
Brad Holland | NHL.com Staff Writer
May 9, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT
Luca Sbisa of the WHL's Lethbridge Hurricanes is currently ranked twelfth among North American defensemen for the 2008 Entry Draft.
For elite teenage hockey players in Canada, the drafts for the three Canadian Hockey League circuits -- the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League -- are the first taste of big-time hockey.
Those drafts represent the chance for the player to compete for a position at the highest junior level in hockey-mad Canada. That time can be as exciting as the NHL Entry Draft for those involved. It can be a time of celebration or disappointment; a time of reward, of change, and of excitement.
For Swiss-born Luca Sbisa, taken No. 69 out of the 72 skaters selected in the CHL’s annual Import Draft -- the draft for non-North American players -- it was nothing more than one heck of a nice surprise.
“I didn’t even know that I got drafted,” Sbisa said. “My agent found out on the Internet and told me.”
Once he was informed he had been selected by the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, Sbisa had a difficult choice to make. He could continue playing in Switzerland, or he could move across the ocean, across most of a continent, to a tiny town in Alberta known as much for its cattle and wheat production as for its hockey players. More... (http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=362959&page=NewsPage&service=page)
Luca Sbisa (http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=362959&page=NewsPage&service=page)
Sbisa happy with decision to give WHL a shot
Brad Holland | NHL.com Staff Writer
May 9, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT
Luca Sbisa of the WHL's Lethbridge Hurricanes is currently ranked twelfth among North American defensemen for the 2008 Entry Draft.
For elite teenage hockey players in Canada, the drafts for the three Canadian Hockey League circuits -- the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League -- are the first taste of big-time hockey.
Those drafts represent the chance for the player to compete for a position at the highest junior level in hockey-mad Canada. That time can be as exciting as the NHL Entry Draft for those involved. It can be a time of celebration or disappointment; a time of reward, of change, and of excitement.
For Swiss-born Luca Sbisa, taken No. 69 out of the 72 skaters selected in the CHL’s annual Import Draft -- the draft for non-North American players -- it was nothing more than one heck of a nice surprise.
“I didn’t even know that I got drafted,” Sbisa said. “My agent found out on the Internet and told me.”
Once he was informed he had been selected by the WHL’s Lethbridge Hurricanes, Sbisa had a difficult choice to make. He could continue playing in Switzerland, or he could move across the ocean, across most of a continent, to a tiny town in Alberta known as much for its cattle and wheat production as for its hockey players. More... (http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=362959&page=NewsPage&service=page)