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December 5, 2016
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FOOTE FILLING SOME BIG SHOES
FOR DAILY PROSPECT COVERAGE, VISIT THN.COM CAL FOOTE PRACTICALLY can’t fail. Not only is he the son of an ex-NHLer, but he’s a defenseman for the WHL’s Kelowna Rockets, a franchise with a propensity for producing pro blueliners (Shea Weber, Tyler Myers, Tyson Barrie, Madison Bowey, this list is getting long as the years go by…). Oh, and Foote is 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds already. “Good offensive instincts, and he’s a righty,” said one scout. “With his speed and his stick, he’s got a lot of tools.” Foote was born in December, 1998, meaning he missed being eligible for the 2016 draft by three months. So he’ll be one of the older 18-year-olds in the 2017 draft. Despite being undrafted, he was already deemed advanced enough to play for Canada at a…
THE P.K. EFFECT
IT BECAME A ritual throughout July and into August. Every day, Nat Harden, the Nashville Predators’ vice-president in charge of tickets, stepped into the office of CEO Sean Henry with the same message. “It didn’t end again.” The “it,” in this case, was a rare surge in sales at a time when people, particularly those in Music City, are focused on things other than hockey. The origin of the swell was the 2016 All-Star Game that Nashville hosted in late January. It continued to grow a few months later, as the organization began in earnest to ride the wave in the wake of its best post-season to date, a two-round run that ended with a Game 7 loss to eventual Western Conference champion San Jose. Then came a six-year contract for…
RAPID FIRE
Favorite team and player growing up? I was an Edmonton Oilers fan. My favorite player was Mike Comrie for a bit, then it became Raffi Torres. Those were my favorite players. I was young and I didn’t know. Who was your mentor? My Dad, Ian, always coached me when I was young. When I was 12 or 13 he stopped coaching, but he is always someone I could talk to. He understood my game. He’s my strength coach and trains me in the summer. He’s someone who really understands me and my body. He also helps me when I don’t play well and tells me things to help me improve when I’m going through a slump. Who did you model your game after? I always liked watching Martin St-Louis. He’s a smaller guy that I…
JAKE MUZZIN WHAT IT’S LIKE... TELLS US
For us it didn’t take long. For some pairs it takes a while, but we’re instinct players, so we just kind of played hockey and made reads off each other instead of having set plays. It took a while for me to sustain that level of play, to play with Drew and play consistently against top guys. Once the coaches trusted me, I excelled from there. We had a lot of fun during the 2014 Stanley Cup run. We were just out there being solid defensively but experimenting offensively. Usually it’s just a read – if I see him jumping, I’m not going to jump. If I read a play and I want to go in, then he’s covering for me. Drew helped with my confidence, too. When I was coming up…
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