Rookie profile of John Frostbeard, age 19 [1/2]

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Name: John Frostbeard

Nationality: Latvia

Age: 19

Weight: 220 lbs

Height: 6 feet 4 Inches

Position: RW

WHLM team: Pennsylvania Reapers

 

John has shown great potential to be 20 goal scorer, 60 assist man on any team. His professional hockey career started when he was 17, just before turning to 18, that was when local Latvian Hockey championship team "Kurbads" offered him a tryout contract with them. As he joined mid season he didn't have a chance to play all 28 games in a season, but he managed to play 14 games that season and got 4 goals and 8 assists in that stretch. During his next season he played all 28 games, but his production slipped as he was moved to play on 4th line because of his height and weight that allowed him to take up a role of Power Forward and be more aggressive.

 

Strenghts

 

1. Strong passing ability. Because of an amazing hand-eye coordination, John Frostbeard is able to provide his teammates with strong and precise passes. J.Frostbeard is not selfish, so you have to expect that his goal-scoring will suffer a bit.

2. 200ft game. John Frosbeard is active on defence and on offence. Because of his fairly good skating ability, John is able to move around the ice quickly. Defensively, John's greatest strength is his ability to use his body to gain pucks and make opposing players get turnovers. Offensively, his greatest strength is his passing ability and high IQ to come with it as that provides john with a possibility to be aggressive but dependable player.

3. Size. As John Frostbeard is 6.4 and 220, he can use his body well and be aggressive towards other players that are smaller and lighter. He can get at least 1 to 2 hits a game easily.

 

Weaknesses 

 

1.  Fighting. He is a terrible fighter because he never had to fight in Latvian hockey as he was just a rookie there. Considering that many teams will be carrying aggressive players, he should learn how to do it, but not model his game around that.

2. Scoring. Because of his well known unselfish play style, he is not an amazing, grade A+ scorer that you might expect him when seeing how hard is his slap shot.  Unfortunately, his wrist shot is terrible and he is avoiding it as much as he can.

3. Penalty shot. He is extremely weak 1 on 1 player and quite a weak player on shootouts. His Latvian hockey coach implied that :"John Frostbeard has all the potential in the world to be an amazing all around player, but for right now, he should stay away from 1 on 1 situations."

 

 John Frostbeard is quite similar to Eric Parker (New York Americans) , one of the leading players of VHL in season 64. Because of this everyone has to expect  that he is gonna be a strong competitor. His style of play is a bit more aggressive and focused on using his body more. John should easily fit any VHLM teams top 6 and be one of the leading players in points after his first season in league.

Edited February 24, 2019 by FrostBeard

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Review:

 

Hey, aside from some spelling and continuity errors this one looks pretty good.

 

On 2/24/2019 at 3:33 AM, FrostBeard said:

John has shown great potential to be 20 goal scorer, 60 assist man on any team

 

Is this in junior, or a projection for higher leagues?

 

On 2/24/2019 at 3:33 AM, FrostBeard said:

John Frostbeard is quite similar to Eric Parker (New York Americans) , one of the leading players of VHL in season 64. Because of this everyone has to expect  that he is gonna be a strong competitor.

 

I love this comparison segment, wish more profiles referred to in-league players!

 

Great read!