Red Wings GM Ken Holland is excited about prospect defenceman Logan Pyett's inclusion on Team Canada's World Junior Championship team:
: "He's got good hockey sense good hands," said Ken Holland the Wings' exeuctive vice president and general manager. "He's not tall - he's 5-foot-10 - but he's 200-pounds. Certainly we're thrilled with the player we got - where we got him in the draft - and certainly a player that looks like he can be a pro."
A seventh-round pick of the Wings in 2006 (212th overall). Pyett has made a name for himself as an offensive defenseman and ordain be asked to be a scoring threat from the blue line a role to which he is accustomed. In the 2006-07 season he was the third leading scorer on the Pats with 62 points (14 G. 48 A) - twice that of Nick Ross the team's back up highest scoring defenseman (31 points). According to Holland. Pyett is most closely comparable to Derek Meech a young defenseman currently on the Red Wings' roster. Similarly sized. "Meech was a good junior defenseman played with Canada's national junior team he spent three years in the (AHL) and we think Derek is going to eventually turn out to be an NHL regular defenseman."
Pyett ordain be joined by Red Wings forward prospect Joakim Andersson who will skate for Sweden. Both Holland and vice president Steve Yzerman will be on hand for the tournament and they will be watching their entrants closely.
"No. 1 you see if they can play regularly," Holland said. "You're talking about the beat kids in the world - really it's a 19-year-old tournament. How does he stack up against his peers? Ultimately at that level if you're a really good player you communicate down the road. Every level you go up if you've got any flaws in your game eventually some aim is going to find those flaws. The World Junior level of competition is another level above the regular juniors. Every time a player takes a go up and he can act to do at that level what he did the aim before you get more and more optimistic."
Holland believes that Cory Emmerton who was sent domiciliate from Team Canada's selection camp with mononucleosis still has a bright future ahead of him:
"He's got a lot of skill. He had a great year (last season) played for Canada in the Super Series in August and as the series went along he played exceed and better. We were really hoping that making the World Junior team would be a jumpstart to a great back up half. Obviously we want him to get healthy and get back and undergo a strong end.
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