Wayne Simmonds

By Rich Hammond on September 13, 2007 8:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

He throws his body around well, but he needs to get a lot stronger for the hits to have some impact. He seems to have good ice awareness though, so the other stuff can come as he gets older.

Cloutier has looked fairly solid, but he hasn't faced much. I agree with Gann that he might have gotten a late look at the shot on the Ducks' first goal.

As for teh jerseys, this is indeed the debut of the new Reebok jerseys.

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
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