As we know, the Montreal Canadiens have one of the best banks of prospects in the NHL.
Already, the club has several young players in the lineup who are doing very well, like Cole Caufield, Lane Hutson, Kaiden Guhle, Kirby Dach and Juraj Slafkovsky, to name a few.
In addition, the CH has a fairly young captain in Nick Suzuki and several other quality prospects playing elsewhere will arrive soon.
Among all the quality prospects, there are some who do well without getting enough attention.
The Austrian Vinzenz Rohrer is one of them, who has 21 points, including 12 goals, in 38 games in the National Leaguefirst division in Switzerland.
Remember that the NL is extremely competitive and seeing him play a bigger role this season at only 20 years old is very encouraging.
In the most recent episode of Basu & Godin NotebookArpon Basu reported very interesting words from Marc Crawford (former coach of Rohrer in Switzerland): Rohrer could join the Laval Rocket by the end of this season.
Marc-Antoine Godin added by saying that the Rocket could have their Conor Garland for the playoff race by comparing their fairly similar style of play.
The segment on Rohrer begins at 57:50.
To understand Godin’s comparison between Rohrer and Garland, we must nevertheless specify that the latter has a larger upside offensive than Rohrer.
On the other hand, although both have a small size (5 feet 11 inches and 168 pounds for Rohrer and 5 feet 10 inches and 165 pounds for Garland), they use an intense style of play with a lot of grit.
They are smart on the ice, are very fluid on the skate and are not afraid to drive to the net.
-Rohrer has always been known to be a hard worker and he trains hard in the gym to gain muscle mass, which would be very useful to him when he arrives in North America.
Marc Crawford is also very surprised by his dedication to improving and this is also one of the reasons why he sees the Austrian as a future top-9 player in the NHL. He also thinks his style of play would fit better with the North American style.
Crawford really seems to like the small forward and that’s understandable. A guy who wants to improve and who always works hard to achieve it, that comes to coaches.
According to what Basu reported in the podcast, his former coach made a very interesting comparison. He sees a lot of Mike Keane in Rohrer.
Personally, I haven’t seen Keane play much, but I really like the comparison. A relatively small player, but a fighter who isn’t afraid to get wet.
If Rohrer can join the Rocket at the end of the season, it can only help Pascal Vincent’s squad, who will really need a hard worker like Rohrer for the playoffs.
In burst
– Lane Hutson is clearly the steal of this vintage. For me, he would be the first choice if we redid the draft today.
– Very bad news for the former CH player… He was supposed to miss at least a week (two weeks ago) and now we learn that he will not be back before mid-March.
– Borgen played very well and brings great stability to the New York Rangers defense. Igor Shesterkin also complimented the latter’s work and greatly appreciated his presence in front of him.
– William Nylander can’t help but enjoy the music.
– It’s very strange to see her in the Canes uniform.
– Both Elias Pettersson play tonight for the Canucks. Interestingly, this isn’t the first time the Canucks had two players with the same name in a game (Greg Adams).
