In Brandbirds season just 51 days, “the voice of the birds” Ryan Smith is held by the year’s head coach Steve Konowalchuk to discuss the party’s organization. Vouis blues’ organization.
* Some answers are slightly organized with length and clarity *
Rs: Ask of your second year as a headache, and a lot of normal faces, you have the opportunity to take there. How much comforting is that gives you you and the group, and what will the message that appear in the new manner?
SK: Construction at the end meetings, all players seemed to be happy a year and the opportunity to build it. Clearly, it was the only difficult, but we were there and really approached the beautiful group. We have a good spine, and young boys have another year under their belt, so that should help. They know how I work, and know their personality, so everyday expectations should help go to the training camp and start season. As a trainer last year, you are starting to know your boys and boys would know you and your expectations, but now they are proud among them that they are a good hockey group, so expectations set. At the beginning of last year, we had to set that base. To me, I believe that the foundation is set, and now it is a matter of building.
Rs: For so many players, jump from year 1 to 1 year 2 to 3 to 1 year 3 is very important. There are many players who will be challenging in St. Louis. Without being produced and developed metrics, what do you hope to see in the young players as they make up last season?
SK: Slowly different from each player. They are young boys (19, 20, 21) That you personally wants to see physical growth, where little, which is strong, fast. That will improve their skills. When you are, you are strong, fast, game slowly slow down, and the game gets just easier for you. That is the next step of a young player. From there, when you enter a training camp and start receiving games traveling, it is a matter of having a 200-foot game. At the end of the day, that great separator of many players or are at NHL or AHL. It is a 200-foot game, and it’s the little things they do – block a gun, take hits to make games, to complete the checks, go to unpleasant places, in constantly polluting. I think our boys make a beautiful job structure on that, but we still want to build this in this good for NHL. For me, I want to see who has that jump jump where he left it last year and takes another step.
RS: Through the training camp and the start of the season, you will never know that unsettled harm and travel-ups, priorities. Louis and Skyfield is strong. You might have a lot of pieces of players with up Porfrient. Have you ever given the thought of what kind of game is and what kind of team might he have to work on?
SK: It’s fun and makes the coach work easy because you have competition from inside. For about one month we had everyone healthy, feeling that our front group would be present and set some of the best interesting numbers just pulling lines. At One Point I Came In (The Locker Room) and I Told The Guys The Guy DickTate Who Will Be the First Line and The Fourth Line Beace We Have Four Balanced Lines. That is the happiest thing because, on paper, with a kind of depth when we have four lines that we should have difficulty seen what the top line. The compilation of the line will take them out because the training camp will show more than that. Obviously, everyone in our team has the opportunity to make blues out of camp, so I can be before me because I believe in our boys and they should enter the learners who will do blue.
Rs: have the opportunity to train Chris Wagner in Colorado, the player in the area are familiar with his days and Britis. What do you get from the Wagner Day and the day – Statistics don’t show you?
SK: I was lucky to train her Colorado and Anaheim. The first thing the character – is a good leader, who leads an example and hard work in working and sport. To me, you are a 200-foot player, a good cycle. He brings grit, tenacity, is a beautiful face man, can play power to kill or kill a fine, fluctuate, can be wing or center. You are the kind of other teams that don’t want to play against because you will continue to visit you. That is the most important thing in any group, especially at the American League level when you have small players to be able to watch (he). They realize that there is a long time in NHL levels; How did he do it? He has done his competition, his willingness to stop a rifle, and the things you are trying to teach everyone. That’s what they will bring, that is difficult Thockey and the ability to score and put points.
Rs: With Wagner, in addition Matthew Paco, Math Luff, and Corey Schueneman, has a solid group of veteran. The AHL often detects a luggage of development, and I think that the common fans may not see how important it is to have Veterans placed at the NHL and AHL level before. When you have a basic group, how does the impact of young players become aware?
SK: It is very important to have vets, not their power without their character. Sometimes there will be increasing pain and younger pains, and veterans have a good character who have a teenager’s respect, and a young player will follow them. They can force them a little. If the Veterans have a good character, young boys may not follow. With all Veteran Pers, young boys can follow their actions and get out of snow. On top of the character, you want your veterans to play; Chemistry is very important, and when you have a young person who is trying to build confidence, if you can write them to the top, it helps them to succeed and keep that conviction. I am very happy with a group of veteran we have; We are very lucky to have the right character with good skills mixed to bring a group of young boys with lots of experience under their belt. He wants to be with the right age and veterans, but he wants the small, hungry of young player. It is a pleasant mix that we have.
Rs: Switching to incoming rookies, last year in the development camp, had the opportunity to see most of the players. Starting Juraj Pekarcik, being an elderly and Dalibor Dvorsky in Slovakia, and how big is the comfort that the player gets along with the future road map that grows the future road?
SK: It is always a profit to see a young boy and a friend who passed the past and has been successful. It is funny, both young boys, but one boy (Dvorsky) put the year behind him and has help. With Pekarcik, you have such a good skill 1-on-os-1 that you’ll be fun to work with. Also, it is about increasing the game. We talked about the DVO a lot last year, and hopefully you can help translate the translation of the pekarcik and make it difficult for him. Now, that is said, I want to emphasize, like all our boys in the camp, Dvorsky is St. Louis Blue, so you have a purpose to try to do blue.
Rs: Quinton Burns is a happy and exciting hope in the blue row of flags with flags. When you hear that explanation, it’s almost kick Tyler Tucker, and we’ve seen how much her game has been in St. Louis. What makes him a surprise hope for doing it?
USK: He took out the last year in a rookie camp with his natural level of competition and determination to be difficult and strong. From what I understand, that’s his match. That natural natural and size to go with him is a difficult combination of findings. It is a special quality, and you are a good leader and the training leader from times when I have to work with. In today’s game, it is very important to have big, big, hardworking players. When another group looks at the line and that they played for them that night, like ‘we should keep look forward to the guy.’ To me, the burn would be that the player type as he grew up and growing.
Rs: Theo Lindstein is a player Getleng a great advantage in St. Louis straight up to his first North American area. He had a lot of success worldwide and played in a woman in Sweden in the age of 19-20. The Word we hear about is his annoying and evolution. Understanding North America America is a different animal, what should T-Birds followers be very happy with it?
SK: Her skills level is higher than the rate, his puck, and his power to make that the first pass is a good mix, and he is a big boat. Like the highest players, it will be in the immediate adolescent to get used to North America in small rink, where they come quickly into the back end. It will be a good idea to learn about him, but you certainly have the potential to be a difference and a positive puck mover and the Power Play Defenseman.
Rs: If the depth is # 1 makes the coach work easy, then having a good person may have been # 1a. Have the opportunity to have a Colten Ellis last year. Many people realize what kind of games player is. How high is you looking at his potential roof?
SK: Golies, unlike any other position, take so long to grow. I think many people say that is usually a map of five years. You’re on a very good path. I cannot tell enough how well you have played us in the past year, especially during times when we are destroyed by injury and we face increasing pain. He was anchor to us and helped us to gain sports and keep it. Goalies is always difficult to predict who can take the ball and run about it. I see the insissions with (Ellis). You compete, you have a bright person, not very low or very low, working hard every day, and was a high goalie in our league. To me, he has to get into St. Louis showing them that they have another supported gaalie by NHL and makes it a problem. To the coach, it is luxury when there is such a wall. But I am happy to see the Vadim Zerhenko. Played some sports where he different. We talk at the time we take time to get strength, and it takes a while, but his highest sports, in the potential conditions, he got in and found it. I am happy with him to take that game and see him repeatedly. With both our goals, I feel relying on the net.
