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2024 Memorial Cup - Saginaw Spirit Players to Watch
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May 26, 2024
The Hockey Writers prospect crew of Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini and Dayton Reimer get together to preview the 2024 Memorial Cup featuring the Moose Jaw Warriors, Saginaw Spirit, London Knights and Drummondville Voltigeurs. In this clip, they highlight some players to watch for the Spirit.
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The Spirit, lots of pretty good names as well
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for players to watch. I already mentioned Josh Bloom. He's been pretty good throughout the playoffs
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They got, he's got 11 points. And he's all, and then you got Owen Beck
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We all know how good he is, Montreal Canadiens prospect. Has already played in an NHL game
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but that was an emergency recall, I think it was last season
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And, you know, he's had a pretty good regular season, 14 points in the playoffs
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And Hunter Height, who we've talked about quite a bit as well, and got nine goals in the playoffs
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Yeah, and Rodmund Janenko, who leads the playoffs, or that leads the team with 17 points
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There's another guy to kind of keep an eye on. But I think the bigger guy
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and then you got, of course, draft eligible Zane Parekh, who we all know how much he's scored
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and have points in the regular season with, I believe, 92. Not dominating as much in the playoffs
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He's got nine assists. And, you know, most of his points have been assists
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So, I mean, he's not dominating as much as his regular season, but still doing a pretty good job
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And he's gonna be one of the, I think, the defensemen to watch throughout the tournament
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because we all know how good offensively he can be. And in a short tournament, he can maybe get, you know
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catch fire and be a big difference maker too. So, you know, throughout the regular season
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the Spirit were a pretty good two-way team. They were great offensively, pretty good defensively
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In the playoffs, they haven't been as good defensively. They've been allowing a lot more goals
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a lot closer in the goal differential than they were in the regular season. But, you know, anything can happen
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in this type of short tournament. So I think the Spirit, even though they aren't coming in as a champion
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I think are gonna have a pretty big chance of being, you know, making it to the final
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and putting up a big fight against these powerhouses we've talked about already. I think they're gonna have a pretty big chance
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even though, you know, they kind of, I don't wanna say backed in, but you're a default
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So, I mean, you didn't win yourself to go in, but I think they're definitely deserving of being here
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Guys have anything to add about the Spirit going in here? I just wanna say, you know
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their leading score is not who you would expect. I mean, we would all expect, you know
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Zayn proactively the way Luke Misa, but you know, with the Spirit, it's all scoring by committee
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because they do have that depth. But Rodwin Dionisio leading the way with 17 points
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is actually very impressive. And I think he just got his ELC done already
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as a result of his stellar play, you know, in the OHL playoffs
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So a big shout out to him because he was really dynamite. And, you know, he was a really big factor in that series
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against the London Knights for the Spirit. I mean, he was absolutely dynamic
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And many thought that maybe Zayn Perak would probably take over. Maybe not as much
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I don't know if that's gonna put a damper on Perak's, you know, draft stock, but, you know
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it's good to see other players step it up in the playoffs because that's what you wanna see, right
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So I just wanted to give a big shout out to him because he was really, really dynamic
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for the Spirit on the back end
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