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2024 Memorial Cup - Drummondville Voltigeurs 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 Voltigeurs.
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All right, Peter, give us some players to watch on Drummondville
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Like you say, there's not many, we don't have many draft eligibles kind of talk about
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around, but they still a really dominant team. Yeah, absolutely. And obviously they were led the way by, you know, Ethan Gauthier with 25 points in those
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19 games with 14 goals. And you know, I, I was, you know, on the Gauthier bandwagon, I was trying to push for him as
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a first rounder, or at least I would take him as in the first round, and we're seeing why
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He's got that dog in him. He's got that ability to be relentless on the attack before check the speed, the pace
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You know, he's been dynamic at every level that he's played in
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You know, even at like major tournaments, too, like even then that, like a Gretzky Cup
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that when you're in, he was just like scoring goals, left, right and center. I mean, he was leading the offensive charge and although he may not be a big time offensive
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player at the NHL level, he's going to be a factor on both sides of the puck
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And that speed and tenacity is going to be huge for him. And it's been evident throughout this whole entire tournament
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You know, it's hard to say that he was the one to lead the way, but you know, he, he
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really was. And that's not to say that, you know, they don't have any other players. I mean, there was Luke Woodworth who had 24 points in 19 games as well
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Michael Michael Houshey, I believe that's the pronunciation of his name, had 20 points
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as well. So, you know, they got key contributions from their key players right there
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All three are forwards. All three led the way. And then you had Alexei, Alexei Gendron, 19 points in 15 games
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You know, it was mostly all their forwards doing the heavy lifting. Their best defenseman was Veselov, Komarov, who had 15 and 19
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But you know that their forwards can do a lot of damage
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So again, kind of like to Dayton's point where, you know, the offense is going to be there
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but is it probably going to be enough to push them forward in this tournament
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We'll see. But I mean, you don't want to count anybody out in this tournament
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It's short. It's you know, one win can be different. It can be the difference between moving on or going home
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And we've seen how many underrated teams have flown under the radar and have come out on top
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And especially I think the last two championships were from the queue. So if I'm not mistaken, and obviously the quote background parts last year, which is
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absolutely dominant, but you know, now it's last year. This is this year
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And again, not to, you know, not to say to count them out, but do not count them out
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because they definitely have the forechecking, the ability to get under your skin and get
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in your face as well
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