Will Scouch
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You see what just raw compete and effort and net-driven offense can bring you.
It's not necessarily always about the most skilled guy.
It's not necessarily always about the fastest, fanciest, razzle-dazzle guy.
It's, you know, in crunch time, who are the guys that –
you know, in my opinion, at the end of the year, I always come down to the guys I like the most for the ones where if I'm down a goal or I'm up a goal, or if I'm down two goals and I just need something, if I need, if I need something out of a guy, I can slap them on the back and go, you're going over the boards and I want something out of you that, that I know I'm going to get.
And I think we see a lot of evidence of that with Lawrence, especially if you go back to the Holenka Gretzky this year, I think we all saw him in that U S game.
I still go back to it.
I remember thinking like this game he's gonna win it for this Canadian team and it was just him versus Brady knowing and Lawrence came up short unfortunately um but I just feel like guys like him are so valuable and he's so young for this draft class as well and having 18 games of experience at the NCAA level going into what will be his sophomore season
It is pretty valuable.
And I mean, I think if he had stayed with Muskegon all year, went on a deep playoff run with them like they did, scored 40 goals, had 90 points, I don't think anybody would be batting an eye at him being a very valuable player in the class.
Yeah, I think Verhoeff is going to be fascinating.
I think he's a guy who, you know, for everything I just said about Lawrence and the situation he was put in, you could make the argument that Verhoeff was put in an even tougher position, right?
Like, it wasn't, I don't think very many people thought that Boston University was a team that could contend for a national championship.
They had a decent team, but compared to North Dakota or Wisconsin or Michigan or whatever, you know,
And I think for a guy like Verhoff to be 17 years old and like Lawrence, quite young for the draft class, to step in and be a top four guy on a program with that kind of prestige and that amount of expectations and everything that he was sort of expected to do.
Like, I think the frustrating thing for me this season has been that