Michigan center TJ Hughes is generating NHL interest
The Sheet: David Pagnotta on The Sheet with Jeff Marek on college free agent TJ Hughes
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Marek: “Okay, college free agent season. Very much upon us. I actually do wonder as many about TJ Hughes of Michigan. Who’s that type of rare player that you simply get because the quote, unquote free player coming out of faculty? You don’t must pay a price aside from the, the entry-level deal.
And with Hughes, unlike a whole lot of other college players, you’re getting offense, which is rare, we must always indicate, too. But there’s also Owen Michaels et cetera from Western Michigan. What’s the newest far as, far as that landscape goes, Dave?”
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Pagnotta: “Well, with a couple of of them, there are a whole lot of teams which can be trying to make, obviously, those kinds of additions. And while you’ve got, you realize, actually a shallow draft pool or prospect pool, sometimes that’s a little bit of a unload for a few of these, you realize, college prospects, free agents, where the competition goes to be somewhat bit less, which might suggest the pathway to the NHL is somewhat bit more vibrant, somewhat quicker.”
Marek: “Right?”
Pagnotta: “Obviously, no guarantees. You bought to play. You bought to, you realize, you started working at it. But, you realize, just type of taking a look at that, there are multiple teams, several teams that will like to get their hands on, on TJ and go from there, obviously, sign him, after which bring him into camp and so forth and so forth, or have him start the season.
But a whole lot of interest, you realize, within the player. I consider, you realize, Toronto has at all times been a team that’s type of been looking around the school ranks for a while, and it is a team with a fairly shallow prospect pool. So that they’re actually one among the teams that I’ve, that I’ve heard type of poking around at among the college free agents.
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But I’d imagine others inside that category type of fit that, would potentially fit that bill for him or for among the others which can be trying to take the subsequent steps of their careers.”
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