Ass pat to Ms. Conduct for passing this link to me. So - enter Chet Pickard? At the time of our first article, there was no other viable option for the Admirals, as Pickard had played only one game and got shelled at Abbotsford. That may no longer be the case. His season numbers still look awful; a 3.64 GAA and .871 save percentage. But take out that horrible professional debut in Abbotsford -
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glove tap to Bkblades who sent me the link to this interview with Chetters from Hockey's Future.HF: You had a goalie coach in Tri-City, Jerry Price [father of Carey Price], how is what he worked with you on different from what you do with [Nashville's goalie coach] Mitch Korn?CP: I think Jerry's more trying to teach guys about the game, different styles you can play, different ways of stopping
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Chet is currently at Team Canada's Junior Development camp . Thanks to a heads up from Q-Gir l, there's a couple of features on the players at camp, including the Americans' own Chet Pickard. Serious competition – Chet Pickard is hopeful that he'll not only make Team Canada's roster for the World Junior Championships, but that he'll be the starting goalie for the squad. Still, Pickard, who Nashville selected with the 18th pick in this year's draft, knows the competition is not only stiff, it's quite deep. (That's what she said?) Spokane Chiefs goalie Dustin Tokarski, who was the MVP of the Memorial Cup ...
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While only surface everything is quiet, the world of Lunar slowly plunges into chaos. The legendary Dragonmaster Dyne and his faithful...
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On the Forecheck Previous entry: Up one day, down the next by Forechecker on 12/12/08 at 03:00 PM ET Comments (2) Now that the NHL season is getting into the December/January/February slog that looks more like a marathon than a sprint, I thought it would be a good time to get an update on Chet Pickard, the goaltender selected by the Nashville Predators in the first round of last summer’s NHL Entry Draft. In order to get the real scoop on how Pickard is doing with the Tri-City Americans of the WHL, I went (where else?) to a blogger who covers the team; Jennifer ...
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you invite someone who covers major junior hockey for a living and who contributes to The Hockey News to play in your hockey contest â heâs got a leg up on you. Or in this case, he has a beak and some feathers up on you ...