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With the Sixth Pick in the SBN Mock Draft...

 
As was started yesterday, the SBN Hockey bloggers are doing a mock draft. Three picks a day, with the master list running through James Mirtle's 
From the Rink. He'll update the list each day with the next picks and links to each blog's rationale. With now 9 days left until the real deal, that puts us on the clock.

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The Phoenix Coyotes select, from the Spokane Chiefs, Defenseman Jared Cowen. Cowen Is one big kid. 6'5" and 220 lbs. He's strong on defense and was getting better and better offensively until he went out with a knee injury late in the season. Reports say that he should be 100% before training camps open so everything will hopefully be fine and not keep a team from drafting him. While plenty of people may value other players over Cowen and scream "Draft for skill!" Cowen has shown he has plenty of tallent, but the tie breaker between him and the rest of the availiable players is the Phoenix needs defensive prospects as right now the cupboard is a little bare and we're stacked on young forwards. In order to get a better perspective, I asked Spokane resident, Chiefs follower and sometimes Pension Plan Puppets contributer Wrap Around Curl her opinions on Cowen.

"He brings presence and leadership and for someone his size, he can skate and he doesn't need to fight and scrap all the time. People tend to stay out of his way and he is ridiculously protective of his goalies."

"He's a mature player, good head on his shoulders. The Chiefs kinda fell apart once he was injured, it was clear he brought leadership"

"I am convinced if he hadnt gotten injured, he could have probably knocked Tavares off number 1"

 A look at his WHL stats from the past couple of seasons...

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIM

2006-07 WHL Season

Spokane Chiefs

6

0

2

2

4

2

2007-08 Regular Season

Spokane Chiefs

68

4

14

18

27

62

2008-09 Regular Season

Spokane Chiefs

48

7

14

21

15

45


 

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I think the kid is really solid and can play the game of hockey. I am just really worried about that knee…he had a major injury to both his ACL and MCL which will take a long time to heal and rehab from. If Phoenix drafts him and he becomes a great NHLer then that is great but I am a little apprehensive about him. If I was GM and both he and Schenn were available…I would have a tough choice.

by Gootzman on Jun 17, 2009 8:17 AM MST reply actions  

There have been multiple reports about how the rehab has been going and MRIs have looked. He wouldn’t be ready for training camp if everything wasn’t looking good. He had some top notch doctors do the surgery so everything should be just fine.

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by Travis Hair on Jun 17, 2009 9:19 AM MST up reply actions  

Schenn wasn’t available, BTW. He was picked by the Kings (via Battle of California) at #5.

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by saskhab on Jun 17, 2009 10:11 AM MST up reply actions  

I get the worry. But this is the first time he’s really ever been injured. I think it was more of a freak accident. He had surgery asap with top doctors in Minnesota. He and his agents and everyone else are taking this recovery very seriously. He is dying to get back to playing. I saw him in April and he was walking around, a bit hobbly, I think he had a knee brace. But he was up and about and in good spirits.

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(1-843): just because there's a goalie doesn't mean u can't score

by Wrap Around Curl on Jun 17, 2009 3:30 PM MST up reply actions  

such a scary pick. i know phoenix has a number of good young forwards, but…i dunno if you can ever have too many. MPS is muy bueno….i’d be hard-pressed to pass him up.

by passive_voice on Jun 17, 2009 11:14 AM MST reply actions  

just hope he

doesn’t do an ahnelov and is hurt most of the year…..

who will rid me of this damn priest?

by goldenbear64 on Jun 17, 2009 2:32 PM MST reply actions  

Yeah

But that was just a freak thing on a blocked shot. Jonas had never been hurt before, especially in the hand like that.

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by Travis Hair on Jun 17, 2009 7:11 PM MST up reply actions  

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