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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Side note - I once saw Jaden Schwartz play at this shitty little arena in, of all places, Kearney Nebraska.
My grandparents lived out there and for whatever reason they have an actual hockey team with a developmental agreement. It's 3 hours West of Lincoln off Highway 80; really is in the middle of nowhere.
I had no idea he was assigned there and we just went out to kill some time over a thanksgiving holiday (because you can only handle grandparents for so long). Sure as shit, there is Jaden Schwartz looking way WAY too good to be at that level.
I remembered watching Dale Craigwell with the Blades. Craigwell wasn't even that good but he was a man among boys in the IHL. Schwartz was like that but even more obvious.
I don't understand how guys can be minor league players sometimes. My wife and I go to spring training every couple of years and before the 2010 season we were at the backfields watching Shelby Miller pitch. While we were watching, this tall guy named Carpenter was just killing the ball. I only took note because he was way better than everyone else and had the same name as our ace at the time. I'd never heard of him and I follow our farm pretty closely. Turns out the guy was a no-shit MVP candidate just a couple of years later.
When even I look at a guy and think "Man, that guy is just much better than everyone else" you know those guys know it as well. And when you're NOT that guy, what the hell are you still doing toiling in the minors?
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That's USHL hockey you saw. It's the other league that Lamar Jr is buying a team for. It's pretty much the top high school players in the country in that league.