Flacons land Jose Delgadillo Defenseman

[Falcon1970]

This is a great landing. The kid is 19 and in his 3rd season in the USHL. Jose is 6-3 and when first entering the USHL at age 17 he was marginal in the strength category (when you consider he was playing 19-20 year olds) he has developed in to an NHL prospect. He is a responsible defensemen with a developing offensive threat. He has always been a very good skater with great hockey sense. His outlet passes are hard and accurate. He is also currently Reed Whitesides defensive partner as a bonus with the Sioux.
read the USHL release:
http://www.ushl.com/news.php?action=detail&news_id=588

[rood]

Close, but no cigar. Delgadillo plays for Sioux CITY and Whiteside plays for Sioux FALLS.

[Drago]

Every kid we sign is a NHL prospect? The last kid you said was a potential 1st or 2nd round NHL draft pick was just drafted last spring in the 7th round of theOHL draft. It makes no sense. Every website does recruiting rankings.....we'll see if we have anyone mentioned there next year.

[jpfalcon09]

Can we possibly recruit anyone outside the USHL? That league is pretty much a joke in terms of evaluating talent.

[Falcon1970]

JP,
BGSU currently has recruits from Brainerd Minnesota HS, Culver Military, Reed Whitesides( I am sorry for the error on the Sioux, a poor oversight) originated from Trenton HS and matriculated to the USHL, the Qjhl, and the NAHL. 2 HS, 3 USHL, 1 QJHL, 1 NAHL Looks to me to be 3/7 from the USHL.
I am curious why you find the USHL to be "pretty much a joke of evaluating talent", which I am going to guess, is that your actually saying, considering the players in the USHL are known for being each in the top 1-3% for their birth years, more of a joke at developing talent. That is what your saying, the 16 USHL teams are incompetent at developing tallent, correct?
Please point an abundance of evidence, supporting your specific claim. Understanding the USHL is considered the best Tier I Jr A league in the world. Developing the most NCAA D1 Talent and is now steadily closing a very large gap between themselves and the CHL. That teams like BC have 9 USHL recruits, Miami 11, Mich 10, MSU 8. That when asked by USA hockey what league players hoped to play Jr's in over 90% listed the USHL.

But I am even more curious as to where you recommend BGSU spend their recruiting time and dollars? Please tell us, if not the USHL, then where. Where are the players? In all your experience, and evaluation where do the Falcons go to find the top players? Where does a professional evaluator go to find the Talent we need, since clearly the Falcons direction is wrong, as identified by you. You must posses a recruiting plan, a player evaluation formula that this staff is need of using. Please share.

Drago, at no point did myself, or anyone point to all 7 of the current public recruits and say they were all NHL prospects.
further Ryan Coultier is widely know as being as being early favorite for the 2013 entry draft. More over he was picked in the 6th round, 114 overall by Erie. So late only because they know his intent is to take the NCAA path, which in no reduces his NHL projections. You would do well to make a point of seeing him in action, its a treat. Ryan is slated to join the Falcons in 2014.

[Flipper]

Looks like he can step into the shot from the point....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBoLlOUSgss

Can throw a punch...and take a few too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wo2ISlFGc

If he can add soem weight w/o killing his mobility, he sounds like a quality recruit. Always nice to have a rangy Dman or two.

[joehockey]

The USHL is a joke when you typically recruit the bottom level talent out of it. If you're a big name program that can attract a top end talent from the USHL then it's a great league to build from, but that's historically not our case, so I get what JP is implying, I think. Now I'm not saying this kid isn't a great player, maybe Bergeron finally landed a big time guy that has pro real pro potential, but really who was the last big USHL prospect to come? Draggo is right when he says JST. Not like it matters but I'll give the coach a vote of confidence on this one, seems like a great pick up. I'd just like to really see the staff land one recruit that everyone says "wow" over, "I can't believe he's coming to play for us..."

[pdt1081]

I'd just like to really see the staff land one recruit that everyone says "wow" over, "I can't believe he's coming to play for us..."

The junior and sophomore classes. They were all recruited knowing the program was in jeopardy. The juniors showed up to play for an interim coach and the sophomores were recruited by an interim coach. Given the circumstances, I'd say they all qualify for your statement. Especially considering at least one of them had an offer from Miami.

[pdt1081]

Prior to that whole fiasco, you had names like Bieska, Cepis, Bailen, Matsumoto, Foster, Svendson, and Sexton come through. Before they got here there wasn't much ooh-ing and ahh-ing over those names.

JST and Cepis could have been top players in the league. JST especially. Unfortunately for everybody involved, they only wanted to play one end of the ice.

It's all about player development. It hasn't happened here for awhile. Revolving doors in the assistant coaching area has a large impact on that.

[Puckhead]

I hope he starts some games.
I can just hear Jim announcing Jose DEL gad ill ooooooo

[gmartin]

I just have one question, WHO ARE THE FLACONS????

[Falcon1970]

The USHL is a joke when you typically recruit the bottom level talent out of it. If you're a big name program that can attract a top end talent from the USHL then it's a great league to build from, but that's historically not our case, so I get what JP is implying, I think. Now I'm not saying this kid isn't a great player, maybe Bergeron finally landed a big time guy that has pro real pro potential, but really who was the last big USHL prospect to come? Draggo is right when he says JST. Not like it matters but I'll give the coach a vote of confidence on this one, seems like a great pick up. I'd just like to really see the staff land one recruit that everyone says "wow" over, "I can't believe he's coming to play for us..."

What you are saying makes no sense, what so ever. The bottom level of talent in the USHL represents the those players in the 95 th( on the very low side)- 97th percentile and above in any given birth year. These are the top players in the world, in their birth years, that are NCAA eligible.
So you are saying BG should only be recruiting the top 1-2 % of players available in the world. Give it time and we will start getting a few Team USA kids and other super stars, but wait Ryan Coulter is right there, 5-10 makes him shy of the 6' avg USA takes every year, but that is not to say he doesnt stand a chance of making the Team.

[BGFan]

Delgadillo was traded to the Indiana Ice...

[Flipper]

Ice ice baby....

Anyway...someone brought up a good point about this here program. It was probably pretty hard to recruit with all the uncertainty about the team's future. It's probably going to take a couple more years than it might have to turn this around. You'll hear no more criticism from me this year...

[Falcon1970]

Its that time of year in Jr hockey, where trades are going to get very interesting. Ice head coach Kyle Wallack, former Yale assistant last season. Released Cole, a boy he recruited out of Kimble Union Academy who amassed 51 points with 30ish being goals. Cole matriculated to Boston EJHL last season, and then Wallack acquired him from Lincoln in a trade in November. Cole is fast and solid player with no real huge production since Kimble Union. Yale dropped him, then Wallack.
In this time with ice gearing up for an Anderson Cup run, sitting in a hotly contested USHL East, in second place they move out 91 Kuquali for 92 Delgadillo, exchange futures draft pick positions all to open a 91 roster spot for Kirill Lebedev a 91 Russian .
Consequently Cole. Cole is rumored to be in Amarillo. Where he will take his speed and work out his fine points with none other than former Falcon Dennis Williams. Who is making the Amarillo Bulls iconic in Jr hockey. First for challenging for a Robertson cup in their inaugural season. Now for the Williams style of hockey where they role 4 exceptionally fast talented lines, that out work, out play, out heart, out battle and out last every opponent. Its uncanny, but his team gets better, faster etc as the game progresses. I read they averaging some 48 shots on goal a game. Having played 38 games this season the team is in first place in the NAHL with 65 points, on 30 w 3 T and 5 OTL ( I think 4 of them shoot outs). I am looking forward to seeing what Derek Hills does next season here.