Luca Romano

Today.

Uh, you had Vlad Ravecki, the, uh, the rookie who was impressing people, Thomas Polatine and Luca Romano, two forwards.

All three of these kids have been buzzing.

People have been buzzing about these guys, especially Drevecky.

And I know Berk Hood, the goalie, was also cut today.

But what are your feelings on Vlad Drevecky, Thomas Polatine, and Luca Romano at the rookie camp? Because they were being pretty impressive to a lot of people.

Yeah, I mean, Javecki just surprised everybody.

I don't think too many people expected much from him.

This is the proof is in the pudding.

Luca Romano and Alexander Bilecki were integral on this play to get the puck back and fight and try and get it in, and had chances themselves, and then they got the puck back, and there was a, a shot that was tipped by Weston Cameron from Romano.

It was an awesome play [smacks lips] and, uh, it was a never give up play, and I think that's what this, this team is about.

And, and then again, it happens again.

Yeah

... fourth.

Tanner Lamb has four, and he got that from Luca Romano short-handed, and it's a short-handed game winner.

A short-handed game winner, is there anything better in hockey?

... a big burly defenseman who can really play his position well.

And then, and then they've got, again, they've got, you know, they've got Tanner Lamb, they've got Luca Romano, who, Hayden Ellis, Cameron Arquette, Avery, Avery Antistes, players that people remember from last year.

So they're gonna be a solid, albeit, uh, unspectacular team, and they're certainly not going to add like they did last year.

But, you know, when you win a Memorial Cup, you can certainly kinda coast on your merits-

I don't think that that will be the line combination that we'll see him.

No, we got news today that Luca Romano is coming back.

Of course.

There's no, there's no way that Ellis or lamb or even our cat, like one of them won't be playing at least with,

yeah i suspect two of them will be and uh but we'll see how that all works out now yeah guys are coming back but i think for sure that might have been one of the last times or the next game will be one of the last times we see the the smurf line together for a while

Yeah.

I think it's long overdue.

Kind of a tough year for them, like a team that just won the chip last year, so a little bit different.

But they got guys back this year, like Luca Romano, who was obviously a part of that championship-winning team, as well as guys on the back end.

You kind of need a Caden Schneider-type player or a...

Andrew McNeil to kind of take the next step this year, obviously.

Yeah, I'm going with Kitchener in fourth.

I mean, I'm a little bit higher on them than I am on Nolan Sound.

You know, they got a couple guys up front, Avery Anstis, Cameron Arquette, Hayden Ellis, you know, Tanner Lamb, Luca Romano.

They got a couple guys returning, and then their decor is solid.

Look at the roster construction.

We have Cameron Berg, Liam Foudy, Matthew Highmore, Cal McLean, Danny Nelson, Jean Gabriel Pago, Cal Palmieri, Callum Ritchie, Luca Romano, Braden Shin, Camden Theising, Gleb Veremiev.

That is an incredible amount of center depth.

Wow.

Now the Islanders did make some moves.

The first cuts of training camp, four players heading back to their junior teams, Vladimir Javecki headed back to Guelph, goalie Burke Hood back to Vancouver, Tomas Polatine heading back to Kelowna, and Luca Romano, who has looked very good, headed to Kitchener.

Three of those guys, every one of the skaters, Berk Hood did not play against the Devils, but the other three did.

Drovecki has looked really good.

And I'd even throw a letter at Tanner lamb.

Tanner's a guy that, you know, maybe he's been passed over by some NHL teams, but he's been here and Kitchener just as long as a Luca Romano has, he scored some big goals.

Um, and you remember when a lot of those guys are away at camps last year, Tanner had an amazing two point two, two gold night opening night against Brantford, including an overtime winner.

He just closed out the preseason with a goal with one second left and against barry so i mean we still got barry's number at least in the finals or in the the preseason but i would give tanner lamb a letter i think he's been here enough that he can lead by example with his play i think maybe that may be jeff kersak's system with the leaders it's maybe not be the raw raw kind of guy let's just lead by example let's just show what we can do on the ice and you know put that for the for the next group of rangers We also know that Jeff Krizakis is not a rah-rah

here all we've got all four I'm going with the dark horse Avery answers but that's for I I'm guessing I'm guessing the writing these all down I'm guessing the bookie well guess not it

guess what it's being recorded so I don't need to write

anyone can write it down I'm guessing the odds-on favorite would be Luca Romano, followed by Tanner Lamb, and then Luke Elinus, and then the longest odds would be Avery Anstis.

But we aren't a gambling podcast, and we don't support that, and we don't take gambling money.