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Cowen very definitely in our opinion will play and be a good player next year. He's not going to be a point getter, he's going to be the defensive defenceman. Young, make the odd mistake early but by December should be a good regular player in the NHL. Rundblad will come in and play right away. Again, he's bigger than Erik. He's somewhat skilled like Erik. He sees the ice. If you watched the World Juniors at all, he played with Karlsson on the same team under Anders Forsberg. He's the priority player there. Karlsson's a pretty good player, he got drafted very,very high and stepped in and played in the NHL next year and be a good player. We think Rundblad's there or better right now. Patrick (Wiercioch) is playing but not a priority player in Binghamton right now. We wish that he would play a little bit more. He probably will be a better NHL player than an AHL player just because of his style and his body build right now. A year from now however, I think if Patrick is 10lbs heavier and a little stronger, which I believe he will be over the summer, that he'll be a real contender for a spot here next year.
(Gryba) is really one of the most improved players down there. He's huge. His skating and positioning defensively was a little bit of a question earlier in the year but he's really made great strides. We've very happy with Eric. Again, all of them can't play next year. We just can't have that many rookies on our team but he will be a NHL player.
Well we have Greening, who has really made, again, big strides. The one thing that we were really concerned with with Colin was that he was big and could really skate but never really got involved physically. Now he's fighting down there. It's almost like he's looking to do it more often because we've kind of encouraged that. He's playing much better. Again, we hope that he's one of the people who we can bring up and give him some exposure so that when he goes back for the summer, he's excited about what he can do in the fall for the NHL team. He's one guy, Condra... other than skating, this is a good player. He's one of the other guys I'd like to give a look to simply because it appears his head and hands, he gets points, he makes the players that he plays with better... so we'd like to give him a game before it's over too."
