{"id":366,"date":"2010-10-30T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-10-30T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:20:00","slug":"what-a-start-for-canes-rookie-skinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"What a start for Canes&#8217; rookie Skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QDpnxrpFQ34?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QDpnxrpFQ34?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>What a great pick Jeff Skinner is turning out to be for the Carolina Hurricanes. The Canes had a disastrous season in 2009-10, which netted them the seventh pick in the draft. Over at Capital Sports, you could hear us screaming to keep losing &#8211; and get the No. 1 pick and Taylor Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TMxFsmzgK2I\/AAAAAAAAAZg\/aHwnFEN8TCw\/s1600\/Jeff+Skinner.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TMxFsmzgK2I\/AAAAAAAAAZg\/aHwnFEN8TCw\/s1600\/Jeff+Skinner.jpg\" \/><\/a>Well, that didn&#8217;t work out. The Canes played their way down the draft order with some inspired late-season play. They had the seventh pick in the draft, which you figured might get them a promising defenseman like Cam Fowler if they were lucky. And sure enough, Fowler was available at No. 7.<\/p>\n<p>But Carolina played a hunch and took Skinner, who doesn&#8217;t have huge size but is blessed with offensive skills. He scored two goals Friday in the 4-3 win over the New York Rangers, which is just remarkable stuff for an 18-year-old player. He is now tied for the team lead in points, with nine, and has three goals and four assists. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QDpnxrpFQ34\">He even had a brilliant shoot-out goal in Helsinki.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we all realize it&#8217;s a long NHL season, and the thrill of the start gives way to the grind of an endless series of games, but it&#8217;s clear Skinner has NHL-level talent. Franchises can&#8217;t afford to blow high picks like No. 7, and you have to give Carolina credit for a gutsy choice that could pay off for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great pick Jeff Skinner is turning out to be for the Carolina Hurricanes. The Canes had a disastrous season in 2009-10, which netted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}