I didn't wanna make a whole thread for this, but didn't know where else to put it. Just thought I'd mention, I watched the Camp Randal Hockey Classic between U of Michigan and U of Wisconsin on the Big 10 Sports network yesterday. It was an outdoor game in Wisconsin with a crowd of over 50 000. An extremely tight-checking and defensively well played game. No room for forwards to do anything, almost every rush broken up quickly and sent back the other way. Good transition games on both sides. Most of the game was played going back and forth through the neutral zone. Brendan Smith looked amazing, scoring both the tieing and winning goals on the powerplay for Wisconsin.

Anyways, on to my point, Sens prospect Louis Caporusso plays for Michigan. He looked good. Extraordinarily quick, not just on his feet but with his stick. He forced 2 or 3 turnovers with well timed stick lifts sneaking up behind opposing forwards on the backcheck. One of which resulted in an excellent scoring chance coming back the other way. He didn't have any points but he had a couple decent chances and, like I said, it was a defense-first game where he was up against a sickeningly good defensive core including NHL 1st round picks Cody Goleubef (CBS), Brendan Smith (DET), Ryan McDonagh (NYR) and 2010 WJC gold medal winner Jake Gardiner (ANA), as well as Gardiner's Team USA linemate, John Ramage.

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