Sagittarius A* wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 10:19 am
coda wrote: ↑Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:47 am
Agree. He is not Brown, but who is? Brown could do it with both hands and levels (overhand, sidearm, and underhand). Used Brown since this is a Hopkins thread. Mac O'keefe is probably better. Both with that underhand lefty shot. Either way the release is ridiculous.
Like Chauvette (ranked #21), Brown was also ranked in the 20s coming out of HS by IL, which is to say that their rankings have huge error bars and have to be taken with a grain of salt. Tucker Durkin was also ranked in the 20's.
Like Brown, Chauvette is clearly one of the players who could outperform his ranking. It all depends what he does over the next 4 years, but it's hard not to like his game right now. He impresses me as someone who needs to see the field next year in some capacity and not just on EMO.
Players that can actually bury the rock are invaluable.
I have zero insight into Chauvette, other than what folks are talking about on here and the videos shared, but Brown I had some insight into in HS. He transferred into Calvert Hall (I assume for greater exposure) and in senior year was on a line with Patrick Kelly (who ended the season ranked by some as the top attack man in MD that year) and Carter Brown who did quite well at Ohio State. Patrick carried the ball the most, but as you can see from this highlight reel of Brown, he was much more than a catch and shoot guy by his senior year...he could take on pretty much anyone and create his own...but he wasn't the designated QB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqFiFEI4Y0
I knew he was going to be special the prior summer when he and my son were selected for a state all star team for a national tournament held in MD. Selection was based on tryouts not prior season. Ryan was the best player on the field in each game and I saw him do some rather extraordinary things. Down a goal in less than 30 seconds left, the opponent's defense threw a long clearing pass to break the ride, my son came out of the goal and contested the attack man, knocking him off the ball and, coming up with it, sprinted up field to see Ryan sprinting towards him...whipped the pass, Ryan took it in stride from midfield through all defenders to the mouth of the goal and stuffed it in beating the horn. FO and to Ryan for the score and win. Tremendous physical and lax IQ effort. Will to win.
My son had played club ball for 4 years with Pat Kelly so I'd seen him make numerous plays including game winners, an uncanny nose for making the shot, slippery and smart, but I hadn't seen
that level of physicality. It looked to me then like Brown was a good bet to get bigger and faster from there, critical at the college level...which as we know he did and then on into the pros. But Pat continued to be the primary ball carrier and top point getter for the Hall that next spring, so hard for the IL raters to have both guys be top 10...
I'd also watched Ryan work on his shot and in the tryouts and practice sessions...my son, a tender, said that by far Ryan's overhand shot was the most difficult to stop of any of the players he faced as it was so difficult to read the release point. It all looked the same...
Chauvette looks like he has some of those excellent moves to create space for a shot and a fast release that makes it really hard for a goalie to read and catch up to. I don't know if he has or will develop the physicality, but Ryan's progression was pretty exceptional, so that would be a tough bet to match.