Belleville Bulls’ center Brendan Gaunce’s ability of two-way game skills impresses NHL scouts – NHL News
Belleville Bulls’ center, Brendan Gaunce, is reported to have been successful in gaining attention and liking from the National Hockey League (NHL) scouting officials, which promises a great potential to the player’s chances of winning a place in the US
professional hockey league.
The player’s ability to perform equally well in offensive and defensive roles makes him most attractive option for his NHL prospective contenders.
Central Scouting's Chris Edwards, who watched him playing, said:
"Brendan is a real high-energy guy."
He added:
"When he is playing high-energy, when he's battling, when he's getting involved, he's forcing turnovers in the opposition zone. He's got a good skill set that after he wins a puck battle he can make a good pass and set up a play. He creates scoring chances
every shift when he's at his best. Every shift he's out there creating things."
Gaunce at the moment leads Bulls with 59 points in the 55 games which the center he has played for the side this season and overall ranks at number 11 in the North American Skaters 2012 midterm ranking of Central Scouting.
"He's a solid two-way guy. His play doesn't drop off in his own end, that's for sure," Edwards further said.
The player said that he had been following example of his elder brother, who is four years advance in the professional career and has progressed through well.
After showing off his form and performance in the junior hockey league, Gaunce is ready to make himself available as a draft for the NHL.
Further, the center added that he has tried to model his game on the pattern of Selke Trophy’s finalist Jordan Staal, who has had a reputation of his skills and game form.
Gaunce said he takes as much pride in preventing goals as he does in their scoring, and the two-way game skills of the player’s make him most attractive prospect around the professional league.
He has won a vote of confidence from the hockey punters. They believe the player has a promising career waiting him, and he would definitely show-off skills if given an opportunity by any team round the NHL.
One of the unique characteristics of his personality is that he has handled the situation around the talk of his NHL prospect more professionally.
He credits it to a crash course he has taken on handling of such situations effectively during a NHL Research, Development and Orientation Camp in August 2011.
This is something, the player said, he has also learned from his elder brother and has apparently reaped up benefits.
Gaunce, whose second career is dancing, said he will be equally happy to pursue it as a career if is unable to make it to the NHL career.
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