This may surprise many of you that he’s rated this high but flatout he’s a stud, here’s a quote from Max Gieses blog which was talking about Patrick White but referenced Bonino
“I also can't believe the Sharks traded that Bonino kid, the kid's a stud!"
Now if you remember after the trade deadline when the ducks got him Bob Murray was really speaking highly of this guy.
So what does Bonino go and do? Help lead BC to a national championship. He’s a thick body at 6’1 190, he will play one more year in BU then likely turn pro, remember how I just said Holland could be the teams no.2 center? Well Bob Murray was projecting Bonino for that type of role after the trade.
He has to improve his skating, but he can shoot the puck and he can pass it and is not afraid of the dirty areas one bit. The Sharks will regret this trade I have almost no doubt, the reason Bonino gets no talk at all……his draft position, if he was a first or second rounder instead of a 6th round pick, more people would be on the bandwagon.
I could see him in the NHL after spending a half a year, to a year in the AHL. The ducks have some big time forwards coming to surround their 3 franchise forwards, Bonino is one of them.
I would compare him to Joe Pavelski of the Sharks, not the best skater but very good at a lot of things.
ARTHUR:
ReplyDeleteGAH! Fix that BC typo!
Bonino played for BU, not BC...as such, he never lead BC to a national championship. He did, however, have a sick goal for BU that lead THEM to a championship.
ReplyDeleteAnd BC still sucks.