Cody Bass Update
October 26, 2007
Good article in todays paper reporting on Cody Bass’ progress and his role in the organization.
As a minor hockey player in Guelph, Ontario, Bass said he was putting up 65, 70, 80 points a season. But his role changed, he said, when as a 15 year-old he moved on to the Junior B level, where he arrived to find his team already stocked with scorers like future Cornell standout Matt Moulson.
“I went into that league, and I tried to do stuff that I was trying to do in minor hockey, but I couldn’t do it,” Bass said.
“And then Ken Cook, my coach, just put me in a role where I was an energy guy. And I just started finishing checks, and that’s the way I came into that role.”
It’s a role he’s clearly embraced — “I love to finish checks,” he said. “I love to rough it up here and there” — and he points to the likes of Mike Fisher, Chris Neil and Chris Kelly in Ottawa, or even a Kris Draper in Detroit as players he now looks up to.
“I see him as a role player. I see him as an important guy,” Ottawa assistant general manager Tim Murray said. “You hope he can get to something (like) a Chris Kelly-type player — where the coach has lots of confidence in you and has no problem putting you on the ice in all situations.”
Murray said Ottawa officials are looking for Bass to spend his time in Binghamton continuing to kill penalties, win faceoffs and serve as a two-way center, while refining his offensive game and proving he can be a “hard guy to play against.”
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