New New Prospects Thread

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

1 hour ago, diehardredwingsfan58 said:

Because he's staying over in Sweden until at least the prospect tournament in June or July.

He won't be coming over until their season ends in 2025 since he's staying in the SHL for another year.

That's dumb.

[Axl Foley 334]

On 5/25/2024 at 7:49 PM, Scott R Lucidi said:

That's dumb.

Why? It's a mens league equivalent. And he is NOT NHL ready.

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

17 minutes ago, Axl Foley said:

Why? It's a mens league equivalent. And he is NOT NHL ready.

No

[LeftWinger 5,132]

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

2 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

Edvinsson, Johansson, Mazur, and Berggren all come up.  That puts our prospect pool at:

Cossa, Augustine

ASP, Wallinder, Buium, Tuomisto, Gibson

Danielson, Kasper, Lombardi, Buchelnikov

We need a good draft here up front.  Larkin is the only guy in the entire organization with speed.  Time to start drafting some burners and developing them.

[LeftWinger 5,132]

18 minutes ago, Scott R Lucidi said:

Edvinsson, Johansson, Mazur, and Berggren all come up.  That puts our prospect pool at:

Cossa, Augustine

ASP, Wallinder, Buium, Tuomisto, Gibson

Danielson, Kasper, Lombardi, Buchelnikov

We need a good draft here up front.  Larkin is the only guy in the entire organization with speed.  Time to start drafting some burners and developing them.

Eiserman. The D will come.

[kipwinger 8,756]

1 hour ago, Scott R Lucidi said:

Edvinsson, Johansson, Mazur, and Berggren all come up.  That puts our prospect pool at:

Cossa, Augustine

ASP, Wallinder, Buium, Tuomisto, Gibson

Danielson, Kasper, Lombardi, Buchelnikov

We need a good draft here up front.  Larkin is the only guy in the entire organization with speed.  Time to start drafting some burners and developing them.

Both Danielson and Kasper can fly, not sure where you’re getting “Larkin is the only guy with speed”.

[TLGTrico 661]

2 hours ago, Scott R Lucidi said:

Edvinsson, Johansson, Mazur, and Berggren all come up.  That puts our prospect pool at:

Cossa, Augustine

ASP, Wallinder, Buium, Tuomisto, Gibson

Danielson, Kasper, Lombardi, Buchelnikov

We need a good draft here up front.  Larkin is the only guy in the entire organization with speed.  Time to start drafting some burners and developing them.

I'd rather have Kasper or Danielson than mazur

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

17 minutes ago, TLGTrico said:

I'd rather have Kasper or Danielson than mazur

Yah, problem is the GM and coach have to fight the talent vs eligibility/contract status battle.  Kasper and Danielson won't see more than 8/9 games this year in the NHL if they see any at all.

1 hour ago, kipwinger said:

Both Danielson and Kasper can fly, not sure where you’re getting “Larkin is the only guy with speed”.

Dude, no.  Just no.  Danielson and Kasper are GOOD skaters.  Not great skaters.  Larkin is a great skater.  We need another great skater or 2.

[Axl Foley 334]

1 minute ago, Scott R Lucidi said:

Yah, problem is the GM and coach have to fight the talent vs eligibility/contract status battle.  Kasper and Danielson won't see more than 8/9 games this year in the NHL if they see any at all.

Plenty of room on the roster for Kasper. I suspect he stays up.

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

2 hours ago, LeftWinger said:

Eiserman. The D will come.

This guy is another Filip Zadina.  I'm a hard pass on Eiserman.  Gotta get someone who creates.  We have nothing but "Finishers" and "Defensively Responsible Players" on this team.  That's our issue.  We need another burner that can go goal line to goal line and back the opponent's defenders off.  Larkin does this.  We need another one.

2 minutes ago, Axl Foley said:

Plenty of room on the roster for Kasper. I suspect he stays up.

I hope so.  I like that guy.

[Axl Foley 334]

3 minutes ago, Scott R Lucidi said:

This guy is another Filip Zadina.  I'm a hard pass on Eiserman.  Gotta get someone who creates.  We have nothing but "Finishers" and "Defensively Responsible Players" on this team.  That's our issue.  We need another burner that can go goal line to goal line and back the opponent's defenders off.  Larkin does this.  We need another one.

We had one. His name was AA. He sucked.

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

4 minutes ago, Axl Foley said:

We had one. His name was AA. He sucked.

yah, agreed.  I'll correct myself.  We need 3 more so we get 1 good one when it all shakes out.  Better?

[Jimmybigrigs69 372]

Im not convinced any of our D prospects our future top4s besides ASP. Wouldn't mind drafting more of those. 

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

2 hours ago, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

Im not convinced any of our D prospects our future top4s besides ASP. Wouldn't mind drafting more of those. 

Seider/Edvinsson right now.

ASP is a huge maybe as of today.  No reason to get excited about him until he shows what he can do on a NA rink in GR.  Right now, it's just ice capades over Sven land.  That doesn't always translate to Norris Nick.

[stephen-gregory-yzerman 136]

3 hours ago, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

Im not convinced any of our D prospects our future top4s besides ASP. Wouldn't mind drafting more of those. 

Depending how the board shakes out I wouldnt hate Solberg. Could use a LH Seider lite. Still think this team should be swinging for the fences for offense in the 1st round though. Jiri jr would be a nice swing in that same mold in the 2nd/3rd round.

[Jimmybigrigs69 372]

This Kiiskanen kid really sounds like an Yzerman type. And someone fans will love. Super high compete level and determination. Everything I read is not just like "good motor" it's like "twin diesal 10 cylinder supercharged motor that runs on bobby orrs piss". Relentless forechecker that will bowl over his own teammates to dive helmet first into an unsuspecting Dman.

Kid might be alright.

[Axl Foley 334]

1 minute ago, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

This Kiiskanen kid really sounds like an Yzerman type. And someone fans will love. Super high compete level and determination. Everything I read is not just like "good motor" it's like "twin diesal 10 cylinder supercharged motor that runs on bobby orrs piss". Relentless forechecker that will bowl over his own teammates to dive helmet first into an unsuspecting Dman.

Kid might be alright.

Remember when everybody was all into Klim Kostin?

[Jimmybigrigs69 372]

34 minutes ago, Axl Foley said:

Remember when everybody was all into Klim Kostin?

He's not a fighter or even a powerforward. And he's average sized.

He's a scoring winger that happens to have a big motor and huge compete level. His offense and skating look very good from what I can see. But from what I'm reading is the puck seems to follow him around the ice because he skates every shift like his life depends on it. And he will hem you into your own end with a nonstop forecheck. 

Like a Filppula who gives a s***

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

1 hour ago, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

He's not a fighter or even a powerforward. And he's average sized.

He's a scoring winger that happens to have a big motor and huge compete level. His offense and skating look very good from what I can see. But from what I'm reading is the puck seems to follow him around the ice because he skates every shift like his life depends on it. And he will hem you into your own end with a nonstop forecheck. 

Like a Filppula who gives a s***

Who are we talking about?  Helm?

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

On 6/14/2024 at 3:16 PM, stephen-gregory-yzerman said:

Depending how the board shakes out I wouldnt hate Solberg. Could use a LH Seider lite. Still think this team should be swinging for the fences for offense in the 1st round though. Jiri jr would be a nice swing in that same mold in the 2nd/3rd round.

Did you notice how goos McBroberg is turning out to be?  Wish we could have pried him away from EDM while he was adjusting to the NA game.  He's such a good skater.

[town123 235]

22 hours ago, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

He's not a fighter or even a powerforward. And he's average sized.

He's a scoring winger that happens to have a big motor and huge compete level. His offense and skating look very good from what I can see. But from what I'm reading is the puck seems to follow him around the ice because he skates every shift like his life depends on it. And he will hem you into your own end with a nonstop forecheck. 

Like a Filppula who gives a s***

I think there's a reason we got a 2nd tossed in.    I think Gibson is going to be a stud D.    Boo hiss.

On 6/14/2024 at 6:16 PM, stephen-gregory-yzerman said:

Depending how the board shakes out I wouldnt hate Solberg. Could use a LH Seider lite. Still think this team should be swinging for the fences for offense in the 1st round though. Jiri jr would be a nice swing in that same mold in the 2nd/3rd round.

For me solberg plays like Seider/Kronwall.   He fashions himself a Seider clone, but I think his hitting is mostly Kronwall when he's facing a player and Seider when he is fetching the puck in our end.   His offensive side is really good for a kid most scouts are saying is the best def D in the draft.   I'm all for it if he's still there at 15, doubt it though.

[Jimmybigrigs69 372]

33 minutes ago, town123 said:

I think there's a reason we got a 2nd tossed in.    I think Gibson is going to be a stud D.    Boo hiss.

For me solberg plays like Seider/Kronwall.   He fashions himself a Seider clone, but I think his hitting is mostly Kronwall when he's facing a player and Seider when he is fetching the puck in our end.   His offensive side is really good for a kid most scouts are saying is the best def D in the draft.   I'm all for it if he's still there at 15, doubt it though.

Obviously Gibson was very highly valued by Nash to make this trade. I dont think the 2nd was included because Kiiskanen is bad, i think it was because Gibson is THAT good. Cause im liking Kiiskanens numbers and play a lot. But he's a potential middle 6 forward where as Gibson could be a top 2 Dman.

[Jimmybigrigs69 372]

Point record for a U20 SHL dman is 32 pts in 52 games (full SHL season). 

ASP is on pace for 46 pts in 52 games. 8 games in. 

[Scott R Lucidi 675]

On 10/11/2024 at 7:58 PM, Jimmybigrigs69 said:

Point record for a U20 SHL dman is 32 pts in 52 games (full SHL season). 

ASP is on pace for 46 pts in 52 games. 8 games in. 

Not ready until 2028.  Sorry.  Axl says so