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Prospect Info: 2013-2014 Rangers Prospects Thread *Part II* (Player Stats in Post #1; Updated 1/31)

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SnowblindNYR said:
Does Duclair have some ridiculous point streak or are only the games where he gets a point posted? Seems like he has a point, hell a goal, in every game.
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Rangers prospect @aduclair10 extends goal streak to career high 8. 1+1 tonight and 9 goals and 10 assists over the 8 game span. #NYRangers
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Seeing Skjei play tonight @PSU Pegula Ice Arena.

Here are some pregame pics:

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Anthony Duclair (NYR 2013 3rd) may not have scored any goals but he did record a primary assist as his Quebec Remparts defeated the Sherbrooke Phoenix 5-4. Duclair fired a game high 9 shots, 8 of them were considered "dangerous" scoring chances. Duclair's assist also gave him 66 points on the season tying his career high set 2 seasons ago.

In 2011-2012, Duclair in 63 games was 31-35-66 and this season it took him just 43 games for Duclair to equal that. How high he goes nobody knows but this season is already a winner for both Duclair and the Rangers.

In Kootenay after the Edmonton Oil Kings had scored at 3:12 of the 3rd period to take a 4-2 lead over the Kootenay Ice, it really looked as if Griffin Reinhart's (NYI 2012 1st) Oil Kings were on their way to their 7th straight win. Mackenzie Skapski (NYR 2013 6th) was looking at losing his 14th game of the season but all of a sudden, the Ice scored 2 goals 31 seconds apart to tie the game and then broke the tie with less than 9 minutes remaining to steal a 5-4 win.

For Skapski and the Ice, the win allowed them to jump into 7th place in the WHL's Eastern Conference. The Oil Kings on the other hand missed out a chance to pull to within 2 points of the Calgary Hitmen for the top spot in the same conference.

That is because Adam Tambellini's (NYR 2013 3rd) Calgary Hitmen dropped a 4-2 decision to the Kelowna Rockets in the battle of WHL conference leaders. Tambellini was scoreless and a -1 but to be fair to Tambellini; he was playing his 3rd game in 4 days for the 1st time this season.

Brady Skeji (NYR 2012 1st) scored his 3rd goal of the season but his top ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers struggled to defeat Penn State 3-2. It was the 1st meeting of the two programs since Penn State started up it's hockey program and joined the Big Ten.

For Skjei, the goal improved his numbers on the season to 3-3-6.
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Skjei with a goal last night and another solid game tonight. Gophers D keeping everything to the outside. One thing you notice is how hard he passes. Everything is hard from tape to tape.

He doesn't mess around with the puck. Like the announcers said, he's not flashy. He just does everything well enough to not be noticed.
 
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Former NHL defenseman Ben Clymer is the analyst on the Gopher broadcasts. He thinks Brady Skjei will be a better pro than he is in college because Skjei can make the 10 foot pass with required to play in the NHL. In college hockey,they like their D to make the 40 foot pass to spring the forwards for breakaways. That's not Skjei's game. He has the size to play D in the NHL.
 
RangerBoy said:
Former NHL defenseman Ben Clymer is the analyst on the Gopher broadcasts. He thinks Brady Skjei will be a better pro than he is in college because Skjei can make the 10 foot pass with required to play in the NHL. In college hockey,they like their D to make the 40 foot pass to spring the forwards for breakaways. That's not Skjei's game. He has the size to play D in the NHL.
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so is Skjei more of a shoot first type dman or pass first dman or your not implying that at all??
 
Skjei will do whatever he is told to do. McDonagh was a very cerebral player but he wasnt expected to run an offense that was jet fueled.

Skjei can hammer the puck. It's going to have to get tapped out of him. Torts restricted McDonagh. He's already on pace to finish with 175 shots -- the most by a Rangers defenseman in one season since Leetch had 202 in 2002.
 
RangerBoy said:
Former NHL defenseman Ben Clymer is the analyst on the Gopher broadcasts. He thinks Brady Skjei will be a better pro than he is in college because Skjei can make the 10 foot pass with required to play in the NHL. In college hockey,they like their D to make the 40 foot pass to spring the forwards for breakaways. That's not Skjei's game. He has the size to play D in the NHL.
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I caught that last night, and it was very encouraging. Clymer and his play-by-play partner made it sound as if the sky is the limit for Skjei.
 
I can't believe Pronman has a job at ESPN. Wait, actually I can.

Kreider's hockey sense is a "30 out of 100". Erixon is a better prospect. Christian Thomas and Dale Weise are better prospects than JT Miller. St Croix is better than Fast, Miller and Hagelin. St Croix is the #2 Ranger prospect in Sept 2012. Hell this year he still had St Croix at #4 over Skjei, Lindberg, Fast, McIlrath. Just a few of the head scratchers over the years.
 
jas said:
I caught that last night, and it was very encouraging. Clymer and his play-by-play partner made it sound as if the sky is the limit for Skjei.
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Clymer does the Gopher games for Fox Sports North too. Dan Kelly is the Big Ten Hockey play by play guy. His father Dan was the former Blues TV voice. His brother John does the Blues games now. Clymer really likes Skjei. I have heard him praise Skjei on FSN broadcasts. He was a former NHL player and college player. Clymer tweets about the NHL too. He has a good perspective on the differences bwtn the NHL and college hockey.
 
Blurt Vision said:
Pronman claimed Kreider had no hockey sense.
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I tend to think that Kreider suffers from something that I suffer from in real life overthinking-itis. Last season he did look like he had no hockey sense. I think he just overthought everything. As someone who overthinks everything, sometimes it makes you look like a bigger idiot than when you underthink.
 
jas said:
Yeah, I'm not fond of Pronman's approach to prospect ranking. For years he undervalued Kreider because Kreider didn't fit his 'Red Wing' model for success.
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The only reason I'd call it an "approach" is because he sticks to some type of formula.

I'd go as far as calling him terrible at his job. :laugh:

Where's Michael St. Croix on your list, Corey? Genuinely surprised Anthony Duclair isn't top 10 league-wide on his list.
 
Hockey sense is a blanket term people use when they can't figure out why they don't like a player.

It gets used to describe decision making, on-ice vision, playmaking ability, defensive prowess...

However you describe it, it's an overrated commodity for a power winger. Skate hard. Battle in the corners. Go to the net. Shoot the puck.
 
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