Prospect Info: 2020 NHL Draft 1st Overall Pick, Alexis Lafreniere, LW

[Barnaby]

Fantastic answers. There's no way Mika is getting the C, start of his sophomore season Laf is captain guaranteed. He's like what you'd get if you had to make the perfect hockey player and character in a lab.

He seems like a natural captain... reminds me personality wise of Landeskog a bit...

 

[Barnaby]

+1 for 69... might have the highest jersey sales in the NHL

 

[Salvage21]

#71

 

[Pizza]

i know but his dominant year were with the habs. but guy lafleur was the most dominant winger we got too.

I love the LaFleur comparisson.

Personally, Yvan Cournoyer was a favorite of mine, #12.

I loved the story that his father made practice pucks for him out of solid metal to help strengthen his wrists. He wanted his son to have the strongest possible shot: wrist, slap or backhand to make up for his smaller size.

Young Yvan would spend hours firing wrist shots into a carpet covered wall in the garage at home.

Most people focused on his speed of course, but his shot was amazing as well.

Lafreniere taking on #12 would be great!

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Please take 69. Just do it.

Panarin wore that number as a rookie. I'd love to see a Ranger rookie to do

 

[Leetch3]

 

[2Leetch_94]

I don't know guys, is he too old for the rebuild?

 

[broadwayblue]

I don't know guys, is he too old for the rebuild?

We have 1 year before his inevitable decline.

 

[2Leetch_94]

We have 1 year before his inevitable decline.

Gorton may have to put out another letter soon.

 

[broadwayblue]

Gorton may have to put out another letter soon.

As long as he can move him for a 2C I'll be happy.

 

[Crease]

I don't know guys, is he too old for the rebuild?

He just turned 19 and still hasn't done anything in the NHL. Not saying he's a bust but...

 

[Richard Banger]

Don’t know if anyone caught it but on draft day Bob Mackenzie said he knew what number the kid was going to wear and it’s not one fans are going to expect.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

I hope it's not an ugly number he chooses

71 is ugly as hell

 

[Miamipuck]

This is why people hate the media:

It's Serby, he wasn't stuffed into a locker by a player for nothing.

 

[Irishguy42]

His goal song should just be the chorus from

 

[Kords]

Just going bowling with my bud Alexis, no biggie.

Spoiler

 

[duhmetreE]

 

[LeetchisGod]

This thread is a hoax. I don't believe he's a Ranger.

 

[LokiDog]

I don’t know if anyone has specifically honed in on it, but this kid might have one of the best, sneakiest in tight back hands in the world.

 

[EdJovanovski]

I don’t know if anyone has specifically honed in on it, but this kid might have one of the best, sneakiest in tight back hands in the world.

Sid’s backhand & Matthews’s wrister. He’s got to work on Ovi’d slapshot, but I’m sure he could develop that too

 

[LokiDog]

Sid’s backhand & Matthews’s wrister. He’s got to work on Ovi’d slapshot, but I’m sure he could develop that too

Yeah, I don’t know if he has the ability that Sid and Kane do to smoke a backhander past the goalie from 25’ out, but in close (and quick/deceptive) he gets that backhander upstairs wickedly. Amazing release and elevation in tight and you can tell it’s a move he likes going to. He really has no tell with it... the puck is on his backhand like a normal carry and without any windup or curl or indicative movement, it’s off the stick and upstairs. I reallllllly like it.

 

[jay from jersey]

Yeah, I don’t know if he has the ability that Sid and Kane do to smoke a backhander past the goalie from 25’ out, but in close (and quick/deceptive) he gets that backhander upstairs wickedly. Amazing release and elevation in tight and you can tell it’s a move he likes going to. He really has no tell with it... the puck is on his backhand like a normal carry and without any windup or curl or indicative movement, it’s off the stick and upstairs. I reallllllly like it.

agreed I wouldn’t be surprised for him to put up 60pts this year. Normally I’m pretty conservative with guys on their rookie season but LaF has the talent maturity and swagger to pull it off

 

[Blueblood9]

Cant wait to see how this kid develops.
in my life mid 30s i feel lucky to see the entire careers of Lundqvist, Jeter, Rivera on my favorite teams now i get to add Laf and Kakko. Just hope he brings the cup home.

 

[bl02]

Fun fact. His hometown of Saint Eustache is pretty much smack in the middle between Madison Square garden and where he played in Rimouski . Manhattan about 600 km south of Saint Eustache and Rimouski about 600 Km Northeast. It was meant to be.

 

[Maximus]

As I've said a few times, if Laff goes "sexy" #91 would look awfully sweet on him and he can make it his own as no Ranger ever has. If he goes non sexy, he'll likely go with #22 as only one I can recall who represented that # with any distinction was Mike Gartner and of course New York's very own Nicky Fotiu. Let's see if history can be our guide as to what previous #1 picks have chosen. I'm just going to go back to 2010. And by they way I only do this because this is one of the most important decisions in NY Ranger history and because I'm on a Zoom call from work and I'm bored as shit....lol

2019 Jack Hughes goes with #86. We'll put that in the sexy category.
2018 Rasmus Dahlin goes with #26. We'll put that in the non sexy category.
2017 Nicko Hischier goes with #13. We'll go with non sexy.
2016 Auston Matthews goes with #34. We'll put that in the sexy category.
2015 Conor McDavid goes with #97. As sexy as it can get.
2014 Aaron Ekblad goes with #5. We'll put that in the just about as boring non sexy as one can get.
2013 Nathan MacKinnon goes with #29. We'll put that in the sexy category
2012 Nail Yakapov goes with #64. Still can't believe what a bust he was. But he picked a sexy #...lol
2011 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goes with #93. Yup sweet sexy #.
2010 Taylor Hall goes with #9 tho he wore #91 when he went to Arizona. So non sexy.

So of last 10 #1 overall picks, 6 picked sweet and sexy #'s whereas 4 didn't. Of those 4 tho are 2 defenseman and they often times pick normal boring defenseman type uniform #'s .

I'd say the odds are, Lafreniere is going to pick a # in the 8's or 9's. I'm sticking with my original prediction of #91 seeing I know he would love to have #11 but he can't. But he'll want to have a #1 in there and so #91 works perfectly and he'll instantly become the greatest #91 in Rangers history...lol