Prospect Info: 2023-24 Prospect Thread
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Yeah we all saw this coming. He was soft defensively and at time the puck was a hand grenade on his stick. Game was too fast for him here, plus who wants to live in Bridgeport.
I really wanted him to work out.
Good Luck to him.
Just another Bad Luck Drafted player.
They did do that....
I first saw Salo when he was 16. It was at an Hlinka Cup in Bratislava.
I was very impressed with his on-ice play and off the ice, he looked like a man among boys. He was a pretty big 16-year-old.
His last season in the SHL was also pretty doggone good. It was very promising seeing him literally run PP unit 1 for Örerbro that entire season. He also displayed some wicked breakout passes - the long kind that find their way through like 3 opponents and land on the stick of a teammate to spring him out on a breakaway.
At that time, he looked kind of NHL-ready.
This said, by the time he got sent down after kicking off the 22-23 season with the Isles and having that game against Anaheim (or something) where he put up 2 or 3 points, it was all downhill. It's like whatever confidence he had built up by then just went by the wayside and never really returned.
Watching him in the AHL this year, it just looked like everything I had seen in the SHL was gone. I mean, he looked like a finished product, one that just wasn't gonna be able to crack it. There were no redeeming qualities. In fact, having Cholowski there showed just how much Salo was lacking as Cholowski - who isn't cutting it either - was basically the same defender but a step better in like every aspect of the game.
I'll say Salo has an outside chance of going back to Europe and spending 2-4 years there redefining himself and then maybe turning himself into someone worth another look later, but if a guy like fellow Finn Sami Niku isn't worthy of another look, can't really see Salo getting another crack unless he just explodes somewhere.
If we do ever hear of him coming back to North America, I'm pretty certain it won't be with us.
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Is it safe now to mention that mayyyyybe Salo too was one of those guys in the system who the team didn't really reckon with, but who might have had some trade value at an earlier juncture and maybe could've been moved in a package, if not just for someone else's unwanted piece who might have had a better shot here?
The bodies of former draft picks that have withered away continue to mount. I guess Koivula is just about there now too.
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INTERESTING:
Just bye the bye - and this guy did NOTHING while here before being packaged off in the Palmieri trade - but did anyone notice that former college UFA Mason Jobst is coming off a 50-point season in 64 AHL games? In the season before, he had 38 points and then 13 points in 14 playoff games.
Never saw it coming.
Also, the other nobody sent off in the Palmieri trade, AJ Greer, who got into 9 games with the Devils and put up 52 AHL points the season after the trade, has now played a fairly regular bottom 6 role for Boston and then Calgary in each of the past two seasons.
I thought he looked awful in his short tenure with BPort. His boots looked burried in the mud out there.
Just for protocol...
Where's the poster who would write, "Jesse Nurmi, come get the Stanley Cup..."???
Hope this isn't too early. My FIN contact just let me know that his team was definitely counting on him to take on a bigger role next season.
Where's the poster who would write, "Jesse Nurmi, come get the Stanley Cup..."???
Hope this isn't too early. My FIN contact just let me know that his team was definitely counting on him to take on a bigger role next season.
Osakahaus
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Nurmi is gonna play in Bridgeport/ECHL so yeah. Cool to see him come over sooner rather than later.
leeroggy
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@Chapin Landvogt
Jessi Nurmi, come get the Stanley Cup!!!
Yep, just checked another one off the bucket list . . . down to the Tornado Chase and banging Sophie Marceau . . .
Jessi Nurmi, come get the Stanley Cup!!!
Yep, just checked another one off the bucket list . . . down to the Tornado Chase and banging Sophie Marceau . . .
doublechili
For all intensive purposes, your nuts
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I know this has been a long-time endeavor of yours.
Don't give up!
The older she gets, the more your chances improve.
YearlyLottery
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A bit husky and loves to shoot. Not a sniper, but a shooter. Pretty good in the slot and has no problem hanging out and jostling there.
Skating is ok. He can hustle, but I think it looks a bit choppy. There's physicality in his game.
The real test will be the AHL. I think he's done everything (thus far) to get an ELC, but it could really go either way in the AHL.
I do see things in his game that thoroughly make me think he can become a Jordan Martinook type.
It's gonna be up to him and what he does when the going gets tough in those first few pro seasons.
He should be gunning for 40+ points next season. Looks doable, but UND will be getting another wave of top NHL-drafted talent in the fall and those guys tend to get prime ice time right off the bat (at times).
Jersey Fan 12
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Cholowski was the leading scorer amongst Bridgeport defensemen but was -22 and didn't appear in any NHL games.
At 26 is he strictly an AHL defenseman who may receive the occasional injury callups or is there still the potential for an NHL career?
Cholowski isn't an NHL Dman.
The question for him now is whether he can still get a 1-way deal although he'll be parked in the AHL?
If not, then it's time for him to look abroad. He's at a phase where he can earn a pretty penny playing in the Swiss NL or Russia, or just enjoy a high level of play in the SHL. He's surely got offers from all three.
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