2023-24 Senators Prospect Watch

[Sens in Process]

Anyone got any intel on Stephen Halliday's game? His numbers look pretty good on the face of it.

He is the offensive driver on a team with an anemic offense. His roughly a point of game pace is rather impressive when considering the next guy has 19 points in 28 games.

I have only watched him for two periods, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. He is huge and a relatively smooth skater for his size, but his hockey sense and his passing are what really stand out. The guy really sees the ice and can make plays. He is not one dimensional either. He had a snipe in the game I watched and his goal totals are projected to take a jump forward this year.

I think a lot of his success will depend on his skating at the NHL level. In a short viewing, I can't really tell how good skating is, either average, slightly below average or worse? I will tell you I was pleasantly surprised in my limited viewing. He is smooth, unlike Sokolov, who has that choppy stride- where his energy output doesn't match his top speed or agility. Halliday has some deceptive gliding.

I know Scott Wheeler(who I don't always agree with) thinks he could be a middle-six forward and I kind of agree. I like Halliday more than Jarventie and think he is easily a top 5 non-goalie prospect in the system. Get him to Bellville at the end of the year and he may turn a few heads like he did at Dev. camp.

 

[Cosmix]

He is the offensive driver on a team with an anemic offense. His roughly a point of game pace is rather impressive when considering the next guy has 19 points in 28 games.

I have only watched him for two periods, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. He is huge and a relatively smooth skater for his size, but his hockey sense and his passing are what really stand out. The guy really sees the ice and can make plays. He is not one dimensional either. He had a snipe in the game I watched and his goal totals are projected to take a jump forward this year.

I think a lot of his success will depend on his skating at the NHL level. In a short viewing, I can't really tell how good skating is, either average, slightly below average or worse? I will tell you I was pleasantly surprised in my limited viewing. He is smooth, unlike Sokolov, who has that choppy stride- where his energy output doesn't match his top speed or agility. Halliday has some deceptive gliding.

I know Scott Wheeler(who I don't always agree with) thinks he could be a middle-six forward and I kind of agree. I like Halliday more than Jarventie and think he is easily a top 5 non-goalie prospect in the system. Get him to Bellville at the end of the year and he may turn a few heads like he did at Dev. camp.

Big fella at 6'4" and 210 LBs.

From the description I see no mention of how he uses his big body. Does he play BIG?

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Halliday also assisted on the goal before this with a nice setup . the video on the Ohio State twitter isn't every good


Halliday with the Snipe

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

 

[mianjo]

2023-2024 SKATER STATS

Monday Prospects update on Tuesday

This weeks biggest movers

Crookshank 5pts
Pilon 3 pts
Highmore 3 pts
Guenette 3pts
Ostapchuck 3pts

Tychonick called up again by the Marlies, and this time he played a game

	N	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM	+/-
1.		Jonny Tychonick (D)		totals	46	6	35	41	0.89	44	-9
			Newfoundland Growlers	ECHL	45	6	35	41	0.91	44	-9
			Toronto Marlies	AHL	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0
2.		Owen Beckner (C)	Tri-City Storm	USHL	43	11	27	38	0.88	14	-16
3.		Jorian Donovan (D)		totals	52	11	27	38	0.73	67	13
			Brantford Bulldogs	OHL	34	9	19	28	0.82	34	1
			Saginaw Spirit	OHL	18	2	8	10	0.56	33	12
4.		Angus Crookshank (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	41	18	19	37	0.90	41	-5
5.		Garrett Pilon (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	42	11	21	32	0.76	8	2
6.		Yegor Sokolov (LW/RW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	48	13	18	31	0.65	39	-13
7.		Stephen Halliday (C)	Ohio State Univ.	NCAA	30	10	19	29	0.97	28	0
8.		Vitali Abramov (LW/RW)	CSKA Moskva	KHL	56	13	15	28	0.50	20	9
9.		Matthew Highmore (C/W)	Belleville Senators	AHL	36	8	18	26	0.72	6	-11
10.		Matthew Andonovski (D)	Kitchener Rangers	OHL	53	6	20	26	0.49	109	48
11.		Maxence Guénette (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	43	4	21	25	0.58	12	0
12.		Roby Järventie (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	22	9	11	20	0.91	22	1
13.		Tomas Hamara (D)		totals	44	1	19	20	0.45	22	30
			Kitchener Rangers	OHL	18	0	3	3	0.17	8	13
			Brantford Bulldogs	OHL	26	1	16	17	0.65	14	17
14.		Jacob Larsson (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	39	5	14	19	0.49	44	-14
15.		Zack Ostapchuk (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	48	12	6	18	0.38	38	1
16.		Theo Wallberg (D)	Ohio State Univ.	NCAA	30	2	15	17	0.57	16	-9
17.		Alex Formenton (LW)	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NL	24	10	6	16	0.67	22	1
18.		Jiri Smejkal (LW/C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	33	8	8	16	0.48	14	-13
19.		Josh Currie (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	39	8	8	16	0.41	37	-6
20.		Djibril Touré (D)		totals	40	7	9	16	0.40	52	21
			Sudbury Wolves	OHL	24	6	6	12	0.50	35	19
			Windsor Spitfires	OHL	16	1	3	4	0.25	17	2
21.		Lassi Thomson (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	48	5	11	16	0.33	40	-12
22.		Tyler Kleven (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	36	3	12	15	0.42	33	8
23.		Filip Nordberg (D)		totals	34	1	13	14	0.41	72	-4
			Växjö Lakers HC J20	J20 Nationell	1	0	1	1	1.00	0	-1
			Muskegon Lumberjacks	USHL	33	1	12	13	0.39	72	-3
24.		Cole Reinhardt (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	32	4	9	13	0.41	47	2
25.		Hoyt Stanley (D)	Cornell Univ.	NCAA	25	2	7	9	0.36	20	16
26.		Bokondji Imama (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	38	2	7	9	0.24	95	-3
27.		Oskar Pettersson (RW)		totals	38	5	3	8	0.21	4	-1
			Rögle BK	SHL	26	0	1	1	0.04	0	-9
			Rögle BK J20	J20 Nationell	4	4	1	5	1.25	4	7
			Belleville Senators	AHL	8	1	1	2	0.25	0	1
28.		Oliver Johansson (LW/C)	Timrå IK	SHL	43	5	3	8	0.19	4	-7
29.		Tyson Dyck (C)	Univ. of Wisconsin	NCAA	26	0	8	8	0.31	21	12
30.		Philippe Daoust (C/LW)		totals	9	3	4	7	0.78	4	0
			Allen Americans	ECHL	5	3	2	5	1.00	4	-1
			Belleville Senators	AHL	4	0	2	2	0.50	0	1
31.		Dillon Heatherington (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	41	3	4	7	0.17	27	2
32.		Nikolas Matinpalo (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	43	2	5	7	0.16	12	3
33.		Cameron O'Neill (RW)	UMass	NCAA	21	3	3	6	0.29	21	0
34.		Zack MacEwen (C/RW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	7	4	1	5	0.71	2	2
35.		Rourke Chartier (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	6	3	2	5	0.83	0	-5
36.		Tyler Boucher (RW/LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	21	2	3	5	0.24	34	-4
37.		Donovan Sebrango (D)		totals	21	1	3	4	0.19	31	-2
			Allen Americans	ECHL	4	1	1	2	0.50	0	-1
			Belleville Senators	AHL	17	0	2	2	0.12	31	-1
38.		Nicholas Van Tassell (C)	UMass	NCAA	20	1	1	2	0.10	19	-2
39.		Jacob Bernard-Docker (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	2	0	0	0	0.00	2	1

2023-2024 GOALTENDING STATS

	N	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	GAA	SV%
1.		Mads Søgaard	Belleville Senators	AHL	22	2.52	.917
2.		Leevi Meriläinen		totals	26
			Allen Americans	ECHL	13	2.97	.926
			Belleville Senators	AHL	13	3.29	.898
3.		Kevin Reidler	Dubuque Fighting Saints	USHL	28	3.06	.899
4.		Kevin Mandolese		totals	19
			Belleville Senators	AHL	17	3.43	.894
			Allen Americans	ECHL	2	3.53	.918
5.		Vladimir Nikitin	Chilliwack Chiefs	BCHL	15	3.04	.890

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Two lists here .. one top 50 and one team top 5; Spoiler no Sens in the top 50 list

 

[Ouroboros]

Deeply skeptical of any list that still includes Egor Sokolov as a prospect, let alone the 4th best in the system.

 

[BondraTime]

Hamara #2 and Sokolov #4.

Holy moly that’s ridiculously bad.

Though it’s a ridiculously bad group of prospects, that’s an incredibly bad ranking.

Hamara wasn’t even the top Sens prospect on Kitchener

 

[armani]

Two lists here .. one top 50 and one team top 5; Spoiler no Sens in the top 50 list

Hamara #2 and Sokolov #4.

Holy moly that’s ridiculously bad.

Though it’s a ridiculously bad group of prospects, that’s an incredibly bad ranking.

Hamara wasn’t even the top Sens prospect on Kitchener

Yeah an absolute manure of a list by TSN. I know Craig Button is big on Hamara but come on.

 

[ottawah]

Yeah an absolute manure of a list by TSN. I know Craig Button is big on Hamara but come on.

Button at least in unique in that he does not follow the norm at all, this is his ranking from his viewings alone. Even though not statistically relevant, I enjoy his list more than others.

 

[Hale The Villain]

Yeah an absolute manure of a list by TSN. I know Craig Button is big on Hamara but come on.

He's big on the players who perform well at international tournaments, as that's where he does a lot of his scouting.

Despite being really underwhelming at the OHL level Hamara was actually quite good at the WJC, hence Button's ranking.

 

[Sens in Process]

 

[Samsquanch]

Deeply skeptical of any list that still includes Egor Sokolov as a prospect, let alone the 4th best in the system.

Too harsh on Soko imo. Obviously he's a long shot at best, but we've personally seen guys like Hoffman and Paul take the long road before. And we see many other late blooming guys around the NHL sprouting up in recent years.

And to be fair he's clearly got offensive weapons and the size to play. He's a very good AHL player - and I think there's a lot of fans who never went very far in hockey that don't realize how incredibly talented and good a top level AHL hockey player really is. Chances are they can dominate any other league in the world.

I don't have high hopes for him, but he's still been a solid pro with a great attitude for us. And at 23yrs old it's still entirely possible to eventually make the NHL if you have the drive to keep pushing.

 

[Alf Silfversson]

Too harsh on Soko imo. Obviously he's a long shot at best, but we've personally seen guys like Hoffman and Paul take the long road before. And we see many other late blooming guys around the NHL sprouting up in recent years.

And to be fair he's clearly got offensive weapons and the size to play. He's a very good AHL player - and I think there's a lot of fans who never went very far in hockey that don't realize how incredibly talented and good a top level AHL hockey player really is. Chances are they can dominate any other league in the world.

I don't have high hopes for him, but he's still been a solid pro with a great attitude for us. And at 23yrs old it's still entirely possible to eventually make the NHL if you have the drive to keep pushing.

Sokolov is a great story and by all accounts a really good kid, but this list is about NHL projection. He's too slow. He's worked on his skating and it's still unfortunately not up to NHL standards. His thinking of the game at the NHL level is suspect at best too.

He's a good AHL player with a good work ethic so who knows but his future in the NHL looks unlikely at best. But, as with all our players and prospects, maybe we should wait and see how REAL professionals assess him at camp next year. He hasn't had that luxury yet.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I watched a good part of that game . Halliday's other assist in the 3rd period was pretty nice as well.. although it was probably a failed wrap around.. that got banged in. Still nice.
Wallberg had 2 assists as well.. He doesn't look too bad. Big rangy LD. Solid Prospect imo.
Ohio State knocked off #4 ranked Michigan State.. impressive. I also wanted to check out Levshunov the 2024 Draft highly ranked RD

Here's Halliday's other assist


These teams play again today at 6ET. Can catch some before the Sens game; see Onhockey.

 

[mianjo]

Halliday 2a and Wallberg 2a in a 6-2 win over the 4th seed Michigan St.

Abramov 2a

 

[Sens in Process]

Better look at this goal.

https://x.com/danielbruce11/status/1761404316944826788?s=20

He has got that big smooth thing going on and he is a very underrated prospect.

 

[Dan Patrick]

Do we think Halliday will sign this offseason? Him and Ostapchuk down the middle in Belleville will be solid (tall).

 

[Bileur]

That was Spezza-like.

 

[KnuckChuckinTkachuk]

Do we think Halliday will sign this offseason? Him and Ostapchuk down the middle in Belleville will be solid (tall).

He better since he's quietly become one of our better overall prospects in the org.

 

[mianjo]

Abramov 2a

 

[mianjo]

Mondays update

Crookshank 3pts

2023-2024 SKATER STATS

	N	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM	+/-
1.		Jonny Tychonick (D)		totals	46	6	35	41	0.89	44	-9
			Newfoundland Growlers	ECHL	45	6	35	41	0.91	44	-9
			Toronto Marlies	AHL	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0
2.		Angus Crookshank (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	44	20	20	40	0.91	43	-2
3.		Jorian Donovan (D)		totals	55	11	29	40	0.73	69	14
			Brantford Bulldogs	OHL	34	9	19	28	0.82	34	1
			Saginaw Spirit	OHL	21	2	10	12	0.57	35	13
4.		Owen Beckner (C)	Tri-City Storm	USHL	45	11	26	37	0.82	14	-18
5.		Garrett Pilon (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	44	12	22	34	0.77	8	5
6.		Yegor Sokolov (LW/RW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	51	13	19	32	0.63	39	-9
7.		Stephen Halliday (C)	Ohio State Univ.	NCAA	32	10	22	32	1.00	28	1
8.		Vitali Abramov (LW/RW)	CSKA Moskva	KHL	58	13	17	30	0.52	22	12
9.		Maxence Guénette (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	46	5	23	28	0.61	12	4
10.		Matthew Andonovski (D)	Kitchener Rangers	OHL	55	6	21	27	0.49	111	51
11.		Matthew Highmore (C/W)	Belleville Senators	AHL	38	9	17	26	0.68	6	-10
12.		Jacob Larsson (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	41	6	15	21	0.51	44	-14
13.		Roby Järventie (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	22	9	11	20	0.91	22	1
14.		Tomas Hamara (D)		totals	44	1	19	20	0.45	22	30
			Kitchener Rangers	OHL	18	0	3	3	0.17	8	13
			Brantford Bulldogs	OHL	26	1	16	17	0.65	14	17
15.		Zack Ostapchuk (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	51	12	7	19	0.37	38	2
16.		Theo Wallberg (D)	Ohio State Univ.	NCAA	32	2	17	19	0.59	16	-9
17.		Jiri Smejkal (LW/C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	35	8	10	18	0.51	14	-11
18.		Josh Currie (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	41	9	8	17	0.41	37	-4
19.		Djibril Touré (D)		totals	42	8	9	17	0.40	58	17
			Sudbury Wolves	OHL	24	6	6	12	0.50	35	19
			Windsor Spitfires	OHL	18	2	3	5	0.28	23	-2
20.		Lassi Thomson (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	50	5	12	17	0.34	42	-11
21.		Alex Formenton (LW)	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NL	24	10	6	16	0.67	22	1
22.		Tyler Kleven (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	39	3	13	16	0.41	35	11
23.		Cole Reinhardt (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	35	4	10	14	0.40	47	3
24.		Filip Nordberg (D)		totals	37	1	13	14	0.38	72	-7
			Växjö Lakers HC J20	J20 Nationell	1	0	1	1	1.00	0	-1
			Muskegon Lumberjacks	USHL	36	1	12	13	0.36	72	-6
25.		Hoyt Stanley (D)	Cornell Univ.	NCAA	27	2	7	9	0.33	22	15
26.		Bokondji Imama (LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	40	2	7	9	0.23	97	-3
27.		Tyson Dyck (C)	Univ. of Wisconsin	NCAA	28	0	9	9	0.32	21	13
28.		Oskar Pettersson (RW)		totals	40	5	3	8	0.20	6	-3
			Rögle BK	SHL	26	0	1	1	0.04	0	-9
			Rögle BK J20	J20 Nationell	4	4	1	5	1.25	4	7
			Belleville Senators	AHL	10	1	1	2	0.20	2	-1
29.		Oliver Johansson (LW/C)	Timrå IK	SHL	45	5	3	8	0.18	4	-6
30.		Rourke Chartier (C)	Belleville Senators	AHL	9	4	4	8	0.89	0	-2
31.		Zack MacEwen (C/RW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	10	5	2	7	0.70	8	4
32.		Philippe Daoust (C/LW)		totals	9	3	4	7	0.78	4	0
			Allen Americans	ECHL	5	3	2	5	1.00	4	-1
			Belleville Senators	AHL	4	0	2	2	0.50	0	1
33.		Dillon Heatherington (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	44	3	4	7	0.16	27	3
34.		Nikolas Matinpalo (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	46	2	5	7	0.15	12	3
35.		Cameron O'Neill (RW)	UMass	NCAA	23	3	3	6	0.26	23	-1
36.		Tyler Boucher (RW/LW)	Belleville Senators	AHL	21	2	3	5	0.24	34	-4
37.		Donovan Sebrango (D)		totals	23	1	4	5	0.22	33	-1
			Allen Americans	ECHL	4	1	1	2	0.50	0	-1
			Belleville Senators	AHL	19	0	3	3	0.16	33	0
38.		Nicholas Van Tassell (C)	UMass	NCAA	22	1	1	2	0.09	19	-3
39.		Jacob Bernard-Docker (D)	Belleville Senators	AHL	2	0	0	0	0.00	2	1

2023-2024 GOALTENDING STATS

	N	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	GAA	SV%
1.		Mads Søgaard	Belleville Senators	AHL	24	2.45	.919
2.		Leevi Meriläinen		totals	27
			Allen Americans	ECHL	13	2.97	.926
			Belleville Senators	AHL	14	3.19	.898
3.		Kevin Mandolese		totals	20
			Belleville Senators	AHL	18	3.30	.897
			Allen Americans	ECHL	2	3.53	.918
4.		Kevin Reidler	Dubuque Fighting Saints	USHL	29	3.09	.897

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Is Ben Roger the worst top 2 round pick we ever made? Like drafted him and then year later we’re like probably not even player let’s cut bait.

Or two year la later

 

[BondraTime]

Is Ben Roger the worst top 2 round pick we ever made? Like drafted him and then year later we’re like probably not even player let’s cut bait.

Or two year la later

Bashkirov told the Sens he wasn't going to sign essentially immediately after the draft because the Sens never took his brother

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Bashkirov told the Sens he wasn't going to sign essentially immediately after the draft because the Sens never took his brother

lol that’s at least funny.