Prospect Info: 2024-2025 Rangers Prospects Thread (Prospect Stats in Post #1; Updated 11/10/2024)

[Amazing Kreiderman]

But I think it’s a reasonable question to ask whether or not the eligibility rules would apply for a person moving from the CHL to the NCAA.

I’d imagine that they would be held under what ever eligibility rules would apply to them at the moment they were drafted but being redrafted wouldn’t preclude them from telling that team to F off and hit UFA after their senior season either.

This is all based on language in the NHL CBA, by the way.

Draft-status is determined based on where a player is when he's drafted. So a player drafted out of the CHL, who would then go to the NCAA, will have his NHL rights expire after 2 years and won't be allowed to sign as a free agent at age 20 before the draft.

 

[eco's bones]

Speaking of the Rangers college players. I think whether to sign decisions will be be made on 5 of them as their seasons close down this year.

1. Gabriel Perreault--sophomore Boston College.....my guess will be they will sign and only Gabriel deciding he wants to stay another year could possibly stand in the way of that.
2. Noah Laba--junior Colorado College....I think they wanted to sign him after last year. He's apparently injured right now but I think the Rangers will try to sign him again.
3. Brody Lamb--junior Minnesota U......so far he's over a point a game for the Gophers. I don't think he has as rounded a game as Laba does but he's improved every year on a top team. My guess is we'll try him but I wouldn't be shocked if he goes back to Minnesota U. for his senior year.
4. Hank Kempf--senior Cornell U.....he's become a pretty college defenseman. Whether he has enough upside to become an NHL player is a question. That might take the rest of this year to decide whether he's worth signing. I think he could go either way.
5. Zakary Karpa--senior Harvard U....so far I don't see much reason to sign him at all.

 

[nyr2k2]

Speaking of the Rangers college players. I think whether to sign decisions will be be made on 5 of them as their seasons close down this year.

1. Gabriel Perreault--sophomore Boston College.....my guess will be they will sign and only Gabriel deciding he wants to stay another year could possibly stand in the way of that.
2. Noah Laba--junior Colorado College....I think they wanted to sign him after last year. He's apparently injured right now but I think the Rangers will try to sign him again.
3. Brody Lamb--junior Minnesota U......so far he's over a point a game for the Gophers. I don't think he has as rounded a game as Laba does but he's improved every year on a top team. My guess is we'll try him but I wouldn't be shocked if he goes back to Minnesota U. for his senior year.
4. Hank Kempf--senior Cornell U.....he's become a pretty college defenseman. Whether he has enough upside to become an NHL player is a question. That might take the rest of this year to decide whether he's worth signing. I think he could go either way.
5. Zakary Karpa--senior Harvard U....so far I don't see much reason to sign him at all.

My guess is that irrespective of what the players want to do, they'll sign Kempf and let Karpa walk. Kempf is a fine college defenseman who may not have another gear in him, likely making him an AHL depth player. But, young defenseman are like left-handed pitchers in baseball: you can never have too many.

Karpa doesn't do much. He has good intangibles, though. I could see him maybe coming to camp on an AHL deal to see what he can do as a bottom-sixer at that level. I don't see an NHL future for him, though.

 

[noncents]

Lamb should be signed this year and start trying to make it in the AHL. score 20g/50a this year and sign.

The pride of Byron is destined for the NHL.

 

[eco's bones]

Lamb should be signed this year and start trying to make it in the AHL. score 20g/50a this year and sign.

The pride of Byron is destined for the NHL.

Lamb has a real shot at becoming an NHL player. It might not be with us. As far as college prospect forwards I would have Perreault by a large margin and Laba over him. In Hartford I'd have to think Berard, Othmann, Sykora are much closer than he is and who knows about Groulx who is still pretty young and then there's Chmelar, Rempe (who brings completely different things) and Roobroeck and BMB have been putting up some points lately. Our prospect forward depth is pretty deep. We don't have room for all of them to make it---maybe only a couple or three or four over the next couple/three years.

Lamb had a pretty good year last year. He's improved this year. Laba had a fantastic year last year and has been missing games early on---injury?

 

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“Last season the Rangers pushed hard to sign me,” Laba revealed. “It was definitely a tough decision but I decided to come back to college. But now I hope to earn a contract at the end of this season and start my pro career.”

No update on his injury. I'm waiting to see if he will play tonight.

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

If it's an ankle with Laba he is really best served waiting until he's 100% to come back.

That shit will linger and be a mother f***er no matter how much tape you use. It's early in the season, no reason to push through.

 

[nyr2k2]

Regarding who should and shouldn't be signed, one thing I'll add is that the Rangers have been good at the internal scouting. They know which of their guys have it and which do not have it.

If you look back 10 years, there really aren't any guys that we walked away from, either on their initial or subsequent contract, that we regret.

There was the "unusual" situation with Grubbe where we traded him. Since then he has 17 points in 77 AHL games. He's 21 until January so still quite young, but it's unlikely he's going to be an impact player.

Evan Vierling had a flash at the end of the AHL season last year but is back in the ECHL to start this season. He's playing very well, but again, it would seem he's unlikely to become much of a player.

Hunter Skinner is a JAG in the AHL, Leevi Aaltonen is a depth player in Allsvenskan, and Eric Ciccolini may have retired after graduating college.

Kravtsov is the same guy he has been in the KHL. Obviously there's talent there to be an NHL player but he doesn't want to win that spot. Trading him was the right move. Lundkvist is an NHL regular at this point but nothing special.

You can go on down the line with guys like Gross, Sjalin, Morrison, Gropp, etc. No one you really say "Ah f*** we should have held onto that guy."

Just something to keep in mind when the team makes these decisions. They're usually pretty sound. And to clarify, I'm talking the prospects, not guys like Buchnevich or JT Miller or whoever.

 

[nyr2k2]

Lamber with a PPG to open the scoring for Minnesota.

 

[kovazub94]

Regarding who should and shouldn't be signed, one thing I'll add is that the Rangers have been good at the internal scouting. They know which of their guys have it and which do not have it.

If you look back 10 years, there really aren't any guys that we walked away from, either on their initial or subsequent contract, that we regret.

There was the "unusual" situation with Grubbe where we traded him. Since then he has 17 points in 77 AHL games. He's 21 until January so still quite young, but it's unlikely he's going to be an impact player.

Evan Vierling had a flash at the end of the AHL season last year but is back in the ECHL to start this season. He's playing very well, but again, it would seem he's unlikely to become much of a player.

Hunter Skinner is a JAG in the AHL, Leevi Aaltonen is a depth player in Allsvenskan, and Eric Ciccolini may have retired after graduating college.

Kravtsov is the same guy he has been in the KHL. Obviously there's talent there to be an NHL player but he doesn't want to win that spot. Trading him was the right move. Lundkvist is an NHL regular at this point but nothing special.

You can go on down the line with guys like Gross, Sjalin, Morrison, Gropp, etc. No one you really say "Ah f*** we should have held onto that guy."

Just something to keep in mind when the team makes these decisions. They're usually pretty sound. And to clarify, I'm talking the prospects, not guys like Buchnevich or JT Miller or whoever.

Would you believe me if I said that Kravtsov has been PKing this season and earned a praise from his coach for forechecking and backchecking lol?

 

[noncents]

Would you believe me if I said that Kravtsov has been PKing this season and earned a praise from his coach for forechecking and backchecking lol?

BRING HIM BACK

 

[pld459666]

Would you believe me if I said that Kravtsov has been PKing this season and earned a praise from his coach for forechecking and backchecking lol?

@EdJovanovski

 

[GoAwayPanarin]

Would you believe me if I said that Kravtsov has been PKing this season and earned a praise from his coach for forechecking and backchecking lol?

To be fair forechecking and back checking in that league is considered to be skating 2 feet on either side of the center ice line

 

[nyr2k2]

My final projection on him was a two-way guy who topped out at 30-40 points. I caught a lot of flak for that, but he didn't strike me as particularly dynamic on the puck, and I did see some willingness to put in the work defensively.

 

[2014nyr]

Would you believe me if I said that Kravtsov has been PKing this season and earned a praise from his coach for forechecking and backchecking lol?

what the hell did they do to him? that kinda talent shouldn't have to get back any further than the red line. backchecking is for plugs not superstars.

 

[kovazub94]

what the hell did they do to him? that kinda talent shouldn't have to get back any further than the red line. backchecking is for plugs not superstars.

Maybe he finally realized that he wasn’t that (superstar status that is) - his points is still at the same 0.7 PPG that it was and has been in the last 6 years since his draft.