Prospect Info: 2024-2025 Rangers Prospects Thread (Prospect Stats in Post #1; Updated 12/6/2024)

[nyr2k2]

Yeah IDK, if you want to be concerned about Emery's lack of production there's a historical justification for that. No doubt.

There's also examples of players who didn't produce at lower levels that have gone on to be successful NHL players.

For me, it boils down to, this is exactly who we thought we drafted. What he's doing or not doing is basically what was to be reasonably expected. Whether he progresses from here, time will tell. I'm generally pleased with the drafting under Drury (whether you count 2021 and Othmann or not) so I'm inclined to give the 18-year-old some time.

 

[eco's bones]

Yeah IDK, if you want to be concerned about Emery's lack of production there's a historical justification for that. No doubt.

There's also examples of players who didn't produce at lower levels that have gone on to be successful NHL players.

For me, it boils down to, this is exactly who we thought we drafted. What he's doing or not doing is basically what was to be reasonably expected. Whether he progresses from here, time will tell. I'm generally pleased with the drafting under Drury (whether you count 2021 and Othmann or not) so I'm inclined to give the 18-year-old some time.

I'd add that Emery is playing for a noteworthy college program that over the decades has put lots of players in the NHL. Quite often too players wait a year after they're drafted so he's a teenager playing against bigger, stronger and faster competition than he had before. It's not just 17, 18 and 19 year olds. When you play for a better program also you're not going to start on the first pairing. You don't always start in the top 4. If instead you go to a lesser Div. 1 school you might get those opportunities right off. I'd also note that Dean Letourneau last I looked had two assists at BC....this is a guy who skates very well for his size and tore up his junior league last year and was drafted in the 1st round by Boston.

Laba was an overage when we drafted him and he went to Colorado College at least one year older than Emery.....CC is a pretty good team but not a top notch program. After Brody Lamb was drafted he spent the next year in the USHL and his freshman year he didn't produce very much. So it wasn't until his sophomore year (two years after he was drafted) that he started picking his game up. It also points to what a fantastic prospect Perreault is blowing the doors off in his draft year and it's basically because of stick skills and a top notch hockey IQ.

 

[2014nyr]

I think it’s pretty funny to start bagging on a freshman defensive defenseman prospect for not scoring after a whole 17 games…

it's impressive tbh...17 games getting a regular shift without recording a single point is not easy to do. he really should try a lefty stick..

to be clear, it doesn't mean anything. sounds like his play has been solid overall. he's also only 5 pts away from being tied for 3rd in dman scoring, so it's not exactly like the rest of the blue line is lighting it up and he's a glaring outlier. people just run to the extremes....if he had 20 points right now he'd be talked about like the second coming of bobby orr while 0 points means he's a writeoff. ppl have learned nothing from writing off laf when he didn't light it up at 18...who coulda seen that coming