Prospect Info: 2024-25 Ducks Prospects

[Sean Garrity]

Its funny how when Sennecke goes on a scoring streak his critics vanish lol but will return if he goes scoreless in next game to tell us how its concerning he might not make the WJC team or that he's not scoring 5 points per game.

For all we know Demidov would never want to play for Anaheim or Columbus and he went to a super big (Montreal)market team like Michkov did (Philly). Passing on Lindstrom looks like it was the right choice now for sure.

Ducks prospect syndrome lol.

No Sennecke, Misa, Parekh, Yakemchuk, or Iginla, laughable

This. Honestly so many players left off that you would expect to be there.

Agree with both of you, Hockey Canada seems to be going a different route that doesn’t make sense. Oh well, Sennecke should focus on his strength and skating during that time. I think he’s going to be a great NHL player.

 

[Vaakou]

He has 19 goals in 23 games coming off of a foot injury. If you’re worrying about him you’re actively looking for things to worry about.

Exactly this.

Here's his stats for last year, this year so far, and his projection (just current pace extended for the rest of the season). Columns are Games Played, Goas, Assists, Total Points, Penalty Minutes, +/-
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He's on pace for a 96% increase in goals, 14% percent increase in assists, for an overall 47% increase in total points. He's also on pace to reduce his penalty minutes by 16.5%. What more could you want from the kid?

He was drafted off potential. The worry was that the second half of last year was fluke and not progress. The start of this season clearly shows last year wasn't just a hot streak. I think if teams knew he would put up these numbers the first 3rd of the season, he wouldn't have been a "reach" at three.

Dudes, its the OHL. this does not say much. Ethan Procyszyn has 18g in 24 games, He's not expected to be a top line NHL player ever. Being left of the WJC team by Hockey Canada who watch his games, is concerning at some level. Stop being so defensiv, put your homerglasses away and stop basing you oppinions off of highlight clips.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Dudes, its the OHL. this does not say much. Ethan Procyszyn has 18g in 24 games, He's not expected to be a top line NHL player ever. Being left of the WJC team by Hockey Canada who watch his games, is concerning at some level. Stop being so defensiv, put your homerglasses away and stop basing you oppinions off of highlight clips.

Not worried have you seen the canada reject team, this team could literally compete for gold

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

He was drafted off potential. The worry was that the second half of last year was fluke and not progress. The start of this season clearly shows last year wasn't just a hot streak. I think if teams knew he would put up these numbers the first 3rd of the season, he wouldn't have been a "reach" at three.

Nobody knew if he would. Hence why he was a reach.

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

Dudes, its the OHL. this does not say much. Ethan Procyszyn has 18g in 24 games, He's not expected to be a top line NHL player ever. Being left of the WJC team by Hockey Canada who watch his games, is concerning at some level. Stop being so defensiv, put your homerglasses away and stop basing you oppinions off of highlight clips.

I’m confused about what you are looking for.

You say you’re worried about him not making the WJC team when that is widely considered a snub and a mistake.

You wonder if you should be worried about his production and then, when shown his production is great, dismiss it because it’s the OHL.

Not sure what else can be said about him. Of course he’s not a sure thing. No prospect is. And he’s riskier than others. But if you won’t be completely assuaged until he’s putting up numbers in the NHL then the answers you want won’t be found here lol

 

[Anaheim4ever]

I’m confused about what you are looking for.

You say you’re worried about him not making the WJC team when that is widely considered a snub and a mistake.

You wonder if you should be worried about his production and then, when shown his production is great, dismiss it because it’s the OHL.

Not sure what else can be said about him. Of course he’s not a sure thing. No prospect is. And he’s riskier than others. But if you won’t be completely assuaged until he’s putting up numbers in the NHL then the answers you want won’t be found here lol

Its like he needs to be scoring at a generational talent level as the #3 overall pick.

 

[190Octane]

Dudes, its the OHL. this does not say much. Ethan Procyszyn has 18g in 24 games, He's not expected to be a top line NHL player ever. Being left of the WJC team by Hockey Canada who watch his games, is concerning at some level. Stop being so defensiv, put your homerglasses away and stop basing you oppinions off of highlight clips.

Do you wear a helmet every time you go outside in case the sky is falling or do you only save your unnecessary worrying for hockey prospects?

 

[WhatTheDuck]

No Pettersson

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

No Pettersson

So do we have 2 people in world juniors? Kinda sucks in terms of me watching but it is what it is

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Not too interested in a back and forth on Sennecke because I don’t have a strong opinion but people shouldn’t be surprised that there’s some skepticism, including from fans, about the pick. The industry was fairly shocked by the pick and so was the player! So why can’t fans be, too?

He’s having a nice year but there’s a long ways to go here. We’ve had plenty of good-looking juniors amount to nothing, especially when there were questions about them from the beginning.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Well Sam Steel was small, vanilla toolset, average at best skating, solid hockey IQ and lit up the WHL. He didn't pan out as a top6 forward but he is a NHLer though.
Sennecke is big, elite toolset, fast skating, elite hockey IQ and is lighting up the OHL.
I think injuries will be the only thing that would set him back and the Ducks have been unlucky.

The prospect I am worried about is Solberg and how his coach is handling him.

 

[Reveille1984]

Sennecke is going to get a lot more criticism at 3 OA, and rightfully so. He seems to at least be showing that last year wasn't a fluke. The only thing we can really say so far is that he isn't looking like as much of a reach as initially thought, which has dissuaded some of my fears.

I still think Demidov was the choice, but it's not like there aren't also risks with Russian players. Maybe he didn't want to come to Orange County, maybe he wasn't willing to seriously entertain the Ducks, who knows. All I can do now is support our own prospects.

 

[airforceones25]

Demidov was the pick and should have always been IMO. I was very adamant about it then and still think he should have been now. That said you can’t not watch the games and not be excited about Sennecke. Anyone whining and complaining about a WJC invite is being unreasonably ridiculous. He’s producing and has done nothing wrong to dispel his draft position. People like to complain because he wasn’t expected to be drafted there but continues to prove he should have.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

The prospect I am worried about is Solberg and how his coach is handling him.

I'm on the opposite side of that thought. I think his SHL team is doing Solberg a great service to his development. They have a raw product who has great physical skills and are trying to mold him into refined top-4D who is consistent on the ice. Solberg has to be tempered into playing a controlled game and play within the game.

When watching Solberg pre-draft highlight clips, we all enjoyed his big hits everywhere on the ice. A majority of those hits would be penalized for interference in the NHL because the puck wouldn't be near the guy Solberg just blew up, especially on his reverse hits. He is just that raw of a player. In looking at his hockey history, Solberg's offense was present at his age appropriate level (lower levels). Before being drafted, Solberg has been playing in the Norwegian Men's league for the past three years. He has some offense in him, but it rarely is on display. That is another aspect of his game that is more raw than his defense.

Solberg was fortunate that Farjestad had injuries to the blue line that gave him a peak at playing on the 2nd line. He was very inconsistent, with far more not-so-good outings than good outings. (flashscore has ratings per game: green = good, red = bad, gold =not good, and burnt orange = not so good) His minutes were dropping to under 11 ATOI in a couple games before going ape shit on knocked down opponent. That is when the team had to do an intervention with Solberg.

Farjestad is the second best team in the SHL. They still think highly of him to keep him with the SHL club than loan him to a HockeyAllsvenskan or J20 club. Solberg's not so great play on the ice and rage upon a downed opponent is all Solberg. He's got to build his game and trust to his team as well as the league. We don't need another overseas Nick Ritchie.

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Solberg is now Nick Ritchie 0.0 ?

 

[Kingpin794]

No Pettersson

If y'all could send him to Saginaw for the new year to get his game going, that'd be great.

 

[Kalv]

People mentioning Demidov – in the draft ceremony you can see when he was picked, he gave a long stare to the Ducks table that was definitely intentional. Right away it felt like he could had been hoping to go 3 OA.

I am happy with Sennecke tho. I like what I see so far, but this was a draft where there were no clear picks for the 3OA.

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

People mentioning Demidov – in the draft ceremony you can see when he was picked, he gave a long stare to the Ducks table that was definitely intentional. Right away it felt like he could had been hoping to go 3 OA.

I am happy with Sennecke tho. I like what I see so far, but this was a draft where there were no clear picks for the 3OA.

You mean Wright away? Eh? eh?

I feel like the KHL is just a difficult league to scout so I understand hesitation to take a player from the league so high. Like, Comtois has 20 points in 27GP at the moment.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Solberg is now Nick Ritchie 0.0 ?

Solberg already beating on a knocked-down player on the ice. Webster already shared that Solberg has anger issues.

Anyhow, add take after you accused Farjestad isn't trust worthy enough to developing Solberg. Guess Solberg needs to be the coach of Farjestad instead the current coaches who currently have the team second best in the SHL. Yeah, that's a smart idea to let an unproven player who's hasn't been great consistently dictate to the team what needs to be done.

 

[ScarTroy]

Yeah if Solberg is going to be close to as important to us as everyone thinks, it won’t hurt for him to have a little discipline on when to pick his spots. Don’t need him in the box all game, we have enough of a problem with that historically.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

People mentioning Demidov – in the draft ceremony you can see when he was picked, he gave a long stare to the Ducks table that was definitely intentional. Right away it felt like he could had been hoping to go 3 OA.

I am happy with Sennecke tho. I like what I see so far, but this was a draft where there were no clear picks for the 3OA.

Yup, no real clear pick at #3. Some liked Yakemchuk at #3 OA and he was often ranked 12th or 13th in many mocks. I wanted Levshunov, but the 'Hawks snapped him up. One could have taken a chance on Lindstrom and his back, which we now see looks like a good move to avoid. Demidov was there, but GM Verbeek has stayed away from Russians with the valuable, early draft picks. Dickinson was available, but he was a LD and we had a whole bunch already... then we traded up for LD Solberg later in the first round.

I'm also happy with Sennecke since he's proven that his high scoring rate in the second half of the season wasn't solely due to being paired with Calum Ritchie. Ritchie has only played 15 games with the Generals this season and not on the same line with Sennecke, iirc.

The only player in the top-12 draftees that doesn't look great at the moment is Lindstrom. Lindstrom hasn't played a single game anywhere due to his back issue.

 

[ZegrassyKnoll]

Sennecke's Generals just signed Chinese-born Haoxi Simon Wang. Kid's a 6'6", 212lbs defenseman.

Don't see a lot of Chinese-born prospects, kind of interesting.

 

[Webster]

Yeah if Solberg is going to be close to as important to us as everyone thinks, it won’t hurt for him to have a little discipline on when to pick his spots. Don’t need him in the box all game, we have enough of a problem with that historically.

Yeah I think Färjestad's coaches are pretty good, when Solberg wants to play in Sweden this team is probably the best place he can be. Their GM called him a very talented but unpolished kid, and their head coach (with a smile) called him a wild tiger. So it's all in a positive way, they like him, that's why he's still there and gets to play.

The coach has a good point when he said Solberg only has experience from the EHL in Norway, a physical league where refs allow more, so he needs some time to adjust.

I'm pretty sure Solberg will be just fine, he's still very young and learning. As I mentioned in his thread here, he's played a very good and disciplined game lately. But will always be hard to play against, and that's what the Ducks love about him.