2024-25 NCAA, CHL and OHL prospects thread
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FWIW - Former Devils draft pick Mitch Hoelscher (now 25) is leading his team in scoring in Slovakia.
Not all that significant since he was a sixth round pick. But he was one of three players the Devils drafted from the Ottawa 67's that were 50-11-1 when they shutdown hockey for the pandemic. The Devils also traded for Kevin Bahl.
None of those players are still with the Devils.
Not all that significant since he was a sixth round pick. But he was one of three players the Devils drafted from the Ottawa 67's that were 50-11-1 when they shutdown hockey for the pandemic. The Devils also traded for Kevin Bahl.
None of those players are still with the Devils.
I moved this to the Comets page and forged your response.
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Highlight-reel goal from the Devils' newest prospect (from last month)
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Has anyone posted Wherler’s recent write up? I was trying to catch up on the main thread until I started reading it lol. (People going through some things.)
Dobber has a mid-season guide, here’s the write up. Maybe we sign this off-season.
EPRinkside’s off-season write-up (August 20 2024)
Dobber has a mid-season guide, here’s the write up. Maybe we sign this off-season.
EPRinkside’s off-season write-up (August 20 2024)
These assessments read like he should sign at the end of this season and get his act going in Utica. He sounds like a much better prospect than Stillman and the Comets had to live with his ineptitude for 2 seasons. This guy has a habit of going where few Comets have had the courage to go, the NET FRONT!!!!!! Apparently my feelings regarding Stillman were in agreement with Interim Head Coach Parent.
Speaking of Parent, he should get a promotion from "Interim" to actual Utica Comets Head Coach. He is responsible for turning a very poorly assembled team into a competitive group who are pushing to get their season record above .500 from the hole Dineen helped them dig. The players like and even more respect him. He doesn't play around. He has demands for how they play and they appear to have bought into those demands and are working to make their plumber's skills work to win games. They are far from pretty, but their work ethic is there and overall it's produced wins more often than losses.
Seems to me based upon these assessments he should sign after this season ends and get himself into the Utica Comets lineup at least to start next season. He already appears to be a better prospect than the inept Stillman. He also has a history of doing what Comets' players have lacked the courage to_______GO TO THE NET FRONT!!!
Based upon recent events it appears that "Interim" Head Coach Parent had a similar opinion to mine regarding Stillman.
Speaking of Parent he has earned the right to be named the Utica Comets Head Coach for next season. He has turned the Comets from a stumbling, bumbling, poorly constructed hockey team (that was NJ's fault) that Dineen sunk into a deep abyss into a hard working group of players that work together combining their mostly plumber's skills into a team that has won more than they have lost under his helm.
Dineen left the Comets 5-12-1-2 after losing their first 13 consecutive games.
Parent revamped the system and obviously laid down rules to play by. After a slow start while his system and rules were taking effect the Comets have recorded a far more respectable record of
18-13-3-0. That makes their season record 23-25-4-2. 2 games below .500. The .500 mark was the one I set in my mind for a successful recovery from what was a horrendous, embarrassing beginning.
Parent is responsible for making his players recognize their was a way for them to know success if they were willing to put in the work and play the game they were capable of putting together as a unit. They bought into his game and even while undergoing losses of players to NJ and injuries at home they put makeshift lineups on the ice and ground away and finding more success than failure. They stumbled now and then, but he wouldn't accept poor effort and took them back to the practice surface and ironed out the flaws. They have crept closer to competing for the bottom playoff spot, but they have two teams to climb over and only have 18 games to overcome an
8-point deficit to both Syracuse and Belleville with 1 game in hand on both of them. It seems daunting, but they keep playing like they believe and that's all one can ask. Even if it ends up only finishing the season showing a remarkable recovery from the horrible start while establishing a sense of accomplishment and self-respect in the end, the season will have ended on a successful note. It won't be glory, but they will know what they have done.
They are not idiots. They know what they have been competing against and in the end they will know what could have been if they had started the way they finished. They are now very competitive. At the moment Syracuse only has 2 more wins and Belleville 3. The loser points the other 2 have accrued are where most of those 8 points are buried.
*** With the screwups I am enduring with this site I ended up replying to this post twice because the first reply did not register. I came back and saw that so made a second more involved response. I'm leaving them both here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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New Jersey Devils Prospect Update: Waiting on Gritsyuk
There are reports the Devils are trying to sign Arseni Gritsyuk now, but it’s unlikely to happen before the end of the season, if it happens at all.
www.allaboutthejersey.com
PizzaAndPucks
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I would post an update every night for our North American prospects (CHL/NCAA/USHL) but I honestly got lazy and didn't really do it this season. I'm out of the loop when it comes to certain player's seasons are going in those leagues aside for Yegorov. Most of our top prospects (Silayev, Gritsyuk, Hameenaho, Orlov, Malek) are playing over seas anyway.
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Pretty much. There is no need to rush him. He wasnt even really expecting to play for BU this year too. I'd say he probably plays there another 2 seasons.
I imagine on some level it will be based on how next season unfolds for him. Right now he's riding a wave and adrenaline and nobody has deep video breakdown on him. That will change next season. If he's just as effective I'd be pretty tempted to move him to Utica or at least Adirondack after next season.
I really hope NJ starts to take the competitive atmosphere in Utica seriously. At least sign a good AHL center or two.
Boy would we be okay with that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
