Prospect Info: 2024-25 Prospects Thread (CHL/NCAA/Euro)

[Adam Michaels]

Prospect recap from yesterday (Oct. 12th):

- EURO -

- SKA wown 5-2 vs. Avtomobolist
Demidov with 0 pts / 2 SOG / 6:50 TOI
Season So Far: 8 pts (4G, 4A) in 15 GP

- Torpedo lost 5-4 in OT to Traktor
Konyushkov with 0 pts / +1 / 3 SOG / 24:46 TOI
Season So Far: 5 pts (1G, 4A) in 15 GP

- Dynamo Moscow won 4-2 vs. Salavat Ufa
Khanin with 0 pts / 1:38 TOI
KHL Season So Far: 0 pts in 1 GP

- Khimik won 2-1 vs. Olympia
Sobolev with 0 pts / -1 / 1 SOG / 4:52 TOI
Season So Far: 1 assist in 8 GP

- Vaxjo lost 4-2 to Leksand
Eriksson with 0 pts / -1 / 2 PIM / 10:12 TOI
Season So Far: 1 goal in 9 GP

- Skelleftea lost 4-2 to Timra
Bergqvist with 0 pts / -1 / 1 SOG / 13:07 TOI
Season So Far: 1 assist in 9 GP

- TPS U20 lost 5-1 to RoKi U20
Koivu with 1 assist / -1 / 4 SOG / 19:01 TOI
U20 Season So Far: 1 assist in 1 GP

- CHL -

- Brantford 3-2 vs. Kingston
Protz with 1 assist / +2 / 1 SOG
Season So Far: 3 pts (1G, 2A) in 7 GP

- Vancouver lost 5-2 to Medicine Hate
Thorpe with 1 assist / +1 / 3 SOG
Season So Far: 7 pts (2G, 5A) in 8 GP

- NCAA -

- Michigan tied 3-3 vs. Arizona State
Hage with 1 goal / +2 / 5 SOG / 27% FOW
Season So Far: 6 pts (3G, 3A) in 4 GP

- Providence lost 5-2 to North Dakota
Sawyer with 0 pts / -1 / 2 SOG
Season So Far: 0 pts in 1 GP

- Minnesota lost 2-1 to Omaha
Mittlestadt with 0 pts / -1 / 1 SOG
Season So Far: 0 pts in 2 GP

- Minnesota-Duluth lost 4-1 to U-Mass
Smith with 1 goal / +1 / 1 SOG / 50% FOW
Season So Far: 1 goal in 3 GP

- BC lost 4-3 to Michigan State
Fowler with 25 saves on 29 SOG for a .862 SV%
Season So Far: 2 GP (1-1-0) / 1 SO / 2.03 GAA / .925 SV%

- BCHL -

- Brooks Bandits won 6-2 vs. Prince George
Vecvanags with 23 saves on 25 SOG for .920 SV%
Season So Far: 2 GP (2-0-0) / 2.93 GAA / .870 SV%

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No Prospects in action today (Oct. 13th):

*Gornyak is playing, but Elite Prospects has Gordin listed as injured*

 

[Adam Michaels]

No Prospect recap from yesterday (Oct. 13th):

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Prospects in action today:

- Khanin @ 12:30PM ET (he played with the KHL team Dynamo Moscow last game. Barely playing as the extra forward. We'll see if he's still in the line-up)

- Thorpe @ 2PM ET

From MGoBlog (free site, and good)

On Michael Hage:

“Michael Hage continued his hot streak. While his goal was mostly a gift from Nick Dowd, Hage took his chance and finished nicely in tight. He now had three goals and three assists in just four games. He’s clearly Michigan’s most gifted forward (and probably player), and he’s showing it.”

Here's hoping he keeps it up. We've seen it often enough that our prospects get off to hot starts and then their production stagnates or the pace slows. However, it feels more legit with Hage than it does with the others.

 

[Whitesnake]

I would have expected Thorpe to crush it....he's not doing it so far.

 

[montreal]

Stick Check Saves Likely Goal 2:06
Big Hit 7:26

 

[Treb]

I would have expected Thorpe to crush it....he's not doing it so far.

Stuck behind Cameron Schmidt who's a small guy potential first rounder that is among the league leaders with phenom McKenna and a bunch of 20 years old, but yeah I expected a bit more.

 

[montreal]

I would have expected Thorpe to crush it....he's not doing it so far.

He will need a bit of work for sure, you can tell at least early on that his conditioning wasn't great, I don't know if I put any of it in the 1st game of the season for him but when they would go to commercial timeouts he would have to keeping dropping to one knee as he looked gassed.

It looks like he has really heavy feet, you see him coast a lot but when he gets moving then you got to look out as he can smash into people pretty good but he will need so much work on being more explosive that I would assume he will need several years to work on things. Interesting pick though as this is one for the development staff as he has a number of holes to fix but if you can figure it out then you got a shot at least of a possible very interesting prospect since his shot is so heavy and he looks to have some hands, is a good PKer at least in juniors but that long stick really helps him cover ice.

It didn't take me long last year to get really impressed with Xhekaj last year and I have hope for Thorpe but so far it looks like he will need more work then Xhekaj who while he still badly needs to work on lower body strength and adding more mass, he just moves much better then Thorpe though he can coast from time to time but not nearly as bad as Thorpe.