Prospect Info: All-Purpose Prospect Thread v17.0

[Hattrick Kane]

It’s hard not to get excited for Lardis when he’s scoring goals at a rate like that.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Dominic James goal

 

[Taze em]

Mustard scored vs BU on a nice drag in garbage time.
Lardis HAT TRICK

 

[Putt Pirate]

Ryan Greene having a disaster of a game. Down 2-0. Coughed a puck up behind his own net for an easy wrap around goal against. Now just took a holding penalty.

Disclaimer: he’s good at hockey and good hockey players are allowed to have bad games.

And now he scores immediately on a beauty clap bomb

I dunno about him. Liked him last year but seems to have flattened out since he went back for one more year.

Denver North Dakota on espn+

 

[Taze em]

Vanacker HAT TRICK

 

[hawksfan50]

Lardis and Vanacker both have Hatties..game still in 3rd period...ca n one get to 4 goals?

Update..game over..

Lardis 3g 1a +2..Vanacker 3g 1a +3..They playon different lines.. Another Brantford player also had a hatty (Cole Brown)..

3 Hat-tricks in 1 game on 1 in a game maybe rare..but curious to know if everyone done in an OHL game?

Unusual game.. Brantford got out-shot 44-30 ...scored 10 hoalsvon justc30bshotscon goal...

The key was they wentv 6/10 on the PP...so just as impressive was that on theirc4 ES goals,Lardis was +2 and Vanacker +3..

 

[Larmer83]

I dunno about him. Liked him last year but seems to have flattened out since he went back for one more year.

Denver North Dakota on espn+

Always fun to watch Zeev Buium

 

[Putt Pirate]

Tage Harding with a G tonight. He has been pretty consistent lately.

 

[Kevin Musto]

It’s hard not to get excited for Lardis when he’s scoring goals at a rate like that.

Bedard aside, it feels like DeBrincat was the last prospect we had that was scoring like that

 

[CanadianHawks]

Brantford up 3-0 early on. 2 goals for Lardis, Vanacker with the other.

EDIT 4-0: Lardis x2, Vanacker x2

Hatty for each in a 10-1 win over a good Niagara team

 

[Chelios]

Vanacker HAT TRICK

Watched some of this game and I really like Vanacker. Plays the right way. He will be a pro, just a matter of how far his offence comes that will determine how far up the lineup.

 

[hawksfan50]

Today Ronan Kantserov got 2A in a 5-2 Metallurg win over Siberia...
So...again withoutxa goal..

He went into the game with at least a ten game goal-less streak..Do not know if eliteprospects.com has updated his totals to include this gMe yet..If they dod it means 11 games at least without a goal
..maybe more because they only show 5 and ten game goals and assits summaries to show how a player is trending.

However..whike Kantserov still got listed on line1 with with Zernov and Silantyev,Kantserov in the player statostocs(via KHL flsshscorel was shown as having pkayed only 4:39 monutescofcice-time..

Did he get hirt? Or was he benched?

Do not know..Zero and Sikantyev had had much much more TOI..

Zero was aboutc3 times more than Kantserov...indicating he pkayedxall 3 periods ..but itcseems Kantserov only played tge first period by hos low minutes.. so I assume he got injured.

Anyone know what happened to hom?

I am case he was in a bad goal scoring slump..and got off Zero shots on goal in his 4:39 of lplay today.Yrs he gotc1a..but the goals that were going inand higherxshotscon goal have been dormant for at keastx10-11hames or more.


Just trending down..I wonder if he has been playing through an injury for awhile

 

[pvr]

Bedard aside, it feels like DeBrincat was the last prospect we had that was scoring like that

Goalscorers just know how to score. Hard to fathom that this won’t carry over to the next level.

 

[Taze em]

 

[Kevin Musto]

Lardis the next Gretzky confirmed

 

[hawksfan50]

Following Brantford because of Lardisxand Vanacker I keep noting tgexassistscveing piled uo by 2025 draft eligible Jake O'Brian...listed at y"2 +70 , but probably heftier now cs. At season start,this playmKibg Center is usually centering for Vanacker ontgeirx2nd kine but does get Pp time too..

He is widely divergent in the rankings..
His Consolidated r king is only#18
..but Bob McKenzie and his 10 panel of NHL scouts rank him #9N.A. skater...meaning probable rank should beat minimum 10'12 if 1 or 2 euroskaters get on top 9..on the other hand Craig Button has him only at #23..

The thing I note is that he is about a 3 to1 ratio assists to goals player...maybe the best playmaker in the draft.

He is a relatively young pkayer with a June birthrate before he turns 18...so lots of runway to get more mass to his frame and get even stronger.

Not a speedster but scoutibg report says smooth skater...good forechrcker..very very good hockey sense and elite creative playmaker..
The knock on him would be low volume shooter but he has scored enough goals to suggest shot effectiveness is not the problem..just that at this point he woukd ratger set up his wingers than try doing higher volume in shots himself.

Probably nerdscto work on the drfebsivecsidevof his game because he still is a minus pkayer o the stats so far..But the negative total has been reducing indicating he is improving in this aspect.

I do find him intriguing.

If Hawkscget pushed down to #3 or#4 ,I woukd realky be looking at Drsnoyets and O'Brian Crnter options..Schaefer and Misa could go 1-2respectiveky..IF a GM is stupid enough to takectgevover-hyped 5"10.5 Hagens,then maybe we still get Misa at #3..but if he is off the board then we still have a good shotcat 1 of 2 6'2 Centers...
Yes Martone as a winger would be there at #4or#5 too..but honestly his production took has trended down compared to what he did on the first half of the season.

I am more intrigued by the trending up by O'Brian and his production since the New Year began.
O'Brian may be scratching the surface of his potential..Martone is an older player and may have plateaued.
Just look up highlights of O'Brian..see the creative playmaking ..See him win board battles and make plays leading to goals for his wingers resulting off winning the puck.. Tgerecus just some "it" factor that tells me hexwill translate well as a 2C creating offense and I think his defense is improving now .

Next season he will be given a go to 1C role in Brantford .and should get even better..

I do not think his high assist total is just as a result of playing with talent Brantford has ...yes he does get Pp time but at evens hevis centering line 2 with Vanacker as 2 of hisxwingers ..not as 1C on the Lardis line.

It gives Brantford 2 very goodvlibes and tge depth needed to bomb teams like they are.

Desnoyers is th better goal scorer and defensive player at this point but O'Brian may be the better possession player and his defensive game s improving such that next season this may not be an issue against him.

I think I would be hapoy woth eitger of them as a 2C option ..justc2 dofferent sets of attributes..


Misa is the top C in this draft ..so if we get the #2 and Schaefer went at #1, then we have to grab Misa..

One thing is for sure...we either get our next 1D in Schaefer Or we land one of 3 Centers ...one who is 6'1(Misa) or 2 who are above 6'2 (Desnoyers or O"Brien)...it will be ok folks..unless KD is so stupid hevtakes theover-hyped undersized Hagens who has not gotten better but regressed in the 2025 and only scored points anyway I the first half because Leonard and Perrault as hus talented wingers scored so much.