I watched the 17’s NTDP team play for the first time this season. The game against a Minnesota all star team with all kinds of good prospects like Donovan, Koster, Middle Mittelstadt is archived. Link is on the NTDP twitter account.
This crop doesn’t seem to be anywhere near what last years crop was. Still some good players.
Kleven is a beast. I don’t know about his draft range, but his game reminds me a lot of Mattias Samuelsson. Bordeleau is the player on this team who rountiely takes over shifts in the o-zone. Smilanic is good all around. Nothing dynamic. Peterson is dynamic, but needs to show more than flashes. I also liked Tuch and Slaggert among the forwards. On defense, Faber looks like he has decent potential. Truscott and Powell looked solid.
Could we get 3-4 firsts out of this team? The 18’s will probably have double that number of firsts. The best American 2020 draft eligibles might not be on this team. The way I see it, that’s probably as of now Rolston and Stranges. Kleven should go high, but I don’t see that happening. Bordeleau and Peterson have high pick potential, as well.