Prospect Info: Anton Silayev (LD - #10 Overall - Round 1 - 2024 Draft)

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Silayev’s hands and puck moving abilities are going to be the deciding factor as to what type of player he turns into. Based on his size, skating and ability to defend alone, he’ll almost definitely be an NHL player.

The question is whether he learns to be capable enough moving the puck and whether he develops proficient hands to truly make an impact at the NHL level. If he does, the sky is the limit. If he doesn’t, you have a one dimensional player who can skate and defend but drives everyone crazy with an inability to get pucks out of his zone and move pucks up ice.

 

[Guadana]

Hey where have you been? Haven't seen one of your post in a while.

Im working on two game projects. And Im lead concept artist on one of them. So I really dont have a free time at all.

 

[NJDfan86]

Silayev’s hands and puck moving abilities are going to be the deciding factor as to what type of player he turns into. Based on his size, skating and ability to defend alone, he’ll almost definitely be an NHL player.

The question is whether he learns to be capable enough moving the puck and whether he develops proficient hands to truly make an impact at the NHL level. If he does, the sky is the limit. If he doesn’t, you have a one dimensional player who can skate and defend but drives everyone crazy with an inability to get pucks out of his zone and move pucks up ice.

This is basically how we define a good season from Siegs - while I don’t disagree that his puck skills will determine his upside, I’d be shocked if he doesn’t end up an extremely valuable NHL piece given how the game is trending.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

Silayev’s hands and puck moving abilities are going to be the deciding factor as to what type of player he turns into. Based on his size, skating and ability to defend alone, he’ll almost definitely be an NHL player.

The question is whether he learns to be capable enough moving the puck and whether he develops proficient hands to truly make an impact at the NHL level. If he does, the sky is the limit. If he doesn’t, you have a one dimensional player who can skate and defend but drives everyone crazy with an inability to get pucks out of his zone and move pucks up ice.

So worst case he is Nico Mikkola.

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

So a tall player can hit a smaller player somewhere else but the head. Who knew?!?!

Now show this to chicken wing Rempe

 

[evnted]

back at it. not quite a full game viewing, saw up to the early 3rd

• good pace/compete today. quick to drop back/on retrievals, solid willingness to jump up in transition, good incorporation of body play/stickchecking
• shot attempts from the point are a bit more threatening/more likely to get through/less reliant on F support to turn into chances. now, he does seem to be missing the net w some degree of regularity, but this is positive improvement from early season
• had an impressive drive early in the game. swung wide off the rush, dipped his shoulder, and made a power move toward the net. no goal but a decent pull to the forehand on his scoring chance
• im impressed that hes expanding these looks while so rarely ever compromising his usual role, i imagine thats also a testament to the work larionov is doing
• i dont recall seeing too much notable on the puck movement side of things (good or bad), but his receptions/handling were pretty clean. pressured on the puck at one point and while controlled isnt quite the word, he did get a reasonable pass off to his D (not some panic shovel up the boards)
• bread and butter defensive game still very much on display. was caught out for 2 goals that i saw but i dont really fault him on either. first one, thought he made the right choice to drift over to the right side and cut off a lane to cover for voynov who got turned around near the point. unfortunate rebound to the high slot from the goalie that none of the backcheckers could find went in. second one, puck goes down low on the pk so silayev pressures and apparently all 3 other TOR skaters decided to drop down low too? easy shot from up high once the puck came free. i will say, i wish silayev made a better attempt to tie the guy up along the boards, didnt play him quite as hard as he couldve. guy had just enough room to shimmy free and send the puck out front

hes never gonna be an offensively weighted player, but this is one of those viewings where you see how he can impact play beyond just making stops