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Prospect Info: Anton Silayev Ld 10 Overall Round 1 2024 DRAFT

Devils731 said:


It will be interesting to see if he puts up some counting stats in a lower league. It would definitely give me more confidence he has untapped potential there.
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I would not count it at all. He didnt play with VHL players, has no chemistry, its a tail of the season after loss.
Much more important how he will look in the next season.

On the other hand if he will gain some points - still could be short tournament. He was productive on the start of the season and on the start of the season year ago - those points did not really show his game.
 
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big game 7 with a trip to the finals on the line. again im more concerned with what hes doing at the khl level so this isnt gonna be some huge rundown, but i do value how he responds to a game like this
  • essentially looked the same, which isnt bad at all (or even guaranteed, theres some precedent for these kids going light when moving down a level). steady in the D zone, picked his spots offensively, got his pk deployments, the usual
  • as always great use of pokes/stickchecks to kill possession, but he was pretty aggressive physically too. that might be the one difference, i thought he really ramped up the hits. punishing in a way. clobbered guys at the blue line, stapled them to the boards, even launched someone into the bench (grabbed a full sequence highlight since it was a really good example of how he can make stops in all different ways: - YouTube)
  • i know puck play/pressure response is the big thing for everyone and id say it was pretty standard. had the 1 or 2 clears blocked, but i thought he was largely successful getting pucks out. couple times i wished he didnt opt to use the boards to move a puck up (and instead go for a direct pass since he wasnt giving his Fs as much time/space to work with), but he didnt get burned over it as far as i saw
  • one thing i really liked as he was defending the late lead, he wasnt just collapsing in on the net, he was still pressuring attackers and trying to cut off lanes down low. sometimes he can get himself in trouble with this, but it was well executed today and eventually led to a clear
ultimately thought he handled himself well. stuck to his role, didnt seem affected by the stakes of the game. and i mean that was a physical game from him. his hit count has been out of control at the vhl level and i wasnt sure if they were just counting stuff more liberally down there, but if this game was any indicator then no, hes just been that aggressive

i didnt really plan on having multiple vhl viewings but im sure ill check in on the championship series at some point
 
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game 2, TOR up 1-0 in the series. didnt catch every shift so general impressions today
  • genuinely excellent against the rush, like particularly good. pinched in the off zone to keep pucks in, smothered into the boards in the neutral zone to pressure dump ins/turnovers, and stood up/used his stick at the blue line to deny entries. incorporated a lot of physicality again while still relying on his bread and butter (reads, timing, stick/reach)
  • steady positional game. kept tight to the net front, knew when to pressure man on man. dont think i saw him out of position/caught dropping back late even once
  • active albeit not that dangerous offensively. nothing really went anywhere but he came up as 3rd/4th man on a few rushes and was rotating around the top half of the zone during extended possessions
  • puck play. receptions/handling were pretty good, he wasnt bobbling pucks and generally got them off cleanly. i was fine with his lane selection today, nothing where you kinda knew he was gonna get picked. where i thought he most ran into trouble was gauging velocity. pucks were coming off hot and he was beating his target to the lane a lot of the time when he otherwise wouldve connected with less power on it
  • i thought he used the boards too much on breakouts today (which is where hes most at fault with the power thing) but he was also slotting on the right side way more than ive seen this season and that was one of the root problems for his breakout passing issues in his DY so perhaps an answer there
  • my other gripe was his clears werent always great today either. to his credit, nothing high danger came off a pick or anything, but there were enough times he didnt get a puck out (or did get a puck out but had it immediately picked up just outside the zone) that i thought he shouldve adjusted. i have a theory on this ill touch on in the recap post because i dont think chalking it up to just reads or just pressure is necessarily right
TOR up 2-0 now. kinda bogus they got to add this much talent to the roster mid playoffs, but whatever, we wanna see silayev win lol
 
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couldnt catch the game live so i ran through his shifts today
  • didnt shy away from contact to make plays. usually its the other way around with silayev bearing down on players, but there were a number of instances of him either taking a hit to make sure he got a puck off or leaning into forecheckers/reaching around them to shovel pucks up the boards
  • assertive offensively. held pucks in at the blue line (many), pinched hard up the boards, slipped behind defenses to give himself passing lanes. very active. on the good side, i liked how he incorporated his physicality, finishing checks on players after pinching as opposed to brushing off them. on the bad side, while i liked him trying to get open, his ability to correct once covered wasnt great. essentially, if someone got in his lane, he lacked the natural instinct to get open again
  • sharing a clip of a move he made from the blue line. great poise/handling around two players to drive a dangerous scoring chance. obviously not a move hes pulling out too often at this point, but you really see the offensive incorporation coming along - YouTube
  • the hit count today is bogus. he was only credited with 2 and i saw more than that in the 1st period alone. super physical yet again today, which has been a consistent theme since late in the regular season at the khl level. another has been how tightly hes defended the crease, very difficult to match against
  • really good with his defensive stick. great pokes, great proactive stickchecks, just super disruptive. funny enough i thought his gap control against the rush in open ice was a little loose at times (specific, i know, but hes a menace closer to the boards), which probably kept the stick/reach from being even more effective today, but it wasnt a glaring issue. generally didnt give attackers much space to work with
  • he still made a couple of those goofy clears up the boards that instantly turned into icings, but i have to say...the puck play was pretty decent. better scanning/timing on his passes, didnt rely on the boards as much, had a neat volley play at one point to spring his F deep into the corner. and not so much to be used as an excuse, but his most egregious icing came at the end of a pretty long shift (just shy of 2 minutes)
great viewing, involved on both sides of the puck. TOR up 3-2 in the series and can clinch on tuesday. linking the stream ahead of time if anyone wants to watch:
 
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torpedo wins!
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