Prospect Info: Blues 2024-2025 Prospect Thread

[aceoutdoor]

Snuggy wants an NCAA championship period. I still believe he and Dvorsky are our 2 blue chips. Is it possible Binnington retained and Bolduc and another lower pick/ prospect could pry Nikishin from Carolina?

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[Snubbed4Vezina]

Simon Robertsson on the board with his first on a great drive to the net by Leo Loof.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857952975072772490

 

[BlueDream]

I have no idea why Schueneman is up with the club but hopefully he gets sent back down soon and we can get a look at Loof at some point this season.

Sylvegard with another goal tonight too. I hope we call him up later this season also.

 

[Stealth JD]

Snuggy wants an NCAA championship period. I still believe he and Dvorsky are our 2 blue chips. Is it possible Binnington retained and Bolduc and another lower pick/ prospect could pry Nikishin from Carolina?

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No.

Nikishin is untouchable according to Carolina fans.

 

[PocketNines]

Mrsic first star on back to back nights, 2 goals, 2 assists, +3, defeats Jecho's Edmonton 4-1.

He's now up to 13 goals 12 assists in 16GP

Stancl had 1 goal 1 assist and +2 and he's at 8g, 10A in 17GP on the season

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

Mrsic first star on back to back nights, 2 goals, 2 assists, +3, defeats Jecho's Edmonton 4-1.

He's now up to 13 goals 12 assists in 16GP

Stancl had 1 goal 1 assist and +2 and he's at 8g, 10A in 17GP on the season

His 2nd goal was a rocket one timer. Pretty impressive!

 

[bleedblue1223]

The narrative on Snuggy didn’t just start with the early season game, it dates back to last season, post WJC.

He wasn’t good. He looked tired, slow to the play and generally disinterested. That (large) dip in play was used as rationale for why he made a good decision to return, but, I know I along with a few others here and on the NCAA forum felt that was not a choice in his developments best interest. Personally, maybe it was the only choice.

His situation in Minnesota just isn’t as good, or conducive to development as what it might seem, IMO. Motzko’s priority is winning, and I haven’t been overly impressed with how he’s used and deployed Snuggy.

It’s a situation where -as a sniper- he’s too good for the NCAA, but as an all around hockey player, he’s not quite ready for the NHL. Which is kind of the same story it has been with him for awhile now. Comparatively, a player like Dvorsky is making much larger leaps in challenging himself.

I’m still optimistic Snuggy can be an impact player for this franchise, and potentially the partner Thomas has been waiting on. He’s good at virtually every facet of the game. I just don’t know that those facets have changed much over the last 1.5years.

Part of which was due to a nagging injury that he dealt with. This season he's on pace for 33 assists in a 40 game season, and I've seen more than a few nice setups on rushes from him. It feels like there is this idea that he's essentially a slow version of Mike Hoffman, and I don't understand where it's coming from. Is it people making too much of his 2nd half last season and his decision to return to college? People seem to think there is 0 development that Snuggs can achieve in returning to college, and that he's just wasting away by not pushing himself to NHL or AHL.

 

[PocketNines]

Where I am with Snug is I see him working out with the Blues because his playstyle complements our best anchor up front. I can see a Neighbours Thomas Snuggy line, especially if Neighbours keeps up his improvement defensively which I personally am seeing. Looking forward to it.

But if he were to be put in a package where the more critical player for our 'RE' is coming back to us, I am open to it. I see him as an A- prospect.

 

[Celtic Note]

Part of which was due to a nagging injury that he dealt with. This season he's on pace for 33 assists in a 40 game season, and I've seen more than a few nice setups on rushes from him. It feels like there is this idea that he's essentially a slow version of Mike Hoffman, and I don't understand where it's coming from. Is it people making too much of his 2nd half last season and his decision to return to college? People seem to think there is 0 development that Snuggs can achieve in returning to college, and that he's just wasting away by not pushing himself to NHL or AHL.

Was there ever a Hoffman comparison? Snuggy is much more well rounded then that.

 

[STL fan in MN]

Yeah, I’m not saying your assessment was wrong. I didn’t watch that game so I’m not arguing it.

I just thought other people’s reaction to it was a little odd. And you’re a good poster so it’s definitely not a shot at you but I’m not sure any single post from anyone should carry that much sway. Maybe my memory is wrong here but from what I recall this board seemed to be pretty high on him and then that one post changed things. That’s what I noticed.

Hope people realize he still adds elements that we are desperately lacking currently.

I can’t speak for the thinking of others here but I didn’t take the responses to my post as changing a lot of people’s opinions. I think many of us have slowly been souring on him over the last year or so and after I posted that, many others chimed in “me too”. That’s how I took it anyway. Could be wrong as I’m not a mind reader but I’m far from the only one that’s brought up concerns with Snuggerud.

That said, he’s looked better as of late and that’s good. But they lost 3-1 to Bemidji State last night in a pretty big upset. No pts for Snuggy. I didn’t see this one though.

 

[PerryTurnbullfan]

I can’t speak for the thinking of others here but I didn’t take the responses to my post as changing a lot of people’s opinions. I think many of us have slowly been souring on him over the last year or so and after I posted that, many others chimed in “me too”. That’s how I took it anyway. Could be wrong as I’m not a mind reader but I’m far from the only one that’s brought up concerns with Snuggerud.

That said, he’s looked better as of late and that’s good. But they lost 3-1 to Bemidji State last night in a pretty big upset. No pts for Snuggy. I didn’t see this one though.

I saw he had 10 shots on goal

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Mrsic's two goals from Saturday:

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857963066417115207

https://x.com/i/web/status/1857994421234528627

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858165247917388070

 

[stl76]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1858165247917388070

Such a weird comparison…so over a 16 game sample an eighteen year old (nineteen in February) Mrsic is pacing slightly better than a sixteen year old Connor Bedard?

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Such a weird comparison…so over a 16 game sample an eighteen year old (nineteen in February) Mrsic is pacing slightly better than a sixteen year old Connor Bedard?

He asks, What do you think?

I think you are stupid.

 

[Snubbed4Vezina]

Such a weird comparison…so over a 16 game sample an eighteen year old (nineteen in February) Mrsic is pacing slightly better than a sixteen year old Connor Bedard?

Not everything needs to be taken so seriously.

 

[stl76]

Not everything needs to be taken so seriously.

Who said I’m taking it seriously? I actually laughed when I first saw because I thought it was absurd. It’s just weird IMO.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Who said I’m taking it seriously? I actually laughed when I first saw because I thought it was absurd. It’s just weird IMO.

Zackly! I laughed cuz it's so absurd. If that guy wants to be taken seriously, then he should never post crap like that.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Zackly! I laughed cuz it's so absurd. If that guy wants to be taken seriously, then he should never post crap like that.

He's not really joking. He does start off by highlighting the ages, but then argues that this is the first time that Mrsic is the focal point of an offense. This is the same type of person that would've projected Brett Sonne as our future #1 center after his 08/09 junior season.