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Prospect Info: Blues 2024-2025 Prospect Thread

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Bye Bye Blueston said:
Maybe you should see whether they actually play him at center (which they haven’t yet) before you take a victory lap
TK 421 said:
Springfield has Stenberg listed as a center on their website but that can't be right, people on the internets said he was a left wing and they seemed really certain about it. Must be a typo.


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Kyrou is still listed as a center on multiple sites
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TK 421 said:
Springfield has Stenberg listed as a center on their website but that can't be right, people on the internets said he was a left wing and they seemed really certain about it. Must be a typo.


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TK 421 said:
Springfield has Stenberg listed as a center on their website but that can't be right, people on the internets said he was a left wing and they seemed really certain about it. Must be a typo.


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The AHL and NHL sites don't update their positions from when they were 5 years old. I wouldn't stress that info too much. Lol
 
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today PACIFIC time, in brief:

Pekarcik 3pm
Snuggy, Ralph, Fischer, Jiricek, Burns, Springfield game 4pm
Jecho, Mrsic 6pm
Stancl time 7pm

MortiestOfMortys said:
If you have been waiting to see where Scott Wheeler has our prospect pool ranked, Carolina was just slotted in at #16. So that means he has our guys in the league’s top half.
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what's half of 32?
(teasing, teasing, I don't care where he ranks us)
 
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Absolutely wild to me that we are 13th while Winnipeg is 6th. Here is how that same author ranked Blues and Jets individual prospects 2 weeks ago:

25: Snuggy
30: Lambert

41: Dvorsky
47: Yager

53: Jiricek
58: Lucius

63: Barlow
65: Lindstein

93: Stenberg
97: Salomonsson

Each of our top 3 prospects are ranked 5 spots ahead of their Jets counterpart. Their 4th best prospect is 2 spots ahead of ours and our 5th prospect is 4 spots ahead of theirs. We have a greater positional diversity than the Jets (a criticism he makes of the Jets in the write up) and somehow that all translates to us being 7 spots below them in the ranking? I get that this article only lists top 5 and doesn't get into depth, but I really, really don't buy the Jets having a deeper prospect pool than us. I don't see any one of their non-top-5 prospects doing better than Stancl, Pakarcik, or Kaskimaki, and they don't have a goalie doing anything prospect doing anything of note in the AHL. Not to mention the existence of Zach Dean who has been injured.

Using this author's assessment of prospects, I don't understand how the Jets are this high.
 
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Brian39 said:
Absolutely wild to me that we are 13th while Winnipeg is 6th. Here is how that same author ranked Blues and Jets individual prospects 2 weeks ago:

25: Snuggy
30: Lambert

41: Dvorsky
47: Yager

53: Jiricek
58: Lucius

63: Barlow
65: Lindstein

93: Stenberg
97: Salomonsson

Each of our top 3 prospects are ranked 5 spots ahead of their Jets counterpart. Their 4th best prospect is 2 spots ahead of ours and our 5th prospect is 4 spots ahead of theirs. We have a greater positional diversity than the Jets (a criticism he makes of the Jets in the write up) and somehow that all translates to us being 7 spots below them in the ranking? I get that this article only lists top 5 and doesn't get into depth, but I really, really don't buy the Jets having a deeper prospect pool than us. I don't see any one of their non-top-5 prospects doing better than Stancl, Pakarcik, or Kaskimaki, and they don't have a goalie doing anything prospect doing anything of note in the AHL. Not to mention the existence of Zach Dean who has been injured.

Using this author's assessment of prospects, I don't understand how the Jets are this high.
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I've never heard of this author, but the team list is rather comical.
 
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Brian39 said:
Absolutely wild to me that we are 13th while Winnipeg is 6th. Here is how that same author ranked Blues and Jets individual prospects 2 weeks ago:

25: Snuggy
30: Lambert

41: Dvorsky
47: Yager

53: Jiricek
58: Lucius

63: Barlow
65: Lindstein

93: Stenberg
97: Salomonsson

Each of our top 3 prospects are ranked 5 spots ahead of their Jets counterpart. Their 4th best prospect is 2 spots ahead of ours and our 5th prospect is 4 spots ahead of theirs. We have a greater positional diversity than the Jets (a criticism he makes of the Jets in the write up) and somehow that all translates to us being 7 spots below them in the ranking? I get that this article only lists top 5 and doesn't get into depth, but I really, really don't buy the Jets having a deeper prospect pool than us. I don't see any one of their non-top-5 prospects doing better than Stancl, Pakarcik, or Kaskimaki, and they don't have a goalie doing anything prospect doing anything of note in the AHL. Not to mention the existence of Zach Dean who has been injured.

Using this author's assessment of prospects, I don't understand how the Jets are this high.
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Brazen...especially after all the flak that Pronman publicly caught recently for not being consistent in his.
 
That's exactly the critique of winning someone's rankings list IMO. I live in fear of my own noir rankings someone being able to say "well he values aspects X Y and Z in THIS one, but not THAT one?" so I spent literally years combing it. It's difficult and it's also subjective at the end of the day. Spacing out repeat viewings helps but you have to work at it.

That's why I am so into this crop of Blues prospect talent without even considering how some guy somewhere compares it to other prospect pools. And since they cannot regularly watch all these guys, as previously established, it boils down to there's a lot of gut feeling involved, so how is that helping me truly evaluate a player's development and path to the NHL/Blues?
 
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It's the Hockey Writers, it's just random people, not even worth putting any stock into. This guy specifically graduated school in 2022, is a lifelong Canucks fan, and writes for Detroit for Hockey Writers.

We can criticize guys like Pronman and Wheeler, but I put way more stock into what they say than what that site says.
 
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Some news regarding the affiliates for anyone interested:
The Thunderbirds are on NHL Network tonight.


Not really prospect related but the Florida Everglades have a Blues theme jersey.
 
There are 4 bad teams at the bottom of the WHL West. Selfishly I want Kelowna to miss the playoffs so Stancl can go straight to the AHL which I have no doubt would happen. So I want him to play well but his team to lose to Kamloops tonight which is one of the other three teams vying for the final playoff spot. Kelowna, Wenatchee, Kamloops and Seattle are all at the bottom with Kelowna having the tiniest edge on extending their season by 4 straight playoff losses and delaying Stancl in the AHL.

Tonight Kamloops has defenseman Harrison Brunicke who Pittsburgh took 44 overall last summer, a 6'3" RD. Also a 7th rounder for Detroit up front. On Stancl's line is Hayden Papuanekis who looks like a big body mid rounder.
 
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