C Jay O'Brien - Charlotte Checkers, AHL (2018, 19th, PHI released)

[Hockeyville USA]

Still no pro games

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Anyone have any info on his status the rest of this season and his career moving forward? It's like he vanished

 

[WreckingCrew]

He just signed a one-year deal with the Charlotte Checkers AHL

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Assigned to the ECHL. From 1st rounder to ECHLer, woof.

 

[FlyguyOX]

Assigned to the ECHL. From 1st rounder to ECHLer, woof.

Going the Bode Wilde route.

I was shocked and amused when I went to a local ECHL game and saw he was on the 3rd paid while local guys that played AAA locally with maybe a little college hockey were getting more EV and powerplay time than him.

 

[Treb]

Assigned to the ECHL. From 1st rounder to ECHLer, woof.

Going the Bode Wilde route.

I was shocked and amused when I went to a local ECHL game and saw he was on the 3rd paid while local guys that played AAA locally with maybe a little college hockey were getting more EV and powerplay time than him.

I mean O'Brien at least has the excuse of missing all of last year to injury. We'll see if he bounce back to being at least an AHLer.

 

[Chuck Downie]

A year and a half since college and no games at all. I thought the pick was bad, but not to the point where he may never play a pro game at any level.

 

[Jacob]

What's his injury?

 

[Don Nachbaur 26]

Hextall thought he was the smartest guy in the room with that pick.

 

[MrCreamm]

He was always destined to be a career minor league guy with a name like Jay O'Brien, his destiny was set in stone before he took a single step on the ice.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Still has not played a pro game. The forgotten bust of the decade

 

[FlyguyOX]

Still has not played a pro game. The forgotten bust of the decade

The pick was stupid then and stupid now.

But not many better places to have to toil away in the ECHL than Savannah. Super, super fun and cool town for a young guy.

 

[2014nyr]

Still has not played a pro game. The forgotten bust of the decade

Its not all bad…hugh jessiman is probably pretty happy to have company on the post 2000 mt rushmore of galaxy brain draft implosions

 

[WarriorofTime]

Its not all bad…hugh jessiman is probably pretty happy to have company on the post 2000 mt rushmore of galaxy brain draft implosions

Hugh did play 498 games in the AHL at least

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Still no news on Jay O'Brien...., Insane

 

[PanniniClaus]

How is it possible he has not skated yet? Season is almost over... he's 25 years old.