Prospect Info: C Noah Ostlund, 16th Overall, 2022 NHL Draft, Assigned to Rochester 4.17.24

[HaNotsri]

So dumb to not have him in the JWC.

 

[Matt Ress]

Preseason is done. Östlunds leads the team in scoring

8 games it looks like?

 

[Prntscrn]

8 games it looks like?

You are correct

 

[Chainshot]

Preseason is done. Östlunds leads the team in scoring

Five goals, nothing to sneeze at... unless you are Monten.

 

[Ace]

Five goals, nothing to sneeze at... unless you are Monten.

He never would have produced like this at the WJC. He’d have had his ice time cut after two goals.

 

[Fjordy]

 

[flashsabre]

Is this in the SHL or a lower league?

 

[truthbluth]

Is this in the SHL or a lower league?

Both, sort of. It’s SHL preseason. Not everybody playing is SHL caliber.

 

[cybresabre]

Isn't Djurgarden an Allsvenskan team this year?

 

[truthbluth]

Isn't Djurgarden an Allsvenskan team this year?

Oh that’s right.

 

[Ace]

I think their relegation is a positive for Ostlund’s particular development curve. He needs to get bigger…there’s no denying it…but in a lower league he can have a smoother curve at the size he’s at now. And it gives them a big goal of trying to win their way back to the SHL. Best case scenario…they move up next year and he’s a bit bigger to handle it and the next year he’s here.

What gets interesting is if they don’t move up. I don’t think Adams has any problem with his two year plan in Sweden…but if they are still in the lower league I could see Adams wanting him in Rochester next year if all goes well for him now.

The one thing becoming crystal clear about Adams is how much he values getting his prospects under his roof as soon as they can. If Ostlund is in the SHL next year I think they don’t even bring it up. But if he’s not…the benefit of being able to control usage, training and everything in Rochester is a tool they greatly value.

 

[Dala]

From the little I've seen of him this preseason he's going to be the runaway scoring leader of Hockeyallsvenskan. Awesome player and talent, five steps ahead mentally in all situations.

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

From the little I've seen of him this preseason he's going to be the runaway scoring leader of Hockeyallsvenskan. Awesome player and talent, five steps ahead mentally in all situations.

I think that would be the most ideal thing. I honestly hope him, Ohgren and Lekkerimaki tear it up so that the club gets elevated next season. That would provide a pretty good development curve in terms of competition.

 

[Faceboner]

I think that would be the most ideal thing. I honestly hope him, Ohgren and Lekkerimaki tear it up so that the club gets elevated next season. That would provide a pretty good development curve in terms of competition.

If not we could always bring him over to the A if he is ready

 

[HaNotsri]

If not we could always bring him over to the A if he is ready

If he's over ppg this season it might be good to bring him over next season if we want to develop him as a center.

 

[Jim Bob]

The Gifted: How Sabres prospect Noah Ostlund makes the game look easy

Scott Wheeler breaks down how Noah Ostlund makes it look easy in a video review of the Sabres' prospect's preseason games for Djurgardens.

theathletic.com

One of the hardest things in hockey to accomplish is making it look easy.

It’s an incredibly difficult sport to play and a near-impossible one to master. There are too many moving parts (sticks, skates, crowds, a bouncing puck on an often-choppy ice surface) for it to really flow and move in unison. Too much is left to chance and luck.

Even at the micro level, many players move in choppy stomping motions and stop-and-starts that take them out of a planned path and into a hectic, often scattered game of chasing. And many others are prone to bobbles that take the puck out of the flow of the game and into a game of reaching, and slapping, and fighting between groups of players trying to regain control and get the puck back into a more controlled pattern of movement around the ice.

Oftentimes, the players who have the fine motor skills to possess and move the puck within the flow of the game, lack the processing power to make decisions that will utilize that skill. Other times, players who understand how the game works and where to be to make it work for them, lack the touch and feel needed to get the most out of their timing and smarts.

It’s especially rare for a young player to have both figured out. It takes time to learn systems, and develop the good habits that make a player’s life on the ice a smidge easier over time. And even once you “get it” (where to be, where to go, how to position yourself), you still need a brain that can quickly process changes in the landscape in order to solve a new solution from second-to-second — and the dexterity to execute within those adjustments.

Sabres first-rounder Noah Ostlund, drafted with the 16th pick in the 2022 draft, is one of those rare young players who checks both boxes. He has figured out, at an early age, how to make the game look easy.

Here, through a review of six of the seven preseason games that he has played for Djurgardens IF in the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan, I’ll try to show you what that — the ease — looks like.

 

[joshjull]

The Gifted: How Sabres prospect Noah Ostlund makes the game look easy

Scott Wheeler breaks down how Noah Ostlund makes it look easy in a video review of the Sabres' prospect's preseason games for Djurgardens.

theathletic.com

This drafts three first rounders have me pumped.

 

[Jim Bob]

This drafts three first rounders have me pumped.

It is way too soon to really know, but I am feeling good about all three of the picks as well.

I know the Ostlund pick was the pick that was questioned the most at the time. But, I think I saw what the Sabres saw in him and I had no issue with taking him where they did.

 

[Dingo44]

It is way too soon to really know, but I am feeling good about all three of the picks as well.

I know the Ostlund pick was the pick that was questioned the most at the time. But, I think I saw what the Sabres saw in him and I had no issue with taking him where they did.

I still keep going back that based on the video we saw they were really struggling between picking Ostlund and Kulich at 16 and ended up getting both of them anyway.

 

[Faceboner]

It is way too soon to really know, but I am feeling good about all three of the picks as well.

I know the Ostlund pick was the pick that was questioned the most at the time. But, I think I saw what the Sabres saw in him and I had no issue with taking him where they did.

I am honestly surprised he wasn't regarded higher I thought he had a top 10 skillset

 

[flashsabre]

I am honestly surprised he wasn't regarded higher I thought he had a top 10 skillset

He has a top of the draft skill set. It is his size that dropped him. If he can put on 20 pounds the look out.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

I am honestly surprised he wasn't regarded higher I thought he had a top 10 skillset

He's slight and had lower production than the top 10 picks. That's what bounced him from the top part of the draft.

 

[Buffalo Norsemen]

I think they put player traits (shot for ie), upside, and character above stats, size, etc on this one. In the video Jerry says Euro people told him he has the highest character they have every seen. Interesting that they seem to draft at least one higher pick on upside now a draft. Hope he and Savoie have one more growth spurt and then hit the weight room.

 

[Chainshot]

I watch this kid and still see a new version of Saku Koivu.

 

[HaNotsri]

First line tonight, on the wing