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Prospect Info: Calle Odelius, LD, 65th Overall

Great pick. Easily my fave D on the Swedish u18 team. Way more complete and transferable to pro skill set than havelid. And with how patient Lou is with grooming D. I think this kid will be a solid two way D for u guys in about 4 years.

I thought he could’ve been an early 2nd rd pick and nobody would bat an eye. What a steal for u guys.
 
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Once Calle Odelius becomes the next Nicklas Lidstrom or Matt Donavan… doesn’t really matter. Will we come up with a yodel as his song?

Still my life goal to master the following…



…strictly to impress the ladies.
 
Calle has been signed to his ELC. Pretty interesting to see this from a 65 overall pick with no prospect camp or training camp under his belt. It’s kind of inevitable but cool to see it happen early
 
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Numbers (-32) don't always tell the story for young prospects in the AHL - particularly with a team as bad as Bridgeport.

Anyone (@Chapin Landvogt perhaps) have an assessment on his progress this past season?
 
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Numbers (-32) don't always tell the story for young prospects in the AHL - particularly with a team as bad as Bridgeport.

Anyone (@Chapin Landvogt perhaps) have an assessment on his progress this past season?
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I saw lots of solid movement from him as a 4-way skater with a certain level of smoothness. His stickhandling improved in leaps and bounds throughout the season and there is some real "slick" in his puck movement, on some days better than others.

This said, I was very skeptical seeing him in the AHL this year. He missed just about all of last season and I thought there was MUCH to be gained by him spending the season with a star-studded Djurgarden team that afforded youngsters a ton of valuable minutes this season. Also, he often didn't look physically ready for AHL hockey, and that's something we all saw coming.

It was too early, IMHO.

But he's here and he's gotten his feet more than wet. He was thrown to the wolves.

The hands and, at times, his head indicate he's got an NHL future. The skating is pretty much already there. If he takes a step next season and shows that this year's hard knocks lessons have made an impact, then he should be on track.

But his awareness and decision making - both with and without the puck - must improve. I chalk that up to a lack of overall experience at the pro level and too little playing time in recent seasons.

PS) There have been plenty of times this season where he's looked pretty bad in front of his own goal. The ability to pin down opponents and prevent them from pouncing on rebounds simply isn't there yet. This is one of the areas where a lack of strength and experience is very evident.
 
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SI90 said:
I hate chris Lamoriello and kowalsky. Entire farm sucks. We need to seriously overhaul our player development department
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Agree. I know it's more obvious when it's your own team, but way too many misses I feel like for this team.

I think of other teams who've had bad luck, the Oilers with Nail Yakupov, but that's just one glaring one. Then I think about us, Wahlstrom, Dale Colle, Bellows, Ho Sang. It's just sad. Twice in the past ten years we've had TWO first round picks in the same draft THREE times. I'd say 3 out of 6 of those were good, that includes Barzal, Dobson, and Beau, but overall there's alot of other 1st round picks such as those above that did nothing.

Stat wise, I could be off and maybe we're about the same as other teams. But it just doesn't seem like it.

When you look at other rounds, we haven't been finding any hidden gems either. Koivula, Ishakov, Bolduc, Dufour, Salo. All players who have given some hope and flared out.
 
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PhysicalGraffiti said:
When you look at other rounds, we haven't been finding any hidden gems either. Koivula, Ishakov, Bolduc, Dufour, Salo. All players who have given some hope and flared out.
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Sadly - and this goes for Dal Colle, Ho-Sang, Bellows, and Wahlstrom as well - one of my biggest gripes is that not only did these players not turn out, but they all had phases along the way where they looked promising and on the cusp, but not like they were going to fit into this team's plans.

And yet, not in one single case (and I've been harping on this for Bolduc in recent years as well) was our current GM somehow able (whether willing or not) to move any of these prospects when they were looking like a decent prospects with trade value.

Every single one (Bolduc is still pending) was simply held onto until it was clear he was baked as a prospect. He wasn't going to be anything for us and unless he was to be had on waivers, no-one else wanted him either.

Some have argued that this is equivalent to nitpicking but we're looking at 7 years of many of our closest prospects fading away into nothingness, assets just going down the drain although glimpses of promise and good seasons were had along the way.

And whether some would argue for it or not, the ability to understand who is going to be part of your plans and then selling those who aren't while they still have value is the kind of crucial skill that separates good GMs from average ones.
 
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