Prospect Info: CBJ Prospect Thread XI

[Doggy]

For Knazko I don't see an NHL path on any club, I'm not sure if you've picked up evidence of growth that I haven't heard about?

Richard I've been bullish on since his draft, but the trajectory is mostly flat. I'm still hoping the club signs him and gets him to Cleveland.

I don't know anything about Makarov lately, other than the fact that he still isn't a full time KHL player at age 22. That doesn't look like an NHL path.

I think it is so difficult to assess defensive defensemen...especially the ones we don't get to see all that much (which is pretty much everyone here judging every prospect). In all seriousness, unless someone lives near Providence and attends a significant number of Friars home games how can they truly know whether Richard has any real NHL potential (and no...watching the games online is not the same as seeing the kids live and certainly not the same as someone who watches highlight films? We are going to have the same problem with some of the new kids like Elick.

All we can do is wait and hope. For the most part, most of us here won't get to see these kids live until (if) they get to Cleveland.

 

[majormajor]

I think it is so difficult to assess defensive defensemen...especially the ones we don't get to see all that much (which is pretty much everyone here judging every prospect). In all seriousness, unless someone lives near Providence and attends a significant number of Friars home games how can they truly know whether Richard has any real NHL potential (and no...watching the games online is not the same as seeing the kids live and certainly not the same as someone who watches highlight films? We are going to have the same problem with some of the new kids like Elick.

All we can do is wait and hope. For the most part, most of us here won't get to see these kids live until (if) they get to Cleveland.

Live viewing might be best, but even video coverage would give us 100x the information we have now on players like Richard. We don't know anything currrently.

 

[Doggy]

Live viewing might be best, but even video coverage would give us 100x the information we have now on players like Richard. We don't know anything currrently.

Then we certainly know nothing about Makarov's abilities and growth. For all we know it has become known he wants to jump to North America and his KHL club is giving him the "Marchenko treatment". I try to watch NCAA hockey on ESPN+ when I can but not usually seeing Friars games (I am drawn more to BU & BC (just because they are so talented), QU (niece worked with the program there for years) and UNH (a friend's cousin plays there).

 

[tunnelvision]

Some Richard shifts (#4 in white) from this season against powerhouse BC and their top line Hagens-Perreault-Leonard:



0:35-2:51
4:22-4:52
5:58-6:38
7:10-8:10
10:35-11:08
11:57-14:06
15:22-16:13
17:14-18:34
19:00-20:08
21:05-21:47
22:33-23:18

That's just one video from November, but Providence and BC had 2b2 games against each other over the weekend in which Hagens scored 4 points, so soon you might find more shift-by-shift clips of Richard on this or some other draft prospect YT channel that covers Hagens.

I'm also a strong proponent for Richard. I think he's going to be top 6 in the NHL and be a very solid player (no offensive flash, but skates well, size and puck distribution is very very good).

I'm not sure about the bolded part but I do agree that he could pan out as a fine bottom-pair defensive LD. Just not necessarily for Columbus since there is and likely will be so much competition for the same lineup spot.