Czech prospects update thread

[Pavel Buchnevich]

so.. what you are saying is that one will be bust injury prone and one really good player?

Not all players pan out. Getting a few high draft picks is a good start.

 

[Johnny97]

This goal?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Is that even legal?

 

[Czechboy]

OHL

Nothing too great. No Jiricek sucks. Hamara is doing great. Fibigr is rounding into form it appears.

 

[Czechboy]

The Q.. also meh

Melovksy is doing great. That's all I got.

 

[Czechboy]

WHL.. most encouraging look

Rymon is killing it and should have been a late draft pick. Stancl is growin every game and killing it. Curran is having a nice season. Wanted more from Jecho and Holinka. Thrilled Petr is a .ppg. Titlbach showing some form as well. I imagine the U20 team will have a few of these guys.

 

[Czechboy]

AHL is a mixed bag too...

Anyone know what happened to Jenik? I read 'out for months'.

Klapka is .ppg too. Going well for him. Alscher seems okay. Rychlovky and Becher .. was hoping for more.

Real mixed bag. Sale, Dvorak, Spacek and Svozil all doing very well for their age and position. Jiricek and Kulich are .ppg in A. Needs to translate to NHL.

Hoping for more from Mysak but starting to think we never see him in NHL.

 

[martygod12]

OHL - with Sale in AHL and Jiricek injured not much is going on for us here. Hamara is playing good, but that is to be expected since he is 20 already. Zidlicky looks like he may be a competent bottom 6 guy for WJC. Fibigr had disappointing start to the season, but it's looking like he is getting better. Others are really forgettable.

QMJHL - Probably the least interesting for us. Except for Melovsky I really don't see anyone with even remote chance to play NHL one day here.

WHL - most Czechs here so logically most interesting. Stancl and Rymon are doing great. Expected a bit more from Jecho and Holinka, both should play above ppg. level right now. Petr at ppg is nice, but I kinda see him as average ELH player at best. Pekar and Zahejsky so far disappointing and I hope the will get better.

AHL - I will just name players which I think have chance to play NHL regularly one day: Jiricek, Kulich, Sale, Svozil, Spacek, Klapka, Sapo, Chmelar, Alscher, Dvorak

 

[Tube Skates]

The Q.. also meh

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Melovksy is doing great. That's all I got.

Sprynar is a lot of fun to watch.

 

[pgfan66]

OHL - with Sale in AHL and Jiricek injured not much is going on for us here. Hamara is playing good, but that is to be expected since he is 20 already. Zidlicky looks like he may be a competent bottom 6 guy for WJC. Fibigr had disappointing start to the season, but it's looking like he is getting better. Others are really forgettable.

QMJHL - Probably the least interesting for us. Except for Melovsky I really don't see anyone with even remote chance to play NHL one day here.

WHL - most Czechs here so logically most interesting. Stancl and Rymon are doing great. Expected a bit more from Jecho and Holinka, both should play above ppg. level right now. Petr at ppg is nice, but I kinda see him as average ELH player at best. Pekar and Zahejsky so far disappointing and I hope the will get better.

AHL - I will just name players which I think have chance to play NHL regularly one day: Jiricek, Kulich, Sale, Svozil, Spacek, Klapka, Sapo, Chmelar, Alscher, Dvorak

Pekar has been pretty good in my opinion. It’s always a tough transition from Europe to the dub. He’ll be even better next year. As to Zahejsky, he’s got the same transition to manage plus coming back from injury. It’s tough. Give him time.

 

[czechcanadian]

Curious about Vaclav Nestrasil. 6’5” winger who’s playing pretty consistently with almost .ppg in USHL last 10 games.
Eligible for draft this year.

 

[Czechboy]

This is a great writeup... it gets depressing after 4 though. I love all those players but we are looking at round 4 to undrafted.

Toss in a Galvas on his second go round (maybe) and I think we're looking at:

1 first rounder (Mrtka)
maybe 3 more in top 100? Nestrasil, Cihar and Psenicka?
The Benak wild card is anything from 1OV to undrafted and working at Tesco this summer.. I have no idea.

I do wonder if we are building up some reputation now and some of our lower guys are getting looked at closer. Eg. I didnt' think Ales Cech would ever be taken (no offense, I like him).

Last year was 13. Hoping for 10 this year which feels a little low given the Hlinka and U20 success.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I do wonder if we are building up some reputation now and some of our lower guys are getting looked at closer. Eg. I didnt' think Ales Cech would ever be taken (no offense, I like him).

I think so. As I’ve been saying, slowly eating into the reputation of Finland. I don’t think Canadians or Americans or Swedes or Russians are losing draft slots.

Thus, Czechs are in vogue right now. Finns aren’t. Neither are Germans or Slovaks. Latvians and Belorussians are a little more in vogue right now also.