Prospect Info: Dalibor Dvorský, 10th, 2023

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

I’ll post some more info and vids once the site isn’t a dumpster fire.

Welcome Dalibor!

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[shpongle falls]

Super stoked with this pick.

Draft Profile Prospect: Dalibor Dvorsky | Philadelphia Flyers

Slovakian center Dalibor Dvorsky was one of the breakout stars at the 2023 IIHF Under-18 World Championships this spring

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[Memento]

I love this pick for us. Fairly solid size, great goal scorer, solid two-way player.

I think Dalibor could be our number two center in two years.

 

[Antiillafire]

Man I’m so happy as a Slovak for Dalibor to end up where Pavol Demitra had such a great stats and awesome play

 

[BlueDream]

We’ll continue to have some good size down the middle.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

The Next RoR for the Blues.

 

[EastVillageBlues]

He reminds me more of Schenn.

 

[Frenzy31]

His shot is what I think will be great.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

I had him 5th overall and honestly not far behind 2-4. Fairly shocked that he fell to us but thrilled.

 

[Stealth JD]

Love this pick. If not Leonard, I wanted DD!
Welcome to the Blues. Hopefully he becomes the teams best player in 3-4 years.

 

[Celtic Note]

What’s his upside and downside?

 

[Linkens Mastery]

What’s his upside and downside?

Ceiling is a 1B 2-way center with a goal scoring touch.

Absolute Floor is a 2-way 3C.

 

[BrokenFace]

Ceiling is a 1B 2-way center with a goal scoring touch.

Absolute Floor is a 2-way 3C.

Sounds like a shoot -first rather than pass-first version of Thomas. I like it.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Sounds like a shoot -first rather than pass-first version of Thomas. I like it.

I think he'll be much better defensively than Thomas.

 

[Bye Bye Blueston]

What’s his upside and downside?

upside is kopitar. downside is ROR. kidding. sorta.

 

[bleedblue1223]

Feel like his range could be a Danault to a Kopitar/ROR. There are differences in these centers, but I see a 50-75 point center that can play against top lines, and that's exactly what we need to pair with Thomas as our other center.

And he could be in the pros sooner than later.

 

[mab894]

Stoked for this guy! I was hoping against hope for one of Michkov or Reinbacher but very excited that Dvorsky fell to us. Slovakia has been pumping out some talent recently

 

[BlueDream]

Dvorsky shouted out Demitra and Handzus in his interview with Strickland and that nostalgia was cool for me. Those were a couple of my favorite players during my childhood.

 

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[Snubbed4Vezina]

Dvorsky shouted out Demitra and Handzus in his interview with Strickland and that nostalgia was cool for me. Those were a couple of my favorite players during my childhood.

Zus was one of my favorite Blues when he was on the team.

 

[Celtic Note]

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I’ll post some more info and vids once the site isn’t a dumpster fire.

Welcome Dalibor!

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He looks like a heck of a shooter. He shows some good stick handling at times. It looks like he competes hard and goes to the hard areas.

I didn’t see as much driving the ply in this videos though. I would expect to see more of that given the position we took him. Maybe other videos will show that.

 

[Blanick]

That last line about his peers recognizing him as one of the hardest to play against and Tkachuk's line about his "will." Those were the two that stood out to me the most because you can't teach that, you either have an engine or you don't. Dvorsky could be the future pulse of this team much like Schwartz was for such a long time.

 

[Oberyn]

Really like this pick, I didn't think he'd drop to 10 but Arizona and Detroit did us some favors with their picks. Dvorsky doesn't have the high end ceiling that you might want out of a top 10 pick, but it doesn't mean that he's lacking in skill. His hands and shot are definitely two of his greatest strengths, and I also love his competitiveness and desire to win.

His main areas to improve from what I've seen is, first and foremost, his skating. I saw some quotes where he acknowledge that this is a weakness to his game so props to the self-recognition, and I have no doubt the Blues will be pushing him to work on that aspect of his game. He also seems to have a tendency to overhandle the puck at times and he'll need to understand that this won't fly in the NHL. He can get away with it against lower level competition but I'd like to see him be quicker with his touches and thus open himself up in different areas of the ice.