F Cullen Potter - Green Bay Jr. Gamblers, U16 AAA (2025 Draft)

[jtechkid]

I havent watched him but i keep seeing him slip to second round and all these so called mock drafts ?

 

[Hockeyville USA]

I havent watched him but i keep seeing him slip to second round and all these so called mock drafts ?

Extremely slow start in the NCAA. Which isn't surprising for a 17 year old season player. We'll see how much he picks it up after the holiday break.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Extremely slow start in the NCAA. Which isn't surprising for a 17 year old season player. We'll see how much he picks it up after the holiday break.

Is it actually a slow start? He’s not like a Celebrini, Fantilli or Hagens where he proves his age irrelevant.

Being a middle six forward for a top 25 team NCAA team as a U18 seems like an average outcome for how this season could’ve went.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Is it actually a slow start? He’s not like a Celebrini, Fantilli or Hagens where he proves his age irrelevant.

Being a middle six forward for a top 25 team NCAA team as a U18 seems like an average outcome for how this season could’ve went.

I think because he's at Arizona State, people thought he'd drive play and production sooner on. No idea how Powers utilizes him and obviously not having Lucius yet hurts the offense.

 

[BRayne]

2 goals tonight against Robert Morris

 

[Wheatens]

2 goals tonight against Robert Morris

The speed on that 2nd goal is fantastic. He is such a good skater.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

There aren't that many U18 comparables for draft season in the NCAA since 2000.

Celebrini: 1.68 PPG-1OA
Wood: .97 PPG-15OA
Toews: .93 PPG-3OA
Werenski: .71 PPG-8OA
Hanifin: .62 PPG-5OA
Potter: .56 PPG-2025 eligible
Poehling: .37 PPG-25OA
Yan Kuznetsov: .32 PPG-50OA
Boumedienne: .29 PPG-2025 eligible

Probably not enough good data to really be too sure of PPG as a good measurement (and there are other reasons to pick players beyond their scoring totals at lower levels), but I would say he's tracking roughly okay based on initial expectations. Probably tracking for somewhere towards the middle of the first round. Maybe he'll go a little lower (late first?) due to being 5'10, but other than the Wood season (and he had big skating issues and hasn't exactly completely kept up that crazy DY pace since) it would seem there's a roughly consistent pattern in there, and one that suggests Potter's somewhere towards the middle of a group that so far hasn't produced a player lower than 50OA of draft eligibles to play their U18 year in the NCAA since 2000.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Said good things about his experience at the NTDP, but thought NCAA was a style of hockey that would better prepare him for the NHL than Junior and he thought he was ready to make the jump.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Sick goal alert. Back after he missed last weekend with illness.

 

[Hammer Slammer]

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

There aren't that many U18 comparables for draft season in the NCAA since 2000.

Celebrini: 1.68 PPG-1OA
Wood: .97 PPG-15OA
Toews: .93 PPG-3OA
Werenski: .71 PPG-8OA
Hanifin: .62 PPG-5OA
Potter: .56 PPG-2025 eligible
Poehling: .37 PPG-25OA
Yan Kuznetsov: .32 PPG-50OA
Boumedienne: .29 PPG-2025 eligible

Probably not enough good data to really be too sure of PPG as a good measurement (and there are other reasons to pick players beyond their scoring totals at lower levels), but I would say he's tracking roughly okay based on initial expectations. Probably tracking for somewhere towards the middle of the first round. Maybe he'll go a little lower (late first?) due to being 5'10, but other than the Wood season (and he had big skating issues and hasn't exactly completely kept up that crazy DY pace since) it would seem there's a roughly consistent pattern in there, and one that suggests Potter's somewhere towards the middle of a group that so far hasn't produced a player lower than 50OA of draft eligibles to play their U18 year in the NCAA since 2000.

After 0+2 tonight, he's up to 9+7=16 points in 25 games. That's .64. Would move him ahead of Hanifin.

Looking like a clear first round range, and maybe a chance for mid first. Think he's also vindicating the idea that he was good enough for college hockey that not everyone agreed with.

 

[covfefe]

I really like this guy's game. His skating is just about a 10/10, if it isn't already there.

 

[Beniers10 Hughes86]

So this is what an offspring of a vampyre and a wizard can do, intresting.

 

[LGB]

How does he compare to Oliver Moore?

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I really like this guy's game. His skating is just about a 10/10, if it isn't already there.

yeah I like him a lot too. his skating almost ensures you’re getting a bottom 6 player at worst; but at the same time because it’s so good there could be significant upside to be a really nice top 6 F.

I’m a bit surprised he’s not a lock to go in the late lottery range in this draft.

Different styles but not dissimilar from Holloway in his DY — young for the league, his team wasn’t uber high scoring, Holloway himself didn’t score much and it was kinda hard to gauge his upside but the same tools that gave him a high floor suggested he could have a chance to be a top 6 F in the NHL.

 

[macbowes]

yeah I like him a lot too. his skating almost ensures you’re getting a bottom 6 player at worst; but at the same time because it’s so good there could be significant upside to be a really nice top 6 F.

I’m a bit surprised he’s not a lock to go in the late lottery range in this draft.

Different styles but not dissimilar from Holloway in his DY — young for the league, his team wasn’t uber high scoring, Holloway himself didn’t score much and it was kinda hard to gauge his upside but the same tools that gave him a high floor suggested he could have a chance to be a top 6 F in the NHL.

Holloway is much bigger and way more physical than Potter, which drove up his draft stock. I think he has a chance to be a 1st rounder, but unless he goes on a heater to end the season, in addition to having a great international season, I don't think he has a chance to go as high as Holloway.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

How does he compare to Oliver Moore?

Skating is similar. Motor is similar. I think Moore was more astute defensively at the same age. Same type of size.

I think puck handling is similar, but Potter a little better. Potter isn't an elite playmaker/goal scorer, but definitely better ability to convert chances into points than Moore.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Holloway is much bigger and way more physical than Potter, which drove up his draft stock. I think he has a chance to be a 1st rounder, but unless he goes on a heater to end the season, in addition to having a great international season, I don't think he has a chance to go as high as Holloway.

I agree hence “different styles”

Holloway was bigger and an all around really good skater, Potter could be one of the best skaters in the NHL. My whole point is not that they are identical or similar players… im comparing the context. Similar situation where a DY prospect playing in the NCAA has high end athletic tools but doesn’t have a great statistical profile.

I think with how good Potter’s feet are and how weak this class seems, it’s weird he’s not discussed more in the 14-15 range.