F Dovydas Jukna - Servette Genêve U17 (2025 Draft)

[Dirtyf1ghter]

Dovydas Jukna - Elite Prospects

Best U15 player playing in Switzerland by far. On the basis of a player who will be drafted
At his side, another Lithuanian player: Simas Ignatavicius

Looks like hockey is starting to rise in Lithuania

 

[JabbaJabba]

That's a big boy for a forteen year old. Hopefully he does well.

Ignatavicius is an awesome name, so I hope he makes it to the NHL too.

 

[Antiillafire]

That's a big boy for a forteen year old. Hopefully he does well.

Ignatavicius is an awesome name, so I hope he makes it to the NHL too.

Sounds like it would be a name of a character or spell from the Harry Potter series

 

[BMann]

Hope they turn out for Lithuania rather than Switzerland when the national team comes calling. Too many talents from the weaker nations end up playing for the national side of the league they play their junior hockey. For example Belgium has had a couple of decent prospects who have rejected the call.

 

[BKarchitect]

Stats pretty similar at the same age to Greuter and Gruber who were head of their classes respectively at the U17 level.

Looks like a 2006-born Lithuanian, Cecekovas, also has pretty good numbers at that level.

 

[JabbaJabba]

Sounds like it would be a name of a character or spell from the Harry Potter series

To me that name sounds like it should belong to an inquisitor of the church.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

He needs to come live to Latvia and have some chance to play in Worlds or Olympic games lol.

 

[wings5]

He needs to come live to Latvia and have some chance to play in Worlds or Olympic games lol.

I would love to see Lithuania rise to the level of Latvia in hockey as it would be an epic rivalry. Not likely to happen anytime soon though, hopefully this kid can turn into something

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Yeah - this kid is someone to watch out for in the future. Is posting VERY impressive totals in the Swiss U17 league this season.

Nice to see two potential NHL prospects from Lithuania.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

that is a very unique name

 

[SoundAndFury]

All our biggest prospects are going to play in the tournament in Poland on February 9-11th against Polish, Hungarian and Estonian U18s so that's going to be a good opportunity to take a better look at them.

that is a very unique name

Pretty run-of-the-mill name in Lithuania, eliteprospects alone have 4 entries.

 

[SoundAndFury]

So Lithuanian U18s are doing amazingly well in the friendly tournament with 4-1 win over Poland and 5-4 OT win over Hungary, kinda confirming this is going to be one of the best our U18 teams ever.

Jukna, to little surprise, is 3+2 in those 2 games.

For those super interested, highlights and games can be found on the excellent Polish Hockey Federation youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@PolskiHokej

His first goal today was especially nice (video with timestamp):

 

[GermanSpitfire]

 

[SoundAndFury]

Made his senior team debut. 13.40 TOI in the Champions League against Hungarian Fehervar. 1 shot, 1 block and 1 FO win. Nothing too crazy but still, very nice for someone age 17.