Prospect Info: Filip Mesar

[sheed36]

From the inside the Habs draft meetings video from August.

Jeff Gorton: Just maybe some clarity on the names you're looking at @ 26. Mesar is the little guy.

 

[Bombshell11]

You think He's going to crush the single season OHL scoring record set in '83? Outscore Kane, McDavid, Lindros, and even Corey Locke? OK then.

Abso, mother, kosto, lutely

 

[Paddy17]

OHL is easy mode for Mesar.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Damn, that steal was beautiful.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

I dont know how he looked at Lavals camp, all reports say he did well, but I think the plan was to send him to the CHL all along. Nothing hurry, we have like 3 kids that should crack the roster next year (Heineman, Ylonen, RHP), so we had the luxury to send that kid down, dominate the CHL to boost his confidence and then possibly a full year in Laval before cracking the main. Thats at least the way Im seeing it.

Yeah, I think that's their time line too.

1 year OHL
1 year Laval
NHL

He needs to bulk up. Won't be surprised at all if he's in Laval next year.

 

[Bombshell11]

Yeah, I think that's their time line too.

1 year OHL
1 year Laval
NHL

He needs to bulk up. Won't be surprised at all if he's in Laval next year.

You seriously going to send him to Laval if he continues at this pace?

 

[Adam Michaels]

I told you, he was way better than Hoffman.

Set a lower bar why don't you.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

You seriously going to send him to Laval if he continues at this pace?

It's been one game.

 

[McGees]

You seriously going to send him to Laval if he continues at this pace?

You think he can maintain a 4 pt/game pace???

 

[SwiftyHab]

Hughes said he’d rather see Mesar go to CHL and get a 100 points…he didn’t realize it Mesar would get that before Xmas.

Actually his exact quote was I’d rather him go down in the O and get 80 then stay up in the A and get 40.

He’s on track for 80 in 20 games

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

It's been one game.

What do you mean? You don't think Mesar will finish with 248 pts in 62 games?

 

[SwiftyHab]

What do you mean? You don't think Mesar will finish with 248 pts in 62 games?

Let’s put him down for 200

 

[Redux91]

Filip will have a lot of fun this year man, he's going to score and produce in ways he didnt even think possible lol, it's good to unlock that for him, make sure he realizes how good he actually is offensively lol
Gonna have a blast this season terrorizing teams

 

[BenchBrawl]

Excellent.

 

[Habsrule]

I live in Kitchener and I was at the game. I tried to really focus on Mesar alone.

To start off the game you could tell that he has really, really good skating skills. He looks tiny out there and that is playing with teenagers. Nothing he can do about his height but he definitely needs to thicken up.

The first 10-15 minutes he was really overplaying the puck. When skating with it he was like tic, tic, tic, tic, tic, tic skating up the ice. His hands were going a hundred miles an hour with the puck. He also was forcing the play a lot and leading to some turnovers or errant passes. He was getting some really nice seam passes through though so I can’t fully fault him there.

Once he settled in he really started to take over. He wasn’t over stickhandling the puck and was using his skating to create offensive chances. He did take a penalty right at the start of the second period. Rangers were on the power play and on the breakout some player made a drop pass that he completely skated by. He took an interference penalty to stop a breakaway or it would have been a two on one.

He played the half wall on the power play and was always looking for that cross crease pass on the back door. He made the pass a few times. He really is an offensive machine.

The game was a penalty filled affair. He got a lot of points on the power play. He plays with Pinelli (2nd round NHL pick) and Rehkopf (projected 1st round pick this year). He is very fortunate that he has solid line mates to work with. So the offence was not only because of him and him alone.

The game got pretty nasty with a Sudbury player getting a match penalty with a head shot. The their was a fight where a Kitchener player got an instigator penalty. With ten minutes left in the game is when the game was really rough. Kitchener was up by three goals and Mesar’s line only had one shift in the final ten minutes. Theoretically if that line would have had a regular turn he would have had a few more shifts and potentially gotten more points.

 

[Bombshell11]

It's been one game.

So you're saying he should be posting 10 pts a game? You know what, i agree with you.

People are down playing this guy so so so much, just because he's got a smaller height. If he actually scores 300+ pts this year, this thread will be alot of fun to watch.

Filip "Gretzky" Mesar, The Next One. i'm calling it now.

 

[Habs10Habs]

Well, I sincerely doubt that that Mesar is reading this thread.

Hey Filip — ever hear about HF? No?

I didn’t think so.

You'd be surprised at how many junior players have had accounts here on HFB. During my time as an Admin. I've vetted more than a few, who went on to be stars.

So don't be surprised if what you say here. Miraculously finds its way back to the player you mention.

 

[Habs10Habs]

Different angle on the Mesar goal. His skating is so fluid that opposition players are looking like pylons:

You know Burrows is all excited. Mesar is the answer to his "sling shot" lol

 

[Alexandre Magny]

Si Mesar peut connaître du succès clà sera seulement
bon pour sa confiance car le kid a du talent c'est évident.

 

[NotProkofievian]

What a debut! That's what I want to see from habs prospects.

 

[HuGort]

Mesar and Beck great night for Habs prospects

 

[WeThreeKings]

Effortless. He’s killing it, I wonder if Laval was pressured to send him down by Habs management? I missed the Laval camp, was he that bad?

Houle was never going to play him.

 

[Rob Sense]

Houle was never going to play him.

so much for AHL as a development plan for our prospects.

 

[WeThreeKings]

so much for AHL as a development plan for our prospects.

It'll happen once they remove Houle. He's a Bergevin hold-over so he's an idiot.

 

[River Meadow]