Going Deep Into Kings 2020 Draft w/Kings Dir. of Amateur Scouting Mark Yanetti - Part 2

[FrozenRoyalty]

It’s a bit delayed, but here is the second installment of Frozen Royalty’s series on the Los Angeles Kings and the 2020 NHL Draft, featuring the comments and insights of Kings Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Yanetti...some of which you won’t find anywhere else.

In this installment, Yanetti talked about second round picks Helge Grans and Brock Faber...

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Going Deep Into the LA Kings 2020 NHL Draft with Kings Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Yanetti – Part 2

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[regulate]

Good read. Much more detail on the picks in the 2nd round.

 

[Yog S'loth]

“As long as Grans is willing to commit himself to the defensive side of the game, and we think he is, it might take some time. But it’s worth the time it takes with everything else you get with him, plus he’s really competitive. When you hear that a player isn’t very good defensively, it’s usually because he doesn’t care, or that he’s soft. This kid plays hard. When he does hit a guy, it’s contact. He plays a good, competitive game. It’s just the structure and his defensive play that needs to get better.”


oh nooooooo

It's Jack Johnson 2.0

 

[SufferingSelfCreated]

“As long as Grans is willing to commit himself to the defensive side of the game, and we think he is, it might take some time. But it’s worth the time it takes with everything else you get with him, plus he’s really competitive. When you hear that a player isn’t very good defensively, it’s usually because he doesn’t care, or that he’s soft. This kid plays hard. When he does hit a guy, it’s contact. He plays a good, competitive game. It’s just the structure and his defensive play that needs to get better.”


oh nooooooo

It's Jack Johnson 2.0

Except we didn't have to use a high 1st to land Gran's. Lessons learned.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Honestly it's a nice change from my pet peeve, taking junior defensive d-men and asking them to translate their skill or lack thereof to the NHL.

There's a reason many of the stellar shutdown d in the NHL were good offensively at other levels too, high IQ and processing the game is as important as stapling people.

See it as an opportunity for lots of improvement rather than a negative.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

He also succeeded at getting me excited about Faber, so there's that!

Funny he was just talking about the five tool players, I just watched Moneyball again last night

They described Faber the way a lot of others were describing Sanderson, so this feels like a much much better value-to-pick.

 

[Peter James Bond III]

Thanks, Gann! You rock. Appreciate your work and interviews.
Looking forward to part 3.

Interesting, that Yannetti ‘knew’ that Faber would not last 5 picks longer.
One mock had Faber at end of Rd 1. Interesting about Yannetti breaking down skating in 8 tiers. There’s also really tiers of defenseman from first PP to the offensively ungifted, defensive defensemen. Like Scuderi was the ungifted.
But give me Scuderi on the PK and hold a 1 goal lead, any day.

The hybrids in the middle, are like the Martinez’ and honestly, Voynov was one as well, but slightly more offensively gifted. I would not call him a #1 PP guy, but he could play on it...I appreciated his one on one work in the D zone...was like a bulldog and strong on his skates and tenacious.

I think as Yannetti said, they had more time for their work on later rounds and also had Wroblewski on staff...could find out more about US Nat Dev players.
It seems if Faber was given the role to be top D to shutdown other team and
That be his #1 job, then his offensive numbers and use offensively would result in low O output. Defensemen like Bjornfot and Faber were both leaders on their
Teams and defense first...but both are great skaters and have skills / some vision. Even Drew raved about Toby toe-dragging guys out there in pre-season
Game and said “I don’t know any 18 yr old defenseman doing that, except
That Dahlin guy in Buffalo”. (Something like that) Goes to show you that
Give a highly skilled defenseman first, young player like that, some opportunity
To open up their games, with the skill they have, their offense can emerge.

Hoping that U of Minnesota is great for Faber and he emerges as a legit
Top 4 defenseman. And Grans...t0 mention he could have been top 15, with polished D game, is pretty impressive....that Grans has compete and drive and
Willing to get there.

 

[kilowatt]

The more I see of Faber, the more the pick grows on me. He's not small either, listed as 6'0 195, and he's actually three days younger than Byfield! It's entirely possible that Faber grows another inch or two and packs on an extra ten or fifteen pounds. He just turned 18! His defending and transition game actually reminds me of Doughty a bit. Physical when he needs to be, really smart reads. He doesn't appear to have the offensive instincts that Doughty does of course — that's why he was a mid-second round pick and not a second overall pick — but I'm really, really excited about his shutdown potential.

 

[Lt Dan]

Are there going to be more installments with the picks from the following rounds

 

[cyclones22]

The more I see of Faber, the more the pick grows on me. He's not small either, listed as 6'0 195, and he's actually three days younger than Byfield! It's entirely possible that Faber grows another inch or two and packs on an extra ten or fifteen pounds. He just turned 18! His defending and transition game actually reminds me of Doughty a bit. Physical when he needs to be, really smart reads. He doesn't appear to have the offensive instincts that Doughty does of course — that's why he was a mid-second round pick and not a second overall pick — but I'm really, really excited about his shutdown potential.

The scouts kept saying Bjornfot had little offense to his game as well but he put up pretty good numbers in Ontario. Maybe these guys are just highly coachable and when asked to perform certain roles, they do it without question.

 

[FrozenRoyalty]

Are there going to be more installments with the picks from the following rounds

Yes...in separate threads. Just posted part 3.

 

[Lt Dan]

Yes...in separate threads. Just posted part 3.

Can you name part 4 "A new hope"

 

[regulate]

Good stuff