Confirmed with Link: Habs European Scouting Combine

[MrNasty]

to clarify; It is not confirmed those guys are attending. here is the wording in the Athletic:

Timmins is gone, but the Canadiens will continue the tradition he began and will hold their European combine in mid-June. Among players who were not invited to the NHL combine and could be of interest, we can mention Swedish defencemen Mattias Hävelid and Simon Forsmark, Slovak winger Adam Sykora and Swedish forward Ludwig Persson.

 

[jfm133]

Like to see they are still doing it. I also hope they will continue with having picks in excess. I also hope they will continue to target players on the young side of the draft year like KK, Harris, Struble, Mysak, Kapanen and Roy. It is not the main criteria, but I think you can have better value on these players later in the draft.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Forgive me if this was already posted



Edit: I saw WTK already has him listed in the OP

 

[WeThreeKings]

 

[Wateredgarden]

I think Timmins said himself that they really liked Romanov at their Euro combine and that's why they drafted him so high.

 

[Vachon23]

Adam Sykora seem to have the identity that the new Org want

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Here is a good question... Who ends up with the better draft group? Draft power is higher from 22-24 I would imagine but Timmins did well recently from what we see today. If HuGo hit like that, we are in very very good shape!

Timmins/Bergevin from 19-21
vs
HuGo from 22-24

19-21:
* Caufield
* Guhle
* Roy
* Farrell
* Kidney
* Mysak
* Mailloux
* RHP, Dobes, Norlinder, Fairbrother, Struble, Kapanen, Tuch

We could include another year (2018) even considering the KK pick. Ylonen, Romanov, and Harris were good picks in that draft as well!

Timmins hit really well? From 19-21, there is 1 NHLer, the rest remains to be seen. I love when we praises drafts that haven’t manufactured big league players. His 19-21 list doesn’t look remarkably different than any other 3 year span.

 

[The Great Weal]

Timmins hit really well? From 19-21, there is 1 NHLer, the rest remains to be seen. I love when we praises drafts that haven’t manufactured big league players. His 19-21 list doesn’t look remarkably different than any other 3 year span.

Not to mention that the Habs being bad lately means more picks and higher picks meaning there should be a better result.

 

[dcyhabs]

They can easily make it to Istanbul. When I fly to Belarus, I have to go through there (Istanbul) as European airspace is closed off to Belavia (Belarussian Airline) and I'm pretty sure all Russian Airlines are also banned.

If for whatever reason, Russian airlines are not flying to Turkey, they can make their way to Minsk as it's an open border between Belarus and Russia and then take the long flight to Istanbul which the flight path extends out to Kazakhstan and back over the the Caspian and Black Sea.

I was there last month and on my flight back to Turkey from Minsk, the guy beside me (who was BTW completely drunk and passed out) had a Russian passport. Actually, my wife is a Russian National and can travel to Turkey, so there's no issue making your way to EU countries from Turkey as long as they have their Schengen visa.

I remember a conversation between Russian ex-patriate coworkers:
Her: Russians don’t drink that much.
Him: In Russia did you ever once go through work sober?
Her: Well no.

 

[dcyhabs]

Timmins hit really well? From 19-21, there is 1 NHLer, the rest remains to be seen. I love when we praises drafts that haven’t manufactured big league players. His 19-21 list doesn’t look remarkably different than any other 3 year span.

I agree little is proven and it’s a low bar but the non-pros look better than most years since the 2007 guys came through. Guhle seems solid, Xhekaj is interesting, Roy and Farrell look good. We’ll see if they bust but how many habs picks have shown anything post-draft in recent years?

 

[Andrei79]

I agree little is proven and it’s a low bar but the non-pros look better than most years since the 2007 guys came through. Guhle seems solid, Xhekaj is interesting, Roy and Farrell look good. We’ll see if they bust but how many habs picks have shown anything post-draft in recent years?

I remember when Brook seemed solid, Fleury was interesting, Poehling looked good and Primeau was going to be Prices replacement. I don't think we've got near enough data to say much about those years.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

I think Timmins said himself that they really liked Romanov at their Euro combine and that's why they drafted him so high.

Romanov is a physical beast. He likely destroyed the tests.

 

[HostileCapSpace]

Slovak Article says Sykora spent two days in Montreal. He mentions there was a Swede there also (no name). He says he also met with Arizona.

Exkluzívna spoveď 17-ročného Adama Sýkoru: Tieto dva tímy NHL o mňa prejavili záujem | TVNOVINY.sk

 

[KevSkillz4]

Adding Adam Sykora in prospect pool of Habs will be pretty good. I'm a big fan of his game.

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

I remember when Brook seemed solid, Fleury was interesting, Poehling looked good and Primeau was going to be Prices replacement. I don't think we've got near enough data to say much about those years.

Guhle is an order of magnitude better than Brook or Fleury ever were and there does seem to be a consensus that we have an extremely deep pool of quality prospects.

If we draft Wright we will conceivably be in great shape at center and at D as there are so many good D prospects that there is plenty of room for a bunch of them to fail and still fill out the roster. I would expect HuGo to identify the keepers early and flip the others for forward prospects to compliment Wright, Suzuki and Caufield.

 

[Andrei79]

Guhle is an order of magnitude better than Brook or Fleury ever were and there does seem to be a consensus that we have an extremely deep pool of quality prospects.

If we draft Wright we will conceivably be in great shape at center and at D as there are so many good D prospects that there is plenty of room for a bunch of them to fail and still fill out the roster. I would expect HuGo to identify the keepers early and flip the others for forward prospects to compliment Wright, Suzuki and Caufield.

I agree about Guhle, but there's still a ways to go before we can claim success for those years for Timmins. Not with the other names that were mentioned.

 

[Habs Halifax]

Timmins hit really well? From 19-21, there is 1 NHLer, the rest remains to be seen. I love when we praises drafts that haven’t manufactured big league players. His 19-21 list doesn’t look remarkably different than any other 3 year span.

It's too early to know but there is good development there in those years and no, it's not the same as before. I get the feeling you want it to be like prior years?

 

[WeThreeKings]

So both combines are done now.

Habs should have collected all the information possible, they'll still go through more video but I'm sure the list is going to start to come together soon.

 

[Habs Halifax]

I agree about Guhle, but there's still a ways to go before we can claim success for those years for Timmins. Not with the other names that were mentioned.

Claim success or talk about the development resumes as we see them? I think Guhle is our only Grade A today but we have a lot of Grade B+ types that are on very good tracks. Some other fans have them as grade A but I don't. However, you have to be a very negative person to not like the Habs prospect pool today. Any attempt to deflate or make it look like other years is reaching. How it looks today and how it will turn out will change yes but there is no reason not to be happy with our current prospect pool and the development resumes you see.

 

[MON4NHLTOR4MLB]

I like Sykora and want him drafted just not with any of our top 3 picks

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

I think Timmins said himself that they really liked Romanov at their Euro combine and that's why they drafted him so high.

I think the series against CHL teams initially put him on their radar.....

 

[Vachon23]

I think the series against CHL teams initially put him on their radar.....

I don't think he have played that series before he was drafted

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

I don't think he have played that series before he was drafted

He 100% did

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

From the Montreal Gazette

“I was a little surprised,” Romanov told reporters in Dallas through a Russian translator. “I thought that I was going to go towards the end of the second, maybe early third round, and so I was surprised.”

The 5-foot-11, 185-pounder was ranked No. 115 among European skaters by NHL Central Scouting, but the Canadiens obviously had him ranked a lot higher.

Canadiens assistant general manager Trevor Timmins told reporters in Dallas that Romanov really impressed the team’s scouts when he played for Russia at the World Junior A Challenge.

“Right there, you could see it was on the smaller ice in Truro, N.S., and he really stepped his game up and played really well there,” Timmins told reporters in Dallas. “With less time and space, he showed us that he could make quick decisions with the puck. And he plays physical. He does it all.”

That challenge took place months before the combine

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

I like Sykora and want him drafted just not with any of our top 3 picks

agree, obviously, on the top 3 picks,
but think if we don't call his name with our EDM pick, he'll be gone next time we talk.
and at that pick there will be other good options too