Depends on what you'd consider a hit. They've all got a good chance at making it in some capacity but they also all have their own question marks. Barlow especially needs to round out his game. If the only thing that he brings that's NHL level is his shot he's essentially a Brandon Pirri or Martin Frk. Salomonsson still isn't producing, Lambert is the type of player that coaches will have difficulty trusting.
Maybe they will be pro-ready but we have a backlog of veterans and eventually we lose them all on waivers
The top end of our prospect pool are of a much higher quality than the deep depth players you lose on waivers following their ELCs. Think Samberg and Perfetti, rather than Harkins and Chisholm.
/s . However I think chism is a lot closer to samberg than kovacevic. I think he will be a regular for the mild
Personally, I don't think it's unreasonable to have Salomonsson in the top-3. I could understand an argument for Lambert over Barlow. Watching Salomonsson in the SHL and Champions League this season, he's looking more and more like he could make an impact at the NHL level in the not-too-distant future. He plays a very solid and aggressive defensive game, using his outstanding skating and physical style to close gaps defensively (all over the ice). In transition D, he reminds me somewhat of Samberg.
I'd have to see a complete list of his moves. Nobody bats 1.000%
Salomonsson is interesting. He always seems to be getting and creating chances but hasn't put up much in the way of offense. A few things to note is that he doesn't play on the powerplay, and more importantly the SHL is very selective in handing out secondary assists. If it didn't directly affect the goal they usually don't give an assist for it, so Salomonsson's great outlet passes that result in goals don't get him secondary assists. I also don't get the Samberg comparisons. Much higher offensive upside, much lower defensive upside. His defence is passable, nothing close to the defense first game Samberg was playing at the same age.
Me too, big fan of Salomonsson's game and progression.
A couple of points... The SHL makes it very difficult for D to generate much except on the PP. Axel Sandin-Pellika (Salomonsson's teammate who is rated as having top-end offensive skill) has the same number of even-strength goals as Salomonsson in the SHL at 2 (and fewer if you include Champions League).
Yes, but Barlow will score lots of goalz, but Lambert will have better rate stats and suffer from poor deployment, and the Board will be divided. So don't get your hopes up.
I wonder if he could develop into a modern day version of Ulf Samuelson? I would be very pleased if that’s the type of defenseman he turns out to be.
Yeah he's wonderful to watch skate, great outlet pass. I mentioned the powerplay thing already, though he was on the powerplay a fair bit last year and didn't produce much with it. Another point to add is how low scoring of a league the SHL is this year. Of players who have played a significant amount of games there's only 1 at or above a point per game, Kuokkanen with 38 points in 37 games. Honestly it would have been really nice to see him on the Moose this season but I understand him going back and don't blame him at all.
