Prospect Info: Jets Prospects

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Scott recently completed his rankings of all 32 NHL teams prospect pools and he had the Jets in the 11th spot in the entire league. He joined us on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show (February 12th) to provide his insight on a number of prospects playing in the NHL, AHL, college, junior or overseas.

1) How he arrived at the Winnipeg Jets in the 11th spot of his prospect rankings
2) The arrival of 2019 1st rounder Ville Heinola
3) What is he seeing from 2021 1st rounder Chaz Lucius?
4) His thoughts on the two Russians picked in 2021 2nd Nikita Chibrikov & 5th Dmitri Rashevsky.
5) The enigma that is Jets 2017 1st rounder Kristian Vesalainen
6) Development of Jets 2021 3rd rounder Dmitry Kuzmin who is in the OHL.
7) What does he see happening with 2018 3rd rounder Nathan Smith?
8) Does he see top 4 upside from Jets 2017 2nd rounder Dylan Samberg?
9) What can Jets fans expect from 2020 2nd rounder Daniel Torgersson?
 
Chibrikov with a secondary assist today.

Kuzmin with 1G1A last night, seems to be turning on the offense the past few games. 5 goals and 2 assists in his last 5 games. Albeit 2 of the 5 goals were empty netters.
 


Scott recently completed his rankings of all 32 NHL teams prospect pools and he had the Jets in the 11th spot in the entire league. He joined us on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show (February 12th) to provide his insight on a number of prospects playing in the NHL, AHL, college, junior or overseas.

1) How he arrived at the Winnipeg Jets in the 11th spot of his prospect rankings
2) The arrival of 2019 1st rounder Ville Heinola
3) What is he seeing from 2021 1st rounder Chaz Lucius?
4) His thoughts on the two Russians picked in 2021 2nd Nikita Chibrikov & 5th Dmitri Rashevsky.
5) The enigma that is Jets 2017 1st rounder Kristian Vesalainen
6) Development of Jets 2021 3rd rounder Dmitry Kuzmin who is in the OHL.
7) What does he see happening with 2018 3rd rounder Nathan Smith?
8) Does he see top 4 upside from Jets 2017 2nd rounder Dylan Samberg?
9) What can Jets fans expect from 2020 2nd rounder Daniel Torgersson?



Excellent work guys. Really lines up with my view of our current prospect group
 
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Scott recently completed his rankings of all 32 NHL teams prospect pools and he had the Jets in the 11th spot in the entire league. He joined us on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show (February 12th) to provide his insight on a number of prospects playing in the NHL, AHL, college, junior or overseas.

1) How he arrived at the Winnipeg Jets in the 11th spot of his prospect rankings
2) The arrival of 2019 1st rounder Ville Heinola
3) What is he seeing from 2021 1st rounder Chaz Lucius?
4) His thoughts on the two Russians picked in 2021 2nd Nikita Chibrikov & 5th Dmitri Rashevsky.
5) The enigma that is Jets 2017 1st rounder Kristian Vesalainen
6) Development of Jets 2021 3rd rounder Dmitry Kuzmin who is in the OHL.
7) What does he see happening with 2018 3rd rounder Nathan Smith?
8) Does he see top 4 upside from Jets 2017 2nd rounder Dylan Samberg?
9) What can Jets fans expect from 2020 2nd rounder Daniel Torgersson?


I had to bounce Saturday morning and missed this segment. I like the work that you guys did on this one. Always good to get an arms length from the Jets opinion on our prospect pool. Wheeler and Pronman take some heat at times with Fans because when it comes to Canadian NHL fans they are insanely irrational about their prospects. This is a good take IMO.
 
I would like to know if we have any prospects that are difficult to play against. Their agitators, full of energy, can skate well, bigger than 5' 9"? Carry on!
 
Austin Wong. Doubt that he will ever suit up for us though. Bright guy playing for Harvard.
 
I wonder who gets to go and not. Would you want to say see Perfetti go and get injured before the season starts?

I can't see him being made available or even him wanting to go. He's an NHL player now and will likely be purely focused on being ready for the season.
 
I wonder who gets to go and not. Would you want to say see Perfetti go and get injured before the season starts?

Injury is always a risk. That risk was there if the WJC had been played normally. It would have applied to the NHL's star players if they had been at the Olympics. Players sometimes get injured during off-season training, or cutting their lawns.
 
I can't see him being made available or even him wanting to go. He's an NHL player now and will likely be purely focused on being ready for the season.

Yes and no. Players have been allowed to go in the past when already on NHL rosters. Teams have also refused to release players for that event. It depends on the team and on how important that player is to that team on the ice at the time. But it is off-season, so the team is not sacrificing his contributions during the tournament.

I would think that the team would not want to deprive him of that opportunity - assuming he wants to go.
 
Yes and no. Players have been allowed to go in the past when already on NHL rosters. Teams have also refused to release players for that event. It depends on the team and on how important that player is to that team on the ice at the time. But it is off-season, so the team is not sacrificing his contributions during the tournament.

I would think that the team would not want to deprive him of that opportunity - assuming he wants to go.

Hard to say what the org and him will decide. Usually though the players released aren't top 6 caliber players, it being in the offseason adds a wrinkle.

Truth be told I think the tournament is beneath his ability now. He's playing at an NHL top 6 level now and will have another offseason under his belt. What does he get by going and feasting on younger kids?
 
Hard to say what the org and him will decide. Usually though the players released aren't top 6 caliber players, it being in the offseason adds a wrinkle.

Truth be told I think the tournament is beneath his ability now. He's playing at an NHL top 6 level now and will have another offseason under his belt. What does he get by going and feasting on younger kids?

What he gets is the chance to compete for his country and win gold. :)
Beyond that, it has to be pretty good off-season training.
But he may want some time off from playing too. Who knows how he will feel after the grueling schedule the Jets will finish the season with?
 
Conversation goes like this:
Cole: I sure would love to play in the World Junior Championship.
Chevy: Sure kid, not a problem. Hope the Canadian team wants to insure your contract.
Cole: Huh?
 

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