Prospect Info: Jets Prospects

[Bob E]

2023 5th Jacob Julien 1A (primary)
2024 5th Markus Loponen 2G
2023 1st Brayden Yager 0
2023 7th Conor Levis 1G

Didn’t look like Yager played either game on weekend. Hurt? Sick?

 

[ps241]

The Moose results are odd. I don't watch the games but having our top prospects all put up modest numbers (Salomonsson notwithstanding) is a bit concerning. How much of it is team effects, how much of it is low quality support pieces? Is this a coaching issue?

Prospects that want to get to the next level (NHL) usually find a way to assert themselves in the AHL. Both Lambert and Chibby had decent results last season but there is some heavy regression going on pretty much team wide this season.

 

[Huffer]

Apparently it was cancelled because not every team in it could commit next year. Vancouver could have, but I think the suspect is Edmonton. Edmonton must have the least amount of prospects in the NHL. Jets have the same amount of draft picks as them in the last 4 years, 20, but have probably kept more of them. Oilers have less already this year ahead of the trade deadline and the draft. Jets would probably have to rely on a bunch of AHL tryout guys for their defense, even last year had 25 year old Anhorn and 24 year old Barteaux in the tourney.

Maybe one team couldn't commit because they wanted to host their own tourney. I suspect Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg still go through with some kind of tournament.

Hopefully the Jets can find some other teams and try something similar. Seemed like an interesting opportunity for the young prospects to have a few games together.

 

[Whileee]

The Moose results are odd. I don't watch the games but having our top prospects all put up modest numbers (Salomonsson notwithstanding) is a bit concerning. How much of it is team effects, how much of it is low quality support pieces? Is this a coaching issue?

Prospects that want to get to the next level (NHL) usually find a way to assert themselves in the AHL. Both Lambert and Chibby had decent results last season but there is some heavy regression going on pretty much team wide this season.

This Moose team is really woeful, especially on defense. They don't get much going offensively and are defending too much. The veteran forwards have been really under-performing... Toninato, Shaw, Ford, AJF are all well below their usual production.

Salomonsson will help.

 

[Romang67]

Walton's highlights really make him seem like a high IQ player, much more than someone who is overly reliant on physical tools. He's finding high quality spots on the ice both with his passing and his positioning very often in these clips.

 

[Romang67]

Only related to Jets prospects in that Mews went to play with Walton in Sudbury, but CHL trades crack me up:

 

[Buffdog]

Walton's highlights really make him seem like a high IQ player, much more than someone who is overly reliant on physical tools. He's finding high quality spots on the ice both with his passing and his positioning very often in these clips.

Agreed. He's big and uses his body to protect the puck but it's not like he's using his size to manhandle smaller guys to get his points

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Walton's highlights really make him seem like a high IQ player, much more than someone who is overly reliant on physical tools. He's finding high quality spots on the ice both with his passing and his positioning very often in these clips.

Is Walton a candidate to get traded to contender at the trade deadline or will Sudbury trade to get some secondary scoring?

Edit: looks like Sudbury is going all in .

 

[DeepFrickinValue]

Only related to Jets prospects in that Mews went to play with Walton in Sudbury, but CHL trades crack me up:

If the news is to be believed, Mews is likely going NCAA after this season.

 

[voyageur]

This Moose team is really woeful, especially on defense. They don't get much going offensively and are defending too much. The veteran forwards have been really under-performing... Toninato, Shaw, Ford, AJF are all well below their usual production.

Salomonsson will help.

I'm not sure if you meant JAD instead of Ford because Parker Ford is only in his 2nd full season, age wise rookie Dylan Anhorn would be more veteran than him. And his first full season he was on the Moose's best line down the stretch, with Reichel and Viel, both gone. This year it's Conley and Suess. You see him in the right places all the time in the highlights. In front of the net on PP1. On the PK. I think he's a legit prospect, but at 24 years old probably ready for the next step.

It's still a mystery to me how the team announces Toninato as captain and midseason Jets recall him, proceeded by the Moose going on a winning streak. What's really going on with this team? I'd say not only the vets aren't performing, but Zhilkin, Wagner, Kuzmin and Bauer as prospects aren't taking the next step.

You'd have to say that the current AHL vets that the team is relying on: Shaw, AJF, JAD, who form one line, and Suess, Empey and Sauntner, are on the underwhelming side.

Anhorn has stepped up of late, it looks like he is the guy the Jets wanted to replace Capobianco, with his skating. Salomonsson is needed .

I just wonder if it's trying to find some chemistry out of all these new faces, and some returning ones.

And having goalies that struggled to make saves, trying to bounce back.

 

[Upperdeckjet]

The release on both the wrister and the snapper looked pretty elite by Barlow!