Prospect Info: Kevin Korchinski, 7th Overall, 2022 NHL Draft

[statswatcher]

I don’t even care about the typos. I start to read the vast majority of the posts but when it’s obsessively negative and repetitive I move on. I find myself moving on a lot.

the typos are the surface level puzzle that you solve, and every once in a while you are rewarded with as close to direct access to the inner monologue of the guy in town who rides around on the bus all day as you are ever likely to get.

 

[dougd]

Those are usually the guys in the news for something terrible, with a part of the story saying "co-workers said he was acting strangly"....

Does that mean he was choking people?

 

[WarriorofTime]

So uh I hope Korchinski plays well tonight

 

[TLEH]

I think he's got a long way to go.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

I think he's got a long way to go.

May be sacrilege to say, but I could see him being moved for a big ticket forward IF the other defensive prospects continue to trend nicely. Left side is pretty full since Kaiser and Allan are on the team with Vlasic this year and EDM down in Rockford as well.

 

[Kevin Musto]

May be sacrilege to say, but I could see him being moved for a big ticket forward IF the other defensive prospects continue to trend nicely. Left side is pretty full since Kaiser and Allan are on the team with Vlasic this year and EDM down in Rockford as well.

I've brought that up in the past as a possibility.

At a certain point you do have to start dealing from a position of strength in order shore up elsewhere.

Probably at least a couple more years before Kyle starts to look at that.

 

[TLEH]

I just think Rinzel is probably our PP guy so I'm just not sure where he fits for me. I also just think he's way too timid on the ice and I personally wonder if he'll ever get there.

He's 20. So much time. But just what I've seen.

 

[Kevin Musto]

I just think Rinzel is probably our PP guy so I'm just not sure where he fits for me. I also just think he's way too timid on the ice and I personally wonder if he'll ever get there.

He's 20. So much time. But just what I've seen.

Yeah I don't think Korchinski is the future PPQB.

Kaiser, Allan, and EDM all still have to prove themselves too.

But it's true that Korchinski doesn't play that bottom pairing shutdown style. And Vlasic has very clearly won the top pairing role on the left side.

So Korchinski is fighting for the 2nd pairing spot. Which he still could get. Allan and EDM strike me more as bottom pairing guys. Kaiser... I don't really know what he is yet. He might be Korchinski's most direct competition.

 

[BobbyJet]

Yeah I don't think Korchinski is the future PPQB.

Kaiser, Allan, and EDM all still have to prove themselves too.

But it's true that Korchinski doesn't play that bottom pairing shutdown style. And Vlasic has very clearly won the top pairing role on the left side.

So Korchinski is fighting for the 2nd pairing spot. Which he still could get. Allan and EDM strike me more as bottom pairing guys. Kaiser... I don't really know what he is yet. He might be Korchinski's most direct competition.

I'm not sure about Allan, EDM and Kaiser being bottom pair guys. In fact I think KK may end up on the trading block before too long but it is way to early to speculate. All of these young guys have some growing to do experience wise.

 

[clydesdale line]

If it's not Korchinski, ima go out on a limb and say Hawks will give Levshunov every opportunity to be that guy. You don't invest a top 2 pick on a guy who won't be the top dog in every situation which I believe they envision him as.

But I think this will all be moot and Korchinski will come out better for it. I think Kyle trades a guy like EDM for help long before Korch.

 

[Styles]

You guys fixate on the who, what, and where way too much. Let it materialize a little first.

 

[ColbyChaos]

I've brought that up in the past as a possibility.

At a certain point you do have to start dealing from a position of strength in order shore up elsewhere.

Probably at least a couple more years before Kyle starts to look at that.

It also leads to doing the same mistake Stanley did being overconfident in prospects at a position and trading only to trade away the one good enough to stick in the league while making a terrible overpay of a trade years later.

It wasnt too long ago this board was convinced Jokiharju, Boqvist, Beaudin, Mitchell, and Pokka was going to be our Dcore of the future only for Stanley to trade away the one good one of that group for Nylander and make a godawful Jones trade when the rest were proven to be not worth shit.

 

[Toews2Bickell]

Rinzel gonna be that dude...Hawks have a nice core developing, you can only hope that someone like Korchinski retains his value and they don't end up in a Reichel situation where he's more valuable to us than others because of where he was selected