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LD Kevin Korchinski - Seattle Thunderbirds, WHL (2022, 7th, CHI)

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Skinnyjimmy08 said:
In my opinion KK won't be NHL ready by next year... I strongly feel he will be back in junior again... He will play out his 19 year old season in Seattle I would imagine

I'm a huge fan of him and would love to see him in the NHL next season but also I'm realistic and I still think there are things he can work on before making the jump to the NHL
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Maybe sir
 
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He looked very good in the Hawks preseason games I watched, I think he can make it after a year of experience dominating the WHL + offseason training. When a guy is ready, he's ready.

Werenski, Sergachev, (Quinn) Hughes, Dobson, all drafted around the same spot recently and made the NHL in their D+2 seasons. It's a good group to be in, more impressive than the guys who took longer. Boqvist the only one who did it and hasn't panned out very well so far, but he has had injury issues including concussions.
 
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EbonyRaptor said:
I would err on the side of caution - especially because the Hawks are projected to be terrible again next season so if KK isn't slam dunk 100% ready PLUS he has to play with a bunch of misfits - can't see that being beneficial to his development.
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Agreed upon further review. Give him the Pieterangelo treatment.
 
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Bubbles said:
4A tonight. This Seattle team is just bulldozing teams.
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They bulldozed Victoria tonight but they've had some close games against the better teams - not all bulldozed.

But they are a pretty loaded team who is getting even stronger. They added Brad Lambert a few weeks ago, then Dylan Guenther about 10 days ago. Then Colton Dach just played his first game for Seattle tonight after being injured in the WJC and getting traded to Seattle. Another ppg player - Jordan Gustafson - is supposed to return from injury soon. Plus both goalies are playing at a high level.

There are some other very strong teams in the W so the playoffs should be pretty competitive and exciting.
 
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The Thunderbirds sure are stacked this season. Korchinski is currently the fifth highest scoring defenseman in the 2023 playoffs with 14 points; he is second among Seattle's defensemen (Hanzel currently has 21 points).
 
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Howe Elbows 9 said:
The Thunderbirds sure are stacked this season. Korchinski is currently the fifth highest scoring defenseman in the 2023 playoffs with 14 points; he is second among Seattle's defensemen (Hanzel currently has 21 points).
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Stacked is an understatement. They might be the best CHL team ever assembled. They've outscored Winnipeg 14-8 in their last 3 games, a Winnipeg team that is incredible in their own right (they went 57-10) after beating another stacked team in Kamloops.

The elite teams in the WHL this year are as strong as they've ever been, but since adding Guenther and Lambert, Seattle has separated themselves from even that group. It just seems like they can turn it on whenever they need to, and nobody can touch them.

Obviously they are stacked up front (with essentially 5 guys capable of playing as a 1C), but I think it's their D core / goaltending that make the difference.

Korchinski is a top 2 defenseman in the WHL, and after that they've got 4 other legit top pairing dmen IMO (Hanzel, Allen, Prokop, and Mynio). And then they've got Milic in net, the guy who backstopped Canada to gold, and whose save percentage leads the entire WHL in the regular season and playoffs.

It's a perfectly built team.
 
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Looks like all guys from his draft class are doing good when it comes to D. You were not really wrong in picking Mintyukov or Korchinski after Nemec & Jiricek.

Korchinski was my favourite after Jiricek & Nemec and still stays so. Will be interesting to see how Korchinski, Mintuykov and Mateychuk compare down the line when it comes time to step up to men's league(Granted, I had Ryan Chesley in this group as well which ain't too bad either but maybe he is in different weight class after all).
 
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Howe Elbows 9 said:
The Thunderbirds sure are stacked this season. Korchinski is currently the fifth highest scoring defenseman in the 2023 playoffs with 14 points; he is second among Seattle's defensemen (Hanzel currently has 21 points).
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I think they said they have something like 8 guys that played for Canada at the world juniors plus Lambert who played for Finland. Unreal.
 
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Howe Elbows 9 said:
The Thunderbirds sure are stacked this season. Korchinski is currently the fifth highest scoring defenseman in the 2023 playoffs with 14 points; he is second among Seattle's defensemen (Hanzel currently has 21 points).
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WarriorofTime said:
I think they said they have something like 8 guys that played for Canada at the world juniors plus Lambert who played for Finland. Unreal.
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6 actually (Guenther, Schaefer, Korchinski, Allan, Dach and Milic), which is still ridiculous. They have 10 NHL drafted players, plus two more that will likely be drafted in rounds 1-3 this year (Sawchyn and Myatovic). It's also possible that both of their goaltenders (Milic and Ratzlaff) will be drafted this year as well. They're insanely stacked by junior hockey standards. And to think Macklin Celebrini could've played with them this year too.
 
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kyle44 said:
6 actually (Guenther, Schaefer, Korchinski, Allan, Dach and Milic), which is still ridiculous. They have 10 NHL drafted players, plus two more that will likely be drafted in rounds 1-3 this year (Sawchyn and Myatovic). It's also possible that both of their goaltenders (Milic and Ratzlaff) will be drafted this year as well. They're insanely stacked by junior hockey standards. And to think Macklin Celebrini could've played with them this year too.
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Wouldn't shock me if Mynio went in the first 3 rounds either.

There's only 2-4 regulars on this team that probably won't end up as NHL draft picks when all is said and done.

They compare pretty favorably (on paper at least) to that legendary 2004-05 Knights team, who had 16 guys drafted (Dylan Hunter was drafted outside the first 7 rounds so call it 15).

London 2004-05 (15 drafted in first 7 rounds)
1st - 2
2nd - 2
3rd - 3*
4th - 1
5th - 3
6th - 2
7th - 2

*includes Harrison Reed who barely played for them that year.

Seattle 2022-23 (10 drafted so far)
1st - 5
2nd - 1
3rd - 2
4th - 0
5th - 1
6th - 1
7th - 0

Seattle already has more picks from the top 3 rounds and that's without potentially adding Sawchyn, Myatovic, Mynio, and the goalies. Hanzel might go in a later round too. Plus 2024+ eligible guys like Iginla, Cootes, lil Davidson.

Purely from a draft pedigree perspective, they have to be the most CHL loaded team of all time.
 
Even two out of three overagers on their team are draft picks, which I assume is pretty rare. In the case of Davidson, he was a third time go around pick in 2022, so they don't have to sign him until 2024, so no harm no foul with him going back. Prokop is likely just a bust at this point since he began in the ECHL before getting sent back, and since this is his age 20 season it does count as a burn on his ELC.
 
kyle44 said:
And to think Macklin Celebrini could've played with them this year too.
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Don’t do that to me

WarriorofTime said:
Even two out of three overagers on their team are draft picks, which I assume is pretty rare. In the case of Davidson, he was a third time go around pick in 2022, so they don't have to sign him until 2024, so no harm no foul with him going back. Prokop is likely just a bust at this point since he began in the ECHL before getting sent back, and since this is his age 20 season it does count as a burn on his ELC.
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Davidson is a 20, can’t go back to Seattle, and I’ll miss him
 
superdeluxe said:
Don’t do that to me



Davidson is a 20, can’t go back to Seattle, and I’ll miss him
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Yeah I meant for this year, they aren’t burning a year on his elc with him playing as an overage player since they can just wait until the season is over to sign him to his elc. I dunno about his pro future but he’s a heck of a junior player.
 
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