Prospect Info: New Jersey Devils Draft Simon Nemec, 2nd Overall

[evnted]

with the AHL regular season wrapping up i wanted to share my updated thoughts on the nemec vs jiricek debate, going over their seasons, talking about developmental progress ive seen, and looking at how things might wind up down the road. i usually mainly focus on undrafted prospects, so this was a fun project for me to evaluate progress over a number of years of watching them. hope everyone enjoys

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec With how hotly contested the Jiricek vs Nemec debate ran last year, and with how inescapable it’ll be for New Jersey having been the team to choose one over the other, I made it a point to follow their D+1 seasons about as closely as I’ve ever followed ...

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[Monsieur Verdoux]

with the AHL regular season wrapping up i wanted to share my updated thoughts on the nemec vs jiricek debate, going over their seasons, talking about developmental progress ive seen, and looking at how things might wind up down the road. i usually mainly focus on undrafted prospects, so this was a fun project for me to evaluate progress over a number of years of watching them. hope everyone enjoys

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec With how hotly contested the Jiricek vs Nemec debate ran last year, and with how inescapable it’ll be for New Jersey having been the team to choose one over the other, I made it a point to follow their D+1 seasons about as closely as I’ve ever followed ...

docs.google.com

Great analysis, thanks for doing this!

 

[HobokenIrish]

with the AHL regular season wrapping up i wanted to share my updated thoughts on the nemec vs jiricek debate, going over their seasons, talking about developmental progress ive seen, and looking at how things might wind up down the road. i usually mainly focus on undrafted prospects, so this was a fun project for me to evaluate progress over a number of years of watching them. hope everyone enjoys

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec With how hotly contested the Jiricek vs Nemec debate ran last year, and with how inescapable it’ll be for New Jersey having been the team to choose one over the other, I made it a point to follow their D+1 seasons about as closely as I’ve ever followed ...

docs.google.com

That was well done. Thank you.

 

[Eggtimer]

As much as I would love for him to play at the WC, I think NJ needs to be 9 or 10 deep at defense especially if they make is through the first round.

I agree. Dumb question , would Vilen be considered an option if we get ravaged by injuries or is someone like Walsh a better option (for now) ? Is Vilen eligible to pla for NJ even? Im guessing no.

 

[Hisch13r]

I agree. Dumb question , would Vilen be considered an option if we get ravaged by injuries or is someone like Walsh a better option (for now) ? Is Vilen eligible to pla for NJ even? Im guessing no.

I highly doubt they'd consider Vilen. If we were down to our 10th guy it'd probably be Walsh if it's the offensive guys that went down and if not I'd bet on them going with Wotherspoon.

 

[Devil made me do it]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

Yeah, clearly his biggest mistake IMO. Though it's early, it's already looking pretty bad.

 

[Hisch13r]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

It’s real bad but it shouldn’t be an impediment to signing Bratt. We’ll still have the space to sign him. If anything it could help to prevent us from re-signing Tatar (please do what you have to to keep him) and it’ll present issues when we the young guys coming off their ELCs in the couple years

 

[Devs3cups]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

It was reported that Palat’s surgery would impair him for a while after happening. I’d wait until next year to make a judgement on Palat, he deserves the benefit of the doubt, but if he has similar results when fully healthy next year, then yeah.

 

[Devils731]

This is the wrong thread to talk about Palat and probably one of the strangest times to do so as well.

 

[Devs3cups]

This is the wrong thread to talk about Palat and probably one of the strangest times to do so as well.

Lmfao I jumped in without even noticing what thread it was.

 

[Guttersniped]

with the AHL regular season wrapping up i wanted to share my updated thoughts on the nemec vs jiricek debate, going over their seasons, talking about developmental progress ive seen, and looking at how things might wind up down the road. i usually mainly focus on undrafted prospects, so this was a fun project for me to evaluate progress over a number of years of watching them. hope everyone enjoys

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec With how hotly contested the Jiricek vs Nemec debate ran last year, and with how inescapable it’ll be for New Jersey having been the team to choose one over the other, I made it a point to follow their D+1 seasons about as closely as I’ve ever followed ...

docs.google.com

Just a fantastic write up, people are doing themselves a disservice if they don’t read it. Great work, thanks for sharing this.

 

[MasterofGrond]

Lmfao I jumped in without even noticing what thread it was.

poster gotta post

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

I agree. Dumb question , would Vilen be considered an option if we get ravaged by injuries or is someone like Walsh a better option (for now) ? Is Vilen eligible to pla for NJ even? Im guessing no.

I would have Russo or Walsh ahead of him at this point.

 

[Oneiro]

Just a fantastic write up, people are doing them a disservice by not reading it. Great work, thanks for sharing this.

Agreed. A great even-handed look.

Really funny how they're inverse prospects, skillset-wise and as far as how their seasons went.

 

[Guadana]

with the AHL regular season wrapping up i wanted to share my updated thoughts on the nemec vs jiricek debate, going over their seasons, talking about developmental progress ive seen, and looking at how things might wind up down the road. i usually mainly focus on undrafted prospects, so this was a fun project for me to evaluate progress over a number of years of watching them. hope everyone enjoys

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec

Prospect Development: Jiricek and Nemec With how hotly contested the Jiricek vs Nemec debate ran last year, and with how inescapable it’ll be for New Jersey having been the team to choose one over the other, I made it a point to follow their D+1 seasons about as closely as I’ve ever followed ...

docs.google.com

Great read, thank you!

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Damn I just added to the Palat convo too without noticing at all what thread I was in. My bad.

 

[Zajacs Bowl Cut]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

no it certainly will not.

 

[Captain3rdLine]

I like what Fitz has done for the most part. However, I didn't like the Palat acquisition when it was made, or better put, the money and the number of years he was given.
Unless he goes on a tear during the playoffs, that contract will be an albatross for years to come. Could impede us from re-signing Bratt.

Don’t have to like the signing but there’s no way it impede’s the Bratt signing. We have the money to sign Bratt. It’s gonna come down how much Fitz think’s he’s worth as a player. Palat or no Palat doesn’t affect that.

 

[Random Comment]

Let’s just wait to see if Palat can put up points in this playoff run before we resume any discussion of the prospect in question for this thread.

 

[Forge]

 

[Antiillafire]

Nemec’s NHLe seems on the low side for his AHL season, no? He was over 0.5 ppg and the model show that as very weak

 

[Clam Jensen]

I like the Orr comp lol

 

[Devs3cups]

Nemec’s NHLe seems on the low side for his AHL season, no? He was over 0.5 ppg and the model show that as very weak

Here was his answer to someone in the mentions asking the same thing!

 

[Antiillafire]

Here was his answer to someone in the mentions asking the same thing!

Makes sense, I guess the model just looks weird to the eyes. Almost as if he took a step back from his play in the Slovak league