Prospect Info: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc. [Mid-April Edition]

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Alexis Gendron had quite a season
PO: 13g 8-4 12 ES 6-1 7 PP
Regular: 63g 33-22 55 ES 21-4 25 PP
They must use him in a Ovechkin type role on the PP, guess he can shoot the puck.

5'10 174 when signed. Currently listed at 180. Probably play at 185 lbs or so, TK size.


In terms of pre-Draft national rankings, the player was ranked No. 141 by Central Scouting among North American skaters, while McKeen's ranked Gendron 71st overall among all draft-eligible players.

Alexis Gendron, RW, Gatineau Olympiques (Philadelphia Flyers)​

Over the past couple of years, Gatineau’s lack of high-end finishers didn’t enable them to capitalize on the talent of some of their more dynamic playmakers. They solved that problem when they brought Alexis Gendron from the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, one of the best net-front scorers in the QMJHL.

Undersized, he doesn’t bulldoze his way to the cage. He’s more cunning than that. He dangles through sticks and scores by anticipating puck movements and presenting his stick at just the right time to his teammates at the far post. If Gendron can continue to develop his speed, playmaking game, and grittier side, he could carve himself a role in the NHL down the line, not unlike another similarly talented, seventh-rounder, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard.


I can't wrap my head around why he's not getting more attention. This goal scoring ability really is something

 
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I can't wrap my head around why he's not getting more attention. This goal scoring ability really is something



Ratcliffe scored 50 goals after we drafted him too. Gendron looks like a good pick for where he was selected obviously, but there's no reason to go overboard yet and assume it will translate to the next levels.
 
Ratcliffe scored 50 goals after we drafted him too. Gendron looks like a good pick for where he was selected obviously, but there's no reason to go overboard yet and assume it will translate to the next levels.
We'll have to wait two years, but the fact that he actually scored at a higher rate in the playoffs is a good sign.
Usually, the best prospects step up in the playoffs, showing their production isn't a matter of padding stats against weak competition.
And this was his D+1 production, so it's not as an overage player.

December 30, 2003 birthday, so he was 18-19, not much different than a January birthday.
 
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Ratcliffe scored 50 goals after we drafted him too. Gendron looks like a good pick for where he was selected obviously, but there's no reason to go overboard yet and assume it will translate to the next levels.

FWIW I never liked the Ratcliffe pick. Yeah there was junior production but it's about the way they're scoring the goals. Ratcliffe's goals, a lot of them were just simply due to the space he owned for himself with his size, and pidgeoning it up. Things that wouldn't translate to the NHL if he can't add quickness

Gendron, the vast majority of those goals were high skill, high difficulty goals. And he's showing very impressive quickness, urgency, and overall goal scoring IQ. Look at goal 28 and 20. His release and shot placement is amazing. His skating and first strides are also great. He uses deception effectively and makes lightning fast decisions. He's persistent with 2nd and 3rd efforts. He supports the puck. He knows exactly what he wants to do with it before the puck touches his stick. I can go on and on just from watching the goal clips. He looks to be 5'10. As long as he can hold his own playing without the puck I feel like I hardly need to watch a full game to predict with confidence that he'll play. Of course I do.. but his offensive skillset looks bona fide
 
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Wheeler had him at #15 in January, but I suspect he'll be ranked higher this summer due to his strong finish.

Gendron is a determined and athletic on-puck scorer who plays bigger than his 5-foot-9 frame, attacks the slot and the front of the net fearlessly, goes to the dirty areas with and without the puck, and then has the skill and malleable skating in traffic to finish and manufacture offense. His game can tunnel vision and chase the play a little more than I’d like and I think that may prevent him from becoming more than a complementary AHL scorer and worker, but I didn’t mind the Flyers taking him with their last pick of last year’s draft. I also expect he’ll rise to the occasion with an Olympiques team that has title aspirations in the QMJHL playoffs this year and that may help his odds at getting an NHL deal.
 
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Wheeler had him at #15 in January, but I suspect he'll be ranked higher this summer due to his strong finish.

Gendron is a determined and athletic on-puck scorer who plays bigger than his 5-foot-9 frame, attacks the slot and the front of the net fearlessly, goes to the dirty areas with and without the puck, and then has the skill and malleable skating in traffic to finish and manufacture offense. His game can tunnel vision and chase the play a little more than I’d like and I think that may prevent him from becoming more than a complementary AHL scorer and worker, but I didn’t mind the Flyers taking him with their last pick of last year’s draft. I also expect he’ll rise to the occasion with an Olympiques team that has title aspirations in the QMJHL playoffs this year and that may help his odds at getting an NHL deal.

Well his personality seems coachable, maybe it’ll take him 2 full AHL seasons but I think he’ll play
 
Looking for info on players who made their NHL debut last season. Specifically what type of player they are and what their future NHL outlook is. Thanks!

F - Elliot Desnoyers
F - Olle Lycksell
D - Adam Ginning
G - Samuel Ersson
 
Looking for info on players who made their NHL debut last season. Specifically what type of player they are and what their future NHL outlook is. Thanks!

F - Elliot Desnoyers
F - Olle Lycksell
D - Adam Ginning
G - Samuel Ersson
Desnoyers - two way player who had a nice AHL campaign at 20-21, 23 goals, 65g 14-19 33 at ES.
5'11 183, needs to get stronger to fill a bottom six role but will get a chance to start next year.

Lycksell - had a breakout season in the SHL at 22, and good season in the AHL, 53g 9-21 30 at ES.
6'0 196, doesn't play up to his size, will have to win a top 9 spot to stick next season, is he skilled enough?

Ginning - showed a lot of improvement in his first AHL season at 22-23 after stepping up in the SHL playoffs the previous spring.
+24 (next closest D-man was Attard at +10). Big, 6'4 205, fairly mobile, good first pass out of the D-zone but limited offensively.
Long-shot to win the 3LHD job, probably start in the AHL and if he continues to improve will be a spring call-up.

Ersson - showed in his NHL cameo he belonged, was sent back to the AHL to get work after missing the previous season.
Wore down from overuse toward the end of the season, but is a fundamentally sound goalie with good positioning who can backup right now in the NHL and who has starter potential.
 
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