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Draft Round 1 #23: New York Rangers Select RW Gabriel Perreault (Boston College, NCAA)

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Gabe will almost certainly turn pro after this season. Whether or not he’s thrust into the NHL immediately is a different question.


2 additional years in college won’t serve him at all unless he really struggles to put on weight. Even if there isn’t a spot for him on the NHL roster, the AHL isn’t a boogeyman league. Plenty of great players have spent some time down there.
 
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Of what I've seen from Perreault is that he has the hockey IQ and stick and passing skills on about a level with Fox and Panarin. Fox ain't the fastest player and Panarin's a great skater but he's not really a speed demon. Neither Fox or Panarin have yet to play a game in the AHL. Neither of them are particularly physical players either. Their whole thing is guile.....being smart all over the ice and not putting themselves in vulnerable positions (or at least not very often) to get creamed by hits. Perreault game pretty much thrives on the major components of those two. He can make unreal plays all over the ice again and again. One thing also I saw several times from him last year is an ability to disappear in traffic and then reappear in a dangerous scoring area. His hockey brain is just outstanding.

If he's not strong enough for the NHL he's not strong enough for the AHL. If anything the AHL is a nastier and more physical league. There are more goons and players who will fight at the drop of a hat and there are plenty of guys running around banging bodies hoping that'll be a ticket onto an NHL 4th line somewhere. That league is all about making enough impression to get a call up look see and for most players in that league to have any hope they need to be going all out all of the time. There are a lot of angry, frustrated and bitter players in the AHL and the difference between making $80,000 in Albany or Springfield vs. making at least $750,000 for even the worst NHL team also plays into it.
 
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Because I like to set unreasonable expectations (how else can I best be the disappointed Rangers fan I was meant to be?)

Gabe PPG in his rookie season 1.67

The last 10 best PPG by a Sophomore
23-24 Cutter Gaultier (ANA) 1.59 (suck it!)
22-23 Sean Farrell (MTL) 1.56
21-22 Matt Kopperud (23 yo undrafted) 1.18
20-21 Cole Caulfield (MTL) 1.68 league leader (LL)
19-20 Jack Dugan (VGK -> ECHL) 1.53 (LL)
18-19 Evan Barratt (CHI -> DEL) 1.34
17-18 Wade Allison (PHI -> AHL) 1.36
16-17 Mason Jobst (undrafted -> AHL) 1.41
15-16 Andrew Poturalski (undrafted -> AHL) 1.41
14-15 Michael Vecchione (undrafted -> AHL) 1.28

So I guess that makes Cole Caulfield the best Sophomore in the last 10 years?
 

C/W Gabe Perreault - Boston College, NCAA (2023, 23rd, NYR)

I'm a bit of a tough grader on prospects because, well, most of them don't work out...but Gabe Perreault is one that I really, really like and it all starts with his mental game. He has elite hockey sense and one of the sharpest mental processors of the last few drafts. I broke down a little bit...
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GAGLine said:

C/W Gabe Perreault - Boston College, NCAA (2023, 23rd, NYR)

I'm a bit of a tough grader on prospects because, well, most of them don't work out...but Gabe Perreault is one that I really, really like and it all starts with his mental game. He has elite hockey sense and one of the sharpest mental processors of the last few drafts. I broke down a little bit...
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Oh, thanks for posting this here. I was just strolling through to point it out.



Yeah, I'm a big fan of Perreault because of how fast his mental processor is. I had him neck and neck with Smith and Leonard in his DY. He takes some flak for defensive play (which I don't really agree with to start) but he stops on almost every puck. I don't 'know where you go statistically from 60 points as a freshman...but if he gets an even better center than Will Smith in James Hagens, then who knows...

I'm thinking he gets some pro games at the end of the year, eh? After the Frozen Four.
 
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GAGLine said:
I'm hoping that's the plan. We'll have to see how Smith and Kakko do this year, but Perreault might be able to help us in the playoffs, a la Kreider many moons ago.
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Depending on how things go and how the pro scouts project him, it might allow you guys some flexibility at forward to maybe make a big splash at the deadline...whatever that may be. Adding a top-4 d-man or whatever the situation calls for.
 
Michael Farkas said:
Oh, thanks for posting this here. I was just strolling through to point it out.



Yeah, I'm a big fan of Perreault because of how fast his mental processor is. I had him neck and neck with Smith and Leonard in his DY. He takes some flak for defensive play (which I don't really agree with to start) but he stops on almost every puck. I don't 'know where you go statistically from 60 points as a freshman...but if he gets an even better center than Will Smith in James Hagens, then who knows...

I'm thinking he gets some pro games at the end of the year, eh? After the Frozen Four.
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Huh, I haven't maybe thought about it that way because god knows how I manage to think about anything these days but all of those "he's just floating on defense!" takes can be explained a lot in part by him using positioning to cut off lanes and position himself to make plays on the puck rather than like, trying to stick to a guy all the time
 
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Michael Farkas said:
Oh, thanks for posting this here. I was just strolling through to point it out.



Yeah, I'm a big fan of Perreault because of how fast his mental processor is. I had him neck and neck with Smith and Leonard in his DY. He takes some flak for defensive play (which I don't really agree with to start) but he stops on almost every puck. I don't 'know where you go statistically from 60 points as a freshman...but if he gets an even better center than Will Smith in James Hagens, then who knows...

I'm thinking he gets some pro games at the end of the year, eh? After the Frozen Four.
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"DU about to initiate a seance" might be the best line I've heard in a hockey video ever lmao.
 
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Gabe with an assist so far, up 3-0. Oddly they dont have Hagens on his line.
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I tuned in during the 3rd, saw him get a few great chances so far. One errant pass in the D zone that almost ended up as a goal against, but Michigan can't beat BC's goalie it seems, and then Gabe's line turned back up ice and got a good chance themselves. I haven't watched him before but can already tell he's a heady player. Very aware of the play around him, and looks like he knows where to move and when.
 
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I tuned in during the 3rd, saw him get a few great chances so far. One errant pass in the D zone that almost ended up as a goal against, but Michigan can't beat BC's goalie it seems, and then Gabe's line turned back up ice and got a good chance themselves. I haven't watched him before but can already tell he's a heady player. Very aware of the play around him, and looks like he knows where to move and when.
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His hockey IQ is through the roof.
 
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GP putting on an absolute clinic tonight (against a lower quality opponent to be fair).

1+2 through 2 periods and could have easily had 2 more assists. All of his assists or potential assists were gorgeous individual efforts. Typical eyes in the back of his head stuff. Ho hum. He’s skating with the puck a lot more tonight as well.
 
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