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RW Jack Pridham - Kitchener Rangers, OHL (2024, 92nd, CHI; traded to TBL)

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belair said:
Pretty certain that he goes back into the draft.
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I thought he becomes an FA at this point but i'm not sure.

What ever happens, he likely ends up in a system with more oppurtunity in the near future. Chicago was going to be a tough place for him to break through with their crowded young core.
 
LeProspector said:
Even if he reenters the draft, he’s nothing special. Don’t see an NHLer here.
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You don’t think so? I know you’re also an OHL guy so you’ve seen him enough but I think he has legit NHL upside, and could play as soon as next season. To me he checks a lot of boxes, has pretty good size and is a good skater, great shot and release but can see the ice, plays hard and is a good 200 foot player. To me other than his age he’s as good of a prospect as most right now.
 
Let's be clear - if Pridham's dad has even given him a sniff that he may be advantaged by going back into the Draft and rejecting an ELC offer in front of him, that should be considered some form of Tampering by whatever means he acquired that information and should be illegal.

There is a reason you don't see CHL typically prospects typically risk the fact that they were already drafted and have a contract offer by going through the NHL Draft Roulette process again. They would be taking a massive chance based on the fact that they're now an "old" prospect and could go in a lower round, to a team even less advantageous to try and crack.

If Pridham (whose father is a longtime high ranking NHL Executive likely in the process of interviewing for other jobs) independently, with no outside help from his immediate family, reached the conclusion based on a good (overage) OHL season that he's better off going back in the Draft, then ok then.

And he's not a UFA. If he were a UFA, dozens upon dozens of late birthday CHL drafted guys over the years could have just gone to Free Agency if they didn't sign for 2 years (when they would be unlikely to be in NHL anyways), and chosen their spot.
 
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Pridham for Maxim Berezkin, Oilers prospect who is a similar power forward type and has won back to back KHL chips but won’t sign in Edmonton. Who says no?
 
BeranekAndNeck said:
Pridham for Maxim Berezkin, Oilers prospect who is a similar power forward type and has won back to back KHL chips but won’t sign in Edmonton. Who says no?
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The blackhawks, because Berezkin won't join them either. Truthfully I think they want to run that team back cause lots of guys were on that b2b cup teams.

But the other top forwards with Berezkin were two forwards that kept stringing along the blackhawks for years. Kayumov and Maxim Shalunov.
 
If he does go to the NCAA I doubt he recommits to BU, they already have 13 starting-level forwards. Maybe BC? they have a few holes.
 
Leviathan899 said:
You don’t think so? I know you’re also an OHL guy so you’ve seen him enough but I think he has legit NHL upside, and could play as soon as next season. To me he checks a lot of boxes, has pretty good size and is a good skater, great shot and release but can see the ice, plays hard and is a good 200 foot player. To me other than his age he’s as good of a prospect as most right now.
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He’s not a play driver, and although has size doesn’t use it. This year, he took advantage of his age, and maturation against younger, less mature competition. Absolutely he was the one of the best O/A in the OHL this year, but I think anything less than that would be a disappointment. Different games, but I remember when Matthew Maggio did the same thing in the OHL a few seasons back and people thought highly of him because of it and he has been meh in the AHL.

In my opinion, if you are that good, you wouldn’t need to play your Overage season in the CHL.
 
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LeProspector said:
He’s not a play driver, and although has size doesn’t use it. This year, he took advantage of his age, and maturation against younger, less mature competition. Absolutely he was the one of the best O/A in the OHL this year, but I think anything less than that would be a disappointment. Different games, but I remember when Matthew Maggio did the same thing in the OHL a few seasons back and people thought highly of him because of it and he has been meh in the AHL.

In my opinion, if you are that good, you wouldn’t need to play your Overage season in the CHL.
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To be fair to Pridham, it was only his 2nd OHL year compared to Maggio's 4th. He's also 6'2 compared to 5'11, and that helps just to get to the net or for reach.

I don't think he's a surefire NHLer but from what I've seen he's a much better prospect than Maggio was. He probably gets selected around the 4th round in this draft.
 
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TopC0rner said:
To be fair to Pridham, it was only his 2nd OHL year compared to Maggio's 4th. He's also 6'2 compared to 5'11, and that helps just to get to the net or for reach.

I don't think he's a surefire NHLer but from what I've seen he's a much better prospect than Maggio was. He probably gets selected around the 4th round in this draft.
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LeProspector said:
He’s not a play driver, and although has size doesn’t use it. This year, he took advantage of his age, and maturation against younger, less mature competition. Absolutely he was the one of the best O/A in the OHL this year, but I think anything less than that would be a disappointment. Different games, but I remember when Matthew Maggio did the same thing in the OHL a few seasons back and people thought highly of him because of it and he has been meh in the AHL.

In my opinion, if you are that good, you wouldn’t need to play your Overage season in the CHL.
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If you’re gamesmanshiping your way back to the Draft then it makes sense to play your OA season. My best understanding of why he wasn’t signed last year was the impression he was still planning to go to BU.
 
WarriorofTime said:
If you’re gamesmanshiping your way back to the Draft then it makes sense to play your OA season. My best understanding of why he wasn’t signed last year was the impression he was still planning to go to BU.
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Is the thinking he just doesn’t want to play for Chicago? Their system is so deep he may think he has better opportunity if he goes back in draft and gets selected elsewhere. After June 1 he could declare his school and be free on Blackhawks.
 
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Welp this should be reality check to those against using prospects from are frankly excessive pipeline in trades

If you continue to horde prospects at unsustainable rate you will be losing them for nothing down line. With all the picks we have coming the system will get deeper (Good thing) but it means kids with options are more likely to not sign with Hawks (Bad thing) if they dont see future with organization depth (Good thing)

Either way in end we ended up wasting a 3rd rounder on kid and it was poor decision on part of Davidson not to sign kid to ELC earlier and not foresee the potential of losing him and moving him in trade
 
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Hawks have a lot of prospects but they also have a lot of forward spots available to win. Rockford isn’t deep at forward either. Not sure why you’d want to re-enter the draft. Could end up anywhere. Oh well.
 
TLEH said:
Hawks have a lot of prospects but they also have a lot of forward spots available to win. Rockford isn’t deep at forward either. Not sure why you’d want to re-enter the draft. Could end up anywhere. Oh well.
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If you look at the Hawks prospect pool and current roster, there's literally zero chance of Pridham ever making the NHL there

Lardis-Bedard-Kantserov
Nestrasil-Frondell-Vanacker
Mustard-Nazar-Moore
Spellacy-Greene-West
Behm
-> (Pridham would slot here) <-

And that's not including 2026 picks which will bump him even further down the depth chart
 
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Kevin Musto said:
If you look at the Hawks prospect pool and current roster, there's literally zero chance of Pridham ever making the NHL there

Lardis-Bedard-Kantserov
Nestrasil-Frondell-Vanacker
Mustard-Nazar-Moore
Spellacy-Greene-West
Behm
-> (Pridham would slot here) <-

And that's not including 2026 picks which will bump him even further down the depth chart
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Pridman is probably closer to being NHL-ready than most of the guys on this list -- and it is more likely that some of these guys don't make the show at all. It is possible that he's reading the tea leaves about Chicago's situation in a couple of years, but their player development hasn't been going swimmingly either.
 
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