RW Jesse Puljujärvi - Karpat, FEL (2016 Draft)
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Kid is super dynamite. Will be an awesome race between him and Matthews. TSN doesn't know this guy but they will soon.
Well they're talking about him now, Ferraro and McKenzie both said he looks really good and Ferraro has just been praising with how good he is at just 16 more so than Matthews. I think they have talked about him contending for #1 but haven't jumped the gun probably because this is the first time they saw him play.
Pretty impressive showing concidering this is Puljujärvi's first time playing at North America.
I hope Puljujärvi goes to CHL after he has been drafted in 2016 because he seems to play really well in the smaller rink and he would get more and more used to it before playing in the NHL. We have seen with Granlund and Teräväinen that staying in Finland really isn't that great of a decision.
Good idea but hasn't he lost his eligibility because he has a professional contract with Karpat?
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Didn't he just sign a three year pro contract with Kärpät? Hard to imagine Kärpät giving him up OR giving up the transfer money once he leaves for NHL. Unless he's loaned for a year or something.
Not if Kärpät agrees to terminate his contract / loan him but i seriously doubt he will go anywhere but NHL. Marjämäki seems to have a great plan how to develop him correctly.
Damn that sucks then. I wish more and more Finnish prospects would try the CHL route. It worked very well for Määttä and Honka. It would be nice to see a high-end forward prospect in the CHL too but I guess it won't happen anytime soon.
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After the Habs game ended, I switched to Finland-Canada and saw this huge kid rush the puck up the ice. Told my friend "Wow this guy can skate". Then the TSN guy says "Puljujärvi, only 16 of age". My reaction was " WHAT, SIXTEEN?! "
He looks damn impressive.
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...but can't having a contractual obligation to a team in Finland prevent him from going and playing in the CHL? For example, I thought De La Rose wanted to go play in the OHL and his SHL team wouldn't release him.
He looked very good especially for a 16 year old. He was Finland's best player and generated chances almost every shift. I liked that he played well even against a very strong Canadian team. I would have liked to see him score though. I know he had lots of shots and hit the post numerous times but a couple of goals would have really helped him get more attention from the North American media and fans. Lots of time though for him to prove that he belongs in the same category as Matthews. Unfortunately because Matthews has scored he will still be ranked higher by most despite a much stronger supporting cast.
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I prefer Matthews to have a tight grip on the no. one spot... I don't want Puljujärvi to end up in Edmonton.
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Yes, he can't leave if he has a contract but he'd still be eligible to play in the CHL.
As a few posters already said, Kärpät are handling his development well and there's no reason for him to go to CHL.
Usually, when it comes to Finnish prospects, I try not to jump on the bandwagons, as people always have the blue & white glasses on (the ones that made people sure Toni Rajala is a Finnish messiah), but having seen Puljujärvi play a couple of games, I cannot help but think that this guy should be considered a lock for #1 in 2016. A lot can happen in one and a half years but unless he becomes a drug addict hobo and goes a million steps back in development, there shouldn't be anyone (no, not even Matthews) even remotely challenging him for the spot. I know it isn't as marketable for NA media to consider an unpronouncable euro kid as the clear-cut #1, but LOOK AT THIS EFFIN' GUY! If a 16-year-old this dominant would have a name like "Damon Durrface" and a red-and-white jersey on him, he would have drowned in TSN climax goo by now. This kid looks more dangerous on the ice now than last year's top-three draftees.
The fact that Pulju doesn't have a point yet is an insane statistical anomaly. He leads the tournament in shots, hit 3 posts in addition to 6 SOG in the game against the Slovaks and has had at least a couple of chances that, on his normal day, he would have capitalized on. But despite hitting the iron time and time again, he's been the most consistent offensive threat on Team Finland with THIRD-LINE MINUTES and almost-as-underage linemates that aren't exactly of the same "generational" level as him. This consistence, this relentlessness, this sisu is a leadership quality of his that he isn't allowed to display as much as he should because even the coaching staff still can't believe their eyes when a 16-year-old leads the way in a U20 tournament. Maybe there are raw things in his game that I am incapable of seeing, but whenever he's on the ice, he's the most dangerous player out there. The skating is insanely fast and smooth for a guy (let alone a junior guy (let alone a 16-year-old junior guy)) his size, his shot is deceptively lethal, he's always creating a scoring chance and unlike the guys that weren't vastly underrestimated, he hasn't s**t his pants for a minute. He seems immune to pressure and hasn't let the ringing of the posts demoralize himself one bit.
We're talking about a kid who has played a very limited amount of games in the narrow North American rink and immediately dominates against men four years his senior despite having the original "third-line tourist, here to learn" role. Saying that Jesse looks like the clear-cut #1 isn't meant to be an insult towards Matthews who looks like an amazing talent in his own right; were they not in the same draft, they would both look like someone who gets picked first. Maybe there's a slight chance that Matthews is currently the more complete, NHL-ready player of the two, but taking into account the fact that Puljujärvi is one year group (or 8 months) younger, not yet even properly adjusted to NA rinks, undeservedly playing in a third-line role on a much worse team and, despite all this, quite simply the more noticable threat on the ice, I can't imagine any GM passing on the opportunity to get Puljujärvi in 2016.
I had my doubts and I sure as hell wasn't expecting to be this positively surprised, but now that I was, I found the lack of fanboy hype disturbing. Glad to help.
The fact that Pulju doesn't have a point yet is an insane statistical anomaly. He leads the tournament in shots, hit 3 posts in addition to 6 SOG in the game against the Slovaks and has had at least a couple of chances that, on his normal day, he would have capitalized on. But despite hitting the iron time and time again, he's been the most consistent offensive threat on Team Finland with THIRD-LINE MINUTES and almost-as-underage linemates that aren't exactly of the same "generational" level as him. This consistence, this relentlessness, this sisu is a leadership quality of his that he isn't allowed to display as much as he should because even the coaching staff still can't believe their eyes when a 16-year-old leads the way in a U20 tournament. Maybe there are raw things in his game that I am incapable of seeing, but whenever he's on the ice, he's the most dangerous player out there. The skating is insanely fast and smooth for a guy (let alone a junior guy (let alone a 16-year-old junior guy)) his size, his shot is deceptively lethal, he's always creating a scoring chance and unlike the guys that weren't vastly underrestimated, he hasn't s**t his pants for a minute. He seems immune to pressure and hasn't let the ringing of the posts demoralize himself one bit.
We're talking about a kid who has played a very limited amount of games in the narrow North American rink and immediately dominates against men four years his senior despite having the original "third-line tourist, here to learn" role. Saying that Jesse looks like the clear-cut #1 isn't meant to be an insult towards Matthews who looks like an amazing talent in his own right; were they not in the same draft, they would both look like someone who gets picked first. Maybe there's a slight chance that Matthews is currently the more complete, NHL-ready player of the two, but taking into account the fact that Puljujärvi is one year group (or 8 months) younger, not yet even properly adjusted to NA rinks, undeservedly playing in a third-line role on a much worse team and, despite all this, quite simply the more noticable threat on the ice, I can't imagine any GM passing on the opportunity to get Puljujärvi in 2016.
I had my doubts and I sure as hell wasn't expecting to be this positively surprised, but now that I was, I found the lack of fanboy hype disturbing. Glad to help.
Scouts do see what happens beyond scoring...Puljujarvi has so far had much stronger tournament than Matthews.
I'm not talking about scouts. I'm just saying that the general NA public and media will look at the scoresheet and think that Puljujarvi had an unremarkable tournament because he didn't score. If he had managed to score 2 or 3 goals by now, he would be getting talked about a lot more by the NA media who are going on and on about Matthews, Eichel, and McDavid and don't seem to realize that Puljujarvi belongs in the same conversation.
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I view it as a positive that there isn't any excessive hype about him. Let the kid play and develop at (relative) peace.
Yep, and one good WJC tournament doesn't make a 1st OA. I don't like how people think Puljujärvi is above Matthews because of a couple of WJC games.
If they thought that because of his play in FEL, U20 and Mestis, OK then. But the WJC alone shouldn't be the reason to pick one over the other.
Puljujärvi is a well skating big winger who scores goals (just hasn't happened in this WJC yet). He seems like he's well on his way to be picked very high, mainly because of his play in Finland where his goal scoring has gotten him to be compared to Teemu Selanne. When you add in the size and skating ability, there is a reason to think he will be picked high and basically a lock to be drafted in the first round.
I have stated it before. Lemieux lite. That's why he is turning alot of heads in that tournament.
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