Chat, is it good to have (most likely) four of the top-10 OHL producers?
I'm still mad we didn't take Young Pro, but whatever.
I'm still mad we didn't take Young Pro, but whatever.
Prospect Info: Sharks Prospect Info & Discussion thread XXI: "New, improved, and wayyyy to much info" Edition
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If Igor goes scoreless in the next 4 games, he'd still be 2nd. Crazy!
I can’t get over Chernyshov’s stat line… after coming back from injury, in a new league, in a different country.
He's got an edge, that's for sure. Saginaw is a pretty chippy team.
Seriously, the more I think about it, the more Ilya Protas is a huge miss for us. Grier's scouting team loves USHLers and big European wingers with questionable foot speed.
Look at Igor just carrying Misa right now /s
Some interesting data cards for NA prospects going around twitter right now.
I can't speak to methodology, but these all pass my sniff check. The only OHL defenseman that grades higher than Dickinson is Matthew Schaefer. Parekh lands right behind them.
I can't speak to methodology, but these all pass my sniff check. The only OHL defenseman that grades higher than Dickinson is Matthew Schaefer. Parekh lands right behind them.
I have no idea why, but I'm incredibly interested to see how Pohlkamp develops. Seems like a very under-the-radar prospect.
Even with his production picking back up it's hard to get too excited about Musty given his defensive game. Like I don't think we'll ever be able to put him on a line with Smith in the NHL.
Maybe if you pair them with a stronger two way guy like Chernyshov. Musty and Smith have shown some good chemistry in the prospect scrimmages.
They might both put up 80-100 pts but still give away a lot on the other end.
This could speak to the off puck improvements that Halttunen has made this season.
I could possibly see it working with Smith at RW and Celebrini centering but IMO we're better off with Will and Mack on separate lines in the long run.
I still have hope he can get it to passable. It's not that he's totally lost or incapable of engaging physically. The main reason I want to see him with the Cuda is to see how much of his bad defensive results are Sudbury's system and coaching. I have seen Musty have strong defensive games and I have seen Musty have incredibly poor defensive games. Really depends on the day.
I'm gonna guess they're just even strength. It was also mentioned somewhere that the data set only goes until the beginning of March.
Smith had defensive issues in college also, but now he is pretty defensively sound where he is more of a positive then a negative player defensively.
Smiths always been able to turn it on when he needed too. I think he gets judged harshly because he doesn't move his feet enough. I hope Musty is just bored. Part system part boredom. You'd want him to care more about details like that but who knows? I see immaturity in his game but when he's given a real assignment like playing in the AHL I bet he turns it around quickly
Love Smith but he is nowhere near "defensively sound" in the NHL right now.
He is very rarely out of position, that to me is defensively sound. Would i trust him to go 1 on 1 with mcdavid or Mackinnon or those type of players? Yeah no. But 5 on 5 i am not worried anymore with him on the ice defensively
He is occasionally out of position. But frankly, being "in position" for a winger is pretty meaningless if you aren't actually pressuring the puck-holder, don't block shots, win 10% of your puck-battles on the boards, don't support breakouts, and are generally unthreatening to a defenseman.
I think he does a good job supporting breakouts since his... breakout. That's like the one thing I can count on him being able to do these days defensively. He's not winning a contested puck battle on the breakout but he reads rim plays well enough to be there first.
