Maybe the NHLe rates should be adjusted if this many are putting up NHL 100pt projected rates.
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Maybe the NHLe rates should be adjusted if this many are putting up NHL 100pt projected rates.
Haven't watched them much, but despite their size, just based on stat lines, we should sign Pohlkamp (who looked great already last summer) + Muldowney for AHL.
Rimashevsky got size, but not sure if he'd go from KHL to AHL.
I think that's openly acknowledged. CHL and KHL have taken a half-step back, while NCAA has taken a step ahead...and maybe the gap between those leagues and the AHL/NHL has also widened!
Out of curiosity, what are we seeing from Rimashevsky that signals he’s ready for AHL? Admittedly, I’m just going off his stat line, but is 15 points in 55 games as a 20 year old in the KHL impressive? I’m not being flippant, I have no sense of what that means about Rimashevsky.
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He started playing regularly in the KHL as a 19 year old, that's what's impressive.
KHL used to be clear cut second best league after the NHL. There's more fluctuation now between teams, so there's been debate on whether this is still true.
Either way, if he did make the jump over he would do well in the AHL.
However for development, it might be fine to just keep him in the KHL longer. Someone closer to the KHL would know better what the growth opportunities at his team look like.
Just leave Rimashevsky in Russia, and if he's dominating the KHL in three/four years, then you bring him over. Long-shot prospects playing in the KHL don't come to the States to play three years in the AHL, and understandably so.
THN future watch arrived in my mailbox this morning.
Sharks prospect pool ranked 1st overall, I believe counting the value of Celebrini and Smith as U21 NHLers.
In the top 100 prospects (not counting guys in the NHL) were:
7) Dickinson
41) Musty
68) Mukhamadullin
72) Chernyshov
88) Bystedt
and the organizational top 10 is:
1) Dickinson
2) Musty
3) Mukhamadullin
4) Chernyshov
5) Bystedt
6) Halttunen
7) Graf
8) Cagnoni
9) Sahlin Wallenius
10) Lund
I couldn't find their criteria to understand why Askarov is excluded, though the best guess I can make is NHL GP (even though he's only got 16 games) possibly interacting with the fact that he's had multiple seasons with GP in the NHL
Sharks prospect pool ranked 1st overall, I believe counting the value of Celebrini and Smith as U21 NHLers.
In the top 100 prospects (not counting guys in the NHL) were:
7) Dickinson
41) Musty
68) Mukhamadullin
72) Chernyshov
88) Bystedt
and the organizational top 10 is:
1) Dickinson
2) Musty
3) Mukhamadullin
4) Chernyshov
5) Bystedt
6) Halttunen
7) Graf
8) Cagnoni
9) Sahlin Wallenius
10) Lund
I couldn't find their criteria to understand why Askarov is excluded, though the best guess I can make is NHL GP (even though he's only got 16 games) possibly interacting with the fact that he's had multiple seasons with GP in the NHL
I wonder how many games Chernyshov had with Saginaw before they put this together. It's going to be fun to see him shoot up some lists this summer.
Mukhamadullin is one of those guys who feels like he's just going to have been perennially underrated as a prospect, which is kind of funny because he has all the tools that you'd think people would salivate over. But I guess ever since the beginning--going back to him being sort of under-scouted in Russia--there have always been some complicating factors, so I can't say I hold it against all these prospect evaluators out there. But I've always thought it's going to be fun watching them look silly as he becomes a top-4 d-man, which I'm feeling better and better about lately.
The thing I’ve really liked about Muhk is he seems really coachable and sort of slowly and methodically improved all the things people tell him to improve. This season was a major setback but as I kept saying when people were saying he was busting, the injury was a major detriment to him. The fact that he’s recovered and continued his upward trajectory really speaks well of him as a prospect, I think he’s going to be very, very good and I’m excited to see him take more steps in the NHL.
I only wish he got to play on his natural side but he seems to be doing okay on the left. I think a Dickinson - Muhk pairing is going to be insane.
Yeah, I was thinking about it the other day and maybe the idea is putting a young player on his off side is better than a veteran because certain things are less engrained and they're more flexible? Because it does seem kind of crazy at first glance because a young defenseman getting acclimated to the NHL is hard enough without having to deal with the awkwardness that sometimes ensues from being against the half-wall on your backhand, for instance.
It'll be really interesting to see how things shake out going forward with the d-pairings. Obviously the draft this year will have some impact on things. I do like seeing Mukh roam and get a little free and creative with the puck—I think there's a lot of potential there to take that to another level—so I'd be a little worried that with someone like Dickinson (or Schaefer!), he'd become too defensive/passive, in a way that would be to the detriment of his overall game. But yeah, lots to figure out going forward, but it's things like this that create excitement for me (especially as someone who's become pretty fascinated by the way defensemen play over the years) even if we're losing most of our games for now.
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