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Prospect Info: Sharks Prospect Info & Discussion thread XXI: "New, improved, and wayyyy to much info" Edition

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Tri-City lost last night, locking the Giants (Roberts) into 6th place and setting their 1st round matchup against the Spokane Chiefs. That also makes this afternoon's game vs the Rockets inconsequential for playoff seeding purposes, but whatever.

Weirdly though, in spite of Vancouver being the lower seed, they start the series at home because Spokane's arena is hosting the Women's NCAA Tournament over the weekend. Spokane still has home ice advantage and hosts 4 of the 7 games, but instead of the standard 2-2-1-1-1 game distribution it'll be 2 at home for the Giants, 3 in Spokane, game 6 if necessary hosted by the Giants, and game 7 back in Spokane.

Victoria is also now confirmed to play Tri-City to open the playoffs in the west's 2 vs 7 matchup.

For the Sharks prospects, that just leaves Calgary (Wetsch) to determine their fate in the final game of the season. The Hitmen and Tigers are tied atop their division with 96 points and face each other at 4pm PT. Winner will be the eastern conference #1 seed and play Edmonton, loser will slot in at #3 and go up against Saskatoon.
 
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Juxtaposer said:
As soon as video goes up, I will post the ridiculous pass Chernyshov just made.


There ya go.



I wouldn't hate giving James Guo an AHL contract, but he may intend to go to the NCAA. I think he's better than Hache.
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Guo is fine. Steady stay at home type. Hache has more edge. More fire. But are similar style wise. On a better OHL team Guo is a serviceable 4th d man. Has gotten better with the puck on his stick over time. Developing his offensive game but I wouldn't ever expect him to be on the PP at higher levels. Stats have certainly benefited from being paired with Parekh/first line most of the year. Agree though that he's a perfect guy to go play NCAA until 22/23. Round out his game.
 
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one2gamble said:
Igor needs to pot more goals
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He's playing with two guys who are primarily shooters in Misa and Epperson. Most of his goals have been on the PP from Parekh or great individual efforts.

Chernyshov, like Saginaw, can be very feast-or-famine with offense. If Schaefer comes back for their 1st round playoff series, whether or not he can shutdown the big Saginaw line will be interesting.

Kingpin794 said:
Guo is fine. Steady stay at home type. Hache has more edge. More fire. But are similar style wise. On a better OHL team Guo is a serviceable 4th d man. Has gotten better with the puck on his stick over time. Developing his offensive game but I wouldn't ever expect him to be on the PP at higher levels. Stats have certainly benefited from being paired with Parekh/first line most of the year. Agree though that he's a perfect guy to go play NCAA until 22/23. Round out his game.
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I have liked Guo in my viewings this year. Don't think he's got real NHL potential, but he could be a useful steady AHLer and the Cuda are starving for RHD. Any idea if he's committed to an NCAA or USports team, coming back for an overage season, or seeking a pro contract? Can't find anything with a cursory google search.
 
Juxtaposer said:
He's playing with two guys who are primarily shooters in Misa and Epperson. Most of his goals have been on the PP from Parekh or great individual efforts.

Chernyshov, like Saginaw, can be very feast-or-famine with offense. If Schaefer comes back for their 1st round playoff series, whether or not he can shutdown the big Saginaw line will be interesting.


I have liked Guo in my viewings this year. Don't think he's got real NHL potential, but he could be a useful steady AHLer and the Cuda are starving for RHD. Any idea if he's committed to an NCAA or USports team, coming back for an overage season, or seeking a pro contract? Can't find anything with a cursory google search.
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He’s not currently committed to an NCAA program. I’m sure Saginaw would love to have him as an OA next season. The quality of OA is going to drop and Guo will be the new version of a really good OA. I’m sure that NCAA programs will be all over him in the summer. Will be curious myself to see if he’s back next year or not.
 
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Forgot to check last night, but Calgary lost to Medicine Hat, so the Wetsch and the Hitmen will stay at 3rd and face the Saskatoon Blades in their opening playoff series.

Also somewhat tangential, but the WHL announced that they're expanding the league to Penticton, BC starting next season, presumably replacing the BCHL's Penticton Vees with a reborn WHL iteration (sort of like the Wenatchee Wild did). They also are soliciting ownership groups to return a team to Chilliwack, BC for as early as 26-27. The city previously had a WHL club in the early 2000s, but only lasted like 5 years before the league basically took the team from them for iffy purposes (They wanted to get a team in Victoria before the pending relocation of the Thrashers to Winnipeg could potentially domino into the AHL Manitoba Moose moving and considering Victoria as an option)

So that could impact the prospect landscape in the next little while. Also because this seems to spell the end of the BCHL Vees and might also end with the league's Chilliwack Chiefs being forced to move (ironically when the Bruins came in the first time, the Chiefs moved to Langley and were the first tenants of what is now the Vancovuer Giants' home arena. When the Bruins moved to Victoria the Langley Chiefs rebranded to their current guise of the Langley Rivermen while the Chiefs' old ownership group in Chilliwack bought up another team, the Quesnel Millionaires, and took ownership of the Chiefs' lineage to rebrand their new team as the Chiefs again. Sorta like how the current Jets like to pretend they're linked to the original Jets)
 
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Paywall, but EP ranks the Sharks broader org as #1 in U23 prospect pool (including U23 in the NHL), and notable skater rankings in the top 100 include:
2. Celebrini ("potential to be a modern day Fedorov" -interesting comp)
6 Demidov, 8 fantilli, 9 Michkov, 10 Leo Carlsson
16 Leonard (I still don't see it)
18 hutson
20 zeev B
35 Ekky - "would be bad as the crown jewel but great where he is"
37 Smitty, "upside is PPG if he can get stronger and more defensively detailed" they've always been low on him
38 cutter, hate hate hate
42 Dickinson, "great on the rush and great shot but needs more work in DZ, however he's a lock to play a lot of NHL minutes" feels fair
58 Musty, "as skilled as anyone offensively but could miss NHL entirely if he doesn't clean up his details" feels fair
80 Cherny, feels underrated, "needs more pace" we'll see, but he's above MBN and Helenius
 
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