Prospect Info: The 2024-2025 Prospect Thread: Part 1: Skate or Die!

[tradervik]

Not much to quarrel with there. It sure looks grim after #7.

You don't see anything in Sasson (#8)? From what I've seen (admittedly not much), he has great wheels and some smarts.

 

[credulous]

I mean, it's not exactly a robust list past #3-4.

Raty is a big responsible C who is dominant on faceoffs who is going to have a long, boring NHL career. He had a good camp and made the team this year, and has leveled up offensively in the AHL - currently on a run where he has 14 points in his last 8 games.

To me he's better than Aman in pretty much every way aside from skating - bigger, more physical, more talented. And miles better on faceoffs which is one of the reasons Aman has struggled to stick as a depth C.

I'll be pretty surprised if Raty isn't on our NHL squad next season.

fair enough. i think this team is in trouble if raty is more than a 13th forward but centers who can win faceoffs and don't give back too much are in short supply i guess

 

[MS]

fair enough. i think this team is in trouble if raty is more than a 13th forward but centers who can win faceoffs and don't give back too much are in short supply i guess

He might be the 13th guy next year but I think he’s big/skilled/responsible enough that he’s going to be a regular 20-25 point bottom-6 C for a bunch of years. Like a Radek Faksa or something.

It’s funny because I was one of the guys who liked him the least when we acquired him and there was a big ‘future 2C’ notion here and now my opinion on him has barely changed and I seem to be one of his bigger fans.

 

[Lindgren]

You don't see anything in Sasson (#8)? From what I've seen (admittedly not much), he has great wheels and some smarts.

He's 24, so I'm guessing we've seen his ceiling, which is a tweener, but I admit I wouldn't be shocked if he had something of a career as a 4th liner. Anything more than that would be a surprise to me.

 

[VanJack]

Canucks Army with an interesting feature on new Canuck Victor Mancini. Apparently he's a kid the Canucks have liked for a long time, going back to his days at the U of Omaha-Nebraska.

And the highlight package up on their site certainly shows that the kid is more than a 'banger and a crasher. Some of the highlight clips show him wheeling the puck up the ice on rushes, even at the NHL-level.

As with all young d-men, learning to process the game at speed will be his biggest adjustment. But working with Gonchar and Foote can only help him.

At the very least, he's far more of a promising asset on the right side than the departed Vincent Desharnais.