The most uninspired prospect who's become a good/great player in the last 10 years
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Antiillafire
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Brandon Hagel is one name that comes to mind for me. Let’s see if he can build on this past season.
Antiillafire
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Not really. His draft season was just okay on a pretty good Red Deer team. He didn’t break through until his 20-21 year old season which often leads to career AHLers not established middle six nhlers with top 6 flashes.
Still he scored 100+ points. History knows players who weren't even PPG in the CHL and became very good NHLers.
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Mason Marchment comes to my mind
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Roope Hintz comes to mind.
An also ran behind the mega trio of Laine-Aho-Puljujarvi. Didn’t make an immediate splash in the AHL. Now a top line center.
Not that his junior stats were bad or anything (he was more productive in Liiga than Slafkovsky was as a draft eligible lmao) but definitely a good option here.
An also ran behind the mega trio of Laine-Aho-Puljujarvi. Didn’t make an immediate splash in the AHL. Now a top line center.
Not that his junior stats were bad or anything (he was more productive in Liiga than Slafkovsky was as a draft eligible lmao) but definitely a good option here.
Mason Marchment comes to my mind
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Yeah, good example. He wasn't that solid this last season, but the previous one was good. He had better PPG in NHL than in ECHL...
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Jesper Bratt, drafted 2016 round 6 #162 overall.
Hagel is an excellent player to name here.
He was undrafted in the bantam draft and started his NHL draft year in the AJHL before the Rebels signed him. Up to that point, he hadn't even looked like a legitimate WHL prospect. That year, he scored 47 points in 72 games, which is very good and a lot better than what could've been expected, but extremely unremarkable for a draft prospect – and he went in the 6th round as a result.
His production took off the next year and, as you pointed out, peaked at 100+ in his last season. But that too is fairly unremarkable for an overager. At that point, he definitely looked more like a legitimate prospect but absolutely not like the type of prospect who would score 64 points in the NHL 4 years later.
Edit: Random name that just came to mind and fits too is Torey Krug.
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Bratt from 22 points in 46 games in the 2nd Sweden league to 35 points in the NHL in just one season. Very good, but still he played professional hockey at age 17.
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Going from Allsvenskan to NHL is a big leap. Got almost as many points as #3 in the 2016 draft, way more then #4.
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Logan Thompson. Undrafted. Best GAA of any season of his in the WHL was 2.63 and his best Save Percentage was .908. Played USports/ECHL in 18/19 to a Stanley Cup (I think? Maybe?) In 2023.
Tanner Jeannot also comes to mind.
Tanner Jeannot also comes to mind.
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Milan Lucic ?
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Stars allways believed Hintz could and would develop in a star caliber player though. During the winter classic in Dallas in January of 2020 Stars had several jersey options for fans to chose from for the winter classic jersey . Outside of the big names they also offered Hintz over several more established players and that was in his second NHL season. Way before he broke out as a player. Also reportedly reluctant to add Hintz to a Karlsson trade when Stars where among those supposedly interested in trading for EK ( before he went to the Sharks ) . The team really believed in him as a prospect .
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Nikishin turning heads.
Brad Marchant was a 3rd Round pick who was viewed as a potential energy guy on a 4th line. Thats certainly what I viewed him as - even after a solid WJC contribution.
Slowly but surely he added skills, confidence, panache. It culminated in being chosen to play in the Olympics, on a first line no less with Berg and Sid.
Suddenly his confidence was sky high. And he was the legit suoerstar we have today.
I never saw this coming. But I did think he would play in the show as a high-end mucker.
Slowly but surely he added skills, confidence, panache. It culminated in being chosen to play in the Olympics, on a first line no less with Berg and Sid.
Suddenly his confidence was sky high. And he was the legit suoerstar we have today.
I never saw this coming. But I did think he would play in the show as a high-end mucker.
Nick Jensen is probably a pretty good answer. Was drafted out of the USHL in the 5th round in his draft year. Played his d+1 in the USHL as well. He then played three years of college hockey for his d+2 through d+4 years. Followed by three years in the AHL for his d+5 through d+7 years. He then split time between the NHL and AHL in his d+8 year before establishing himself as a full time NHL player in his d+9 year.
Yeah, he's an NHLer but you hardly call him a good one. His NHL playoffs stats look especially impressive...
He had strikingly similar production to Filip Forsberg in both his DY and D-1. He went so much later than he should've. Also Michael Nylander needs to get into scouting lol. He told the Leafs not to pass on Bratt
D-1 in J20
Forsberg-21 goals 19 assists in 36
Bratt-17 goals 23 assists in 39
DY in Allsvenskan
Forsberg-8 goals 9 assists in 43
Bratt-8 goals 9 assists in 48
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Sharangovic. 5th rd pick. Never produced in any league. Struggled in Russian junior league, sucked in KHL, sucked in AHL then went back to KHL had a good year and then boom 24 goal season in nhl.
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It seems like a lot of ncaa guys would fit this description.
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Thomas novak may be a candidate for this soon. 4 years of meh college stats. Then 4 years in the AHL before truly making the NHL this year and he tore it up: 43 points in 51 games.
Yah his last couple years of ahl stats were good but those came in like years draft+6+7
Yah his last couple years of ahl stats were good but those came in like years draft+6+7
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Ondrej Palat is first to mind. 7th round pick.
I thought he looked fantastic in the Q, but that was not the consensus view.
I thought he looked fantastic in the Q, but that was not the consensus view.
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