Speculation: The Next One? - Panthers Goaltending Pipeline

[Chaos2k7]

After the trade of Spencer Knight to Hawks, the idea has come up that we are barren in the pipeline, but we have 5 prospects in total selected in the last few drafts or signed as NCAA FAs. These are the guys currently moving through the system with our Goaltending Excellence team:

Cooper Black​

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Kirill Gerasimyuk​

Tyler Muszelik​

Olof Glifford​

Denis Gabdrakhmanov​

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[BabyBennettov]

Pretty sure our goaltending staff is very VERY high on Cooper !! He looks legit IMO.

Russian ones are harder to predict, but they have looked pretty good so far...

Muszelik is well liked around the goaltending scouting community too.

Glifford looks like the real unknown here.

 

[ProjectPanthers]

I think the emergence of Cooper Black was what eventually made Knight expendable. I think there's two of the names listed above could make an impact at the NHL level.

 

[pantherbot]

Yeah who knows with goalies but Black's combination of size and athleticism seems really intriguing. The guy is huge even for a goalie, and he's had great numbers in the AHL this calendar year.

 

[Gizmo Tkachuk]

I would love to know what adjustments Black made to his game because his numbers prior to this year are pretty bad.

 

[Sticksandsun]

All in on Black. If he can be stationary in the net and not be all over the crease, his size has the potential to be at least a solid 1b goalie.
He's likely still 2 years away from playing 20-25 NHL games a year though, would like to see him get a couple NHL games early on next season.