Training Camp Standouts

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Victor Mancini and Dylan Garand both had good preseason game 1’s after they were good at the prospect tournaments. I don’t think either has a chance to make the NHL roster for the opener, but both are making a good case to be first up at their positions when another player becomes needed at some point.

Rempe is winning skating contests in practice and giving motivational speeches to the press. He looks thoroughly frightening for the opponents and ready to upset the main boards a lot this season. I think he has a completely safe roster spot, but we’ll see.

 

[CraigBillington]

LDBB

Cmon man, don't make me do research on who you're talking about here. This is why I HATE using initials.
Especially when referring to general managers like GMMG, there have been a bunch of those

 

[CBJx614]

Cmon man, don't make me do research on who you're talking about here. This is why I HATE using initials.
Especially when referring to general managers like GMMG, there have been a bunch of those

It's a mouthful

 

[GettingYourMoms]

Mateychuk looks like he's picking up exactly where he left off this past season.

Brindley looks like he's ready to steal a spot out of camp

LDBB looks like he's ready to get heavy 1C minutes in Cleveland for a year or two

I think Jiricek needs another season or two in Cleveland to fill out and calm his game down a little bit.

Jiricek´s first showing is tomorrow, how can you even say this when you didn´t see him play lol?

 

[CBJx614]

Jiricek´s first showing is tomorrow, how can you even say this when you didn´t see him play lol?

... because we've been watching him play for the last two years? And a guy like Mateychuk looks miles ahead of him. Mateychuk stepped straight into the AHL playoffs from the WHL and looked better than Jiricek who had been in the AHL/NHL all season.

And in the Jackets scrimmage yesterday Mateychuk looked like an NHLer out with prospects meanwhile I noticed Jiricek maybe once. Which isn't exactly what you want to see from a known aggressive offensive dmen.

Not to mention Trent Vogelhuber (Cleveland Monsters HC) Was interviewed during the scrimmage yesterday and said we need to hold off on starting to judge Jiricek for another 150 games as dmen usually take 300+ plus games before they really start to define themselves. Not everyone is a generational talent that can come in and make an impact right away. He was talking about calm and collected Mateychuk was and how he came in and felt like a veteran and then later mentioned how they want Jiricek to be more calm out there.

 

[HanSolo]

The Ducks barred fans from live streaming their training camp sessions so I can only go off of what others have said and the rookie tournament:

Cutter Gauthier: almost definitely a lock to make the big team but given that he's undeniably not a play driver, whether he'll be a Calder contender is going to depend on who he plays with and how they do this year. His intensity offensively was inconsistent in his two rookie tournament games but we'll see how preseason goes. Defensively I was pretty happy with his play. Very active on the forecheck and hounding pucks along the boards.

Tristan Luneau: there were some questions/concerns on whether Luneau would be severely affected by missing half the year with a knee infection. He showed up to rookie camp looking like he packed on a lot of muscle and his skating actually looks slightly better in spite of the time missed. Had an outstanding first rookie tourney game but the last two were a little underwhelming. I'd chalk that up to the lower stakes versus preseason. Training camp attendees have said he looks to be right in step with Anaheim's veteran defenders. If he's still not ready, he actually is eligible for AHL play this year where last year Anaheim could only send him down to juniors. Also gonna have to see how he does in preseason. But I'd expect him to at least play a solid chunk of NHL games this year.

None of the other prospects really stood out to me in the rookie games to the extent that they might be ready for NHL play soon. Sasha Pastujov and Yegor Sidorov might get injury call ups here and there. Sam Colangelo could earn a bottom 6 spot but I was thoroughly unimpressed by his rookie tournament.

For young but not prospect players I've seen multiple people say Trevor Zegras looks like the best player in camp and I've heard from one poster here that Leo Carlsson doesn't look any stronger since last season but considering he's still growing I'm sure he'll grow stronger as the season progresses just organically.

 

[GettingYourMoms]

... because we've been watching him play for the last two years? And a guy like Mateychuk looks miles ahead of him. Mateychuk stepped straight into the AHL playoffs from the WHL and looked better than Jiricek who had been in the AHL/NHL all season.

And in the Jackets scrimmage yesterday Mateychuk looked like an NHLer out with prospects meanwhile I noticed Jiricek maybe once. Which isn't exactly what you want to see from a known aggressive offensive dmen.

Not to mention Trent Vogelhuber (Cleveland Monsters HC) Was interviewed during the scrimmage yesterday and said we need to hold off on starting to judge Jiricek for another 150 games as dmen usually take 300+ plus games before they really start to define themselves. Not everyone is a generational talent that can come in and make an impact right away. He was talking about calm and collected Mateychuk was and how he came in and felt like a veteran and then later mentioned how they want Jiricek to be more calm out there.

yeah, so you didn´t see him play i get it, Jiricek just touched the ice for the first time in training