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Traverse City Prospect Tournament 2018 - Part II

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Pronman

NEW YORK RANGERS
Filip Chytil, C
I’ve seen Chytil be better, but I still think he was quite good. He’s up there with Mika Zibanejad for the most talented center in the Rangers organization. With his skating and skill, Chytil can make a lot of plays and drive a line. I also thought he was making more creative passes than I’ve seen from him before.
Brett Howden, C
Howden was arguably the best player on the ice in the Rangers’ first game, showing high-end vision and creating a ton of offense. His hockey IQ is great, the question with him in projecting his offense out is whether his natural speed/skill combo is good enough to get him to a top-six role. I lean to no, but more good showings like last weekend and I might start to inch off that position.
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Pronman: Standout performances at NHL rookie camps

Chytil needs to finish more. In the first game, he drove to the net blowing past every Dallas Star coming down the left wing and should have scored. In the second game, Chytil flubbed on a one timer from the right wing faceoff circle off a great feed from Andersson.
 
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This is what worries me about him. Does he have the ability to score goals? I haven’t really seen him do it consistently at any level yet. As much as I give Andersson a hard time about his game I wish Chytil had the chill that Lias has when in scoring position.
 
Kovalev27 said:
This is what worries me about him. Does he have the ability to score goals? I haven’t really seen him do it consistently at any level yet. As much as I give Andersson a hard time about his game I wish Chytil had the chill that Lias has when in scoring position.
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I mean he did score 11 goals in 46 games the AHL as the leagues youngest player. Not sure what more you can ask out of him playing in that league so young where 95% of 18 year olds drafted in his year wouldn't be able to even keep up.
 
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Lindgren needs to focus on his strengths and let the rest of the game cone along. He's looked like heah read too many HFBoards hot takes about how gritty, responsible defensemen are dying off.

Hajek has plenty of work to do, IMO.

Nothing came out of this tourney to change my gut about Howden being the guy that makes the team out of camp ahead of Lias and Chytil.
 
4 players most likely to make the team out of camp scratched, makes sense. Give em an extra day rest before training camp.
 
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RangerBoy said:
Pronman



Chytil needs to finish more. In the first game, he drove to the net blowing past every Dallas Star coming down the left wing and should have scored. In the second game, Chytil flubbed on a one timer from the right wing faceoff circle off a great feed from Andersson.
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I think more people are starting to see Howden consistently enough to see how the development and growth of his offensive game at least warrants some consideration for having top-six potential.

He continues to stand out in opportunity after opportunity --- a trend that's continued since he was drafted.
 
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I mean he did score 11 goals in 46 games the AHL as the leagues youngest player. Not sure what more you can ask out of him playing in that league so young where 95% of 18 year olds drafted in his year wouldn't be able to even keep up.
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Not really concerned about his goal scoring ability at this point.

I think a lot of our top forward prospects are hard for people to get a read on because they've played against men. As a result, they're not posting 30 or 40 goal, 100 point seasons like some of their draft class peers.

It's easy to look at a kid put up those kind of numbers against his fellow teenagers and proclaim him a beast. It's a lot harder to do the same when someone scores at an 18 goal pace against players who 5, 10 and 15 years older.
 
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Kind of surprised that Meskanen wasn't a scratch as well. I'd give him a better shot of making the team out of camp than Howden and perhaps Lias.
 
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