I read that there was a real chance he would be playing for Dubuque in the USHL who own his rights. He is nowhere to be found on any Rogle site last I checked. Dubuque hasn't updated their roster for this season. Have you seen confirmation he'll be in Sweden?
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Amazing Kreiderman
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Nothing confirmed yet from either side, in which case I assume he'll stay where he is now.
Kjellberg is not on any team's roster, we wasted 6th round pick on scout's son whom nobody wants. He is likely coming over to play in Hartford or ECHL.
Simon Kjellberg at eliteprospects.com
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Rögle BK J20 at eliteprospects.com
eco's bones
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What?
He's not coming to play in the AHL or ECHL this year. He's not ready for it and he may never be ready for it.
IMO--you get worked up over a lot of non-consequential stuff. Kjellberg will play for a team in Sweden this year--what team? I don't know but he will play for some team. He is a prospect. A 6th rounder. Most 6th rounders never make it--so if he doesn't make it it's not like some kind of huge deal.
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Well, I mean, it appears that NO ONE had Kjellberg on their board. Like, at all. He was apparently non considered a draft prospect by basically anyone in the public sphere. The only thing we know is that he has size and is the kid of one of our scouts. The whole thing just seemed weird.
If you feel like we threw away the pick then it's okay to be upset. No one knows anything about him, really, because nothing has been written about him. I mean Pavel Buchnevich probably has watched him extensively, but no one legitimate can provide a scouting report. We took Riley Hughes in the seventh--interesting prospect. I would have rather taken an interesting prospect, someone on the radar that a few guys had as a riser or a sleeper.
If you feel like we threw away the pick then it's okay to be upset. No one knows anything about him, really, because nothing has been written about him. I mean Pavel Buchnevich probably has watched him extensively, but no one legitimate can provide a scouting report. We took Riley Hughes in the seventh--interesting prospect. I would have rather taken an interesting prospect, someone on the radar that a few guys had as a riser or a sleeper.
eco's bones
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Let's complain about a 6th round pickWhat a guy. He never fails to deliver
I liked a lot of the players the Rangers picked this year but once we got past Joey Keane in the third it's mostly just throwing shit at the wall to see what will stick...and you have to wait your turn besides. You're still looking for sticky turds mind you--you want something that isn't too dried out but the odds are pretty heavily against a guy picked as late as Kjellberg. That he's picked is an accomplishment for him. That puts him pretty much in the top 1 or 2 % of hockey players. Some people just want to complain all the time.
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Mid-season the CSB had Kjellberg at 74 for European players--then he dropped to the unranked. It wasn't like he wasn't on the radar at all. It is weird though taking a scout's son and I do think that Hughes who taken later is a more interesting prospect. Time will tell.
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I really like the Pajuniemi pick. A lot of people label him as a 2nd year eligible (overager) but they forget that he's just 4 days older than Brady Tkachuk. He put up points in Liiga, a pro-league, and in my opinion a top-5 pro league in the world (after NHL, KHL, SHL, AHL). That's huge for a kid that's just 18. I think he has some raw potential he needs to develop but man, he can be a steal. I saw him play a few times during my trips to Finland last season (I tried to see TPS play because of Virta and he was very noticeable).
I am not sure where he will play this season, but the fact is that Elite Prospects website has him unsigned and the fact that he is our scout's son tells me that he is very likely to be part of the Traverse City tournament roster.
wasn't Gross ranked a lot higher than where we drafted him? I think most don't like this pick because he lacks offense, but I don't have a problem drafting a good physical defensive defenseman. Also Pajuniemi was an excellent pick.
Edge
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Guys, I highly doubt this team took a player because he is a scout's son. HIGHLY. DOUBT.
There have been other kids with ties to this organization over the years that this team has not taken or traded for.
I don't see Kjellberg being the kid they decided to do that with.
There have been other kids with ties to this organization over the years that this team has not taken or traded for.
I don't see Kjellberg being the kid they decided to do that with.
I'm not suggesting that's why they took him. That just seems to be the most notable thing about him, which isn't exactly a good thing. Being ranked low among Euro skaters in the midterms and then unranked in the final rankings is not really notable. His performance isn't notable. No one has reported anything about him that was notable because he was barely on the radar, if at all, really. That's what I was saying.
Maybe the Rangers saw something in him. Well, I mean, obviously they did. He just seems like a weird pick when there are other interesting guys available. Sixth round, sure, but there are noteworthy guys available in later rounds. Just seemed like a strange choice.
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Why wouldn't he be ready for the ECHL? If you draft a player out of a SHL system, I think you'd probably expect that player to get regular games in the SHL the upcoming season. Worst case scenario, only a couple of games and maybe a loan to the Allsvenskan. Its also worth mentioning that the AHL and SHL are about equal leagues.
If Kjellberg is a draftable prospect, he should be ECHL ready. Its a very bad league.
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A skinny 18 year old 6th rounder who hasn't advanced yet beyond a Swedish junior league is not a player I would want signing a pro contract--particularly an NHL contract--not a player I would be looking to put on an ECHL team. I'd be much more inclined to see him progress through the leagues in his own country.
I also have to say that I'm not all that much into these equivalence of leagues arguments. There are too many differences in how the particular leagues operate that making generalities about the quality of average players in either like walking through a minefield. The SHL for instance is not really a development league and Kjellberg IMO will be very hard pressed to become a regular on an SHL team in the near future. He's more likely to be this year on a more development kind of team in Sweden that feeds the SHL or Allsvenskan. If he were to come to North America this year--the place for him would either be the CHL or a college feeder league like the USHL or BCHL.
Correct. He may well come here and play in the USHL. He was a mediocre J20 player from the [very] few accounts I've read, so I don't know why anyone would think he could even handle the ECHL. Sounds like it's either USHL or J20 for him this year.
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It happens sometimes if there aren't any other real targets on the board. You think the Devils took Anthony Brodeur because they thought he was the BPA?
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I can’t speak to what the Devils did. I just don’t see any evidence to support the theory that this was the time the Rangers were going to choose make such a move — four rounds after they didn’t do the same for a superior prospect in Jack Drury.
This isn’t an organization with a history of not having names on their list late in the draft, which is one reason they’ve found some good talent.
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They went for BPA, but they go by their own list. Seeing that a scout in the system is a part of making said list, there's bound to be some biases towards some players, including family ties. I'm not saying that the Kjellberg pick was one in the sense of doing a favor, but it's hard to shy away from that fact. Like @nyr2k2 said, it's not like he was a superior player. The only positive, I can see ATM, is that he's a big kid and was PPG in the playoffs in J20 before June.
All we can hope for now is that he grows, earns an ELC and push to make the Rangers roster...
All we can hope for now is that he grows, earns an ELC and push to make the Rangers roster...
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Carolina's roster has some heavy hitters. Would not be surprised to see them take the championship.
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If they would go with a player solely based on their family ties, they would have picked Jack Drury as well
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Yeah, in previous years it was the Wolf Pack coaching staff that led Traverse.
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