Prospect Info: Tyler Boucher (RW/LW) - Don`t sleep on Tyler Boucher

[Alf Silfversson]

Seeing what Sam Bennett does, to bad Ty has had so many injuries he’d be a perfect RW tank right now for the playoffs

Dude. He's a fringe AHL player and you're comparing him to Sam Bennett?

 

[Senator Stanley]

If people would view him as a depth prospect rather than a former tenth overall pick, he's not an uninteresting player to monitor. He has some tools, he works hard, and it would be a great story if he found his way to the NHL, so why not just watch and hope he does? The jokes are getting tired.

 

[Tuna99]

Dude. He's a fringe AHL player and you're comparing him to Sam Bennett?

Yes, I did that.

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

I believe in Tyler Boucher.

 

[senswon]

I believe in Tyler Boucher.

 

[Boud]

In 5 years Tyler Boucher will start his construction company and some people will still think he has a shot at being a useful NHL player.

The high draft pick syndrome.

He’s a dime a dozen borderline AHL player. Time to let this one go. You could find a bunch of undrafted overagers or guys playing in europe that are way better than he is.

 

[mysens]

Why construction...I bet he is selling life insurance to all his AHL/NHL contacts he made over the years. These guys do not like hard work.

 

[Xspyrit]

Pascal made it to the show

And he was actually pretty good before injuries ravaged him. Same with Matt Murray

Boucher has the same problem as them but couldn’t even become a good AHL player. He’s probably the worst AHL player the most talked about in history.

 

[TeamRenzo]

Stick a fork in him

 

[OD99]

If people would view him as a depth prospect rather than a former tenth overall pick, he's not an uninteresting player to monitor. He has some tools, he works hard, and it would be a great story if he found his way to the NHL, so why not just watch and hope he does? The jokes are getting tired.

What makes him interesting? Compared to any of our other prospects?

 

[GCK]

Without the injuries he’d be fine but fate took over.

 

[branch]

In 5 years Tyler Boucher will start his construction company and some people will still think he has a shot at being a useful NHL player.

The high draft pick syndrome.

He’s a dime a dozen borderline AHL player. Time to let this one go. You could find a bunch of undrafted overagers or guys playing in europe that are way better than he is.

Tyler is not going to have to work since his dad probably put some money away for him. But he will go back to an American school and get a CPA designation like they all do

 

[Big Muddy]

If people would view him as a depth prospect rather than a former tenth overall pick, he's not an uninteresting player to monitor. He has some tools, he works hard, and it would be a great story if he found his way to the NHL, so why not just watch and hope he does? The jokes are getting tired.

OK, but he is in fact a 10th overall draft pick, so not sure why we should try to view it differently?

I tend to just forgetting about him and only when this thread reappears do I think of him. Maybe that’s what is practical here.

 

[Blotto71]

This is a kid that will likely develop later on after the Sens give up on him, a la Noesen.

Otherwise, the title of the thread should be "Don't fall asleep waiting for Boucher to make the NHL".

 

[Alf Silfversson]

This is a kid that will likely develop later on after the Sens give up on him, a la Noesen.

Otherwise, the title of the thread should be "Don't fall asleep waiting for Boucher to make the NHL".

That's possible but their early career development paths aren't really similar at all.

Noesen was more than a PPG player in the OHL in his draft year and followed that up with a really good D+1 year. He was then a productive AHL player as soon as he was healthy enough to play there. He then started getting NHL call ups at age 21/22.

Boucher has done nothing close to any of that. If he could stay healthy maybe he carves out a career in the NHL as a callup or 13th forward in a few years. Hopefully, at least for his own sake, he can put health issues behind him and give it an honest go but nothing suggests that he'll ever be an NHL player of any significance.

 

[TheNewEra]

i can see him eventually becoming a 4th liner dont know if that ends up happening in ottawa though

 

[otown]

i can see him eventually becoming a 4th liner dont know if that ends up happening in ottawa though

Logan Brown 2.0. Can we get a mulligan!

 

[Senator Stanley]

What makes him interesting? Compared to any of our other prospects?

I'm a prospect watcher, so my bar for "interesting" is going to be a lot lower than the average person's, but in the case of Boucher, he's interesting to me because he still has the basic physical tools that teams like in a heavy, forechecking 4th liner. I wouldn't bet on it happening, but in any organization there's a collection of depth prospects who have at least some NHL potential, and sometimes a player emerges from the pack - we're seeing it this year with a guy like Cole Reinhardt. So, if you find "two years away from being Cole Reinhardt" interesting, then by all means join me on the lonely Boucher watch.

Of course, my original post wasn't meant to make the case for Boucher as a prospect. It was about the way we talk about him around here.

 

[bicboi64]

If he ever gets healthy, Boucher needs to change up his game to try making some noise. His scoring will never get him into the league, maybe if he becomes a really smart defensive guy or hitting machine he can get called up.

Hoping it happens with us and not another organization. We could really use some ELC talent coming up and making an impact right now. The bar is very low with the 11f/7d we got going