Prospect Info: Wild Prospect Thread 2024-25

[Saga of the Elk]

Trending up: Buium, Stramel, Öhgren, Spacek

Flatlining: the rest of the prospect pool

Keeping an eye on: Parker, Heidt, Ritchie, Jiricek, Clark, Kiviharju

Hoping for long runs for a lot of these guys, doubtful that the Iowa squad gets that chance

Devastated for Yurov...

 

[DANOZ28]

as long as yurov is healthy next fall , its all good. i have high hopes for heidt , i think hes just board this season. buium still stud; ohgren looking good; stramel i still think is mcbain 2.0 but we'll see.

 

[P10p]

Whatsup with Peart this season. Appears to have cratered. I watched all 9 games of his last year for iowa and thought he looked great despite not many points. This year though.... ouch.

 

[MNRube]

Whatsup with Peart this season. Appears to have cratered. I watched all 9 games of his last year for iowa and thought he looked great despite not many points. This year though.... ouch.

I loved his game coming out of SCSU, thought he was a safe bet to play NHL minutes. Very disappointing development. Such a crisp puck-mover.

The fact that none of Hunt, ROR, Lambos and Peart developed into much is quite surprising. Figured we’d get at least one decent blueliner out of that quartet

On a more positive note, Haight appears to be a player. Be nice to have a RHS with scoring ability in St. Paul.

 

[DANOZ28]

its alarming our D prospects aren't developing in iowa. just another issue billy needs to address but doesn't have time for.

 

[north21]

Or they were just bad picks and never going to make it?

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Peart is an undersized player in his first year of pros, this year was always going to be more about physical development than stats for him in my eyes. Haven’t seen much IA but I wouldn’t write him or really any of the D off quite yet, they almost always take longer.

 

[DANOZ28]

Or they were just bad picks and never going to make it?

how many bad picks before heads should roll? (meaning someone should take blame & be fired)

 

[thestonedkoala]

Or they were just bad picks and never going to make it?

I mean Brackett was supposed to be a wunderkind in terms of drafting.

 

[north21]

Yet we have a great prospect pool, not everyone is going to turn out. Even if you can hit on first rounders you are doing better than most. We aren't even hurting on D plus Spacek might be a player too. This isn't anything to worry about that is for sure. Good drafting can mean lots of guys who were close but never made it to go along with the guys that do.

 

[BagHead]

The Wild seem to be hitting on prospects at a rate of about 1.5 to 2 per year, usually one good player and one mediocre one, with the rest being AHL to ECHL level talents. That's pretty normal for the NHL. I'd like to recommend this thread from this last off-season:
Grading each NHL team's draft performance

Brackett has had a hand in the 4 most recent Wild's drafts, his first pick was Marco Rossi. That is all but one of Guerin's drafts. It's hard to judge these two on the Wild right now, given that they've only had 5 drafts together and I wouldn't expect most players to start making it until years 3 and 4 at the earliest (these are the Ohgren/Yurov and Wallstedt years).