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Prospect Info: Wild Prospect Thread 2024-25

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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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
P10p said:
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.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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).
 
BagHead said:
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
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Honestly, I am not a big fan of this metric because it doesn't tell the entire story.

From 2018-2022, Minnesota has four players in their lineup from those drafts. Only one player outside the first round and only one from outside the lottery picks that was a first rounder and I don't know what to make of Hoosie.

Minnesota is a good drafting, extremely poor developing team. It's been 15 years since they drafted a player in the 2nd round or lower that they developed into a 20+ goal scoring winger (Zucker). 10 years since they got any contributing forward in the top 6. Since then they have had a couple of guys like Greenway, Dewar, Shaw and Duhaime come up but they couldn't stick.

They last decent defenseman they developed is Soucy.
 
I've just never bought into development as a driving factor in much of anything when it comes to nhl success. Much more weight on the players themselves then a set of magical things teams do to turn guys into nhl players.
 
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north21 said:
I've just never bought into development as a driving factor in much of anything when it comes to nhl success. Much more weight on the players themselves then a set of magical things teams do to turn guys into nhl players.
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Please clarify, I think you’re saying coaching, weight training, diet, professionalism, edge work, etc, doesn’t matter.
 
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