Prospect Info: With the 21st Overall Pick the Rangers Select Filip Chytil

[Babula]

Are the Czechs playing in any camp tournament later this month? Plymouth,Michigan is the big junior tournament with the U.S.,Canada,Sweden and Finland. July 29-August 5. That's a great spot for summer hockey. Thumbs up

Czech U20 has 2 games against Suisse at 18 and 19th of July in Brno (CZE) and then camp in Finland (Vierumäki) oficiall IIHF Hockey Development camp http://www.iihf.com/channels1617/hd...=11921&cHash=ac99630f3b3d952f5b8e00eda6dc6996

 

[Fugazy]

Do we have a correct pronunciation of his last name yet? I've been referring to him as Chee-Tull

 

[Babula]

Do we have a correct pronunciation of his last name yet? I've been referring to him as Chee-Tull

nope

I think we are still looking for nickname which is not so difficult to pronounce it right way...

 

[Miamipuck]

Kytull
Chytull
Cheetull
Chitetull
JethroTull

call him Jethro

 

[Babula]

flipper

 

[Irishguy42]

Borges has been saying it something like "Ke-til" or "Chi-til" in her interviews and videos.

I would think she would know.

Also, do we have video of draft night? I imagine when the pick was announced, it was a close pronunciation.

 

[Joey Bones]

Do we have a correct pronunciation of his last name yet? I've been referring to him as Chee-Tull

If you go onto his profile in Eliteprospects, there is a pronunciation of his name "Hee-tal".

 

[Inferno]

the hee is more of a back of the throat sound...think of a semi hocking up a loogie type sound..

 

[nyr2k2]

Yeah, it's the Yiddish "h", throat-clearing sound. Hee-til is probably the easiest English translation with that Hee having the loogie-making sound.

 

[pblawr]

FWIW, my friends dad officiated the 4th scrimmage at the prospect camp, and said Chytil was handily the best player on the ice.

I know the term gets thrown around pretty regularly here, but if our 17 year old first round pick is skating circles around our other prospects, some of which are in their mid 20s, I find it difficult to call this guy "raw". Maybe he needs to fill out physically, but he's been playing against men and his skills are already quite refined. When I think of raw, I think of McIlrath at 18 - just a massive kid who had a limited understanding of his reach and skating ability.

Either way interesting to hear. He reffed the Isles scrimmage on Saturday and said Ho Sang was unbelievable, while Dal Colle was bad.

Any other takeaways from your friends dad? How did Andersson, Pionk, Bergelazov, Day, Gettinger, Zborovskiy, and Gropp look? Anyone else stand out?

 

[Lays]

Isn't it like Heetle or something like that? I've heard that a few times. I've just been saying Shih-Teel because the first time I heard his name it was said like that

 

[Igor Shestyorkin]

The more I look into this pick the more I keep loving it.

 

[offdacrossbar]

i kinda like cheeto

 

[Edge]

The more I look into this pick the more I keep loving it.

The upside is pretty high on this kid. Though I see him as being closer to three years away, next season will go a pretty long way toward determining his timetable.