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

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Wooren said:
Should keep him in the Czech Republic. He is playing for a quite weak team that has the right mindset regarding young players, so I wouldn't be shocked if he got a chance to play the 1C for them the next year. Late in the season he played good minutes in the top 6 anyway.
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If that's the case he should stay there. Rather have him be comfortable in his environment while getting huge minutes than come over here. Dude is so young still, need to get to that point where he's chomping at the bit to come over here.
 
Pavel Buchnevich said:
Filip stated a number of times that he wants to play next season in the Czech League. I say don't push it. I'd prefer NA, but if the kid really doesn't think he's ready, leave him there, but he should be prepared to play in the AHL in 2018-19, and make the NHL a season after that. He also says he's been working on his English since September with a private English teacher. His english is very good for a kid from Czech Republic, understood almost every question, only asked one journalist to repeat their question. The language barrier should be no problem for Filip. Shows good dedication to hockey that he learned English in anticipation for the draft.
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Watching that clip and watching some clips of Jagr when he first came over, Chytil has a huge head start in terms of English proficiency. Kid seems perfectly fine already.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
For a first round pick with exciting upside this thread is really sparse.
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hoping you are right and seems like he played very well for the czech under 18 team.
Just being honest but don't know much about him just like most of the board.
The cool thing is he shot up pretty nicely in draft rankings.
 
Honestly, this hasn't been answered does this guy have a chance to be a #1 center? Not asking if the chance is big, I just want a chance. We haven't had a potential #1 center in our pipeline since I've been watching the Rangers (00-01) season and before that.
 
This kid, if he were 10 days older, would have been in next years draft where right now he'd be in Top 10 mocks. When he was 15 he was placed in the U18 league because of how good he was, and then he still tore it up and continued as such. This kid has huge offensive potential.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
Honestly, this hasn't been answered does this guy have a chance to be a #1 center? Not asking if the chance is big, I just want a chance. We haven't had a potential #1 center in our pipeline since I've been watching the Rangers (00-01) season and before that.
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Yes, he does
 
Really loved this little tidbit from Canucks army:

Reduced to 5-on-5 time, the discrepancy between Necas and Chytil’s production dissipates. Both had four goals and seven primary points at 5-on-5, with Necas bagging a couple of extra secondary assists to break the tie. Necas’ Brno Kometa was also a stronger team that Chytil’s HC Zlin, with the former scoring 32 more goals than the latter over the course of a 52 game season. Indeed, HC Zlin had to fight to stay in the league, surviving the Extraliga relegation series, in which Filip Chytil contributed two points in two games.
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https://canucksarmy.com/2017/06/06/nation-network-2017-prospect-profiles-24-filip-chytil/
 
Alluckks said:
This kid, if he were 10 days older, would have been in next years draft where right now he'd be in Top 10 mocks. When he was 15 he was placed in the U18 league because of how good he was, and then he still tore it up and continued as such. This kid has huge offensive potential.
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Not sure I'd say top 10, at least not definitely top 10. The next draft looks great, but probably earlier, like 10-15 range. I think he would go a little higher, although I think if he's to go much higher it would be because his next season was very good.
 
GeorgeKaplan said:
Probably because most of the reports on Andersson focus on his high-floor
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I think a lot of it comes from Andersson playing at a higher level. If he had 120 pts in the WHL nobody would talk about lack of potential. How many pts would Glass have scored in the SHL?
 
SnowblindNYR said:
That's great to hear! I'll be more ok with the safe pick at 7, if the guy at 21 is a high upside pick.
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Here is a great short snippet to get you excited then:

When the Rangers came up at 21 it seemed like a dream scenario. Unlike at 7th when the Rangers top players on the board were already selected, at 21st there were a few players highly linked to the Rangers on the board. Most notably Kailer Yamamoto, Eeli Tolvanen, and Klim Kostin (the last two somehow fell to the final two picks in the 1st round).

The Rangers went totally off the board at 21, though, and picked Filip Chytil -- a player who elicited “who the hell is that” among fans.

On the surface, the Rangers reversed what they should have done with these two picks. They went too safe with the 7th overall pick and too risky with the 21st. Chytil, I will admit, was a player I had very limited knowledge of coming into the draft. I did a ton of research last night after the pick, though, and I think I love this selection.

For starters: If the Rangers didn’t have the 7th overall selection, I don’t think they ever go down this road. There was a very clear strategy to go safe with the 7th because of the risk they were going to take with the 21st, and they had to know that Chytil would be available at 21.

Chytil’s rankings are far more sporadic than Andersson’s were. Chytil was ranked 28th by Hockey Prospect, 31st by TSN/McKenzie, and 11th (EU skaters only) by NHL Central Scouting. Some respected rankings had him as high as 70th overall.

Before you panic, though, here’s what so special about this pick: Chytil was 10 days away from being a 2018 draft eligible player where, most scouts seem to agree, he’d probably start among the top-10 picks in early mocks. Unlike Ryan Gropp — who missed the cutoff of an earlier draft by 24 hours and was the oldest guy of his class — Chytil is the youngest. He’s 17, and won’t turn 18 until September.

As a 17-year-old, he played 38 games in HC Zlin in the Czech Extraliga, one of Europe’s top four professional leagues. At 17, he notched eight points in those 38 games against men. Think about that for a moment. Look at some of his production despite his age in the Czech circuit of leagues:

As a 15-year-old: Chytil recorded 30 goals and 18 assists for 48 points in 25 HC Zlin U16 games. He was so dominant that he was moved to the U18 level where he notched nine points in 19 games.

As a 16-year-old: Chytil scored 28 goals and added 22 assists for 50 points in 30 HC Zlin U18 games. That year he also notched seven points in 20 U17 international games.

As a 17-year-old: You know about the 8 points in 38 HC Zlin games (again, against men). What you don’t know is that in their playoff series (to avoid relegation, which they did) he had a goal and an assist in two games. He also recorded five points for Czech in as man WJC-U18 games and 13 points in 19 U18 Czech games (total competitions).

If you’re going to gamble on a player, this is the type of player to do it with. After speaking to a few people in the know, Chytil probably slipped off most rankings simply because he was young enough that he wasn’t putting up monster stats. That’s not to say there’s no risk here -- there’s plenty of it — but there’s an upside as well that’s as high as you can try to see.

To be as young as he is, and playing in a men’s league speaks volumes. That he will have another full year to develop and by then will be alongside 2018 draft eligible players next year says even more.
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- https://www.blueshirtbanter.com/201...il-scouting-report-2017-nhl-draft-first-round
 
nyr2k2 said:
If Eliteprospects' name pronunciation thing is to be trusted, the C is silent and it's more like hee-til.
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close enough. anyway our ch is special character, i guess this is extremely difficult to pronounce it absolutely right.

Zdeno Chara is the example. I love the way commentators are pronouncing Chara. it is not right, but lovely.

I do not like Chee-teel, it is more like Khee til, but the K does not sound really...

time to get nickname for Chytil :)
 
Tawnos said:
That's how Gordie pronounced it at the podium, too. Can't imagine they'd get his name wrong.
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It wasn't great. The Ch sound is kinda hard and the t is soft which will be hard for people to pronounce.
 
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