Prospect Info: 2021 HFDevils Prospect Rankings #7

[Its Always Sundstrom]

Number 9? That's my girlfriend!

Ugh... Did I really just type that?

Being chased by ominous orbs will do that to a fellow.

 

[OmNomNom]

def skeptical of stillman, even if his toolset is great, he hasn't even set foot in the AHL, so how can we say he's an arguably better player than clarke?

even though i do think he's gonna be a big surprise, i can't vote for him here on evidence

 

[TF1970]

would assume Gritsyuk/Zetterlund could be added at any point here

 

[MartyOwns]

def skeptical of stillman, even if his toolset is great, he hasn't even set foot in the AHL, so how can we say he's an arguably better player than clarke?

went clarke. add daws

 

[JimEIV]

Stillman is the correct answer

Was about 3 or 4 spots ago

 

[pkbrux]

Stillman, add Daws

 

[My3Sons]

Was about 3 or 4 spots ago

You are comfortable with the small sample size etc.? I’m not implying anyone sugggesting Stillman is incorrect. I’m just curious what the decision is based on if we haven’t watched the prospect.

 

[JimEIV]

You are comfortable with the small sample size etc.? I’m not implying anyone sugggesting Stillman is incorrect. I’m just curious what the decision is based on if we haven’t watched the prospect.

Just the way he plays the game from the video Ive seen. Seems like he has a very high compete level and good skill to go along with it. He strikes me as someone who can play at the NHL level based on that compete level...Then you add to that his family history growing up as the son of an NHL player and coach and I think you have a very good base for success.

Definitely is early and it'll be interesting to see if he makes Canada's WJC team...but I am not as high on some of the prospects as some here are and I think Stillman has one of the higher probabilities of becoming a NHL player out of all of our prospects.

 

[FooteBahl]

You are comfortable with the small sample size etc.? I’m not implying anyone sugggesting Stillman is incorrect. I’m just curious what the decision is based on if we haven’t watched the prospect.

It’s just outstanding that one of these guys will be out 8th ranked prospect. We’ve come a really long way. I can’t wait to look back on this in a few years and see what transpired.

 

[Guttersniped]

You are comfortable with the small sample size etc.? I’m not implying anyone sugggesting Stillman is incorrect. I’m just curious what the decision is based on if we haven’t watched the prospect.

You didn’t ask me but I’ve been voting Stillman. I go on potential more for top prospects and Stillman missing OHL season does make him a mystery but he still fits the profile of a guy of someone I would consider higher end prospect. What I’ve heard about Stillman himself, plus his stats before this COVID season suggest offensive production is there and his two-way playstyle gives him a high floor, all contribute here. I get people being put off by the mystery part though.

I also put a lot of emphasis on hard work and drive (combined with talent). I still remember Quenneville getting criticized, publicly called out in the press, for his conditioning in 2016 and then again in 2018. It was pretty clear to me in 2018 he likely lacked the dedication to make it. (And presumably to the the Devils too since they kept harping on it and he didn’t get the message.) I remember JQ’s excuse quotes weren’t great in the articles too, it was a bad sign.

I really like Clarke, I’m very impressed with him and I believe he has a chance to make it the NHL. It’s not a big chance though, only because a scoring winger is tough a spot to win and it’s the only spot really open to him. He’ll be a scoring winger in the NHL or in the AHL or in Europe, there are a lot of talented tweeners who almost make it.

Unless they’re a blue chip/high end scoring winger prospect like Holtz or Foote they often go a little lower for me when compared to two-way forwards with offense, real centers and defensemen with some sort NHL future. (And I’m not sure where I would put Foote, he’s the top prospect I have almost no take on, good or bad. I have no idea when he could make the team or where he’s at, I feel like I underestimated him and now I’m sort of into him but unsure. Lol. It’s complicated.)

Bahl is fine where he is. The dude is 6’7” and 240 lbs and pretty damn mobile, he can just go and exist on a 3rd pairing and play in the NHL. (And he has upside for more.) That size advantage might offend people’s egalitarian spirit or something but it’s a really enormous f***ing size advantage.

I Clarke though, he did just about everything we could want last season, it’s too bad he couldn’t make Team Canada but that team was impossibly stacked. He’s less than a month older that Jack Hughes.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

Ya.

Bahls Deep.

 

[My3Sons]

You didn’t ask me but I’ve been voting Stillman. I go on potential more for top prospects and Stillman missing OHL season does make him a mystery but he still fits the profile of a guy of someone I would consider higher end prospect. What I’ve heard about Stillman himself, plus his stats before this COVID season suggest offensive production is there and his two-way playstyle gives him a high floor, all contribute here. I get people being put off by the mystery part though.

I also put a lot of emphasis on hard work and drive (combined with talent). I still remember Quenneville getting criticized, publicly called out in the press, for his conditioning in 2016 and then again in 2018. It was pretty clear to me in 2018 he likely lacked the dedication to make it. (And presumably to the the Devils too since they kept harping on it and he didn’t get the message.) I remember JQ’s excuse quotes weren’t great in the articles too, it was a bad sign.

I really like Clarke, I’m very impressed with him and I believe he has a chance to make it the NHL. It’s not a big chance though, only because a scoring winger is tough a spot to win and it’s the only spot really open to him. He’ll be a scoring winger in the NHL or in the AHL or in Europe, there are a lot of talented tweeners who almost make it.

Unless they’re a blue chip/high end scoring winger prospect like Holtz or Foote they often go a little lower for me when compared to two-way forwards with offense, real centers and defensemen with some sort NHL future. (And I’m not sure where I would put Foote, he’s the top prospect I have almost no take on, good or bad. I have no idea when he could make the team or where he’s at, I feel like I underestimated him and now I’m sort of into him but unsure. Lol. It’s complicated.)

Bahl is fine where he is. The dude is 6’7” and 240 lbs and pretty damn mobile, he can just go and exist on a 3rd pairing and play in the NHL. (And he has upside for more.) That size advantage might offend people’s egalitarian spirit or something but it’s a really enormous f***ing size advantage.

I Clarke though, he did just about everything we could want last season, it’s too bad he couldn’t make Team Canada but that team was impossibly stacked. He’s less than a month older that Jack Hughes.

I didn’t ask you because I’m preparing fir a trial and don’t have the six hours I need to read your average post.

I’m just teasing. Your posts are sometimes long but always informative and thoughtful.

 

[Guttersniped]

I didn’t ask you because I’m preparing fir a trial and don’t have the six hours I need to read your average post.

I’m just teasing. Your posts are sometimes long but always informative and thoughtful.

“Sometimes long”? I appreciate your sympathetic portrayal of my posts, lol.

 

[MartyOwns]

I’m preparing fir a trial

hey, i watched an episode of The Practice in 1998, let me know if i can be of any assistance.