Prospect Info: [#3] 2017 HFStars Prospect Rankings

Satan

MIGHTY
Apr 13, 2010
91,167
12,771
Lapland
Summer 2017 Top 20 Prospects

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Prospect​
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Pos.​
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Country​
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Acquired​
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Round​
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Change​
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% of Vote​
1
| Miro Heiskanen |
D​
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2017​
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1st​
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New
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87.0​
2
| Julius Honka |
D​
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2014​
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1st​
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-1
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100​


Graduated: Esa Lindell, Radek Faksa, Stephen Johns, Brett Ritchie, Devin Shore
Not retained: Mattias Backman


2012 Draft: Ludwig Bystrom, Gemel Smith
2013 Draft: Jason Dickinson, Remi Elie, Philippe Desrosiers, Niklas Hansson, Cole Ully
2014 Draft: Julius Honka, Michael Prapavessis, Miro Karjalainen, John Nyberg
2015 Draft: Denis Guryanov, Roope Hintz, Chris Martenet, Joseph Cecconi, Markus Ruusu
2016 Draft: Riley Tufte, Fredrik Karlstrom, Rhett Gardner, Colton Point, Nicholas Caamano, Jakob Stenqvist
2017 Draft: Miro Heiskanen, Jake Oettinger, Jason Robertson, Liam Hawel, Jacob Peterson, Brett Davis

Signed: Gavin Bayreuther, Landon Bow, Ondrej Vala

Traded for: Dillon Heatherington





Up next:

Gavin Bayreuther
Nicholas Caamano *Added this round
Jason Dickinson
Remi Elie
Denis Guryanov
Niklas Hansson
Roope Hintz
Jake Oettinger
Jason Robertson
Riley Tufte
 

Satan

MIGHTY
Apr 13, 2010
91,167
12,771
Lapland
Summer 2016 Top 20 Prospects

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Prospect​
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Pos.​
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Country​
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Acquired​
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Round​
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Change​
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% of Vote​
1
| Julius Honka |
D​
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2014​
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1st​
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-
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78.6​
2
| Esa Lindell |
D​
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2012​
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3rd​
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+1
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33.3​
3
| Denis Guryanov |
RW​
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2015​
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1st​
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-1
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41.9​
4
| Jason Dickinson |
C/W​
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2013​
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1st​
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-
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52.2​
5
| Radek Faksa |
C​
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2012​
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1st​
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+6
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64.3​
6
| Stephen Johns |
D​
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Trade​
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-​
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+1
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54.2​
7
| Riley Tufte |
LW​
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2016​
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1st​
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New
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31.0​
8
| Brett Ritchie |
RW​
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2011​
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2nd​
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-3
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46.4​
9
| Devin Shore |
C​
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2012​
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2nd​
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-1
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57.7​
10
| Roope Hintz |
LW​
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2015​
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2nd​
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+5
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AINEC​
11
| Niklas Hansson |
D​
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2013​
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3rd​
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New
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34.8​
12
| Mattias Backman |
D​
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Trade​
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-​
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New
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47.6​
13
| Philippe Desrosiers |
G​
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2013​
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2nd​
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-1
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57.1​
14
| Cole Ully |
LW​
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2013​
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5th​
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+2
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47.4​
15
| Chris Martenet |
D​
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2015​
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4th​
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New
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36.8​
16
| Michael Prapavessis |
D​
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2014​
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4th​
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New
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35.3​
17
| Remi Elie |
LW​
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2013​
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2nd​
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-4
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64.7​
18
| Fredrik Karlstrom |
C​
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2016​
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3rd​
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New
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25.0​
19
| Colton Point |
G​
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2016​
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5th​
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New
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47.1​
20
| Matej Stransky |
RW​
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2011​
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6th​
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New
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28.6​
 

LT

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Guryanov here. Most talent of anyone left.
 

JohnnyHockey

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Are most people basing this off upside, or probability of reaching their ceiling? I'd say Gury has the highest ceiling, but in terms of people reaching a high potential, I think Hintz and Dickinson are far more likely. Gury has first line potential, but he's risky to ever make that. I can easily see Dickinson being a 2nd line quality center, and Hintz being a 2nd line quality wing, so I took Hitnz. Purely off potential its Gury, no question
 
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LT

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Are most people basing this off upside, or probability of reaching their ceiling? I'd say Gury has the highest ceiling, but in terms of people reaching a high potential, I think Hintz and Dickinson are far more likely. Gury has first line potential, but he's risky to ever make that. I can easily see Dickinson being a 2nd line quality center, and Hintz being a 2nd line quality wing, so I took Hitnz. Purely off potential its Gury, no question

It's always a mix of the two, potential and likelihood to reach that potential. Some people only look at one, but both are important, to varying amounts depending on the prospect.
 

Zapp

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I'm surprised this vote is so one-sided. I'm pretty high on Guryanov and think that he has a high ceiling just not a likely probability of hitting it. I'm not sleeping on Hintz though, he has top 6 upside and I think is the best candidate out of our C prospects to replace Spezza.

He and Heiskanen were a big part of HIFKs season and playoff run, going to be great watching them play together in Dallas. Probably as soon as next season.
 

M88K

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Gury has shown literally nothing at pretty much every level to date.
Scoring forward that doesn't score.
ok defensively but there's a lot better prospects in the Stars system who are far more likely than Gury to actually become something.
Can't believe people have him 3rd. He should be behind (IMO of course) Dickinson, Hintz, Robertson, Tufte, et cetera... not a consensus #3.
 

Magic Mittens

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Gury has shown literally nothing at pretty much every level to date.
Scoring forward that doesn't score.
ok defensively but there's a lot better prospects in the Stars system who are far more likely than Gury to actually become something.
Can't believe people have him 3rd. He should be behind (IMO of course) Dickinson, Hintz, Robertson, Tufte, et cetera... not a consensus #3.

Dickinson hasn't done alot, but I do think he'll have a decent NHL career as he is a good 2way forward

Tutfe struggled last year at the start, although could use his injury as an excuse

Hintz I do think will be a solid 2 line winger/C

Robertson I don't know much about besides hearing we got a steal at where we got him, and he can score

But for Gury, he didnt do anything in the KHL as he was stuck on the 4th line. He started slow in the AHL but got alot better as the year went on. He had a great world jrs imo. He's got a good attitude, hes great at creating turnovers, hes got an amazing shot ( reminds me of Semin). He's everything I wish Nuke could be lol

You could go either way, but I think Gury has the highest ceiling of the forwards, may not be the safest though
 

JohnnyHockey

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Gury has shown literally nothing at pretty much every level to date.
Scoring forward that doesn't score.
ok defensively but there's a lot better prospects in the Stars system who are far more likely than Gury to actually become something.
Can't believe people have him 3rd. He should be behind (IMO of course) Dickinson, Hintz, Robertson, Tufte, et cetera... not a consensus #3.

"literally nothing at pretty much every level to date". ummmmm over a PPG in Russian juniors his draft year, called up to the KHL his draft year (which is stronger than any Euro league), was buried by the Russian version of Lindy Ruff but still played most of the year in the KHL as a 18 year old, and put up 27 points in 57 AHL games as a 19 year old playing bottom minutes. Do you watch AHL games or his international tape? Not bashing you at all, just curious? He's dominated every tournament he's been in as well.

For a guy who has "shown literally nothing", he seems to be doing alright. And I say this as someone who voted for Hintz.
 
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M88K

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Dickinson hasn't done alot, but I do think he'll have a decent NHL career as he is a good 2way forward

Tutfe struggled last year at the start, although could use his injury as an excuse

Hintz I do think will be a solid 2 line winger/C

Robertson I don't know much about besides hearing we got a steal at where we got him, and he can score

But for Gury, he didnt do anything in the KHL as he was stuck on the 4th line. He started slow in the AHL but got alot better as the year went on. He had a great world jrs imo. He's got a good attitude, hes great at creating turnovers, hes got an amazing shot ( reminds me of Semin). He's everything I wish Nuke could be lol

You could go either way, but I think Gury has the highest ceiling of the forwards, may not be the safest though

Just without the scoring acumen I guess?
"literally nothing at pretty much every level to date". ummmmm over a PPG in Russian juniors his draft year, called up to the KHL his draft year (which is stronger than any Euro league), was buried by the Russian version of Lindy Ruff but still played most of the year in the KHL as a 18 year old, and put up 27 points in 57 AHL games as a 19 year old playing bottom minutes. Do you watch AHL games or his international tape? He's dominated every tournament he's been in as well.

For a guy who has "shown literally nothing", he seems to be doing alright. And I say this as someone who voted for Hintz.

So 2 yrs ago he was barely a point per game in a league maybe a step above the echl. Hold the phone.
In his draft +1 he couldn't manage a point per game in that same low level league.
Despite the convenient excuse of being on the 4th line he still couldn't manage more than 5 points. Hell Nichushkin in 18games in his draft year even surpassed that, in about 30 less games too.

Oh he was kind of good in "junior" level international competition..
Roussel put in 6g in 7gp and 8p at the international level against ya know Some actual NHL talent. Hallelujah a real scoring winger... Oh wait. Maybe it doesn't mean ****? Nah, because that's all he's got.. Maybe you have him confused with Kaprizov the person who actually dominated for Russia. Or maybe you'r thinking of all the way back to the 14-15 U-18? the last time he was "dominant" at the international level.

His scoring in the AHL wasn't even on pace to pass Scott Glennie's rookie AHL season.
Stransky's rookie AHL season was more impressive than his.
Like I said he's a scoring forward, that doesn't score, he sucked in the KHL and he was pretty poor in the AHL, hell he was almost passed in scoring by Bodnarchuk and Mangene, in additional to already being behind Stransky, Smith, Dickinson, Ellie, Honka. (not including the vets like Morin, Dowling, Defazio, Werenk or McNeil who scored most of his points for another team)

He's dominated nothing at any significant level. His scoring "resume" is made up of MHL scoring which was barely a point per game (in 1 season only, at that), 2 years ago. Yeah as i said, he's scoring forward, who doesn't score, and shown nothing at pretty much every level. To top it all off, we wasted a 12oa pick on him, with scoring wingers like Svechnikov, Connor, and the likes of Barzal, Chabot, Eriksson Ek, still on the board.
That draft was such a failure(for us), our best prospect in it came out of the 2nd round somehow.

The only saving grace is that at least he looks like he's willing to back-check, and solid defensive positioning and he may have a future as a bottom 6 type guy.
 
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MBTendy

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You're calling a draft that happened two years ago "such a failure".

Think about that for a second.
 

JohnnyHockey

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So 2 yrs ago he was barely a point per game in a league maybe a step above the echl. Hold the phone.
In his draft +1 he couldn't manage a point per game in that same low level league.
Despite the convenient excuse of being on the 4th line he still couldn't manage more than 5 points. Hell Nichushkin in 18games in his draft year even surpassed that, in about 30 less games too.

Oh he was kind of good in "junior" level international competition..
Roussel put in 6g in 7gp and 8p at the international level against ya know Some actual NHL talent. Hallelujah a real scoring winger... Oh wait. Maybe it doesn't mean ****? Nah, because that's all he's got.. Maybe you have him confused with Kaprizov the person who actually dominated for Russia. Or maybe you'r thinking of all the way back to the 14-15 U-18? the last time he was "dominant" at the international level.

His scoring in the AHL wasn't even on pace to pass Scott Glennie's rookie AHL season.
Stransky's rookie AHL season was more impressive than his.
Like I said he's a scoring forward, that doesn't score, he sucked in the KHL and he was pretty poor in the AHL, hell he was almost passed in scoring by Bodnarchuk and Mangene, in additional to already being behind Stransky, Smith, Dickinson, Ellie, Honka. (not including the vets like Morin, Dowling, Defazio, Werenk or McNeil who scored most of his points for another team)

He's dominated nothing at any significant level. His scoring "resume" is made up of MHL scoring which was barely a point per game (in 1 season only, at that), 2 years ago. Yeah as i said, he's scoring forward, who doesn't score, and shown nothing at pretty much every level. To top it all off, we wasted a 12oa pick on him, with scoring wingers like Svechnikov, Connor, and the likes of Barzal, Chabot, Eriksson Ek, still on the board.
That draft was such a failure(for us), our best prospect in it came out of the 2nd round somehow.

The only saving grace is that at least he looks like he's willing to back-check, and solid defensive positioning and he may have a future as a bottom 6 type guy.

Do you not realize that his draft year, he is 18? If you admit that the MHL is above the ECHL (not even sure of this myself), you'd be upset that he was "only" a PPG in that league? Wow.

He played 7 games there in his D+ 1 year. You're gonna try to use that sample size? lmao. If he doesn't score in 1 game, you're saying he's bad because of that? Come on.

Nuke is just deflecting. They are two different players. What Nuke did is completely irrelevant to deciding if what Gury has done is impressive in its own right.

Oh crap. Yup. He didn't match Scott Glennie as a rookie in a new country where he doesn't even understand his line mates! Throw him out. Trade him!!! He obviously can never get better!!! :sarcasm: Add this to another thing that doesn't matter.

Saying "X player was still available" is utterly stupid. We coulda taken Hasek, Lundqvist. Montreal took PK Subban in 2007 in the 2nd round while they could have taken Benn! What a terrible draft! Judge players on their own merit, instead of based on what might have been.

You're judging a draft after 2 years. If you don't see Gury's talent I can't help you with that. I'm not saying he'll be elite. Heck, I voted for Hintz over him. But to act like he's done nothing is crazy.
 

M88K

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Do you not realize that his draft year, he is 18? If you admit that the MHL is above the ECHL (not even sure of this myself), you'd be upset that he was "only" a PPG in that league? Wow.

He played 7 games there in his D+ 1 year. You're gonna try to use that sample size? lmao. If he doesn't score in 1 game, you're saying he's bad because of that? Come on.

Nuke is just deflecting. They are two different players. What Nuke did is completely irrelevant to deciding if what Gury has done is impressive in its own right.

Oh crap. Yup. He didn't match Scott Glennie as a rookie in a new country where he doesn't even understand his line mates! Throw him out. Trade him!!! He obviously can never get better!!! :sarcasm: Add this to another thing that doesn't matter.

Saying "X player was still available" is utterly stupid. We coulda taken Hasek, Lundqvist. Montreal took PK Subban in 2007 in the 2nd round while they could have taken Benn! What a terrible draft! Judge players on their own merit, instead of based on what might have been.

You're judging a draft after 2 years. If you don't see Gury's talent I can't help you with that. I'm not saying he'll be elite. Heck, I voted for Hintz over him. But to act like he's done nothing is crazy.
He has done nothing that is the problem
 

Satan

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He has done nothing that is the problem

This is a funny opinion to have. If you said this last summer I think most would've agreed with you but still said "chill dude, he was drafted last year" but after this past season you're just out to lunch.
 

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M88K

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To play devils advocate I actually read through an entire DFD article just to see if the quality has improved over the years...Nope still bad, but lets look at what they say.
He was generating shots per game, but couldn't score in the KHL, which again is his whole thing, he can't score. but ok, he can at least shoot the puck a lot on a crap team.
Moving on the AHL
If we cherry pick to only those under 20, he ranks 12 of the 42 players. Good we cherry picked though because if we didn't he'd look like trash...
In his "age bracket" good lets further cherry pick and twist the numbers
He wasn't top 10 in texas scoring, he was 11, 10th only if we don't count McNeil, so they can't do math still. But of the 9 players ahead of him only 1 is a defensemen, so there were 8 better forwards at "scoring" (what he doesn't do) than him, and just short of 2 other defensemen passing him. considering Texas only iced a handful(3) more forwards for meaningful games. Hell of the players to play 50 or more games, only 2(Ully and Frytn) have less points than him.
All things being even he would also be ahead of McMurtry (47gp)

He tallied (see not scoring) less PP points than other, better players (most drafted after him) got.(in his age bracket of course, because comparing a 20yr 12oa pick to a 21 or 22yr 2-7th round pick would be unfair for reasons i guess.) Wonder why he didn't get pp time and was buried at the bottom of the lineup. Couldn't be he wasn't good enough to get and or be in the top 6. No that's not it.

Opinion on skating(got to love those stats)
He's better than Val at "lifting" the puck(more of those opinion stats)
struggles to create space from himself (hallmark of good scoring forwards)
Throws the puck up middle of the ice(another hallmark)
He wasn't "arguably" Russia's best player without a serious case of homer glasses.


To summarize, he generates shots but can't score, when we cherry pick only "his age bracket" he was still behind most of the better players taken after him, who outscored him.

No actually they don't. (see bolded above)

But good for you for trying to find any source to support... whatever it is you're trying to do with a DFD article.

I'm not against Guryanov, I'd like nothing more than for him to be the player McDonnell and Nill seem to think he is. He's just not, nothing about him even suggests he's capable of getting near that level, add in the fact that there was a myriad of better players still on the draft board, and then considering that he can't even beat out low ceiling players like Dickinson, or Ellie, or Stransky at the one thing he is supposed to be able to do.
And the only way that anyone can quantify it is because of conspiracy or "phenomenon" instead of saying the truth; he's just not that good.
So it is either we drafted one of the most unlucky players possible (really really really unlucky) or he's not that good.
Sadly everything says it is the latter and not the former
 
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David Castillo

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Wow. I never thought I'd be attacked and need macaroni shells and a stick of glue to make it simpler, but let's try.

Comparing Gurianov to those in his age bracket is as simple as telling the difference between a plus and a minus sign. It can be difficult at a certain age, but eventually you get the hang of it. As in, it's silly to compare Gurianov to the rest of the AHL. There are a select amount of players in the AHL 20 and under, so it's useful to compare him to players with a similar pedigree. AHL veteran TJ Brennan outproduced Julius Honka this season and last season. Production is largely a matter of usage, and veterans get the lion's share of ice time and opportunities. Yet I'm sure we can all agree that Honka is better than Brennan.

For example, if you're on the PP for a month, there's no reason shed salty tears over who we passed over if Gurianov is not producing on the PP. Because he wasn't really on the PP. My article was meant to give context to his development. Nothing much else. He's done reasonably well in a very limited role and to the extent that his development has been stunted, it's largely been a product of conditions outside of his control (see the KHL situation). He's clearly improving, and his showing at the World Juniors was a testament to that.

Saying he struggles at elements of hockey is not the same as saying he's bad at them. Only that, like most prospects, players develop out of bad habits and strengthen good ones over time. Klingberg wasn't that good at his first several World Juniors. I wonder where this team might be if Dallas' management had a stroke screaming "he's an offensive defensemen and he's not producing!" This is the most polite response I could manage to the most obnoxious feedback I've ever read. But I hope this helps.
 

M88K

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Wow. I never thought I'd be attacked and need macaroni shells and a stick of glue to make it simpler, but let's try.

Comparing Gurianov to those in his age bracket is as simple as telling the difference between a plus and a minus sign. It can be difficult at a certain age, but eventually you get the hang of it. As in, it's silly to compare Gurianov to the rest of the AHL. There are a select amount of players in the AHL 20 and under, so it's useful to compare him to players with a similar pedigree. AHL veteran TJ Brennan outproduced Julius Honka this season and last season. Production is largely a matter of usage, and veterans get the lion's share of ice time and opportunities. Yet I'm sure we can all agree that Honka is better than Brennan.

For example, if you're on the PP for a month, there's no reason shed salty tears over who we passed over if Gurianov is not producing on the PP. Because he wasn't really on the PP. My article was meant to give context to his development. Nothing much else. He's done reasonably well in a very limited role and to the extent that his development has been stunted, it's largely been a product of conditions outside of his control (see the KHL situation). He's clearly improving, and his showing at the World Juniors was a testament to that.

Saying he struggles at elements of hockey is not the same as saying he's bad at them. Only that, like most prospects, players develop out of bad habits and strengthen good ones over time. Klingberg wasn't that good at his first several World Juniors. I wonder where this team might be if Dallas' management had a stroke screaming "he's an offensive defensemen and he's not producing!" This is the most polite response I could manage to the most obnoxious feedback I've ever read. But I hope this helps.

I don't know who are are, but my reply was not to anything you said so I don't know what you're going on about for that.
The context to his development is that even in his peer group he's not that good at anything but generating shots, when compared to the rest of the league he's worse.
He didn't earn or get PP time, or top 6 time, there's a reason for that.
Veterans do get the benefits when all things are equal, if Guryanov was significantly better at really anything, he would of forced the coaching staff to give him more time.
He couldn't, because he's just not that good.
Klingberg is a good example he was drafted in the 5th round (see crap-shoot) he was producing the SEL and SHL before jumping to texas and playing so well that he not only forced the coaches to give him more time, but for the gm to promote him to the NHL. Because ya know he was good and stuff.
That's not unlike Guryanov, he was so good, that he um, pp time, um top 6 minutes, um...um...He's russian and had to adapt to a new rink and stuff.
Not that world juniors means a whole lot but Klingberg wasn't bad in any WJC.

The only way to make Guryanov look kind of decent is to make a ton of excuses and cherry pick, which by all means, go right ahead.
a 12oa pick should not need to have quantifiers for every league he's been except the ECHL v2.0 (3 years ago at that)
Will that be the Excuse when/if he gets to the NHL... Well compared to the other 24yr olds he's like 50th out of 200, so he's ya know doing things wellish enough to not be a giant reach and waste of a pick considering all the plethora of talent around him. Talent that doesn't need a million little stats cherry picked to actually seem good. They all seem to be comparable to the rest of the AHL at large.
How about Svechnikov? Are we going to avoid that?
Drafted 19th (best Russian forward in draft)
38th in AHL scoring(4th in rookie scoring) 51p(74gp) in the AHL and another 12p in 19gp during the playoffs.

Oh i know it's cause he was in the QMJHL right...Where he was also really good at scoring. And he didn't have to earn top 6 and pp time because it's not like Grand Rapids was playing for a Calder cup while Texas was winning everything.
Denis in (rookie AHL scoring) sits 50th (a huge bulk of the people behind him are either Defensemen, goalies or played a lot less games not all mind you)

Is that not a fair comparison? He's against people who are entering the league for the first time, he had the benefit of playing, limited as his time may have been, in the 2nd best league in the world, he dropped down in quality of competition and still couldn't stand out on his own damn team enough to get some chances on the PP or in the top 6, on a team that by and large sucked.

Even with all the Cherry picking, and the he's Russian and had to adapt to a new country and new blah blah, He's still the the 4th lowest scoring "regular" forward Texas had.
There is no equating that to well he tried hard, so he's still a good prospect. The sad part is that he would outscore over 70 games Mike McMurtry an undrafted player that spent time in the ECHL(source the article) , by 10 whole points.

He was a lousy pick at 12, and all he's done, at literally every level since then is show it.
And again, I want nothing more than for him to work out, he's solid defensively, which is more than I can say for most Russians(coming out of Russia anyway)
so he can still be a bottom 6 guy someday.
But the dream of him being a scoring winger, after 2 years of barely doing that are about the same as Glennie's were
 

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It's a big old coincidence that there are two David Castillos that are Stars fans, one who posts here and one who writes for Defending Big D. Apparently both had something to say about Gurianov on the same day! What a time to be alive.
 

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It's a big old coincidence that there are two David Castillos that are Stars fans, one who posts here and one who writes for Defending Big D. Apparently both had something to say about Gurianov on the same day! What a time to be alive.

Ah ok, i get it now. He wrote the article on DBD, that just so happened to be referenced by JohnnyHockey, which is who my response was to. Didn't pay attention to the author of the article. That clears that up.
 

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