Prospect Info: Ducks Prospect Discussion 2017/18 - part 1

[Kalv]

Pretty good for Troy!

 

[Goose of Reason]

It is so weird looking at that roster. A few youngens, and a bunch of “hey, I remember him.”

I had no idea James Wisniewski was still playing hockey

 

[KaseMeOutside]

Troy Terry is playing on the USA Olympic team

There's no reason for him to not sign with Anaheim this spring unless he wants to be a free agent

 

[duxfan1101]

Mahura goes 1+2 with 6SOG and a +3 in his first game back

 

[MMC]

What happened to Berkovitz and Metcalf?

 

[MMC]

Also, who do you think will be the next Ducks to make their NHL debut? I'm hoping its Petterson.

 

[Vipers31]

I had no idea James Wisniewski was still playing hockey

Well, he's in the 2nd German league, so... you weren't too far off. (To be fair, he is kinda destroying it at that level at least offensively with 36 pts in 23 games.)

Still, kinda happy for him - when he was left of the roster for one of the last small international exhibition tournaments that seemed like a final rehearsal, he tweeted about kissing that dream goodbye and was obviously pretty heartbroken, so getting the news that he can fulfill that dream after all must be amazing. Given the level of competition he's playing with this year, I'm not sure he's going to be a good selection for Team USA, though.

 

[Vipers31]

Also, who do you think will be the next Ducks to make their NHL debut? I'm hoping its Petterson.

I kinda hope not, because that would probably mean a number of further injuries, and I'd not role the dice on those happening to the "right" guys in his way.

I guess I'd hope for us to get lucky on the injury front, and have Sam Steel coming in after ending his junior season with a great second half and following that up with forcing his way onto the roster. I don't expect either of those things to happen, the latter at least not this season.

 

[Opak]

Troy Terry is playing on the USA Olympic team

Awesome! Hopefully he'll play well in the tournament!

 

[Opak]

Interesting news from the London Knights -- they just traded Cliff Pu to Kingston, for Nathan Dunkley and a pair of draft picks.

London's HF fanbase is already speculating that Jones is getting traded after the WJC, possibly also to Kingston. This would be an insane turn of events -- Kingston has recently acquired Gabe Vilardi and Sean Day from Windsor, now they'd add Pu and Jones into the lineup? Talk about a stacked roster...

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Interesting news from the London Knights -- they just traded Cliff Pu to Kingston, for Nathan Dunkley and a pair of draft picks.

London's HF fanbase is already speculating that Jones is getting traded after the WJC, possibly also to Kingston. This would be an insane turn of events -- Kingston has recently acquired Gabe Vilardi and Sean Day from Windsor, now they'd add Pu and Jones into the lineup? Talk about a stacked roster...

London did well in that deal. Dunkley is already a solid performer and will be a top player for the next two years.

Makes sense that they'll make a similar move involving Jones with eyes on building a contender for the next two seasons. I bet they're also going to bank some draft picks in case surefire #1 pick Quentin Byfield won't report to whoever picks him first overall.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Sounds like there is a chance that Sam Steel may find himself on the Canadian Olympic team also.

 

[The Mighty Duck Man]

Sounds like there is a chance that Sam Steel may find himself on the Canadian Olympic team also.

I'd bet on it. I get why the CHL doesn't want to let players go, especially guys who played in the world juniors, but they have to let at least one or two go, and Steel makes the most sense of pretty much anyone. Their Mem Cup spot is secure and he was probably at or near the top of Hockey Canada's list.

 

[Masch78]

What happened to Berkovitz and Metcalf?

Metcalf was never a good pick imho, Berkovitz did not progress. Man those two 6th rounder Ruggiero and Metcalf have been a waste. Unfortunately we did not take Borgström there - sure nobody did that year - and sometimes I do not understand our scouting. It will be interesting to see if Nättinen still can become something.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

Metcalf was never a good pick imho, Berkovitz did not progress. Man those two 6th rounder Ruggiero and Metcalf have been a waste. Unfortunately we did not take Borgström there - sure nobody did that year - and sometimes I do not understand our scouting. It will be interesting to see if Nättinen still can become something.

It's extremely rare to hit on every pick in a draft, a pair of late picks becoming duds is no reason to question the scouting staff - who by tbe way are excellent and the envy of the majority of the league when it comes to identifying young talent.

 

[Masch78]

I'm not questioning the scouting staff, I just don't understand some picks. Unfortunately the Ducks don't offer a lot of infos about their process.

I don't expect NHL pros out of the later rounds but I expect those players at least to play regualary in their teams. Metcalf had 4 games last year and none this year. Ruggiero has 3 games as a 21y old. Madden mentioned they focused on Drake Bahterson and I think they would have taken him with our 4th rounder. And while I like Badini I wish we would have taken him at #92.

 

[pbgoalie]

People didn't understand the Hampus pick either

 

[Kalv]

Later rounds is always boom or bust. And lately we are not so bad Of course there will be picks that we don`t understand (including me). But oh well.
We have to improve drafting forwards though, no doubt. I think with forwards they are going after org needs, not the best player available. Just worthless speculation on my part but...

 

[Hockey Duckie]

People didn't understand the Hampus pick either

Oh that was the best! The coverage on TSN on the Ducks picking Hampus was hilarious and made everyone on that telecast look foolish now. It was because of the drafting of Lindholm that I joined Anaheim Calling to relay why Lindholm was a very good pick in a fanpost, but DanielAC was so butt hurt that we didn't draft the diminutive Dumba and that Dumba was light years better than Lindholm. Oh good times!

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Later rounds is always boom or bust. And lately we are not so bad Of course there will be picks that we don`t understand (including me). But oh well.
We have to improve drafting forwards though, no doubt. I think with forwards they are going after org needs, not the best player available. Just worthless speculation on my part but...

I recall Madden saying that they usually draft BPA and that's why they ended up drafting more defensemen in certain drafts over forwards. We traded down in the first round b/c the Sens drafted Noesen ahead of us. Madden thought he had a shot of two players, one of them Rakell, in trading down. We ended up with Rakell and Gibson because of that trade. Then there's the story about drafting Manson... a scout really pleaded to take Manson and so the Ducks made a trade to grab Manson.

If we continue to hit on defensemen, we can always parlay that into NHL forwards. LoL Look at what Vatanen brought: an NHL vet, a prospect, and a draft pick.

 

[KaseMeOutside]

All things considered Anaheim's later round drafting is pretty good. Kase, Roy, Welinski, Manson, Wagner. You're not going to hit on alot of those picks

 

[Masch78]

Madden himself said they were focusing on Batherson. Would have been a good pick. Unfortunately Ottawa has similar preferences than we have.

 

[eternalbedhead]

We can't have them all. There's always going to be that one guy that was picked just behind us that makes us wonder why we whiffed on him, but once again, you can't have them all. Our record in the later rounds is nevertheless pretty immaculate.

 

[Opak]

OHL rumors are intensifying. NHL Network's Mark Edwards is saying via twitter that Jones could indeed be going to Kingston. Robert Thomas to Hamilton, Logan Brown to Kitchener and Taylor Raddysh to Soo are the other "big rumors".

If nothing else, at least it's looking like they've identified the "big buyers" of the deadline. Will be interesting to see, where Jones ends up...

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Oh that was the best! The coverage on TSN on the Ducks picking Hampus was hilarious and made everyone on that telecast look foolish now. It was because of the drafting of Lindholm that I joined Anaheim Calling to relay why Lindholm was a very good pick in a fanpost, but DanielAC was so butt hurt that we didn't draft the diminutive Dumba and that Dumba was light years better than Lindholm. Oh good times!

Back then i was glad they didn't take Dumba, at the time Dumba was listed as 5'11 & thought they didn't need another undersized D to go along with already having Vatanen in the teams list of top prospects.
I was puzzled at the Lindholm selection but gave Murray the benefit of the doubt that it'd work out considering how well the 2010 draft went at the time.