Prospect Info: Etienne Morin (LHS D) - 48th Overall in 2023

[OvermanKingGainer]

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[LastWordArmy]

Rated by us as an early third rounder. Here is a look at Etienne Morin included with this group of prospects.

2023 NHL Draft Scouting Reports: Prospects 71-80

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[Tkachuk Norris]

Absolute steal.

This guy was my most underrated player in the draft. Reminds me a lot of Rasmus in his draft year.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

Yep I’ve been high on him all year. Crazy he went so low.

 

[Mobiandi]

Love this pick

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Love this pick

 

[super6646]

Good pick. Solid production, good size.

 

[Dack]

Seems like a great pick!

 

[Ace Rimmer]

I heard we snagged him and thought "did we trade up?" so had to come here and check details.

Our own pick eh... nice!

 

[Potty John]

Good pick, should be with us in 2-3 years

 

[InfinityIggy]

Seems like great value. Agree with the Andersson comparisons.

 

[BRobMint]

Good skating puck moving offensive d-man? I’ll take it!

 

[Double Dion]

This was a really good pick. All that skill and he's a 2005 unlike our prior pick who should have gone late 20s.

 

[TheHudlinator]

Can't not love this pick

 

[Flamesfan62]

Rated by us as an early third rounder. Here is a look at Etienne Morin included with this group of prospects.

2023 NHL Draft Scouting Reports: Prospects 71-80

With the 2023 NHL Draft right around the corner, it's time to round out the top-80 prospects on LWOH's group big board!

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Early third rounder? Yikes

 

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Rated by us as an early third rounder. Here is a look at Etienne Morin included with this group of prospects.

2023 NHL Draft Scouting Reports: Prospects 71-80

With the 2023 NHL Draft right around the corner, it's time to round out the top-80 prospects on LWOH's group big board!

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Morin projects as a Shayne Gostisbehere gadget-type defender with an offensively focused style.

What the heck does this mean?

 

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Someone in the main prospect thread said style comparison to Chabot. If Chabot, Gio and Girard/improved Poirier that was mentioned in the other thread, it looks like there's a possibility Conroy is letting the scouts choose guys with a specific style they like. Getting a lite 2nd pairing version of those guys would be excellent. And knowing the IQ required for that style, it means a 2nd pairing still has a chance even in late career to be a borderline first pairing or legit first pairing calibre guy.

The approach seemed to be successful from 2015-2019 and I think we were bursting at the seams from 2015-2019 for prospects because we kept having to graduate them or trading them because of that success. That's not a bad problem to try replicating again. Maybe trying to manufacture a similar type of NHL calibre dman and getting higher yields due to the consistent approach by repeating the process over and over... I like it!

I mean, to a certain extent, it means a modified BPA. Like we can draft that value at a certain level, but if we don't know what to do with that type of asset, better to acquire value from another team for that asset and swap it with an asset we think we have a high chance for amplifying the value. Having too many prospects and having to trade some isn't a bad problem to have if such a directive is successful. Plus, if we get an asset and the asset doesn't develop correctly in our hands, instead of amplifying or maintaining value, we're losing it anyways.

I'd be curious to know if this is indeed something that might be happening, and I'd be excited if that's the case. The prospects we drafted all have major style similarities to roster players we liked in the last 5 years or so. I don't think that's a coincidence.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

This is a great pick.

 

[Lucky Luke]

This kid does a hell of a good job on the ice.
He had 72 points in 67 games this past season, 17 points in 12 playoff games and believe me, he can handle a ton of minutes.
Arguably the 2nd best defenceman in all of the Q last year, at only 17 years of age.

 

[herashak]

This guy is a late first rounder most years, which is probably why we couldn’t get more than a 3rd for toffoli

 

[Kipper933]

Excellent pick.

He's very confident controlling the puck in all zones, excellent timing and reads on pinches and rushes, better defensively at the same age as ther offensive D out of the QMJhl (Chabot, Poirier, Cormier, for example), excellent rush defense. Excellent puckmoving D, rarely finds himself out of position or unable to get out of a bad spot defensively. I had him at #20, so I think we really hit this pick out of the park.

 

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I was thinking about how he looked in the Penticton tournament and there was something that stuck out to me in terms of his mannerisms, but I couldn't peg it down.

It feels like I see heavy hints of Brodie and little bit of Andersson specifically when he is at the point and trying to keep the puck in + put together a play or spinning around to use the body to protect and obscure the puck. Am I out to lunch on this? He's obviously different in the neutral zone and dzone. But specifically his play in the ozone has reminded me heavily of something I feel like I've seen a lot of before (so not opposition players). Maybe even pre-injury Valimaki?

Anyone else have an idea what I'm identifying/talking about? I honestly have a feeling this is a little bit of what our scouts specifically identify in LD prospects and have been relatively successful in finding good ones because of these attributes.

 

[super6646]

I was thinking about how he looked in the Penticton tournament and there was something that stuck out to me in terms of his mannerisms, but I couldn't peg it down.

It feels like I see heavy hints of Brodie and little bit of Andersson specifically when he is at the point and trying to keep the puck in + put together a play or spinning around to use the body to protect and obscure the puck. Am I out to lunch on this? He's obviously different in the neutral zone and dzone. But specifically his play in the ozone has reminded me heavily of something I feel like I've seen a lot of before (so not opposition players). Maybe even pre-injury Valimaki?

Anyone else have an idea what I'm identifying/talking about? I honestly have a feeling this is a little bit of what our scouts specifically identify in LD prospects and have been relatively successful in finding good ones because of these attributes.

He has TJ Brodie skating and Rasmus Andersson's IQ/shot. Aka future norris co-winner along with Brady Skjei. Enough said.

 

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He has TJ Brodie skating and Rasmus Andersson's IQ/shot. Aka future norris co-winner along with Brady Skjei. Enough said.

Perhaps for the quick turns and at the blue line at least. When there's a foot race back to the dzone, Brodie is far faster and smoother than Morin.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

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I can see it now that I've watched him play twice.

Similar kind of utilitarian skillset. Does most things well, a few things very well.