F Justin Poirier - Baie-Comeau, QMJHL (2024 NHL Draft)

[Spacehabs]

He is short but heavy on his skate. High upside scoring player. I wont be afraid to draft this guy between 40 and 60. He has the potential to be a difference maker in the NHL or a AHLer. High Risk High reward player.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

GWG in the game 1 of the second round

5 goals, 7 points in 5 games so far

 

[Artorius Horus T]

scored his 8th, 9th and 10th goals of the play-offs

LHJMQ

chl.ca

daaaaaaumn his shot is good!

leads the play-offs with 10 goals and his 15 points is 5th most in the play-offs (ties this with his team mate Gill).

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Has 61 goals, total, so far this season with 97 points.
really strong 17 year old season.

I wonder how'd he faired in the 2025 Draft, if he was born 3 weeks later...

 

[Artorius Horus T]

And scores again, as the Drakkar beats the Eagles 4-0 and take 1-0 series lead.
season totals : 62 goals, 98 points, +46, 76 penalty minutes, 318 shots on goal, 15 pp goals, 12 game winning goals

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Its not a small feat to lead the play-offs in goals as an 17 year old.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

1+3

LHJMQ

chl.ca

 

[Artorius Horus T]

12 goals in 10 games and almost 2.00 ppg.
#prettygood

100% should be drafted in the 1st round

 

[Chainshot]

This was his goal tonight that extended his streak to 7 in a row:

 

[Artorius Horus T]

This was his goal tonight that extended his streak to 7 in a row:

He also made 2 great primary passes

 

[Bounces R Way]

Could definitely see the Flames taking him with one of their 2nds, which they'll have 3 of if Vegas wins their series against Dallas.

Already have big bro who's been tracking well. Why not double up on the JPs.

 

[FLAMESFAN]

Could definitely see the Flames taking him with one of their 2nds, which they'll have 3 of if Vegas wins their series against Dallas.

Already have big bro who's been tracking well. Why not double up on the JPs.

I like him with the Dal pick, but the LV 2nd would be 2025, so we'll only have 2 picks there

 

[Artorius Horus T]

He might have lost his goal streak but he answered that with 4+1 game... in 8-2 W at Cape Braton

LHJMQ

chl.ca

 

[Artorius Horus T]

16 goals so far in the playoffs in 12 games, 6 points shy of 30 point mark.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Last player to score 15 or more goals in the Q playoffs? Raphael Lavoie (19), in 2019 playoffs, 20 in 23 games,
last one before him? Anthony Beauvillier (19) in 2016 playoffs, 15 in 21 games,

2015 : Adam Erne (20) 21 in 22
2014 : Anthony Mantha (19) 24 in 24
2012 : Charlie Coyle (20) scored 15 in 17, Stanislav Galiev (20) scored 16 in 17
2011 : Jonathan Huberdeau (19) 16 in 19
2010 : Michael Kirkpatrick (20) scored 15 in 21, Gabriel Bourque (20) scored 19 in 21

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Last u18 player to score 15 or more?
- note : not even Sidney Crosby... he had 14, sure, he had 31 points in 13 games...
- note : not even Mario Lemieux*... he had 14, sure, he had 32 points in 12 games...

Vinnie Lecavalier in the 1998 play-offs, scored 15 goals in 18 games (41 points)

16 or more goals?

Dale Hawerchuk, 17 years old, Dale scored 20 goals in 18 games in the 1980 playoffs
but his draft year was 1981, he was playing his 16-17 season, he turned 17 before the playoffs


* in his draft year (he was already 18 when the season begun) Mario scored 29 goals and 52 points in the playoffs

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Mike Bossy scored 18 goals in 16 games in the 1975 playoffs

and the record? Real Cloutier, 26 goals (50 points) in 16 games, in the 1974 playoffs.
- 11 goals shy from the record, doable? i dunno, probably not

 

[Bjindaho]

Last u18 player to score 15 or more?
- note : not even Sidney Crosby... he had 14, sure, he had 31 points in 13 games...
- note : not even Mario Lemieux*... he had 14, sure, he had 32 points in 12 games...

Vinnie Lecavalier in the 1998 play-offs, scored 15 goals in 18 games (41 points)

16 or more goals?

Dale Hawerchuk, 17 years old, Dale scored 20 goals in 18 games in the 1980 playoffs
but his draft year was 1981, he was playing his 16-17 season, he turned 17 before the playoffs


* in his draft year (he was already 18 when the season begun) Mario scored 29 goals and 52 points in the playoffs

Huberdeau was 17 when he scored 16 in 19 in 2011. At 16, he had 11 in 21.

 

[Bjindaho]

Last player to score 15 or more goals in the Q playoffs? Raphael Lavoie (19), in 2019 playoffs, 20 in 23 games,
last one before him? Anthony Beauvillier (19) in 2016 playoffs, 15 in 21 games,

2015 : Adam Erne (20) 21 in 22
2014 : Anthony Mantha (19) 24 in 24
2012 : Charlie Coyle (20) scored 15 in 17, Stanislav Galiev (20) scored 16 in 17
2011 : Jonathan Huberdeau (19) 16 in 19
2010 : Michael Kirkpatrick (20) scored 15 in 21, Gabriel Bourque (20) scored 19 in 21

Your ages are off on some of these players. Coyle and Galiev were playing in their 19 year old seasons, Huberdeau was playing in his 17 year-old season (2012 was his 18 year-old season), and Bourque was in his 19 year-old season. The ages outside of Huberdeau were correct for when the playoffs ended, but the it's a league that is based on birth year, not actual age.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Huberdeau was 17 when he scored 16 in 19 in 2011. At 16, he had 11 in 21.

yeah, i made a silly mistake there it seems, my bad, maybe i looked at his birth year wrong

Huberdeau was 17 when he scored 16 in 19 in 2011. At 16, he had 11 in 21.

nevertheless, he is having a playoffs that haven't been seen in a long time, what comes to goals,
16 goals in 12 games, scores 2 more, he ranks 3rd all time u18 players, 4 more, matches Vinny's 20 goals

 

[ryan callahan]

Should be a 1st rounder I don't even care about the consensus. It's one thing to be small but when you're by far the best goalscorer on one of the best Q team in recent history while being a really good skater and being built like a tank.

 

[dreadpirateroberts]

How does he compare to smaller guys like DeBrincat and Caufield when they were coming out?

 

[Bjindaho]

How does he compare to smaller guys like DeBrincat and Caufield when they were coming out?

DeBrincat put up the same number of regular season goals at the same age in the OHL but more points (though he had McJesus and Strome on his team). He had less playoff goals.

Caufield was drafted after putting up what was (IIRC) the best goalscoring year in USNTDP history.

It's easy to say that he's putting up stats but there's a reason that he isn't rated as a 1st rounder by most services. He is a very good scorer who still needs some work on other elements of his game. This stats hype is similar to the hype around Jordan Dumais (though admittedly, Poirier is a better skater than Dumais).

 

[BKarchitect]

It is pretty remarkable that he's one of the youngest players in the class too. Less than two weeks from being a 2025 draftee. And he led the Q in goals by 6 over the next nearest guy and 16 in 12 playoff games is just insane.

Cat was 9 months older than Poirier in his pre-draft OHL season and didn't even lead the league in goals with his 51 - although to be fair he also had 51 in his draft-1 OHL season so that's a ridiculous track record for pre-draft junior production through two seasons that Poirier doesn't have.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

It is pretty remarkable that he's one of the youngest players in the class too. Less than two weeks from being a 2025 draftee. And he led the Q in goals by 6 over the next nearest guy and 16 in 12 playoff games is just insane.

Cat was 9 months older than Poirier in his pre-draft OHL season and didn't even lead the league in goals with his 51 - although to be fair he also had 51 in his draft-1 OHL season so that's a ridiculous track record for pre-draft junior production through two seasons that Poirier doesn't have.

Brinksy scored almost 200 goals and over 400 points in the OHL (reg + po).
Brinksys 167 reg goals in 197 games, is one of the best in the OHL ever, also his 1.76 ppg ranks pretty high too.

He also jumped straight from the juniors to the NHL, at 19 and led the Hawks in goals (28) and finished second in points (52)
while getting 12-13 minutes per game of ice time.

It sucks that Alex has struggled the past 2 seasons, but i know that he'll bounce back again, his true potential is still hiding,
still expecting 50+ and 100+ seasons, he sure has all the tools for that