Cheers to thatTo be fair, I question all of our abilities to evaluate talent.
Cheers to thatTo be fair, I question all of our abilities to evaluate talent.
I have Faber in the same area as Lambos, with Faber being higher than Lambos due to him being right handed and at more of a position of need. I don't have Lambos as better than any of Yurov/Khusnutdinov/Rossi/Ohgren/Stramel and possibly Heidt. I'd like to get a little more insight into why Heidt fell down to 64.I had Faber in the same group as Hunt/Lambos/ROR (all have similar 2nd pair upside). Being that there isn't an competition for him is one of the main reasons I moved him ahead of that group.
Add Firstov, he has been showing some signs of life during the season.
Personally, signs of life after 3 seasons of feeling flatlined, hasn't sold me on anything but a bust. But for the sake of the Wild, maybe he could rebound but not holding my breath.Add Firstov, he has been showing some signs of life during the season.
I don't know how he looked in Iowa in those 9 games played there, but when he arrived to the KHL he looked really useless, immediately reminded me how bad he was back at the World Juniors in 2021. To get the idea, in his first 18 KHL games he scored only 4 points on the attacking-minded Torpedo team, yet he was able to score 22 points in last 29 games and looked not too hopeless. Still just "signs of life", since he still was getting bad penalties and was underwhelming at his own end.Do you have any other insight on him? There's a healthy contingent here who think he's a bust for going back to the KHL and that he should have stayed here and grinded it out through Iowa. I'm not sure he'd get many votes in the top 20.
I have Faber in the same area as Lambos, with Faber being higher than Lambos due to him being right handed and at more of a position of need. I don't have Lambos as better than any of Yurov/Khusnutdinov/Rossi/Ohgren/Stramel and possibly Heidt. I'd like to get a little more insight into why Heidt fell down to 64.
No idea if that is important to anyone, was just responding to a comment that Rossi was in danger of falling behind Faber in 6 months on the prospect list. Faber won't be on the prospect list in 6 months is all I was saying.Question for the majority, does this mean a lot? He has virtually no competition at the RD position.
Rossi is who I am most nervous about. Not in the sense of he's going to explode, but in the sense that he's topped out as a player right now. Contrary to other opinions, he did have a number of dominant shifts in the AHL where he was generating a ton of scoring chances. I just question if he can think fast enough to pull those types of shifts off in the NHL. Has he been spending time with Andy Ness this summer? If he can become a better skater I feel more confident in his game reaching another level.No idea if that is important to anyone, was just responding to a comment that Rossi was in danger of falling behind Faber in 6 months on the prospect list. Faber won't be on the prospect list in 6 months is all I was saying.
I will be disappointed if Rossi doesn't also graduate from the prospect list himself too though.
Yes he has. also spending the summer with the strength and conditioning coach to put on more beef.Rossi is who I am most nervous about. Not in the sense of he's going to explode, but in the sense that he's topped out as a player right now. Contrary to other opinions, he did have a number of dominant shifts in the AHL where he was generating a ton of scoring chances. I just question if he can think fast enough to pull those types of shifts off in the NHL. Has he been spending time with Andy Ness this summer? If he can become a better skater I feel more confident in his game reaching another level.
That’s some of where I’m at. Rossi did some vg things down in Iowa, and I think he is trying hard, but I am worried that he won’t develop the speed or strength to be an effective NHL player. I mean, Nick Petan is a really good AHL scorer with a similar offensive game to Rossi, but he is a complete non entity at the NHL level because he isn’t strong or fast enough. Rossi has some similar traits.Rossi is who I am most nervous about. Not in the sense of he's going to explode, but in the sense that he's topped out as a player right now. Contrary to other opinions, he did have a number of dominant shifts in the AHL where he was generating a ton of scoring chances. I just question if he can think fast enough to pull those types of shifts off in the NHL. Has he been spending time with Andy Ness this summer? If he can become a better skater I feel more confident in his game reaching another level.