Who won the Blaine Byron sweepstakes?
In 5 years we will be laughed that Nikita Pavlychev weren't in the top-20That's it for 2017. Thank you for voting and see you next year. Or at least in 5 years so we can all laugh at how wrong we were again.
Who won the Blaine Byron sweepstakes?
I'm still scratching my head as to why he wouldn't just sign here.
Is a little strange given our success with undersized college players, I guess he saw himself as being behind Sprong and ZAR plus all the young wingers already on our roster.
Is a little strange given our success with undersized college players, I guess he saw himself as being behind Sprong and ZAR plus all the young wingers already on our roster.
I'm still scratching my head as to why he wouldn't just sign here.
In 5 years we will be laughed that Nikita Pavlychev weren't in the top-20
He's a center though. Which we're kinda in need of, oh well, you win some and lose some I guess. I'm a lot happier to have ZAR in our pipeline anyway.
In 5 years we will be laughed that Nikita Pavlychev weren't in the top-20
Every time Nikita Pavlychev talks about what he needs to do, he mentions improve his skating. I've heard people say that he's a good skater for his size, but never like he's even close to NHL. Nikita Pavlychev still needs to significantly improve his skating and creating, and honestly those can be hard.
Maybe he proves me wrong, but he's gonna have to make some big strides in production
Just for comparison's sake, this was The Hockey News' Top 10 for the Penguins:
1-Daniel Sprong
2-Derrick Pouliot (wtf)
3-Tristan Jarry
4-Filip Gustavsson
5-Zachary Lauzon
6-Kasper Bjorkqvist
7-Dominik Simon
8-Connor Hall
9-Clayton Phillips
10-Jeff Taylor
Just for comparison's sake, this was The Hockey News' Top 10 for the Penguins:
1-Daniel Sprong
2-Derrick Pouliot (wtf)
3-Tristan Jarry
4-Filip Gustavsson
5-Zachary Lauzon
6-Kasper Bjorkqvist
7-Dominik Simon
8-Connor Hall
9-Clayton Phillips
10-Jeff Taylor
Jan Drozg takes 19th place and thus becomes our first ever Slovenian in the poll. Added Nailers goalie Sean Maguire due to sudden popular demand. And also Dane Birks, of the reigning WCHA champions, so this year will have featured every single prospect we have. Well, technically, we hold Blaine Byron's rights for another day, but...
Results so far (and change from last year):
#1 Daniel Sprong (96.58%) (-)
#2 Tristan Jarry (65.65%) (+5)
#3 Zach Aston-Reese (80.19%) (new)
#4 Filip Gustavsson (58.49%) (+2)
#5 Teddy Blueger (42.00%) (+5)
#6 Zachary Lauzon (27.96% in #6 poll, 56.58% in runoff) (new)
#7 Josh Archibald (26.88% in #6 poll, 43.42% in runoff) (+6)
#8 Dominik Simon (50.59%) (-4)
#9 Adam Johnson (28.95%) (new)
#10 Frederik Tiffels (35.21%) (+5)
#11 Linus Ölund (21.54%) (new)
#12 Niclas Almari (22.58% in #12 poll, 55.81% in runoff) (new)
#13 Kasper Björkqvist (24.19% in #12 poll, 44.19% in runoff) (-5)
#14 Sam Lafferty (35.00%) (new)
#15 Lukas Bengtsson (25.49%) (-10)
#16 Clayton Phillips (32.73%) (new)
#17 Anthony Angello (32.61%) (-5)
#18 Thomas di Pauli (33.33%) (-1)
#19 Jan Drozg (34.09%) (new)
about 4 months later, what's the current top 10 looking like? anyone making a big jump?