Prospect Info: Prospect Rating #7

[Empoleon8771]

1. Poulin (84.3% of vote)
2. POJ (70.6% of vote)
3. Legare (69.4% of vote)
4. O'Connor (34.1% of vote, won run-off vs Blomqvist)
5. Blomqvist (64.2% of vote)
6. Maniscalco (42.2% of vote)

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[Gurglesons]

Gruden for the third time.

 

[Le Magnifique 66]

Puustinen

 

[Tom Hanks]

Gru then Puu

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

Puustinen imo. Had a better season than Gruden.

 

[Dangles78]

Yinz are out of your damn minds if this isn't Puustinen. He has scored 45 points in his last 57 games in the Liiga. Put sum respek on his name.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

Looks like I’m stuck on Clang until he goes

just feel like he and Blomqvist are pretty much the same.

After him I’d say my next tier will be

Puustinen
Lee
Bjorkqvist
Svejkovsky

In some order,

then Bellerive, Gruden, Reilly, Caulfield.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

Bjork. I think we're sleeping on him.

 

[Peat]

I'm not sure I get why people have Gruden so high.

Bjork. I think we're sleeping on him.

I'm wondering this now with this scoring in the Liiga.

 

[Gurglesons]

I'm not sure I get why people have Gruden so high.



I'm wondering this now with this scoring in the Liiga.

I think Bjork potentially could be better, but Gruden to me is the same reason we voted O'Connor so high. Chances of him being an NHLer is a "more sure thing" than most of these other prospects at this point.

 

[Peat]

I think Bjork potentially could be better, but Gruden to me is the same reason we voted O'Connor so high. Chances of him being an NHLer is a "more sure thing" than most of these other prospects at this point.

I guess with Gruden I don't know him well so I might be off-base, but I don't see the offensive potential that makes me pretty high on O'Connor. Hell, looking at Pronman's write up and the "don't see many attributes that are NHL level".

 

[Gurglesons]

I guess with Gruden I don't know him well so I might be off-base, but I don't see the offensive potential that makes me pretty high on O'Connor. Hell, looking at Pronman's write up and the "don't see many attributes that are NHL level".

Pronman also said he was going to easily carve out a NHL career a little while ago too.

Pronman on Jonathan Gruden from his draft rankings' comment thread: "Not a ton of upside there for me. Nice two-way forward, can make some plays. He'll be a decent pro just not worth the investment for me." Sounds like he's just not someone that Pronman is super into.

Btw. Jesse said this about him "With Gruden, the Penguins get a forward who is much further along in his development than some of their other prospects. With his first professional year of hockey on the horizon, Gruden could be a bottom-six option sooner rather than later."

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Went with Gruden again.

Was ranked fairly well in Ottawa's pretty stacked prospect pool, from what I remember. Should easily rank top 10 in the Pens pool based on that alone. Had a decent season in college and then another decent season in the OHL. I see him being another pre-19/20 season Rust.

Puustinen certainly has higher upside, but he's also likelier to bust.

 

[SEALBound]

Puu-tang.

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Went with Gruden again.

Was ranked fairly well in Ottawa's pretty stacked prospect pool, from what I remember. Should easily rank top 10 in the Pens pool based on that alone. Had a decent season in college and then another decent season in the OHL. I see him being another pre-19/20 season Rust.

Puustinen certainly has higher upside, but he's also likelier to bust.

Pre draft: He was ranked #23 out of 28 possible players... He would definitely drop out of their top-25 post draft

Prospect Info: - Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2020 #26

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Pre draft: He was ranked #23 out of 28 possible players... He would definitely drop out of their top-25 post draft

Prospect Info: - Sens Board Prospects Ranking 2020 #26

Thanks.

Still likely better than the previous top 10 of the Pens prospects.

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For clarification sake, I recalled him being 16 on the Sens prospects list. Could've been a different year, could've been me misremembering.

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[SEALBound]

Can't wait for Gruden and Lindgren to be major contributors in 2-3 years.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I think Gruden could maybe become Zach Hyman in a perfect world. He’s said as much himself and his dad is an NHL coach. He understands his skill set and how he’d potientially carve out a career in the league. That might be his best trait honestly.

It’s just a matter of how you perceive his upside. If the best case is Zach Hyman, and the most likely case is a AAAA player... tough for me to put him too high.

Not that I think anyone is out to lunch. Our pool is so bad that after Poulin and POJ I actually think you could make an argument for whoever you wanted and not have it be completely out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Tom Hanks]

I think Gruden could maybe become Zach Hyman in a perfect world. He’s said as much himself and his dad is an NHL coach. He understands his skill set and how he’d potientially carve out a career in the league. That might be his best trait honestly.

It’s just a matter of how you perceive his upside. If the best case is Zach Hyman, and the most likely case is a AAAA player... tough for me to put him too high.

Not that I think anyone is out to lunch. Our pool is so bad that after Poulin and POJ I actually think you could make an argument for whoever you wanted and not have it be completely out of the realm of possibility.

Hyman still a good target to hit if he can become that (23 goals, 25 assists, 48 points per 82 last 3 seasons). Especially given our prospect pool.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Bjork. I think we're sleeping on him.

He's always been a decent prospect, but he needs to prove he can play a healthy season of hockey.

 

[Rakell67]

I think Gruden could maybe become Zach Hyman in a perfect world. He’s said as much himself and his dad is an NHL coach. He understands his skill set and how he’d potientially carve out a career in the league. That might be his best trait honestly.

It’s just a matter of how you perceive his upside. If the best case is Zach Hyman, and the most likely case is a AAAA player... tough for me to put him too high.

Not that I think anyone is out to lunch. Our pool is so bad that after Poulin and POJ I actually think you could make an argument for whoever you wanted and not have it be completely out of the realm of possibility.

From the little I’ve seen And read of him, he reminded me of a poor man’s Kunitz.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

He's always been a decent prospect, but he needs to prove he can play a healthy season of hockey.

Running these polls while some prospects are having a season/games should be interesting. They're usually run just after the draft and in summer.

Like, Bjorkqvist has definitely jumped up in my rankings because of his start in Finland.

 

[Peat]

Re Bjork - I've had doubts on his ceiling. His productivity here helps.

Re Gruden - Well, that's pretty useless of Pronman. And I think his love of high upside/failure to grade cerebral players well enough (mainly dmen but still) is known. So maybe he should be here. I guess I'd have Clang and Puustinen first due to the upsides, then Lee because he sounds the closest, but after that, Gruden seems to be in the same general group as Bjorkqvist/Bellerive/what not.

 

[Flying Dego]

He's always been a decent prospect, but he needs to prove he can play a healthy season of hockey.

That seems unfair as we don't hold this standard with our NHL squad. He just needs to put in 50ish games a year like the rest of our roster. Iniury prone is a plus in my eyes, a true Penguin.

Anyways we need MOAR BJORK!

 

[EXTRAS]

2 more points today for Puustinen

Up to 8 points in 6 games!