Hi Oilers fans,
Hopefully your season gets back on track, but if it doesn't, here is a video scouting package of one of the top prospects available in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft: Filip Zadina. It features every shift from five of his games so far this season.
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Note: This project is inspired by some of the work done on HFBoards last season to chronicle the performances of some of the top draft-eligible prospects for that campaign. This is a continuation of that series in the same style and format. Hopefully, by offering an early glimpse of some of this season's top prospects, viewers can follow them throughout their draft season with a better sense of who they are.
FILIP ZADINA: FIVE-GAME SCOUTING PACK (2017-18 QMJHL SEASON)
For those of you unfamiliar with Filip Zadina, he is one of the top-ranked players available in the 2018 NHL Draft. A skilled, agile, 6'1'', 192 lbs winger from the Czech Republic, Zadina has been on scouting radars for quite a long time. Most scouting services have him firmly ranked in their preseason Top 10 and a few have him in their Top 5, but with his hot start so far in his rookie season with the Halifax Mooseheads, he may be a Top 5 staple by the time of the mid-season rankings.
Rankings so far:
Dobber Prospects (Oct. 4): #5
Hockey Prospect (Sept. 27): #6
Corey Pronman (Sept. 26): #9
Bob McKenzie (Sept. 13): #7
NACS (Sept. 11): #7
Craig Button (Sept. 5): #10
Future Considerations (Sept. Edition): #3
The Draft Analyst (Sept. 5): #3
Originally drafted fourth-overall in the 2016 CHL Import Draft by the Vancouver Giants, he opted last year to play another season in the Czech player development system.
http://theprovince.com/sports/hocke...dina-might-be-too-good-for-whl-clubs-own-good
Giants prospect Zadina might be too good for WHL club's own good
Steve Ewen
Published: August 14, 2016
Updated: August 14, 2016 6:40 PM PDT
Vancouver Giants prospect Filip Zadina was one of the stars of last week’s Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup, which is a plus and a minus for the WHL club.
The winger the Giants used the fourth overall pick on in June’s CHL Import Draft has game-breaker talents. That’s become abundantly obvious. Zadina had a pair of markers Saturday to help the tournament host Czech Republic edge the U.S. 4-3 in the Hlinka final, and the 16-year-old finished tied for the goal-scoring lead in the Under-18 tournament with five tallies in four games.
Giants owner Ron Toigo admits that Zadina has told his club that he has his sights set on playing in the Czech pro league this season and it’s easy to wonder if the 6-foot, 190-pounder might be good enough to do so. He played in a pair of games last season as a call-up with HC Pardubice.
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In 2017, he was drafted again in the CHL Import Draft, this time eleventh-overall by the Halifax Mooseheads. Zadina opted to join the Mooseheads for the 2017-18 QMJHL season and has been one of the league's hottest scorers so far with 11 goals, 10 assists, 21 points in the first 14 games of the campaign. As of today, October 24, 2017, he is tied for second in QMJHL point scoring with Mika Cyr, and is three points behind Drake Batherson's league-leading 24 points.
He began the season on a line with Raphael Lavoie and Arnaud Durandeau, but since October 13, 2017, the date of Otto Somppi's return to the Mooseheads lineup, he has played alongside Durandeau and Somppi.
This five-game scouting pack features every shift from five of Zadina's performances from the first month of the 2017-18 QMJHL season.
The games featured (and corresponding time stamps) are:
(0:15) 2017-09-30: Halifax Mooseheads vs Acadie-Bathurst Titans
(22:22) 2017-10-01: Halifax Mooseheads vs Charlottetown Islanders
(44:30) 2017-10-08: Halifax Mooseheads vs Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
(1:13:15) 2017-10-13: Halifax Mooseheads @ Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
(1:40:01) 2017-10-17: Halifax Mooseheads vs Moncton Wildcats
