Prospect Info: Where Do Each of Our New Picks Play Next Year?
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SeaOfBlue
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1 C Auston Matthews - TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (NHL)
31 LW/RW Yegor Korshkov - YAROSLAVL (KHL)
57 LW/RW Carl Grundstrom - FROLUNDA (SHL)
62 G Joseph Woll - BOSTON COLLEGE (NCAA)
72 LD JD Greenway - UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (NCAA)
92 C Adam Brooks - TORONTO MARLIES MARLIES (AHL)
101 LD/RD Keaton Middleton - SAGINAW SPIRIT (OHL)/OTHER OHL TEAM
122 LW/RW Vladimir Bobylyov - VICTORIA ROYALS (WHL)/OTHER WHL TEAM
152 LW/LD Jack Walker - VICTORIA ROYALS (WHL)/ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS (ECHL)
179 RD Nicolas Mattinen - LONDON KNIGHTS (OHL)/OTHER OHL TEAM
182 LW/RW Nikolai Chebykin - MOSKVA (KHL/MHL)/CHL IMPORT DRAFT
Exactly.
They'll all continue to play where they did last year, unless they're no longer allowed to play in that league. Then they'll go to the Marlies.
Although I believe Walker is no longer eligible for the Royals and is eligible for the Marlies.
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SprDaVE
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Technically all of them are except for Middleton, Bobylev and Mattinen. Bobylev will be next year.
Also, Korshkov is under contract for another 2 years in the KHL.
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One has to admit it is very interesting times for both the Leafs and the Marlies.
I'd love to get those big dmen in the system asap, they're going to need a lot of work. Not to mention, the Marlies could have used them during their playoff run. They need defensive dmen almost as bad as the Leafs do.
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He can go back for an OA year I'm pretty sure. Although most likely he goes to the ECHL if he can't make the Marlies. A lot of guys they have to make decisions with regarding contracts.
Piccinich, Desrocher and Cameranesi all deserve contracts from previous drafts. It's quite possible we trade some or all of them though.
Then you have Brooks and Walker as 96's as well now. We need centers, so it's probably easy for Brooks to get some ice time and a contract (like Cameranesi if we decide to keep him), but Walker will be in tough. Marlies already have Timashov, Leipsic, Johnson and Soshnikov at LW, plus guys on the RW who can also play LW.
Highlander23
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Love it, i said before the draft, Grundstom could end up being the best pick out of sweden this year
SeaOfBlue
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I said it makes up for the Korshkov reach. If you swap their positions around they'd be taken in spots more appropriate to their value so it all turns out in the end.
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That's unfortunate.
Craig Button was on Sportscentre tonight and mentioned that if he was able to come to camp, he would push for a spot.
I think they are gonna know which small skilled guys to keep and which to trade by that time. The Marlies got bullied this playoffs and it seems they are trying to draft heavier forwards with skill this year.
In 2 years time the Leafs will have shed a bunch of contracts.
RyanOhReally
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I think they're all staying where they are for the most part, except for Brooks and Walker. They're the two that raise the question: Who's going where?
Brooks is a centre, and a skilled one at that. Smith might be KHL bound, Arcobello is already SC Bern bound and Nylander is NHL bound. That potentially leaves 3 holes at centre that you need to fill. You can have Gauthier at 3C and 2C on a bad day. So really, you need 2 Top 6 AHL centres and a Bottom 6 AHL centre. I think they're set at making Cameranesi their 4C, so now you need to look at the Top6 spots. I think Brooks fits right in as a legitimate 2C option on the Marlies IF you acquire a proven AHL scorer. Someone Arcobello-esque. I've been saying it for a while, Andy Miele is my option there.
Now, Jack Walker. He's a converted D-man who skates like Kenny Wu and plays a hard 2-way game, with flashes of offensive dominance. Is he AHL ready? The question rises because unlike centre, the Marlies don't need LW depth. They don't need RW depth, they don't even D depth. So Jack Walker needs to think, "What can I learn from another year in Junior?" He played with another pick in Bobylev who will be going back to Victoria for another year, so I think it's a pretty shut case that, despite being a LEGITIMATE overager (I know there's debate over that term) he will be in the WHL to maybe add some pounds and work out the kinks in his finishing ability that apparently exist.
I mean, look at this:
Leipsic - Miele - Brown
Kapanen - Brooks - Johnson
Timashov - Gauthier - Lindberg
Clune - Cameranesi - Piccinich/Wong/Conacher
Hope this makes sense
(I think an argument could be made that he could play on the 4th line with Clune and have spot starts on other lines, since Sosh did that for about the entire year.)
Brooks is a centre, and a skilled one at that. Smith might be KHL bound, Arcobello is already SC Bern bound and Nylander is NHL bound. That potentially leaves 3 holes at centre that you need to fill. You can have Gauthier at 3C and 2C on a bad day. So really, you need 2 Top 6 AHL centres and a Bottom 6 AHL centre. I think they're set at making Cameranesi their 4C, so now you need to look at the Top6 spots. I think Brooks fits right in as a legitimate 2C option on the Marlies IF you acquire a proven AHL scorer. Someone Arcobello-esque. I've been saying it for a while, Andy Miele is my option there.
Now, Jack Walker. He's a converted D-man who skates like Kenny Wu and plays a hard 2-way game, with flashes of offensive dominance. Is he AHL ready? The question rises because unlike centre, the Marlies don't need LW depth. They don't need RW depth, they don't even D depth. So Jack Walker needs to think, "What can I learn from another year in Junior?" He played with another pick in Bobylev who will be going back to Victoria for another year, so I think it's a pretty shut case that, despite being a LEGITIMATE overager (I know there's debate over that term) he will be in the WHL to maybe add some pounds and work out the kinks in his finishing ability that apparently exist.
I mean, look at this:
Leipsic - Miele - Brown
Kapanen - Brooks - Johnson
Timashov - Gauthier - Lindberg
Clune - Cameranesi - Piccinich/Wong/Conacher
Hope this makes sense
(I think an argument could be made that he could play on the 4th line with Clune and have spot starts on other lines, since Sosh did that for about the entire year.)
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