Prospect Info: 139 OA - D Charles-Alexis Legault (Quinnipiac NCAA)

[DaveG]

6'3/214 RHD from the National Champions

Guarantee Rod got more than a few looks at this guy.

2G, 7A in 40 as a Freshman

played his Junior A in the USHL (Lincoln) and BCHL (Kelowna)

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[Unsustainable]

Cool

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

We wait until the 5th round to draft a over 6 footer. Sweet.

Doesn’t provide much offense. Solid defender, okay skater.

 

[A Star is Burns]

This is certainly a real player and not one generated by NHL 20-whatever they're on now.

 

[hurricure]

another BCHL Allum

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

This is certainly a real player and not one generated by NHL 20-whatever they're on now.

But actually. At least it sounds consistently French.

My experience with the older NHL games is that they have no cultural boundaries whatsoever so you get stuff like “Yevgeni Smith” or whatever lol.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

He’s from Laval where I’m actually right now for work.

Big kid and pretty sure he’ll be the oldest returning d at Quinnipiac so he should have a great opportunity for a lot of playing time and responsibility.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Dat Quinny pipeline doe

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Pass. Weird name.

 

[Lucky Luke]

It's unfortunate that he did not opt to play for the Gatineau Olympiques.
Mainly due to the number of games QMJHL teams play in the regular season, his hockey development would probably be more advanced that it currently is.
On the other hand, he is a gifted student so his choice to go the NCAA route is understandable.

 

[poobags]

I'm on the record that hyphenated first name players should be avoided. I think it's risky. Are we getting Charles or are we getting Alexis? Very likely we have a chimera situation where Charles absorbed his twin Alexis in the womb.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

I'm on the record that hyphenated first name players should be avoided. I think it's risky. Are we getting Charles or are we getting Alexis? Very likely we have a chimera situation where Charles absorbed his twin Alexis in the womb.

Then he should have both the strength of a man and a fetus. That would make him practically unstoppable.

Having that kind of competitive edge has got to be against the rules.

 

[Bub]

Then he should have both the strength of a man and a fetus. That would make him practically unstoppable.

Having that kind of competitive edge has got to be against the rules.

Sounds like a South Park episode tbh.

 

[DaveG]

It's unfortunate that he did not opt to play for the Gatineau Olympiques.
Mainly due to the number of games QMJHL teams play in the regular season, his hockey development would probably be more advanced that it currently is.
On the other hand, he is a gifted student so his choice to go the NCAA route is understandable.

Not an unfair assessment since I didn't follow his pre-NCAA career, the flip side is that NCAA can be a better path for guys that are already physically advanced from a size standpoint and need to work on building strength and facing more physically mature competition.

 

[Vagrant]

most of what I have heard and seen about legault is that the stats don't tell the story of how gifted this kid is as a skater and suppressor. he looks the part 100% of these "clone" guys we've been looking for with big bodies. some scouts rave about his skating for such a big man. he's going to be taking over a leadership role and prime minutes next season for a pretty depleted defense. this was one of those dumoulin, pesce, carson, slavin, etc. type of swings. tidy but not overly physical but great with entry zone denials and can skate out of trouble. that's the book as I see it.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

most of what I have heard and seen about legault is that the stats don't tell the story of how gifted this kid is as a skater and suppressor. he looks the part 100% of these "clone" guys we've been looking for with big bodies. some scouts rave about his skating for such a big man. he's going to be taking over a leadership role and prime minutes next season for a pretty depleted defense. this was one of those dumoulin, pesce, carson, slavin, etc. type of swings. tidy but not overly physical but great with entry zone denials and can skate out of trouble. that's the book as I see it.

Fair to say also one of those Martin, Alt, McKeown type swings as well?

 

[Vagrant]

Fair to say also one of those Martin, Alt, McKeown type swings as well?

well, I was never sold on Martin or Alt as picks. Martin didn't have the hands from word go to survive in today's game and I said so at the time. You can't be a half court player to borrow a basketball term. Alt was much of the same. they were banking on some of his lax hand eye turning into puck skills but it never took. to me, the basis for the "clone" archetype is height, skating, and enough puck handling for it to not be embarrassing while hoping for development with experience in that regard. mckeown was a different animal. total offensive defenseman prospect when drafted but the skating never got to an acceptable threshold and he was smaller than the rest. he tried to go in reverse and become defensive after having been heavily offensive and that's a treacherous road.

 

[Unsustainable]

Sounds like a South Park episode tbh.

It was