16-17 Red Wings Mid-Season Prospect Ranking -- #9

[Frk It]

Joe Hicketts wins round 8, the add for this round is James De Haas

1.) Evgeny Svechnikov (73%)
2.) Filip Hronek (73%)
3.) Dennis Cholowski (59%)
4.) Vili Saarijarvi (58%)
5.) Tyler Bertuzzi (50%)
6.) Givani Smith (41%)
7.) Robbie Russo (51%)
8.) Joe Hicketts (40%)

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[Frk It]

Hard to vote for Coreau after that stinker last night. Thought he could maybe be a backup for a little there, but I don't think he is an NHL goalie.

Going to go with Jordan Sambrook... I guess?

My add is Mattias Elfstrom

 

[Pavels Dog]

I go with Nosek here, I think he's going to be our Shehan replacement.

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

I go with Nosek here, I think he's going to be our Shehan replacement.

I was thinking the exact same thing. I thought he has looked pretty good during his brief call-up last year for what he is. I liked his work along the boards and on the fore check specifically. I don't see Sheahan doing anything that Nosek can't.

I get though that people lose interest in prospects who don't project as top-six forwards.

 

[njx9]

Nosek always struck me as a better Jurco (in the role we've decided to play Jurco in, that is). Won't ever be a star, but should be an NHLer in the bottom 6 or as the 13th forward for a long time.

 

[Mount Suribachi]

Errr, no-one? Barrel scraping at #9

 

[PelagicJoe]

Errr, no-one? Barrel scraping at #9

Exactly this. Our pool is terrible.

 

[Ingvar]

Voted as usual for Coreau, my add is Martin Frk who is still our prospect.

 

[Bench]

Hard to vote for Coreau after that stinker last night. Thought he could maybe be a backup for a little there, but I don't think he is an NHL goalie.

He looked SO BAD. Slow. So slow. The Wild were just going cross crease all game and making him move and getting easy open nets.

Well, you know, and sometimes he just falls on his way back to the net.

 

[Ezekial]

I can't pick Coreau either, dude is a big body, nothing more. That's all I see.


Nosek I guess

 

[Bench]

I can't pick Coreau either, dude is a big body, nothing more. That's all I see.

All you had to do was watch Dubnyk across the rink from Coreau to see the difference. They are virtually the same size and one of them moves with agility and urgency and the other looks like a giant coming out of his slumber.

Being a big body is pretty cool, but you have to be able to move. NHL teams are way too skilled moving the puck to hope you can take sweet time getting into position.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

All you had to do was watch Dubnyk across the rink from Coreau to see the difference. They are virtually the same size and one of them moves with agility and urgency and the other looks like a giant coming out of his slumber.

Being a big body is pretty cool, but you have to be able to move. NHL teams are way too skilled moving the puck to hope you can take sweet time getting into position.

Yes, but you should also see big bodies the first several years in the league. Both Dubnyk and Bishop were pretty terrible to start. I dont think he is that good, certainly not Dubnyk good who has first round guy in part because he had freakish athleticism to go with being huge.

I don't think Coreau is more than a NHL back-up but again I guess doesn't that elevate him over a couple of the guys unlikely to have NHL careers at all we are voting for now.

Coreau and Nosek probably should get some credit for playing for the Wings if we are actually voting for them, I sort of assumed we weren't treating them as prospects anymore at this point as the only explanation they weren't off the board.

Voted Turgeon since it seemed like we were after pure prospects to this point.