Prospect Info: 2013-14 Prospect Thread

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goalie.

 

[grN1g]

wild should be drafting high end offensive centers with their top picks if one is available, defense mid rounds, and goalies late.

But BPA always comes first.

 

[MuckOG]

wild should be drafting high end offensive centers with their top picks if one is available, defense mid rounds, and goalies late.

But BPA always comes first.

How many high end offensive centers have been selected 30th overall?

 

[Haite]

How many high end offensive centers have been selected 30th overall?

Ah, but Devils have to forfeit their pick, practically rendering it 29th overall. Big difference, huge difference.

 

[Jarick]

Natural goal scorers and quality two-way defensemen at any pick, please.

 

[Jarick]

Nobody's really tearing it up this year, which makes sense because we don't really have any blue chip prospects anymore outside the NHL.

Zucker and Haula still project to be NHL'ers. I think Gustafsson is outplaying Kuemper and has been all year.

Gilmour so far has been the best college player, although Lucia had a nice weekend. Michalek is having a solid bounce-back season.

Gabriel is doing well against younger, smaller kids. Belanger is either a terrible goalie, on a terrible team, or both.

No idea what Louie Nanne is doing this year, if anything.

NHL

Pos|Name|Ht|Wt|Age|League|Team|GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|+/-|GP|W|GAA|Save|SO
C| Mikael Granlund |5'10|186|21.7|NHL|Minnesota Wild|18|2|10|12|8|5||||
W| Nino Niederrieter |6'2|208|21.2|NHL|Minnesota Wild|18|3|7|10|14|5||||
D| Jonas Brodin |6'1|180|20.4|NHL|Minnesota Wild|15|3|3|6|4|1||||
R| Justin Fontaine |5'10|177|26|NHL|Minnesota Wild|18|6|0|6|10|6||||
C| Charlie Coyle |6'2|222|21.7|NHL|Minnesota Wild|6|1|1|2|4|-3||||
D| Mathew Dumba |6'0|181|19.3|NHL|Minnesota Wild|10|1|1|2|2|-3||||
C| Carson McMillan |6'1|200|25.2|NHL|Minnesota Wild|1|0|0|0|0|0||||

AHL

Pos|Name|Ht|Wt|Age|League|Team|GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|+/-|GP|W|GAA|Save|SO
L| Jason Zucker |5'11|186|21.8|AHL|Iowa Wild|9|4|4|8|26|-1||||
L| Erik Haula |5'11|192|22.7|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|3|5|8|8|1||||
C| Carson McMillan |6'1|200|25.2|AHL|Iowa Wild|9|2|4|6|2|4||||
C| Zack Phillips |6'1|196|21.1|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|2|4|6|6|-1||||
L| Kris Foucault |6'1|202|22.9|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|2|4|6|0|4||||
D| Jonathan Blum |6'1|186|24.8|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|1|5|6|0|1||||
D| Steven Kampfer |5'11|194|25.2|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|1|4|5|19|3||||
L| Brett Bulmer |6'3|214|21.6|AHL|Iowa Wild|10|4|0|4|13|1||||
C| Tyler Graovac |6'5|196|20.6|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|2|1|3|10|-5||||
L| Raphael Bussieres |6'1|198|20|AHL|Iowa Wild|10|1|1|2|27|-4||||
D| Tyler Cuma |6'2|180|23.8|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|0|2|2|4|-1||||
D| Kyle Medvec |6'6|230|25.4|AHL|Iowa Wild|11|0|1|1|6|-4||||
D| Colton Jobke |6'1|190|21.6|AHL|Iowa Wild||||||||||
D| Josh Caron |6'2|215|22.8|AHL|Iowa Wild||||||||||
G| Johan Gustafsson |6'2|202|21.7|AHL|Iowa Wild|||||||5|3|2.45|0.92
G| Darcy Kuemper |6'5|207|23.5|AHL|Iowa Wild|||||||7|3|2.93|0.912|0

College

Pos|Name|Ht|Wt|Age|League|Team|GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|+/-|GP|W|GAA|Save|SO
C| Adam Gilmour |6'3|192|19.8|NCAA|Boston College|9|2|5|7|0|||||
L| Mario Lucia |6'2|187|20.2|NCAA|U of Notre Dame|10|4|2|6|4|||||
D| Carson Soucy |6'4|200|19.3|NCAA|U of Minnesota - Duluth|8|0|4|4|6|||||
D| Nick Seeler |6'1|200|20.5|NCAA|U of Nebraska-Omaha|10|1|1|2|18|||||
D| Nolan DeJong |6'2|186|18.6|NCAA|University of Michigan|8|0|1|1|4|||||
R| Anthony Hamburg |6'1|185|22.2|NCAA|Rochester IT|7|0|0|0|2|||||
D| Gustav Olofsson |6'3|191|19|NCAA|Colorado College|4|0|0|0|2|||||
C| John Draeger |6'2|188|20|NCAA|Michigan State||||0||||||
G| Stephen Michalek |6'3|197|20.3|NCAA|Harvard U|||||||3|0|2.63|0.923

Europe

Pos|Name|Ht|Wt|Age|League|Team|GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|+/-|GP|W|GAA|Save|SO
C| Cody Almond |6'2|199|24.3|Swiss-A|Geneve Servette|20|10|7|17|55|4||||
C| Christoph Bertschy |5'10|189|19.6|Swiss-A|Bern|20|4|3|7|8|-6||||
D| Daniel Gunnarsson |6'5|205|21.6|SEL|Lulea HF|19|0|5|5|2|-3||||

Juniors

Pos|Name|Ht|Wt|Age|League|Team|GP|G|A|Pts|PIM|+/-|GP|W|GAA|Save|SO
R| Kurtis Gabriel |6'4|214|20.6|OHL|Owen Sound Attack|15|5|12|17|38|1||||
C| Avery Peterson |6'2|200|18.4|USHL|Sioux City Musketeers|11|3|5|8|2|3||||
D| Dylan Labbe |6'1|190|18.9|QMJHL|Shawinigan Cataractes|20|2|10|12|10|-13||||
L| Louis Nanne |5'11|171|19.4|USHL|Sioux Falls Stampede||||0||||||
G| Alexandre Belanger |6'1|184|18.2|QMJHL|Rouyn-Noranda Huskies|||||||15|9|3.68|0.868

 

[Minnesota]

Belanger is either a terrible goalie, on a terrible team, or both.

I thought he looked decent at the prospect scrimmages.

His team is 8/18 in the QMJHL with 92 GF and 91 GA. His team could just have terrible defense?

 

[nickschultzfan]

I hope at least one or two of those mid-round Dmen that are currently in the NCAA pan out.

 

[Jongdo]

I love our kids +/- Fontaine +6, Granlund and Nino +5.

 

[Circulartheory]

Gilmour so far has been the best college player...

 

[Jaykay]

I think Gustafsson is outplaying Kuemper and has been all year.

Gilmour so far has been the best college player, although Lucia had a nice weekend. Michalek is having a solid bounce-back season.

No idea what Louie Nanne is doing this year, if anything.

As always it seems like there's a lot of assumptions being made here just off of stats.

Gustafsson has the better numbers at this stage but it's not like there's that much separation between the two. Plus with only 5 and 7 games played between them it's a little early to say one has been outplaying the other all year.

I like Gilmour as a prospect but he had three points in an 11-0 win over Army on Saturday and had three assists in another blowout when he was still playing on a line with Gaudreau and Arnold and they did a lot of the heavy lifting. I've seen three or four Notre Dame games and a few BC games and to me Lucia definitely looks like the better player at this stage (as he should considering experience and draft position). Also, Carson Soucy has been very encouraging, he's got some size and he's playing some good minutes for UMD as a freshman.

Nanne is currently out with an injury (shoulder I believe)

Labbe plays for the worst team in the Q; Belanger's team actually isn't that bad but it appears their defense is. His backup's numbers look even worse than his.

 

[Scoutguy77]

Agree with Jaykay.

It makes zero sense to come on here and make broad statements about a kids ability or lack of ability without watching SEVERAL games..........but many do !

 

[Jarick]

Well that should be obvious. If I were watching each and every game I'd give a scouting report. I'm compiling stats and reporting on the stats.

 

[Scoutguy77]

.........yes it should be obvious ! Conclusions shouldnt be drawn by stats alone

 

[Jbcraig1883]

If the guy wants to make conclusions, or what you feel are conclusions, I think he has earned that right. If not, then feel free to update the stats for all of us Wild fans.

 

[Scoutguy77]

Pass on updating an excel spreadsheet--he does a great job, not debating that..over 21,000 posts, very comiitted guy...but Ive watched live Belanger, Gilmour, Labbe, been to Traverse City and Des Moines so can look beyond stats.

 

[Kari Takko]

Pass on updating an excel spreadsheet--he does a great job, not debating that..over 21,000 posts, very comiitted guy...but Ive watched live Belanger, Gilmour, Labbe, been to Traverse City and Des Moines so can look beyond stats.

Then give a scouting report.

 

[Circulartheory]

As always it seems like there's a lot of assumptions being made here just off of stats.

Gustafsson has the better numbers at this stage but it's not like there's that much separation between the two. Plus with only 5 and 7 games played between them it's a little early to say one has been outplaying the other all year.

I like Gilmour as a prospect but he had three points in an 11-0 win over Army on Saturday and had three assists in another blowout when he was still playing on a line with Gaudreau and Arnold and they did a lot of the heavy lifting. I've seen three or four Notre Dame games and a few BC games and to me Lucia definitely looks like the better player at this stage (as he should considering experience and draft position). Also, Carson Soucy has been very encouraging, he's got some size and he's playing some good minutes for UMD as a freshman.

Nanne is currently out with an injury (shoulder I believe)

Labbe plays for the worst team in the Q; Belanger's team actually isn't that bad but it appears their defense is. His backup's numbers look even worse than his.

I haven't seen Gilmour play since his draft year with Nobles HS but he isn't going to be a top line forward who can score 60 points.

However, he is going to be a character forward that can play in all situations and still be useful offensively.

Obviously, it would be nice if he started racking up points on the top line in BC but I personally am not put off at all if he doesn't. The only thing that will make me worried is if he starts not using his size and that can only be found out with viewings (I should see him a few times this year).

 

[Jbcraig1883]

I haven't seen Gilmour play since his draft year with Nobles HS but he isn't going to be a top line forward who can score 60 points.

However, he is going to be a character forward that can play in all situations and still be useful offensively.

Obviously, it would be nice if he started racking up points on the top line in BC but I personally am not put off at all if he doesn't. The only thing that will make me worried is if he starts not using his size and that can only be found out with viewings (I should see him a few times this year).

Please use that crystal ball that gives you the certainty to tell us what all of are prospects are going to be, then we won't have to argue with each other

I like you dan, so just giving you crap, but pretty authoritative there, haha.

 

[GopherState]

In fairness to Dan, that is how Gilmour is being used this year. He is a character forward on BC's top line.

 

[Jarick]

At this point, if a forward isn't going to be a high end goal scorer, it's better to have guys who can play in the bottom six and still add scoring depth.

 

[P10p]

If noone has seen last night for Iowa; Connely got hit from behind and none other then Jason Zucker was there to defend him. And when I say defend, I mean it. Zucker absolutely destroyed Hakanpaa. The fight is early in the highlights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNWOvZKsq_I

Great to see from Zucks!

 

[tyratoku]

Here is a Direct link to the fight. Good on Zucker.

Pretty sure he got kicked out of the game right after, though.

 

[Lapa]

He beat Hakanpää? Wow. Hakanpää is a big, strong guy.

 

[Avder]

If Zucker can get his **** together and get back up here, he is going to be a lot of fun to watch.