2018 NHL Entry Draft Thread

[Kudo Shinichi]

 

[The Great Weal]

Interesting. I read somewhere that he produced the same. Guess it was wrong.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Linus Karlsson got quite a jump in the Euro skaters department.. decent SuperElit production and managed 14 SHL Games.

He's, in fact, the 2nd Karlsson that I know of from the Boro-Vetlanda youth hockey club.

 

[SOLR]

Good thing with Kotkaniemi is you can teach skating. And it's probably not that much worse than Rantanen's at 17, if even, who from the little I remember wasn't the best technical skater either.

He's already a decent skater.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Interesting. I read somewhere that he produced the same. Guess it was wrong.

I'm not even sure if that would be a good thing.

 

[NotProkofievian]

He's already a decent skater.

Fo sho. A little clunky but very agile and he can and does get to pucks first against the pros already. Skating has become a real boogeyman lately.

 

[The Great Weal]

Linus Karlsson got quite a jump in the Euro skaters department.. decent SuperElit production and managed 14 SHL Games.

Would like to gamble on him and Wassenius.

 

[SOLR]

Who also has Bokk over Kotkaniemi

Value wise, this is crazy.

Kotka is more valuable than Ty Smith. Clearly top 10 in my book, given the lack of top 5 overall centers in this draft.
Kupari is extremely close, if not ahead. The Fin leagues are not rewarding speed much vs. NA & Swedish leagues.

 

[JimboA]

Regarding Grewe, he's a march 2001 birthday. 6' 180lbs and He had 27 points in 36 games in his first SuperElit year. He caught my eye because of his stick skills, speed and O-zone awareness yesterday. He seems like he had nice compete, too. Just someone to keep an eye on because if I had watched the game in a vacuum, I'd think he'd be a first round candidate.

Yes, Grewe has some intensity/edge to his game for sure. I've noticed that he takes a lot of roughing penalties, so he likes to get "involved". But unfortunately a lot of unnecessary slashing penalties too If he can use that stuff to his advantage, it could be a pretty useful asset.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Yes. We are collecting all the hf swedes.

 

[JimboA]

Yes. We are collecting all the hf swedes.

Haha, I'm neutral. Just browsing

 

[NotProkofievian]

Haha, I'm neutral. Just browsing

Bring a friend next time.

While we have you, the regulars of this thread have identified a few SuperElit players as potential gems: Linus Karlsson of Karlskrona and Carl Wassenius of Örebro. What do you think of these players?

I'm not sure what to make of them. Linus was 2nd in scoring behind Berggren, but he had a huge jump in production after the league split. More or less the same story with Wassenius. Do these guys have real potential, or are they just beating up on soft opposition?

 

[G0bias]

He's already a decent skater.

Bit wonky but yeah it's not much of a concern for me where I think it'll hold him back at the next level. Seeing Rantanen's skating now you get the sense Jesperi's skating can even improve as he keeps getting used to his frame.

 

[Captain Mountain]

 

[JimboA]

Bring a friend next time.

While we have you, the regulars of this thread have identified a few SuperElit players as potential gems: Linus Karlsson of Karlskrona and Carl Wassenius of Örebro. What do you think of these players?

I'm not sure what to make of them. Linus was 2nd in scoring behind Berggren, but he had a huge jump in production after the league split. More or less the same story with Wassenius. Do these guys have real potential, or are they just beating up on soft opposition?

I mostly just follow some of the players that are on the national team, so I'm not gonna pretend that I know that much about them. But Wassenius scored some big goals in the J20 playoffs and was also the leading scorer there. What I can say about Linus Karlsson is that he had a high "average goal share":

 

[NotProkofievian]

How on earth are scoring chance assists being tracked accurately if primary points are not?

 

[ProspectsFanatic]

When you compare there is a big difference indeed, but this was still very good 26gp-16g-15a-31pts; was the leading scorer. 28gp-24g-28a-52pts is just absurdly good, Wahlstrom still deserves a lot of credits in those numbers.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

So we get Whalstrom this year and Jack next year, problem solved

 

[The Great Weal]

Man if Merkley decides to grow up, he can be scary good

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

It's more of a statement on just how freaking good Jack Hughes is then a statement about Wahlstrom.

 

[Mrb1p]

Yeah, Jack Hughes might be better than Matthews and Eichel.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Yeah, Jack Hughes might be better than Matthews and Eichel.

He very well could be, he's arguably done better than them at the same age.

 

[G0bias]

Significant difference compared to Necas(not implying he's better) while not that much older than him. Hope teams are dumb enough to let him slip to the 2nd.

 

[Yoshidas Island]

Significant difference compared to Necas while not that much older than him. Hope teams are dumb enough to let him slip to the 2nd.

There is a reason why I have Kaut so high up in my ranking. I saw some scout on twitter saying Kaut would go in the late 3rd. It makes absolutely no sense that he should even see the 2nd round imo

 

[yianik]

Yeah, Jack Hughes might be better than Matthews and Eichel.

Dive dive dive.