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Prospect Info: 2019-20 Prospects Thread (CHL, NCAA, Junior A, Europe)
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MarkT
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Nice honors for Zhuravlyov.
Proof that HF Avs doesn't know anything about prospects and @Pierce Hawthorne is a prospect genius as he had him all the way up at #20 on his personal list while HF Avs didn't even have him in the Top 25....
Proof that HF Avs doesn't know anything about prospects and @Pierce Hawthorne is a prospect genius as he had him all the way up at #20 on his personal list while HF Avs didn't even have him in the Top 25....
cgf
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Zhu will be a bust as shown by CapFriendly having him listed last on their Avs' Reserve List.
Joking but him becoming at the very least a bottom pair dman for us, along with (hopefully) guys like Kovalenko, Henry, Mutala, would go a ways in changing some of HFAvs' posters' belief regarding our scouting staff.
Joking but him becoming at the very least a bottom pair dman for us, along with (hopefully) guys like Kovalenko, Henry, Mutala, would go a ways in changing some of HFAvs' posters' belief regarding our scouting staff.
Foppa2118
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Somehow we ended up in a biazaro world where the Avs best prospects are defenseman.
It's nice to hear that we have some later round picks, Kovalenko, Zhuravlyov and Mutala, actually doing something and playing well. Late round picks have been a pain point, too many failures, we need a few of these guys to work out.
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No celebration until one of them does something significant in the NHL.
RockyMtnRedhawk
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The Preds 2nd that the Avs got in that deal was traded to Pittsburgh for a 3rd (Annunen) and a 5th (Zhuravlyov) at the draft.
Haha damn, what a haul we got in that trade. Dutchy was my fave Av, but after everything that transpired all I got to say is Thanks Dutch have a great career.
So if Zhuravlyov makes it as a top 4 guy, does he make Girard or Byram expendable?
These sure never get old.
avsfan09
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That’s the thing they just keep getting funnier and funnier.These sure never get old.
cgf
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These sure never get old.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to work more of em into my routine.
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Disagree strongly. As much as I love @cgf I'm a little tired of these sarcastic posts. Team is doing well, trending upwards and our management has mostly done great job for the last few years.
cgf
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Totally understandable. I know I'm more than a little tired of reading about how any of us who doubt Joe's infallibility are "sakic haters"; so I can certainly supersize...
avsfan09
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cgf
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avsfan09
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Annunen is looking good so far. Two shutouts in a row, unbeaten for 136 minutes and great stats overall. A fantastic way to start a rookie season.
At juniors he was a solid puck-moving defender that had a calm demeanour and was used as a powerplay QB. Further in his development up till now he has developed into a more reliable defenceman with that same calm demanour. His offensive skills probably won't develop into someone who can be used on the PP, but has decent enough skill in all categorises without truly being amazing in any of them; he's fairly mobile though as a player. If I was going to choose one of them, I would probably say someone around Nick Jensen (probable) or Nate Schmidt (ceiling) type of defender.
He's probably in-between, he most definitely was not as bad as his numbers said last year, but I highly doubt he's as good as his numbers say this year. This isn't to try and discredit him because he has most definitely improved, but as one of the Finns can conclude here, his team is very good and do a lot of heavy lifting in front of him.
UncleRisto
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Most definitely, but having a bad season behind a good team is catastrophic so this is as good as it gets for him.
Vehviläinen went from all over the place with Jyp (and the youth NT) to a very good Liiga starter with Kärpät (with maturity too, he calmed down a lot as you might know), so it's interesting to see how he does with the Monsters. Annunen being three years younger I'll be keeping an eye on how he progresses relative to Vehviläinen. And I don't know what his contribution to these guys' games is but Ari Hilli has a great track record of getting numbers out of their goalies in that system, and he's recently served the NT at the OG and WCup.
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