C Isac Lundestrom - Lulea HF, SHL (2018, 23rd, ANA)

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Zibanejad's U20 season: 20 points in 42 games in the NHL, 11 in 23 in the AHL.
Lundeström's U20 season: 2 in 15 in the NHL, 6 in 12 in the AHL, 9 in 17 in the SHL.

This almost makes lundestrum's year look even better considering the time frame you are quoting here.

 

[Vipers31]

Except nobody looks at it as their u20 season, they go by draft year. And their D+1 years are similar.

In 15 years nobody looks back and says "man look at this crop of u20 players back in 2019", they say "look how loaded this 2018 draft is"

I mean, I'm not even entirely sure what "his U20 season" is referring to, considering the "U" simply means "under", and every season Lundeström has played so far has been a "U20" season. I imagine here it's supposed to only mean "season featuring the final year of U20 WJC eligibility", but that's not exactly intuitive and in my personal opinion it's kind of pointless to introduce (or at least apply) an alternative cut-off date from the draft when talking about draftees. Whatever, though.

Excited to see what Lundeström will show next season. I wouldn't feel comfortable putting a 3rd line ceiling on his offensive upside, personally.

 

[TopShelfWaterBottle]

Lundestrom has been assigned to San Diego making this his 5th team? This season

Correct me if I’m wrong

 

[Howe Elbows 9]

Lundestrom has been assigned to San Diego making this his 5th team? This season

Correct me if I’m wrong

Lundeström has already played for San Diego this season (12 regular season games), before he returned to Sweden. So that's 3 teams this season (he also played in the WJCs).

 

[Kalv]

Lundeström has already played for San Diego this season (12 regular season games), before he returned to Sweden. So that's 3 teams this season (he also played in the WJCs).

He just played 2 games for his national team as exhibition before WC`s. Reportedly he got a lot of praise from those two games but idk, didn`t watch them.

So basically this is his 5th team but yeah, he already played for them. The map was NHL-AHL-WJC-SHL-NT-AHL for Isac

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

1 G / 2 A in his second game back. Playing with Comtois + Cracknell.

 

[MMC]

Really don’t understand why no one talks about him. He’s played the 8th most NHL games of anyone in his draft and everyone ahead of him gets way more buzz.

 

[Peasy]

Really don’t understand why no one talks about him. He’s played the 8th most NHL games of anyone in his draft and everyone ahead of him gets way more buzz.

Because he doesn't really have a high upside. He will likely have a decent NHL career as a 3rd line C but thats about it.

 

[wings5]

He's surprised me with his production in Allsvenskan , 11 pts in 12 games. Hopefully he keeps it up and surpasses his bottom 6 projection

 

[Kalv]

He's surprised me with his production in Allsvenskan , 11 pts in 12 games. Hopefully he keeps it up and surpasses his bottom 6 projection

He was a really good player in SHL in his D+1 season:

Therefore I am not that surprised about his production, but I am happy that he scored some goals actually.

His problem is adopting to NA game but I think he just needs some time and this or next year could start becoming something more than a bottom 6 player, hopefully. He just turned 21 but feels like he has been around forever

 

[MMC]

He's apparently not very interesting to talk about but this guy rocks

 

[SmokeyDuck]

Hes been great. Surprised there is not much talk about him. Though the Ducks do have tons of good young players so I can understand him getting lost in the hype. Very solid two way center. Not super fast but his acceleration is explosive. Great penalty killer. Also plays with the black hole of offense Silfverberg.

 

[bsu]

He's Philip Danault 2.0.

Love his game and love this player.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Alot of swedes where shocked how bad he was in WC. We are still in shell-shock.

 

[Gnome17]

Alot of swedes where shocked how bad he was in WC. We are still in shell-shock.

No, he wasnt bad, and literally no Swede was shocked about his performance.

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Alot of swedes where shocked how bad he was in WC. We are still in shell-shock.

He certainly has had an interesting development path, but he really is blossoming as a sneaky two-way threat. Extremely reliable defensively, and he quietly can drive the play

 

[Eye of Ra]

No, he wasnt bad, and literally no Swede was shocked about his performance.

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he had 2 points in 7 games. he was one of our nhler who we expected to take a leading role and produce points

 

[teddygmr]

nice goal tonight!

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

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he had 2 points in 7 games. he was one of our nhler who we expected to take a leading role and produce points

Being a Luleå fan, having followed the kid for a while and having an idea of what kind of player he is: looking to Isac Lundeström for top scoring in the world championships were positively ridiculous expectations placed on a 21-year old two-way center prospect. He had just scored 9 points in 11 games in Hockeyallsvenskan, he’s supposed to drive Tre Kronor’s offense in the world championships now?

Classical Swedish hyperbolic media narratives: The Swedish NHL super stars are coming! No, not Bäckström, not this time, but let’s place the weight of the team on Mario Kempe and lose our shit when he isn’t scoring a point per game!