Prospect Info: General Prospect Discussion Thread 2019-20 - Part III

[AKL]

Hat trick (plus an assist) for Beckman.

Warren bagged a goal tonight, too.

The most interesting part of that game is that something called an "Angus Crookshank" scored for New Hampshire.

 

[Bazeek]

The most interesting part of that game is that something called an "Angus Crookshank" scored for New Hampshire.

I'm pretty sure neither he nor the kid from Japan are real.

 

[AKL]

I'm pretty sure neither he nor the kid from Japan are real.

Ah, the legend of Taro Tsujimoto

 

[Nsjohnson]

On straight from the source with Tim Army, he made is sound like he plans on having Khovanov in and out of the lineup to start next year

I don't take what he says as gospel. Army is a SMART coach. He knows when guys deserve time, whether by doing the right things when they haven't been doing them, or simply by the fact that you have a guy who shows immediately he can handle the level of Pro.

Give Khovanov nothing, make him prove everything.


He'll be better off for it.


And if he proves it right away, then Army will have every reason to play him in the top two lines.

 

[SupremeNachos]

I don't take what he says as gospel. Army is a SMART coach. He knows when guys deserve time, whether by doing the right things when they haven't been doing them, or simply by the fact that you have a guy who shows immediately he can handle the level of Pro.

Give Khovanov nothing, make him prove everything.


He'll be better off for it.


And if he proves it right away, then Army will have every reason to play him in the top two lines.

I don't know if I'd go that far. If he gets opportunities in the top 6 and struggles then I have no problem bumping him down a line until he works on his flaws more. But if he shows he can play at the same pace as others I don't know why you wouldn't put him in a place to succeed.

 

[57special]

I would think that they would only be concerned about developing him as a player, which often involves working on D from CHL prospects. I doubt they care how many points he scores, or at least, they care far less than we do.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

 

[Wild11MN]

Wheeler on risers and fallers from the previous draft:

Adam Beckman, LW, 6-foot-1 (Minnesota Wild/Spokane Chiefs)
Actual draft pick: No. 75
My final ranking: No. 83
Beckman is one of those players most scouts projected as having third-line upside. As a result, his third-round selection made a lot of sense at the time. I don’t think anybody looked Beckman and expected he would lead the WHL scoring race in the middle of March. And though this is one of the weaker WHL talent pools we’ve had in some time, his emergence to the top of that crop is a definite revelation. I’ve been particularly impressed by his playmaking ability. Beckman has always played a fine game off the puck with scoring touch around the net and the slot. But I’ve seen him make plays through traffic that I just didn’t expect he’d make. He has developed as aggressively in the last six months as any player in junior hockey and he’d be in the conversation as a late first-round pick because of it. He still needs to fill out a little and improve his skating to project into a top-six role but I’m way closer to feeling comfortable with that kind of a projection now than I was a year ago.

 

[57special]

Not exactly going out on a limb, there.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Giroux has snuck in and is tied for 5th in goals scored in the OHL. His PPG is low though and is behind Lodnia. He's 36th in PPG.

 

[keeneyedobserver]

Giroux has snuck in and is tied for 5th in goals scored in the OHL. His PPG is low though and is behind Lodnia. He's 36th in PPG.

Don't forget Shawn Boudrias…..35 goals and 79 points in 58 games. Cape Breton plays against Moncton and Khovanov either tonight or tomorrow.

 

[SupremeNachos]

So at the very least will these OHL guys be good fillers for the Iowa team?

 

[AKL]

So at the very least will these OHL guys be good fillers for the Iowa team?

I wouldn’t say that’s the very least

 

[MuckOG]

Should we expect that Khovanov, Boudrias, Giouix, and Lodnia will all be joining Iowa for the postseason?

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Should we expect that Khovanov, Boudrias, Giouix, and Lodnia will all be joining Iowa for the postseason?

Khovanov’s team is probably playing for a long time. I don’t know about the other teams, but if Beckman’s team falls out he could play assuming we give him a contract.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Congrats to both!

 

[DANOZ28]

YABBA DABBA DOOOO!

 

[57special]

Giroux has the beginnings of some guns, there, augmented by the old trick of a too tight shirt sleeve. Beckman, not so much...his elbows look bigger than his biceps. No problem, and could almost be a good thing, as getting in the gym should further improve his game. Staying in junior (maybe playing C?) is the way to go for him, though, unless he absolutely blows the doors off in training camp.

 

[SomethingGeneric]

Wild twitter saying they signed a Mitchell Chaffee to a two year, entry level deal. Played at UMass.

 

[AJ Thelen]

Wild twitter saying they signed a Mitchell Chaffee to a two year, entry level deal. Played at UMass.

I've already made a thread about it.

 

[Dakota Sioux]

 

[Bazeek]

Had a request for an update on stats, so here are the end-of-year point totals for everyone.

	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	G	A	TP	PPG	PIM	+/-
1	Adam Beckman (LW)	Spokane Chiefs	WHL	63	48	59	107	1.7	18	44
2	Alexander Khovanov (C)	Moncton Wildcats	QMJHL	51	32	67	99	1.94	94	58
3	Shawn Boudrias (RW)	Cape Breton Eagles	QMJHL	59	35	44	79	1.34	81	39
4	Damien Giroux (C)	Saginaw Spirit	OHL	61	44	31	75	1.23	22	34
5	Sam Anas (C/RW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	63	20	50	70	1.11	10	-4
6	Kirill Kaprizov (LW/RW)	CSKA Moskva	KHL	57	33	29	62	1.09	10	32
7	Ivan Lodnia (RW)	Niagara IceDogs	OHL	41	27	35	62	1.51	22	-1
8	Gerald Mayhew (C/RW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	49	39	22	61	1.24	68	16
9	Nikita Nesterenko (C)	Chilliwack Chiefs	BCHL	56	20	36	56	1	29
10	Calen Addison (D)	Lethbridge Hurricanes	WHL	50	10	42	52	1.04	51	7
11	Brennan Menell (D)	Iowa Wild	AHL	57	5	42	47	0.82	36	8
12	Kyle Rau (C/LW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	51	14	29	43	0.84	6	-7
13	Stepan Falkovsky (D)	Allen Americans	ECHL	46	15	26	41	0.89	32	16
14	Nico Sturm (C)	Iowa Wild	AHL	55	12	20	32	0.58	18	9
15	Fedor Gordeev (D)	Guelph Storm	OHL	51	4	28	32	0.63	40	3
16	Luke Johnson (C)	Iowa Wild	AHL	42	18	13	31	0.74	43	-8
17	Matvei Guskov (C)	London Knights	OHL	62	16	14	30	0.48	48	6
18	Mitchell Chaffee (RW)	UMass (Amherst)	NCAA	30	16	13	29	0.97	16	16
19	Nick Swaney (RW)	Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth	NCAA	31	12	14	26	0.84	4	8
20	Matthew Boldy (LW)	Boston College	NCAA	34	9	17	26	0.76	8	16
21	Sam Hentges (C)	St. Cloud State Univ.	NCAA	28	7	17	24	0.86	20	-9
22	Dmitri Sokolov (RW/LW)		totals	43	16	7	23	0.53	10	12
		Iowa Wild	AHL	41	15	7	22	0.54	8	12
		Allen Americans	ECHL	2	1	0	1	0.5	2	0
23	Vladislav Firstov (LW)	Univ. of Connecticut	NCAA	34	11	12	23	0.68	31	14
24	J.T. Brown (RW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	62	9	13	22	0.35	55	-15
25	Will Bitten (RW/C)	Iowa Wild	AHL	51	8	13	21	0.41	22	-2
26	Jack McBain (C)	Boston College	NCAA	34	6	15	21	0.62	39	5
27	Brandon Duhaime (RW/LW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	63	6	14	20	0.32	71	4
28	Louie Belpedio (D)	Iowa Wild	AHL	62	5	15	20	0.32	102	3
29	Connor Dewar (C/LW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	52	6	13	19	0.37	22	10
30	Matt Bartkowski (D)	Iowa Wild	AHL	55	2	16	18	0.33	55	3
31	Andrei Svetlakov (C)	CSKA Moskva	KHL	41	5	12	17	0.41	24	7
32	Gabriel Dumont (C/RW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	34	8	7	15	0.44	38	-6
33	Marshall Warren (D)	Boston College	NCAA	34	6	5	11	0.32	22	22
34	Colton Beck (LW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	47	4	7	11	0.23	10	-11
35	Simon Johansson (D)		totals	37	2	9	11	0.3	20	3
		Djurgårdens IF	SHL	34	1	6	7	0.21	18	-1
		Djurgårdens IF J20	SuperElit	3	1	3	4	1.33	2	4
36	Bryce Misley (C)	Univ. of Vermont	NCAA	34	5	5	10	0.29	14	-7
37	Mason Shaw (C)	Iowa Wild	AHL	17	3	3	6	0.35	8	6
38	Filip Johansson (D)		totals	42	3	3	6	0.14	18	-9
		Leksands IF	SHL	39	2	2	4	0.1	14	-9
		Leksands IF J20	SuperElit	3	1	1	2	0.67	4	0
39	Mike Liambas (LW)	Iowa Wild	AHL	43	3	2	5	0.12	68	-6
40	Hunter Warner (D)	Iowa Wild	AHL	27	1	0	1	0.04	30	-3

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

	PLAYER	TEAM	LEAGUE	GP	GAA	SVS%
1	Filip Lindberg	UMass (Amherst)	NCAA	18	1.91	0.927
2	Kaapo Kähkönen	Iowa Wild	AHL	34	2.07	0.927
3	Déreck Baribeau	Allen Americans	ECHL	15	2.74	0.914
4	Hunter Jones	Peterborough Petes	OHL	49	2.75	0.913
5	Mat Robson	Iowa Wild	AHL	26	2.97	0.901

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Boldy-Newhook-Hutsko

 

[thestonedkoala]

Not a big deal, but looks like Minnesota isn't going to sign Bourdias.

 

[2Pair]

Not a big deal, but looks like Minnesota isn't going to sign Bourdias.

Link?