Prospect Info: Hurricanes select D Jesper Sellgren #166 OA

[emptyNedder]

Prime Enstrom

That would be amazing for a 6th rounder--also because if my cursory research is correct no Carolina D-man has ever put up 50 points.

 

[Roboturner913]

That would be amazing for a 6th rounder--also because if my cursory research is correct no Carolina D-man has ever put up 50 points.

Nope. Gotta go all the way back to Zalapski with the Whalers.

Faulk had 49 one year, Pitkanen had 46

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

The whalers had five dmen break 50 points at least once. Howe set the franchise record in the teams inaugural season with 80 points.

 

[Roboturner913]

shoutout to Sean Hill who had 44 points in only 62 games in the 99-00 season. I didn't remember him being that much of a point producer but he must've gotten a lot of assists bouncing pucks off Roberts and Battaglia. and IIRC Kovalenko was pretty good at that too although it was a year before I really became a hardcore fan of the team.

 

[Joe McGrath]

The whalers had five dmen break 50 points at least once. Howe set the franchise record in the teams inaugural season with 80 points.

He played some forward that year. I don’t remember when they switched him to D exactly but it was during that season.

 

[AD Skinner]

shoutout to Sean Hill who had 44 points in only 62 games in the 99-00 season. I didn't remember him being that much of a point producer but he must've gotten a lot of assists bouncing pucks off Roberts and Battaglia. and IIRC Kovalenko was pretty good at that too although it was a year before I really became a hardcore fan of the team.

I remember Sean Hill being such a badass- looking at his season by season stats all his best years were as a hurricane; he never really even got close to the same success anywhere else (individual stats-wise... did win a cup as a rookie in Montreal).

 

[Vagrant]

shoutout to Sean Hill who had 44 points in only 62 games in the 99-00 season. I didn't remember him being that much of a point producer but he must've gotten a lot of assists bouncing pucks off Roberts and Battaglia. and IIRC Kovalenko was pretty good at that too although it was a year before I really became a hardcore fan of the team.

sean hill had an absolute bomb of a shot in an era where the slapshot was still alive. players are so defensively aware and structured on the penalty kill that those lanes just aren't available anymore. if you had a guy like hill who could rip, very few goalies could field it cleanly and you were almost assured a few whacks at it out front. hill was underrated offensively as well. he could pretty much do it all. he had trouble finding a role elsewhere that gave him the liberty he had with carolina to shoot whenever possible. justin faulk might suffer a similar fate.

 

[Jagge11]

Sellgren is on fire, 4 goals and 3 assists the last three games. Total of 13 points in 29 games.

 

[HisIceness]

Sellgren is on fire, 4 goals and 3 assists the last three games. Total of 13 points in 29 games.

Jesper "Dougie Hamilton" Sellgren.

 

[TheKingSlayer]

NHL future?

 

[Vagrant]

NHL future?

without question in my opinion. the somewhat unusual route to allow him to go back to the shl was made with that in mind in my opinion. it's honestly a bit much that we have all this defensive talent that needs to play and we would be suited to perhaps trim that down somehow. bean, priskie, kaski, and sellgren could all believably be on the roster next season. a lot will depend upon what we do with edmundson as to how many of them we see. what i like about sellgren's chances above them all is his designation as a more defensive defenseman despite the recent point production. if tvr and edmundson both depart, at least one of those replacements needs to be a safer style player and that describes sellgren's game well.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

without question in my opinion. the somewhat unusual route to allow him to go back to the shl was made with that in mind in my opinion. it's honestly a bit much that we have all this defensive talent that needs to play and we would be suited to perhaps trim that down somehow. bean, priskie, kaski, and sellgren could all believably be on the roster next season. a lot will depend upon what we do with edmundson as to how many of them we see. what i like about sellgren's chances above them all is his designation as a more defensive defenseman despite the recent point production. if tvr and edmundson both depart, at least one of those replacements needs to be a safer style player and that describes sellgren's game well.

Fleury, a stay-at-home guy, will have the #5D spot to himself next season IMO. Considering this, I suspect that next season will be Jake Bean's time to shine. Priskie and Sellgren have two years of waiver exemptions after this season to marinade in Charlotte, while Kaski has one more season of waiver exemptions. For this reason, I see Bean as the #6D and the winner of the McKeown/Forsling training camp battle as the #7D in our 23-man roster next year. I see our defense next year being:

Slavin-Hamilton
Gardiner-Pesce
Fleury-Bean
McKeown

 

[zman77]

Jesper Sellgren, D, Sweden

The 5-foot-11, 169-pound prospect is an under-the-radar, undersized defenseman with a lot of upside who was passed over at the NHL Draft in June. He played a poised, patient game paired with Gustav Lindstrom (Detroit Red Wings) and confidently moved the puck when pressured. Sellgren, had one assist, five shots on goal and a plus-5 rating. He has seven points (two goals, five assists) in 24 games for MODO in Allsvenskan.

"He can skate, move the puck, play with grit but he is good defensively too," Sweden coach Tomas Monten said.
"He's a Tobias Enstrom type of player."

Tobias Enstrom was a very good player for Atlanta and Winnipeg:

NHL Totals

719 Gms

54G

254A

308Pts

422Pims

[TFOOT] [/TFOOT]

 

[DougieSmash]

Sellgren is much better than Fleury for me

 

[spockBokk]

Sellgren is much better than Fleury for me

Perhaps Sellgren is the answer to who should play with Pesce on the 2nd pair. It makes it a little easier to potentially have to expose Bean and/or Fleury to the expansion draft knowing that Sellgren is exempt and waiting in the wings.

 

[Vagrant]

Fleury, a stay-at-home guy, will have the #5D spot to himself next season IMO. Considering this, I suspect that next season will be Jake Bean's time to shine. Priskie and Sellgren have two years of waiver exemptions after this season to marinade in Charlotte, while Kaski has one more season of waiver exemptions. For this reason, I see Bean as the #6D and the winner of the McKeown/Forsling training camp battle as the #7D in our 23-man roster next year. I see our defense next year being:

Slavin-Hamilton
Gardiner-Pesce
Fleury-Bean
McKeown

i wouldn't be so sure about fleury's chances of a long term future here. it's just one of those feelings for me because it seems like brind'amour doesn't exactly trust him taking a regular shift despite his improved contributions. over the past 2 seasons, he has played 50+ games and is averaging just over 12 minutes per game. that kind of usage is not a regular shifting 3rd pairing guy. you would expect him to be closer to the 15-17 range, but the fact that he's not being deployed a lot on special teams seems like an indictment. he's getting better, but at what rate remains relatively unknown because of how much he's being protected. there would be worse times to sell on fleury, but my supposition is that he would probably be one of the guys we were more keen to move on from in the near future. it wouldn't shock me at all to see him as part of a package at the deadline to improve our forward group and our interest in a "depth defenseman" seems to me to be more smoke to the concept that they don't like fleury in full time considering how much better tvr has played lately. that's another underrated talking point. he has gotten over 20 minutes of ice in 3 of the last 4 games, so he's really being leaned upon.

i'm not sure about how comfortable they would be inserting bean into the lineup of a team that has real expectations mid-season, but the first call up is his to lose. i more strongly suspect that we might trade for a veteran bottom pairing defenseman with a specialty and ship fleury back in return to a team that wants to give him a chance to get 5-10 games at least of 18 minutes or more and just take a hard look at what they have. i certainly don't see his usage this season as a reason for optimism going forward.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Sellgren is much better than Fleury for me

Like right now?

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Jesper Sellgren till SHL igen

Seems like Sellgren will start the season in SHL, but seems like Luleå is out. The team that is talked about is Frölunda or Rögle.

 

[Yozhik v tumane]

Jesper Sellgren till SHL igen

Seems like Sellgren will start the season in SHL, but seems like Luleå is out. The team that is talked about is Frölunda or Rögle.

Okay. To hell with him then.

 

[Helsinki Hurricanes]

One thing to remember is the Rona situation. From my understanding for instance Pulju intends to start in Finland and potentially transfer to NA when the season starts bit later than usual.

Right now the covid situation is noticeably better in Europe but that can quickly change. Also KHL isn't really an option this year. I think Sellgren playing in SHL this season is wise.

 

[theslatcher]

Sellgren till Frölunda

Has been loaned to Frölunda for the entire 20-21 season.

 

[emptyNedder]

Sellgren off to a nice start in the SHL. Today he had two assists and led all players with 21:10 of ice time (if Flashscore can be believed).

So far, six assists in 7 games.

Canes really have organizational depth for left-shot D.

 

[emptyNedder]

Sellgren's point production has slowed. However, he is making a case for top SHL defenseman. He is on the top pair with Stefan Elliott who has 87 NHL games to his credit.

Sellgren played 23:11 in yesterday's game. The most on Frolunda and actually the most of any player in SHL by more than a minute in the 3 games yesterday.

 

[Lucky Lindy]

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Says that Sellgren has agreed with his former club Luleå to return to them after this season.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Uppgifter: VM-backen återvänder till SHL - Hockeysverige – Mer av sporten du älskar

Says that Sellgren has agreed with his former club Luleå to return to them after this season.

He like many young defenders weren’t going to get a shot here.