You can add Tanner Jeannot to the Europeans, I forgot about him.
Poile's doing the NHL 18 GM strategy of signing a ton of Europeans to have a stacked AHL team it seems like.
Holy crap what a flow....
that's insane.Lehigh Valley wins. Their goalie finishes with 94 saves on 95 shots just 4 shy of tying the AHL record of 98 saves. On a former Nashville related note, Ejdsell has 6 points in 6 playoff games.
that's insane.
and ejdsell was in hartman deal? trade looks worse by every game since the playoffs have started.
that's insane.
and ejdsell was in hartman deal? trade looks worse by every game since the playoffs have started.
Our 2013 5th round pick Saku Maenalanen is supposedly coming to the NHL next season. However, we no longer hold his rights so he is an UFA and he can sign with any team that offers him a contract.
He was 17+29=46 during the 59 game regular season and 5+5 during the playoffs in 18 games where he won his 3rd Liiga championship with Kärpät. Currently he's playing for Team Finland in the World Championships.
@JustaFinnishGuy with you being a Kärpät fan, do you think he has any NHL potential at all?
Never saw this on my mentions which is weird but no, I don't think he has true NHL potential at the moment but he's heavily linked to CAR where they have Joni Pitkanen as a player observer (Former Karpat defenseman, and probably not his official job title but whatever). He also works from Oulu so he's seen Maenalanen play the whole season. One other link to CAR is that they have Teravainen with whom he had really good chemistry in the 2014 WJC where Maenalanen was the top goal scorer, probably due to Teravainen.Our 2013 5th round pick Saku Maenalanen is supposedly coming to the NHL next season. However, we no longer hold his rights so he is an UFA and he can sign with any team that offers him a contract.
He was 17+29=46 during the 59 game regular season and 5+5 during the playoffs in 18 games where he won his 3rd Liiga championship with Kärpät. Currently he's playing for Team Finland in the World Championships.
@JustaFinnishGuy with you being a Kärpät fan, do you think he has any NHL potential at all?
Never saw this on my mentions which is weird but no, I don't think he has true NHL potential at the moment but he's heavily linked to CAR where they have Joni Pitkanen as a player observer (Former Karpat defenseman, and probably not his official job title but whatever). He also works from Oulu so he's seen Maenalanen play the whole season. One other link to CAR is that they have Teravainen with whom he had really good chemistry in the 2014 WJC where Maenalanen was the top goal scorer, probably due to Teravainen.
He usually just rushes with the puck mindlessly and sometimes creates something with it. Mostly it looks like he's about to lose possession every time he tries to rush in but he has some offensive instincts where he drops the puck off to the 2nd wave and puts himself in a good passing lane.
Lanky and clunky skating which affects his game too much for him to become effective in the NHL.
Remains to be seen how much he is allowed to play next season.
Great defensively though, rarely loses his man.
I'm guessing we can sign these guys but technically the contracts dont kick in until July 1? I cant imagine we have that many open spots for contracts.
Sounds like Poile is going to clear out a lot of dead wood from the prospect pool..
it's very thin. extremely thinwhat's the top 5 prospect pool looking like? behind tolvanen and fabbro, looks real thin.
I'm not even sure anything really exists of note past those two, it's pretty bad.it's very thin. extremely thin
Mismash and Farrance seemed to have had decent freshman years. Harper (but small). The guys in the AHL like Carrier and Allard and Pettersson. But it's kind of at the level where if you get even 1 real NHL player out of the lot, it's going to be a fair outcome? More than 1 is bonus material. So piling on the Euro signings and stockpiling lottery tickets in goalie futures seems like a very sensible plan. It's not like this June's draft is going to bolster the stockpiles and change the outlook at all.I'm not even sure anything really exists of note past those two, it's pretty bad.