Prospect Info: Marlies/Prospects Thread

[aingefan]

Big year for Miettinen .. after that big freshman season, his follow up was kind of sideways. Needs to see a step up in production to be considered a more legit prospect.

Iirc, St.Cloud really spread things out.
I like the guy, hope he emerges.
Developing another sniper sounds good.

 

[SprDaVE]

And Voit just scored the OT winner for Sarnia. Great opening weekend for our prospects so far.

For the NA prospects, sure.

Niemela only has 1 assist in 6 games and Hirvonen is at 1 goal and 3 assists in 8 games. Tough start production wise for them, but not sure how well they've played.

 

[andora]

For the NA prospects, sure.

Niemela only has 1 assist in 6 games and Hirvonen is at 1 goal and 3 assists in 8 games. Tough start production wise for them, but not sure how well they've played.

Watched a bit of hirbonen a couple days agoand he looked good. Engaged physically and plays quick

 

[kb]

For the NA prospects, sure.

Niemela only has 1 assist in 6 games and Hirvonen is at 1 goal and 3 assists in 8 games. Tough start production wise for them, but not sure how well they've played.

They have Niemela playing behind Kivisto and Rundblad unfortunately.

Watched a bit of hirbonen a couple days agoand he looked good. Engaged physically and plays quick

Be nice to get another Holmberg out of him....

 

[mistaclick]

Niemela played a team high 23 minutes last game. But yeah he’s like the #3/#4 defenseman with Bystrom, behind Ohtamaa and Rundblad. He’s playing well though, still silky smooth and a smart player. Points aren’t really coming as easy as they were last year. He’s not a PP QB anymore either like last season, they cycle through 4 different dman on the PP and he’s either 3rd or 4th for PP TOI. He is a mainstay on the penalty kill though. Showing a bit more strength along the boards, but obviously not much different in his game compared to last season. Still activating at appropriate times, excellent decision making when moving the puck, defends well through the NZ on rush opportunities. I don’t think he’s found another gear skating wise which is unfortunate

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[stickty111]

Tverberg with a PP assist in the first.
Also Miettinen just scored on the PP too

 

[TheBeastCoast]

We have some really good young players just on the edge of being ready....as long as we can hold long enough at the NHL level to not blow our shit up before the 2nd wave actually arrives....

 

[stickty111]

PP assist for Miettinen. 2 good games to start. He needed this

 

[kb]

PP assist for Miettinen. 2 good games to start. He needed this

4 points so far?

 

[zeke]

prospect ages:

F Holmberg (AHL/NHL): 23.5
F Abruzzese (AHL): 23.3
D Kral (AHL): 23.0
F Steeves (AHL): 22.8
D Rindell (AHL): 22.6
F SDA (AHL): 22.1
D Kokkonen (AHL): 21.7
F Abramov (AHL): 21.5
F Robertson (AHL/NHL): 21.1
G Hildeby (SHL): 21.2
F Abramov (AHL): 21.0
F Miettenin (NCAA): 21.0
G Akhtyamov (KHL): 21.0
F Tverberg (NCAA): 20.8
F Hirvonen (FIN): 20.8
D Niemela (FIN): 20.5
D Villeneuve (AHL): 20.5
F Ovchinnikov (AHL): 20.2
G Peksa (KHL): 20.2
F Knies (NCAA): 20.0
F Voit (CHL): 19.8
F Grebenkin (KHL): 19.5
F Lisowsky (CHL): 18.6
F Moldenhauer (USHL): 18.5
F Minten (CHL): 18.2

 

[thinkblue]

 

[Fogelhund]

Matthew “JVR” Knies, the goal scoring, deflection guys.

 

[Fogelhund]

Koster with a goal for Minnesota now. Is he even a legit prospect though?

 

[stickty111]

Koster with a goal for Minnesota now. Is he even a legit prospect though?

He absolutely is. Underated but he's good. Doesn't get attention because Gophers D core is stacked. He's solidly in my B grade
He also has an assist.

 

[Knies iT]

Koster is the biggest sleeper in the pool.

 

[Menzinger]

As a Gopher fan, Kosters been on my radar for a while. He's got a legit chance at becoming an NHLer

 

[Twine Tickler]

I could be mistaken, but I feel like I remember reading an article on Mike Koster a couple years back that basically outlined how much the Minnesota coach loved his game but that he was unfortunately stuck behind a stacked D-core. I wanna say the coach mentioned trying to create more opportunity for him, but then again that would have been maybe before last season, so I am not sure if that came to fruition or not. Nonetheless, he seems to be in the good books of the staff, which is always a good sign.

I won't pretend to know a great deal about his game, but from what I've read he has an NHL skillset. I've only be able to see him play about 2 times for the gophers, He never looked out of place and was often making very strong reads in game.

But I would defer to other people's opinions on him as my sample size of him is very small.

Great start to the year for our NA prospects! not overly worried about Niemela and Hirvonen. Both are very solid 2-way players. Points are kind of a bonus with those 2. I think Niemela's production last season would be extremely hard to replicate. As long as he is showing well in game I have no problem with a lower pt production.

 

[Fogelhund]

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[Orfieus]

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lol sorry but someone who weighs 180lbs is not big, they might be tall but they are not big

 

[1specter]

lol sorry but someone who weighs 180lbs is not big, they might be tall but they are not big

Keith is a goalie FYI. He's a real hard gainer and struggled a lot to put on weight, he actually mentioned that coming to the Toronto organization really helped because of the time and effort the nutritional staff spent with him even as a Marlie (he used to be in the Red Wings system). Dude was even skinnier before.

 

[4thline]

Hoping for Larsen to earn an ELC / lock in on the Marlies deal with an ELC to come. If we took mid/late round flyer on him in the 21 draft he'd definitely be getting some hype.

 

[stickty111]

Hildeby 1 goal on 11 shots

 

[stickty111]

Peksa 30 saves on 31 shots