Prospect Info: Penguins #11 Prospect

[Malkinstheman]

Lafferty has the largest jump yet, up 7 spots from last year. Had a really good rookie season.

#1 Samuel Poulin (35.6%) (New)
#2 Calen Addison (50%) (+2)
#3 POJ (44%) (New)
#4 Filip Hallander (60.4%) (+1)
#5 Kasper Bjorkqvist (43.2%) (+3)
#6 Nathan Legare (53.2%) (New)
#7 Jordy Bellerive (45.2%) (-4)
#8 Justin Almeida (76.6%) (+6)
#9 Sam Miletic (24.7%) (+6)
#10 Sam Lafferty (33.9%) (+7)

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[Shady Machine]

Johnson. Has NHL experience and is likely to at least carve out a role as a tweener.

 

[Zero Pucks]

Really torn between Pavlychev and Drozg here. But I went with Pavs.

 

[SEALBound]

Went Drozg.

What happened to Olund?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Still Johnson.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I hope both Sams make the show and we acquire a player named Mitch to play with them solely so we can create The Sammitch Line and let Errey run wild with the puns

 

[Malkinstheman]

Drozg seems like a boom/bust type so ill go with him. Johnsons probably just another tweener which is meh.

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

Almari for me. If he can develop into a top 4 defensive defenseman then that's worth a lot more than a 4th line energy guy.

 

[Jacob]

Larmi based on intriguing upside

 

[PAJEN NORDGREN]

Drozg seems like a boom/bust type so ill go with him. Johnsons probably just another tweener which is meh.

Same feels.

Add Ariola. Seems like he is close to making the deep (on D) Finns U20 team.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Steps to ranking prospects by people who've never seen them play:

1. Draft position

2. Points

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Steps to ranking prospects by people who've never seen them play:

1. Draft position

2. Points

Oh so that's why you picked Sprong for first last year.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Oh so that's why you picked Sprong for first last year.

Exactly.

Plus I know more than you.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Exactly.

Plus I know more than you.

I thought that was your uncle.

 

[ImporterExporter]

I thought that was your uncle.

I can't keep track anymore...

 

[Zero Pucks]

Went Drozg.

What happened to Olund?

I was gonna ask about Olund. A lot of people here were in love with him the last two years, and now nothing. I didn't really share that excitement, but I don't think his year in WBS was all that bad. He's still young and was adjusting to a new rink size and such. I wouldn't write him off yet.

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

I was gonna ask about Olund. A lot of people here were in love with him the last two years, and now nothing. I didn't really share that excitement, but I don't think his year in WBS was all that bad. He's still young and was adjusting to a new rink size and such. I wouldn't write him off yet.

He'll get more playing time in the SHL than down in Wilkes-Barre.

 

[PAJEN NORDGREN]

Steps to ranking prospects by people who've never seen them play:

1. Draft position

2. Points

Yada yada

 

[Zero Pucks]

He'll get more playing time in the SHL than down in Wilkes-Barre.

Is he going back to Sweden?

 

[FreeBobbyFarnham]

Is he going back to Sweden?

Yes. Well for now.

 

[Zero Pucks]

Yes. Well for now.

Oh. Well I guess there's pros and cons to it. Good thing he got some experience here last year at least.

 

[PAJEN NORDGREN]

Oh. Well I guess there's pros and cons to it. Good thing he got some experience here last year at least.

I think it’s for the best. Last year he was mostly used on the forth line and PK, was a healthy scratch at times. And this year WBS will be stacked up front.

In Brynäs he will probably center the second line and get time on the PP, earn a few games on the national team and come back here next year with confidence and ready to play a bigger role.

 

[Peat]

I don't think him going back to Brynas that season is a particularly big deal and if anything better for him as a player. Slight worries that maybe he won't be committed to the hard grind of making it in America if things go hard again, or maybe he'll get homesick or won't be able to adjust, but nothing that major.

But I am slightly down on the fact that he didn't do much at WBS after a plateau season at the SHL. Putting him below the guys who did bring it at WBS is just obvious imo.

 

[SHOOTANDSCORE]

I guess we need to add Marino to the polls.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Johnson. Has NHL experience and is likely to at least carve out a role as a tweener.

A bit surprised he didn't go before Miletic or Lafferty.

Are their upsides really that much more to offset the fact he's kind of already seen as a "first call-up" and has seen NHL action?