Prospect Info: Phantoms (AHL), Reading Royals (ECHL), NCAA, Jrs., Int'l, etc.

[Striiker]

Unreal.

 

[BobbyClarkeFan16]

Unreal.

Those are some disgustingly sick hands. Glad they're Flyers property.

 

[Curufinwe]

Phantoms are on WFMZ.

Kase and Vorobyev are out injured.

 

[Stizzle]

Phantoms are on WFMZ.

Kase and Vorobyev are out injured.

Kase might be suspended for an elbow to the head last night. Unclear at the moment.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Bunny gets the teddy bear toss goal.

 

[Curufinwe]

Bunny bringing down the bears.

 

[Stizzle]

Bunny (on fire) scores the teddy bear toss goal. 1-0.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Look how good he is at this, too.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

NAK just scored a nice takedown in that fight.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Holy ****, it's like looking into the Flyers' future - awesome.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

 

[Magua]

Holy ****, it's like looking into the Flyers' future - awesome.

You’re right. That’s one heavy bear. Could easily see him PKing in the not too distant future.

 

[nuclear reactor]

Back and to the left.

 

[Magua]

Erik Brannstrom has 20 points in 23 AHL games? Damn. I’m sure he’s playing behind his own Brennan; learning the ropes, building that value.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Can't believe twarynski was one of our last cuts. He's not very good.

 

[macleish1974]

Can't believe twarynski was one of our last cuts. He's not very good.

Ah...usually you need a half way decent center to be a half way good winger. But.......

#1 Varone is with the Flyers
#2 Misha out day to day
#3 Rubstov out for the season

Bunny was pressed into center, what do you expect, miracles?

Lyon played well. Other than Myers and Friedman, way too many defensive gaffs. No one could pass, whether 2 feet away or a stretch pass. I do not think a beach ball would have helped. Something is wrong with TJ. Usually he makes 3 really good plays against 2 really bad ones. But he is really doing neither.

Until #1 and #2 centers return, I do not expect much offense. Goalies will have to stand on their heads and do back flips simultaneously to win games. Lyon can do only one at a time. I think Hart can do both.......we shall see.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

St. Ivany - 1G 1A
Strome - 2A
Cates - 1G
Ratcliffe - 1G

 

[deadhead]

Watching the Phantoms, the same lack of speed was exposed, now of course without Varone, Rubtsov and Kase, they were missing their most skilled players, but other than NAK, no one could really skate with Cleveland. NAK was the only Phantom who looked NHL ready.

Twarynski and Bunnaman join MV, Leier as the marginal NHL prospects, I think Bardeau, Fazelev, Willcox have fallen below that level.

Myers and Friedman are playing competent, and it's hard to know how much meh partners are dragging them down, but neither stood out to me right now. The good thing is I didn't see Myers make a lot of mistakes, so he may be focusing on fundamentals at the expense of "flash plays" right now.

 

[Magua]

Twarynski and Bunnaman join MV, Leier as the marginal NHL prospects,

I've never seen someone so quick to turn on prospects after hyping them up out the wazoo. And I'm talking in a matter of months. NAK was a potential Voracek replacement last season. Sanheim would be a bigger and better Ghost before his rookie season, etc., etc. I'm not even mad or being accusatory, it's just impressive!

Losing JVR was a big blow b/c it happened so early in the season, in January you might just promote Twarynski or NAK and not miss a beat

I thought Twarynski out of juniors looked better than NAK after two AHL seasons.

4. Most impactful newcomer to the Phantoms roster this year at forward? (Rubtsov, Kase, Laberge, Twarynski, Bunnaman, other)

Twarynski, he's got size and speed and has developed a scoring touch, he's made for AHL hockey.

 

[pit]

Myers and Friedman are playing competent, and it's hard to know how much meh partners are dragging them down, but neither stood out to me right now. The good thing is I didn't see Myers make a lot of mistakes, so he may be focusing on fundamentals at the expense of "flash plays" right now.

Having seen games online and then the one game LHV in Toronto in person, I have very little doubt that deHaas is a major anchor on Meyers' play.

 

[deadhead]

Twarynski really regressed from TC, of course, some of the line combos for LHV, especially with Rubtsov out, aren't favorable to young forwards. But he looked better than NAK in preseason. I expect Twarynski to pick it up the second half, NAK started slow last year, and Bunnaman is just now making a little noise.

I never saw NAK as the replacement for Voracek, a bottom six RW but not a scoring threat.

My point with JVR was that early in the season, losing a major piece hurts more than later in the year when young forwards on LHV have enough experience under their belts to fill in, allowing other players to be promoted up a line. You hope to get through the first half of the season relatively unscathed for that reason - Stolarz is a good example, we got lucky because he certainly could have used a half dozen more AHL starts before getting recalled.

Sanheim should become a bigger and better Ghost or he's a disappointment, the skills are there, and he certainly has size, reach and straight line speed over Ghost - if the recent shot he's shown is for real, he closed another gap. He'll never be as agile or quick as Ghost, though Ghost is not nearly as quick or agile as rookie Ghost - he looks like he never came back 100% off surgery.

 

[deadhead]

Having seen games online and then the one game LHV in Toronto in person, I have very little doubt that deHaas is a major anchor on Meyers' play.

Samuelson isn't much better, Palmquist is the best of the scrub defenseman, though last night is the worst he's looked to me this season from the games I've watched.

 

[pit]

Samuelson isn't much better, Palmquist is the best of the scrub defenseman, though last night is the worst he's looked to me this season from the games I've watched.

No disagreement. Samuelsson wasn't as egregious, but still not good.

 

[Striiker]

I've never seen someone so quick to turn on prospects after hyping them up out the wazoo. And I'm talking in a matter of months. NAK was a potential Voracek replacement last season. Sanheim would be a bigger and better Ghost before his rookie season, etc., etc. I'm not even mad or being accusatory, it's just impressive!

I’ll make an accusation because I know exactly why.

The only reason the guy was getting hyped up was because it looked like he was either going to make the team out of camp or soon get called up, so it was hype to support Hakstols/Hextalls actions.

When it was clear he wasn’t getting called up it became safe to admit he’s a nothing prospect who was severely overused on preseason.