Prospect Info: With the #24 pick, the Wild select (D) Filip Johansson (Allsvenskan, Leksands IF)

[Dickie Dunn]

If he is 2nd pair on a good team in 4 years, cool. He will have clearly developed into a solid player.

If he is 2nd pair on a bad team in 4 years, it won’t mean that he has worked out or turned into a good pick.

Seems like a good guy, hope he surprises all of us.

 

[Spurgeon]

Since you guys were mentioning him so much I took a look at velenos stats from last year and it's pretty depressing considering how bad we need a center...

2018-19

Drummondville Voltigeurs

QMJHL

59

42

62

104

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Again not beating on the kid... But definitely not pleased with flair and Fenton right now...

Damn, that kid looks smooth.

 

[AKL]

He's definitely going to be somewhere in between Claude Giroux and James Sheppard.

I would take that every day over someone who supposedly tops out as a 4D

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I would take that every day over someone who supposedly tops out as a 4D

I probably would too, assuming the 4D thing is real. But I'm not going to go ballistic about it.

 

[Nsjohnson]

Watch him turn into a 1st pairing defenseman.

(praying).

 

[AJ Thelen]

Damn, that kid looks smooth.

Would be great having someone like that in our pool. Curious how having him in the middle of Boldy and K'zov would look.

 

[Wild11MN]

Solid article on FJ.
'It's not fair to him': Looking at controversial Wild...

Funniest quote:
"He’s pretty OK with everything but there’s nothing really that stands out. He’s not really physical but he’s OK, he’s not really a power-play defenceman but he can handle the puck and he’s pretty OK with that too,” he said.

 

[SweLeafsFan]

3 games into the new season Filip has exceeded my expectations. He is not trying to do too much which I think has been the case since he was drafted but looks very solid. Let's hope he continues like this and perhaps show a bit more offensively.

 

[DANOZ28]

what has he done to exceed your expectations?

 

[Dickie Dunn]

what has he done to exceed your expectations?

Not suck?

 

[57special]

Good to hear that FJo is off to a good start.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Good to hear that FJo is off to a good start.

Stats or reports?

 

[TaLoN]

Stats or reports?

Did you not read this post from above?

3 games into the new season Filip has exceeded my expectations. He is not trying to do too much which I think has been the case since he was drafted but looks very solid. Let's hope he continues like this and perhaps show a bit more offensively.

 

[Digitalbooya]

Should probably ask what the expectations were

 

[SweLeafsFan]

what has he done to exceed your expectations?

Well to be honest he didn't look very good last season and this season he plays in the SHL so I thought he would struggle and maybe not make the top 6 on the team. But I think he has played better than last season and looked solid in the defensive zone and good with the puck. As I wrote earlier you don't see much offense but I hope that will change as the season goes on. Leksand currently have two regular d-men out due to injury and it will be interesting to see what happens when they come back. Two other young d-men have really impressed too possibly even more than Filip and it will be a good fight for spots on the blue line.

 

[SweLeafsFan]

Another solid game today. He snuck down from the blue line for a wide open net but tipped the puck over the net. Would have tied the game but thankfully we tied it later anyway.

 

[Kase]

Another solid game today. He snuck down from the blue line for a wide open net but tipped the puck over the net. Would have tied the game but thankfully we tied it later anyway.

Was surprised at how comfortable he looked against this level of competition, much improved compared to what I saw in the couple of games last season.

Aside from that late game back door chance he didn't really flash anything offensively, but was really solid defensively in all the shifts I saw. Good positioning and gap control and knew when to pressure the opposition forwards, moved the puck pretty well too, nothing special but made nice simple passes. Got 20 minutes of ice time too, hopefully he continues to get decent ice time throughout the year.

Do you know when the two injured d-men are scheduled to return from their injuries?

 

[P10p]

I feel like he is in the perfect position to develop. Everyone has already written him off so little to no pressure.

 

[thestonedkoala]

Did you not read this post from above?

I mean is that a live hand or is the guy just going off a report or stats?

Looks like Tuntrui has seen him live. So thinking they have seen him live.

 

[TaLoN]

I mean is that a live hand or is the guy just going off a report or stats?

Looks like Tuntrui has seen him live. So thinking they have seen him live.

I thought that was pretty self explanatory.

 

[SweLeafsFan]

Do you know when the two injured d-men are scheduled to return from their injuries?

One is day-to-day I think the other one will be out until November probably. Yesterday another d-man had to leave the game after blocking a shot no word yet how long he will be out.

I mean is that a live hand or is the guy just going off a report or stats?

Looks like Tuntrui has seen him live. So thinking they have seen him live.

I watch all games, mostly on TV but sometimes live.