Prospect Info: With the #63 pick, the Wild select (C) Jack McBain (NCAA, Boston College)
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I don't trust Marat to come over anymore with Russian politics and other things afoot. Even then I don't see him coming over until he's Kaprizov's age.
Dewar is a fair point, but I've seen him more of a tweener (AHL/NHLer)
I thought Meyers was more of a winger than a center?
Hard to project Bankier at the moment, but even with McBain, the center depth was questionable at best.
Rossi...McBain/Dewar/Bankier? Don't even know what's going on with Marat. Signed through 2024, so hopefully he comes over, but again with the whole Russia thing - who knows? Hopefully things will be resolved by then.
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keeneyedobserver
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Source on that? I see some teams pulled out of their playoffs, but I'm not up to speed on anything else around it.
Tons of players have left, many remaining players are no longer getting paychecks due to Oligarchs accounts getting frozen in western banks etc.
Also of note, the main board had a thread about Russian NHL players considering asylum in North America due to all the restrictions on travel to and from Russia.
I didn't see if that thread survived migration or not.
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Victorious Secret
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Correct for his first 3 years. Dewar was absolutely a C his final year of juniors, though.
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It's not publicly confirmed, but Russo has said the Wild are under the impression they won't be able to sign him.
With all the public comments made by the team I'm leaning towards the Wild don't want to sign him. They just are doing a pre-emptive media spin on it.
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I see. Weird. Isn’t this the only way out of Suter/Parise hell developing picks? I don’t understand , especially since he’s not a winger?
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Marat, Dewar, Bankier, Nesterenko....although no one knows how many of these prospects will play center at the next level.
Is Khovanov even considered a prospect at this point?
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I'm as pessimistic as they come, but at 21 I think he still has time for a shot at redemption. But if he maintains this trajectory, I'd say he's a career VHLer.
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Do we have any additional insight into why McBain is walking? I just don't understand. There cannot be more than a handful of other teams in the league (if any) that can offer both a clear NHL role quickly playing with talented players (Boldy at a minimum) given McBain shows that he's capable at this level while also being in a position to be on a team that is at least competing for the playoffs?
If this McBain having a specific vision of how he wants to begin his NHL future? Or is this Guerin putting hardlines around cap or contract type or some other negotiation stall out? If it's the latter and we're haggling over $1 or 2m and we just traded for Jost for $2m I will be shook.
If this McBain having a specific vision of how he wants to begin his NHL future? Or is this Guerin putting hardlines around cap or contract type or some other negotiation stall out? If it's the latter and we're haggling over $1 or 2m and we just traded for Jost for $2m I will be shook.
It's an ELC... it isn't contract related in terms of value.
I could see McBain wanting to play right away and GMBG not wanting to give that guarantee, so he doesn't want to sign here, wants to go where someone might guarantee him an NHL spot right away.
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