Prospect Info: With the 92nd Pick the Bruins select Quinn Olson LW

[Fenway]

Quinn Olson at eliteprospects.com

http://ajhl.esportsdesk.com/leagues...&leagueID=3464&teamID=513025&playerID=1607871

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[Alicat]

Welcome to Boston Quinn!

 

[Gator Mike]

Quinn Olson: 2019 NHL Draft Prospect Profile; A Hardworking Junior A Playmaker

Olson is a hard-working winger with soft hands and excellent speed to match a high-energy compete level. He is a dual threat with the puck, meaning he can furnish a hard shot and score in a variety of ways, or assume the role of playmaker and set-up quality chances. Committed to the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Olson was a standpoint as a replacement at the CJHL Top Prospects Game, using a quick first step and anticipation to cut off attempted breakouts that turned into instant scoring chances. Olson can be deployed on both the power play and the penalty kill, and his ability to read plays in the neutral zone and guess correctly on puck travel makes him a threat to counter in an odd-man situation. Strong on his skates with impressive leg drive for a player listed under six feet, Olson can deliver big hits and is not the least bit shy at using his physical strength to battle hard in either open ice, in front of the net or in the corners. Plays a game similar to 2018 Vancouver Canucks draftee Tyler Madden.​

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Seems like the only Canadians we draft are left wingers.

 

[Gee Wally]

I like a little madness now and then.

Olson was also quite familiar with the penalty box. He was not on the level of fellow-Oiler and the subject of one of my favorite prospect profiles from last year, Austin Wong. But he did average nearly a penalty minute per game in the 2017-18 season and surpassed that average in the 2018 AJHL playoffs (21 PIM in 15 games) and the 2018-19 season (75 PIM in 54 games). The majority of those calls would be a minor penalty here and a minor penalty there. There were some notable exceptions. In the 2019 playoffs, Olson had an astonishing 54 PIM in 13 playoff games. That number was largely driven by two games: a 2+10 for roughing in Okotoks’ first playoff game against Calgary, and a whopping three misconducts plus a roughing minor in their third playoff game against Calgary. That’s 44 of the 54 right there. Olson is not big but he occasionally would have a moment of madness.

 

[Gator Mike]

Worth noting... he's going to play at Minnesota-Duluth, the same program that produced Karson Kuhlman. They're the defending back-to-back NCAA Champions.

If Scott Sandelin wanted him, I'd say that's probably a pretty good sign that the kid can play at least a little bit.

Patience, grasshoppers.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Good pick UMD is a hell of a program right now PC and Umass weren’t close to them in the frozen four.

 

[Gordoff]

I guess we don't need any Right Wings now or in the future...

 

[BruinsNetwork]

Worth noting... he's going to play at Minnesota-Duluth, the same program that produced Karson Kuhlman. They're the defending back-to-back NCAA Champions.

If Scott Sandelin wanted him, I'd say that's probably a pretty good sign that the kid can play at least a little bit.

Patience, grasshoppers.

Like the player, but don’t like where he was picked. I’ve been a big proponent of taking your guys when you can, but I think this is different.

Would have liked to see Bs take Judd Caulfield here or trade down and get another pick out of it. Really thought they needed to get some good value at No. 92 without having a second here. Truly think Olson would have been there through both R4 and R5.

 

[Gator Mike]

 

[Gator Mike]

Like the player, but don’t like where he was picked. I’ve been a big proponent of taking your guys when you can, but I think this is different.

Would have liked to see Bs take Judd Caulfield here or trade down and get another pick out of it. Really thought they needed to get some good value at No. 92 without having a second here. Truly think Olson would have been there through both R4 and R5.

Understand your point, but at the end of the day, if you can find players, it doesn't matter too much where you took them.

 

[Gordoff]

Like the player, but don’t like where he was picked. I’ve been a big proponent of taking your guys when you can, but I think this is different.

Would have liked to see Bs take Judd Caulfield here or trade down and get another pick out of it. Really thought they needed to get some good value at No. 92 without having a second here. Truly think Olson would have been there through both R4 and R5.

SAME!

 

[Gator Mike]

 

[Boston Bruno]

No one called him a bust yet? You folks are getting soft.

 

[Gator Mike]

TSN's Craig Button had Olson ranked 86th overall.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Bruins can't not reach?

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

Understand your point, but at the end of the day, if you can find players, it doesn't matter too much where you took them.

But, you'll admit that it's yet another "reach" for the Bruins braintrust, right?

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

Like the player, but don’t like where he was picked. I’ve been a big proponent of taking your guys when you can, but I think this is different.

Would have liked to see Bs take Judd Caulfield here or trade down and get another pick out of it. Really thought they needed to get some good value at No. 92 without having a second here. Truly think Olson would have been there through both R4 and R5.

Would have loved Caulfied. He's still on the board, last I checked. Can't see him lasting until what, 154? Crazier things have happened though.

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

TSN's Craig Button had Olson ranked 86th overall.

He had Kaliyev at #13.

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

He had Kaliyev at #13.

Will you give it up? Muck up every f***ing thread.

 

[Gator Mike]

But, you'll admit that it's yet another "reach" for the Bruins braintrust, right?

I think that if you like the kid enough, you take him and damn the consensus about where everyone else thinks he should go. It only takes one team to like him as much as you do.

 

[BruinsNetwork]

Understand your point, but at the end of the day, if you can find players, it doesn't matter too much where you took them.

That’s a really great response and one I tend to agree with, to be honest. Very refreshing around these parts.

Like I said, I like the player and he’s headed to a powerhouse NCAA program for development, but still don’t like the value they got at No. 92. Like Caulfield’s upside and potential more, especially as someone who’s already got plenty of size on the wing.

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

That’s a really great response and one I tend to agree with, to be honest. Very refreshing around these parts.

Like I said, I like the player and he’s headed to a powerhouse NCAA program for development, but still don’t like the value they got at No. 92. Like Caulfield’s upside and potential more, especially as someone who’s already got plenty of size on the wing.

He'd give Boston a natural right shot RW as well, which is a need. Still an option until he gets drafted.

 

[Montecristo]

Not a fan of the pick but it’s a 3rd rounder so whatever

 

[TheReal13Linseman]

Will you give it up? Muck up every ****ing thread.

I know, facts are irritating, aren't they?

Poster brings up that one maven ranked Bruins 92nd pick at 86--ok.

I bring up that same maven ranked guy Bruins did pick at 45 when we took him at 30, and ranked guy we didn't pick at 13--not ok.

That was mucked up, all right. But not by me. I'm just reiterating what just happened.

Feel free to put me on ignore; that's what it's for.