2015-16 Prospects Thread

[Kin]

I'm really going to miss the Swedish Andrew MacWilliam.

Macwilliam is the Canadian Korbinian Holzer

Holzer is the German Staffan Kronwall.

 

[Tigger]

Nashville claimed Granberg on waivers.

That kinda sucks.

Hopefully it means there are a lot of better options on defence going forward.

Yeah, for sure. I just wanted to see him get an extended look, you follow these kids and then sometimes they're gone before you get to see what they might be. Tough d crowd to crack in Nashville too.

 

[bustaheims]

Holzer is the German Staffan Kronwall.

Kronwall is the Swedish Maxim Kondratiev

 

[Kin]

Kronwall is the Swedish Maxim Kondratiev

Kondratiev is the Russian Pierre Hedin?

 

[L K]

Holzer is the German Staffan Kronwall.

Kronwall is the Swedish Maxim Kondratiev

Stralman is the next Nik Lidstrom

 

[bustaheims]

Kronwall is the Swedish Maxim Kondratiev

Kondratiev is the Russian Pierre Hedin?

Hedin in the Swedish Jonathan Zion.

 

[Kin]

Hedin in the Swedish Jonathan Zion.

Zion, of course, being the Canadian Dimitri Yakushin.

 

[Beowulf]

Kapanen with 3 points and AHL Scoring leader Nylander with 2 in the Marlies' win today.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Timashov and Nielsen both signed ELC's today.

 

[Highlander]

Good news, to of our future stars. 

 

[Heroic Shrimp]

Timashov and Nielsen both signed ELC's today.

Nielsen intrigues me.  Even at the draft, he just kind of flew under my radar.  He now has equalled his goals (7), assists (17) and points (24) totals from all of last year in only 23 games (vs. 59 last year).  He seems to be such a late bloomer that it's really hard to tell what his ceiling might be.

 

[herman]

https://instagram.com/p/-ZtWV_Fm8v/
A video of a really hard hug.
Also Kapanen rifling a Nylander pass for a PPG.

 

[rdowdall]

Man it sucks that they can't delay Marner getting to the NHL by a year.  I know they could, but it might not be in his best interests.  The excitement that I have about watching Nylander next year just keeps building.  It would be great if during next year, I got to watch Nylander play in the NHL, but still had that excitement building over a player like Marner.

I suppose Kane and Toews were rookies in the same year.  Chicago still seems pretty excited. 

 

[Can8899]

Man it sucks that they can't delay Marner getting to the NHL by a year.  I know they could, but it might not be in his best interests.  The excitement that I have about watching Nylander next year just keeps building.  It would be great if during next year, I got to watch Nylander play in the NHL, but still had that excitement building over a player like Marner.

I suppose Kane and Toews were rookies in the same year.  Chicago still seems pretty excited.

So the options next year for Marner is either Junior or NHL right?  Could he be loaned to play in Europe similar to what Matthews is doing or does his NHL contract not allow for that?  Would that even be a good idea?

How many questions can I ask in one post? 

 

[Tigger]

"Yo, Herc, what if your mother and father never met?"

 

[Kin]

Honestly, if you go back over the last 10 years of the draft...we better hope that Marner is in the NHL next year because the resume of top 5 picks who weren't in the NHL after one season isn't that great.

Basically, as far as I can tell, the list is:

Benoit Pouliot
Thomas Hickey
Griffin Reinhart
Ryan Strome
Alex Pietrangelon(sort of)
Michael Dal Colle

That's...not a great list.

 

[WhatIfGodWasALeaf]

Man it sucks that they can't delay Marner getting to the NHL by a year.  I know they could, but it might not be in his best interests.  The excitement that I have about watching Nylander next year just keeps building.  It would be great if during next year, I got to watch Nylander play in the NHL, but still had that excitement building over a player like Marner.

I suppose Kane and Toews were rookies in the same year.  Chicago still seems pretty excited.

So the options next year for Marner is either Junior or NHL right?  Could he be loaned to play in Europe similar to what Matthews is doing or does his NHL contract not allow for that?  Would that even be a good idea?

How many questions can I ask in one post? 

He can be loaned out to Europe if the team wants, it'd be highly unusual though. I actually brought up this scenario a few days ago, didn't get much traction then as I recall.

Having him play for a Frolunda or Modo does sound intriguing if they want to keep him out of the NHL.

 

[Can8899]

Man it sucks that they can't delay Marner getting to the NHL by a year.  I know they could, but it might not be in his best interests.  The excitement that I have about watching Nylander next year just keeps building.  It would be great if during next year, I got to watch Nylander play in the NHL, but still had that excitement building over a player like Marner.

I suppose Kane and Toews were rookies in the same year.  Chicago still seems pretty excited.

So the options next year for Marner is either Junior or NHL right?  Could he be loaned to play in Europe similar to what Matthews is doing or does his NHL contract not allow for that?  Would that even be a good idea?

How many questions can I ask in one post? 

He can be loaned out to Europe if the team wants, it'd be highly unusual though. I actually brought up this scenario a few days ago, didn't get much traction then as I recall.

Having him play for a Frolunda or Modo does sound intriguing if they want to keep him out of the NHL.

It seems like from what I've read that he'll be too good for junior but not quite ready physically for the NHL. 

 

[Kin]

He can be loaned out to Europe if the team wants, it'd be highly unusual though. I actually brought up this scenario a few days ago, didn't get much traction then as I recall.

Having him play for a Frolunda or Modo does sound intriguing if they want to keep him out of the NHL.

Except I think the problem there is that if Marner is more or less ready to play in the NHL from a physical perspective(play, mind, not dominate) then it's hard to see the upside in sending him to play with worse teammates, not under the eye of our very expensive coaching/front office staff and where his ice time will be determined by a European team that, presumably, is primarily interested in winning their games.

 

[Kin]

It seems like from what I've read that he'll be too good for junior but not quite ready physically for the NHL.

There's 9-10 months between now and next year's camp. It's probably way too early to speculate, and certainly too early to state with any authority, as to what shape he'll be in physically.