The Flames seem to have recently developed an eye for picking up prospects who tend to see major growth from year to year. Seems like a good plan to me.

In case you missed it

• Here’s the last update.
• Apparently the Flames are looking across the pond for some young-ish talent (Michael Lindqvist interests me, for what it’s worth).
• A recap of Stockton’s weekend.
• Andrew Mangiapane and Marek Hrivik dipped down for some AHL action during the bye week, and then came right back up.

Rasmus Andersson – D, Stockton Heat, AHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	34	4	19	23	14	11	8	26.07
Change from last week	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	-1.28

Just an assist for Andersson this week.

Austin Carroll – RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	17	2	0	2	2	2	2	4.53
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0.63

Just two games played for Carroll this week.

Dillon Dube – C/LW, Kelowna Rockets, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	30	21	24	45	20	28	14	34.35
Change from last week	3	3	3	6	0	0	0	0

Dube finally saw action again after the World Juniors and a team-sanctioned vacation (mostly due to the flu). He came back to score two points per game, and is now 10 points away from topping his last year’s total. Here’s a cool video from Global Kelowna about him.

Zach Fischer – RW, Spokane Chiefs, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	38	20	14	34	23	23	18	21.28
Change from last week	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	-0.52

An unusually quiet week for Fischer, who only had one goal but only played two games.

Spencer Foo – RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	37	9	10	19	10	17	9	19.79
Change from last week	3	1	2	3	3	3	10	1.66

With everyone else gone, Foo is starting to become the offensive outlet for the Heat. He lived up to that role this week, potting three points, all 5v5, all primary.

Adam Fox – D, Harvard Crimson, ECAC

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	15	0	12	12	5	5	1	15.09
Change from last week	2	0	2	2	1	1	0	0.58

There appears to be some odd fear that Fox won’t sign in Calgary, for some reason. Here’s our take:

We spoke with Adam Fox at development camp. These two answers are why I don't worry about him not signing in Calgary. pic.twitter.com/3H3Z7001fx

— Ryan Pike (@RyanNPike) January 19, 2018

Glenn Gawdin – C/RW, Swift Current Broncos, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	47	37	49	86	46	64	33	43.51
Change from last week	4	2	3	5	2	3	2	-1.28

Gawdin’s slowdown over the past month has been pretty apparent. The guy has slipped four NHLe points (?) over the past month. As Swift Current has been stocking up, they’ve also begun to rely on him less. Not great indicators, but perhaps he can fight back and earn that top billing again.

Josh Healey – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	28	0	1	1	0	1	0	1.38
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0.1

Healey is back in rotation duty again, after a solid stretch of regular hockey. Three games played out of the last six possible.

D’Artagnan Joly – RW, Baie-Comeau Drakkar, QMJHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	37	15	25	40	21	33	19	22.16
Change from last week	4	1	4	5	2	33	1	0.41

His stats don’t look that great, but Joly is quietly having a great season for Baie-Comeau. He’s crept up to second in team scoring with seven fewer games played than first or third place. Among 2017 draft eligibles, he ranks fifth in the whole QMJHL in points per game and second in primary points per game. He’s tied for 13th among all QMJHLers in primary points per game. He is also just eight points away from equaling his 2016-17 effort. Last year, he did that in 66 games. Don’t sleep on this kid.

Pavel Karnaukhov – LW/C, CSKA Moscow, KHL/Zvezda, VHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
KHL current	11	0	2	2	2	1	1	11.03
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
VHL current	32	12	18	30	18	24	14	29.21
Change from last week	3	1	0	1	1	1	1	-1.95

Karnaukhov has found a permanent residence in the VHL, it appears. Slowing down in that league will do that to you. It’s the first time all season his NHLe has dropped under 30 in that league.

Morgan Klimchuk – LW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	38	11	13	24	14	18	11	24.34
Change from last week	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2.8

Klimchuk has slowed down in recent weeks. No points this week.

Oliver Kylington – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	35	2	17	19	12	12	9	20.92
Change from last week	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	-0.76

Just one assist this week from Kylington.

Linus Lindstrom – C/LW, Skelleftea AIK, SHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	27	2	1	3	3	2	2	5.28
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Lindstrom sat out both of Skelleftea’s games this week, reason unknown.

Ryan Lomberg – LW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	36	5	9	14	12	8	6	14.98
Change from last week	3	1	2	3	2	1	0	2.15

Lomberg has been hot recently, picking up the slack for a lot of the recent offensive slowdown in Stockton.

Andrew Mangiapane – LW/C, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	30	16	19	35	20	26	16	44.96
Change from last week	1	2	0	2	1	2	1	1.11

Mangiapane went down and immediately scored twice for Stockton. He hasn’t made much of an NHL impact yet, but it’s pretty safe to say that he is too good for the AHL.

Mitchell Mattson – C/LW, Sioux Falls Stampede, USHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	33	8	10	18	15	16	13	12.52
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0.81

No points for Mattson this week.

Adam Ollas Mattsson – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Didn’t play.

Matthew Phillips – C/RW, Victoria Royals, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	48	32	43	75	31	54	24	37.16
Change from last week	3	2	5	7	1	6	1	1.23

Phillips continues his impressive post-holiday play, scoring seven points this week. He also moved back into the lead for shorthanded WHL scoring. The next closest Royal is 19 points behind him. He’s also about to pass his rookie year totals, when he scored 76 points in 72 games. Also just 15 points away from passing last year’s total, which he could feasibly do in the next 10 games. He’s on pace for 112 points this year, which is incredibly good.

Last night's Insurance Goal was scored by Matthew Phillips! Keep track of all our #InsuranceGoals from this year at https://t.co/KhAn4ceee6 pic.twitter.com/NJkODjh4R9

— Victoria Royals (@victoriaroyals) January 18, 2018

Emile Poirier – LW/RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	37	3	12	15	9	14	8	15.62
Change from last week	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1.38

Really wish Poirier would be given better billing than the third line. You have to start wondering whether or not he’s destined for greater things than the AHL.

Brett Pollock – LW/C, Stockton Heat, AHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	16	0	2	2	1	0	0	4.82
Change from last week	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	2.25

Recorded his second point of the season.

Daniel Pribyl – RW/C, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Still injured.

Rushan Rafikov – D, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, KHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	36	1	10	11	10	7	6	18.54
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Didn’t play this week. Injured.

Adam Ruzicka – C/LW, Sarnia Sting, OHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	42	26	24	50	23	41	19	29.29
Change from last week	3	6	2	8	7	8	7	2.80

Wow. Ruzicka has had a hard few weeks (months really: his struggles date back to December), but he exploded this week with eight points, all primary, seven of them coming at 5v5. That shatters his records from last year. This included a natural hat trick against Flint:

Hunter Shinkaruk – F, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	36	12	6	18	12	15	11	19.27
Change from last week	3	1	0	1	1	1	1	-0.58

Just a goal this week for Shinkaruk.

Hunter Smith – RW, Kansas City Mavericks, ECHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	35	9	8	17	13	17	13	11.15
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Hunter Smith is out with a hand injury.

Filip Sveningsson – LW, HV71, Superelit/SHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
SHL current	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Superelit current	22	10	17	27	16	20	12	20.13
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2.01

A rare point-less week for Sveningsson, but he did get a 20 minute misconduct (they don’t joke in Sweden) for a check to the back.

Eetu Tuulola – RW, HPK, SM-Liiga

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	34	11	6	17	6	13	5	17.63
Change from last week	3	2	2	4	1	3	1	3.98

A big week for Tuulola, who scored four points in three games. He’s struggled to find the net in Liiga play, but hopefully this is a sign of things to come.

Juuso Valimaki – D, Tri-City Americans, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	19	5	15	20	9	14	6	25.10
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Injured, upper body, week-to-week. In Calgary rehabbing.

Tyler Wotherspoon – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	38	4	19	23	13	13	9	23.32
Change from last week	3	0	1	1	1	0	0	-0.9

One assist for Wotherspoon.

Jon Gillies – G, Stockton Heat

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	26	1540.95	0.920	814
Change from last week	6	160.13	-0.001	102

All over the place this week. Followed a shutout last week with another 32-save shutout, but then had a rough outing where he saw 34 shots on net (allowed five goals, 0.853 SV%) in just over two periods of hockey against Ontario. He then followed it up with a 32/36 performance the next day. It certainly doesn’t help that Tyler Parsons isn’t quite up to AHL muster yet, but just a rough week overall.

Despite this, he ranks seventh for goalies who have played 20 games or more in SV%. He also leads the league in shutouts.

Mason McDonald – G, Kansas City Mavericks

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	21	1189	0.892	581
Change from last week	1	60	0.001	19

Allowed two goals on 19 shots, and only appeared in one of the three Maverick games this week. It’s a minor concern, but he’s currently lost the starting job to Chris Nell, a goalie two years older who was demoted by the Rangers to the Mavericks. He’s been a .885 goalie so far this year, but is currently rocking a .939 with the Mavericks. Let’s see if that holds.

Tyler Parsons – G, Stockton Heat

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
ECHL Current	19	1034	0.907	567
Change from last week	–	–	–	–
AHL Current	2	77.68	0.844	45
Change from last week	1	17.73	0.019	5

There’s no timetable for Parsons to get some start time in the AHL, which is fine because rushing him isn’t necessary (especially given some of the injuries he’s had to deal with this season). He saw a bit of action after Gillies was mercifully pulled. Only faced five shots.

Nick Schneider – G, Calgary Hitmen, WHL

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	42	2381	0.885	1267
Change from last week	3	182	0	89

Schneider’s weeks are almost predictable. One amazing game (0.944 against Kamloops), one awful one (0.815, against Saskatoon), and one par-for-the-course one (0.885, against Prince Albert).