FlamesNation Prospect Update: 2018 draft class performing well
5 years ago
If your most recent draft class produces the highest scoring USHL player, a 2.0 PPG NCAA player, and a top five QMJHL talent, it’s pretty promising. Factor in that you didn’t pick until the triple digits and you’re laughing.
In case you missed it:
- Here’s last week’s update.
- Here’s a recap of Stockton’s weekend.
Yasin Ehliz – LW/RW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Played his first game since the season opener. Took a shot on net.
Spencer Foo – RW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 33.21 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -6.64 |
Scored a pretty powerful goal this weekend to give the Heat their second win of the season.
Glenn Gawdin – RW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 13.28 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +3.32 |
Picked up his second goal of the year, a desperation powerplay marker to try and salvage what was then a 4-1 deficit with 40 seconds left in the game.
Josh Healey – D, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Played one game this weekend, but healthy scratched in the other.
D’Artagnan Joly – RW/C, Baie-Comeau Drakkar, QMJHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 13 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 21.50 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1.79 |
Just an assist for Joly this week. His cold streak since the second week of the season is beginning to become a bit more concerning, as it appears that the Drakkar will continue to roll their explosive Ivan Chekhovich-Gabriel Fortier-Nathan Legare line. Other Baie-Comeau players like Yaroslav Alexeyev and Samuel D’Italien playing well pushes Joly down a bit more, too. Hopefully he can break out of the slump, or else he might not be given many more opportunities to repeat his success from the season before.
Pavel Karnaukhov – LW/C, CSKA Moscow, KHL/Zvezda, VHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date (KHL) | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 26.37 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4.39 |
| Up to date (VHL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 20.77 |
| Change from last week | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Everyone’s favourite Belorussian prospect didn’t score this week.
Morgan Klimchuk – LW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 19.93 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -9.96 |
Unspectacular week from Klimchuk.
Demetrious Koumontzis – LW, Arizona State University, NCAA (Independent)
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14.8 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7.4 |
Arizona State played college hockey oddity Alabama-Huntsville this past week. They put seven past the Chargers, but Koumontzis wasn’t involved at all. ASU will play Omaha this upcoming weekend.
Oliver Kylington – D, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 32.31 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +3.32 |
For context, the only other two defencemen to have at least one point on the Stockton Heat are Andrew O’Brien (one point) and Cliff Watson (one point, already off the team). Kylington has five.
Linus Lindstrom – C/LW, Skelleftea AIK, SHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.2 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.8 |
The Lindstrom as 2C experiment has ended at Skelleftea, for the time being. He finally took some shots on goal (in consecutive games, too!), so maybe he’s more comfortable in the bottom six role.
Ryan Lomberg – LW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13.28 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -6.65 |
No points for Lomberg, though in fairness it is hard to score from the fourth line.
Andrew Mangiapane – LW/C, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 46.49 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | +25.56 |
Now this is the Mangiapane we’ve been waiting for. With four points this weekend (one was added via stat correction from the previous week), including two goals, he’s hopefully just begun to make a case for why he should be playing in Calgary regularly.
Mitchell Mattson – C/LW, Michigan State, NCAA (Big 10)
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
MSU did not play this week.
Adam Ollas Mattsson – D, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Did what he was asked.
Mathias Emilio Pettersen – C/LW, Denver Pioneers, NCAA (NCHC)
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 72 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
It’s four games into the season, but maybe Pettersen is much, much better than we imagined? He’s been a major factor for a pretty prestigious Denver squad in the early goings of the season. He played a key role in rallying the Pioneers to a 3-3 draw, providing the assists to two extra attacker goals late in the third when Denver was down 3-1.
Matthew Phillips – RW, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Scratched once, played once, had a few shots on goal.
Martin Pospisil – C/LW, Sioux City Musketeers, USHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 7 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 49.2 |
| Change from last week | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | +3.28 |
Pospisil recorded his first Pospisil Hat Trick of the season. A Pospisil Hat Trick is a goal, assist, and ejection in one game.
He’s currently the USHL’s leading scorer. Surprisingly, not the leader in PIMs.
Brett Pollock – LW/C, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
For a beautiful moment, Pollock had an assist to his name. It was taken away.
Rushan Rafikov – D, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, KHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15.21 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2.77 |
Nothing doing.
Milos Roman – C, Vancouver Giants, WHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 14 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 17.69 |
| Change from last week | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | -4.6 |
Just as soon as he was heating up, Roman hit the brakes, only picking up an assist this week.
The most notable thing that happened to him (it’s hard to say he did anything here) was being the unwilling participant in a fight with Swift Current’s Matthew Stanley.
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The one-sided beatdown resulted in plenty of Broncos penalties, leading to the Giants essentially playing an entire half period on the powerplay. Accordingly, the Giants outshot the Broncos 71-16.
Adam Ruzicka – C/LW, Sarnia Sting, OHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 11 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 24.08 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2.41 |
Ruzicka just missed extending his point-per-game streak into its fourth week.
Kerby Rychel – F, Stockton Heat
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 39.85 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -29.89 |
After his explosive second week of AHL action, Rychel came back down to Earth. Like Lomberg, it’s tough to score on the fourth line.
Filip Sveningsson – LW, IK Oskarshamn, Allsvenskan
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 11 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 48.87 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5.47 |
Just a noise assist for Sveningsson this week. Still leading his team in scoring as a 19-year-old.
Eetu Tuulola – RW, HPK, SM-Liiga
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 14 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15.44 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +5.74 |
Scored his first goal since the opening week of the season. Had an all around decent week with three points, but as mentioned last week, he’s still shooting under 5%. There’s still some more scoring to come from our cherubic prospect.
Dmitri Zavgorodniy – C/LW, Rimouski Oceanic, QMJHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 14 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 34.93 |
| Change from last week | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | -5.29 |
Two powerplay goals this week for Big Z.
Since folks have been wondering: no, Alexis Lafreniere and Zavgorodniy do not play on the same line. I went back and looked at the details for every point Zavgorodniy’s picked up this season. On 14 of the 21 points Zavgorodniy has picked up, Lafreniere wasn’t even on the ice. The two are separated at 5v5, and are usually only ever on the ice at the same time during man advantage (PP and 6v5) situations. It’s a pretty big testament to Zavgorodniy if he’s putting up this production without the next wunderkind on his line.
Jon Gillies – G, Stockton Heat
| GP | TOI | SV% | |
| Up to date | 4 | 212.79 | 0.852 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 58.68 | +0.021 |
Didn’t get much help from his defence in a 39-shot onslaught (0.897 SV%) against the San Jose Barracuda, but a shaky third period sank him and the Heat.
Tyler Parsons – G, Stockton Heat
| GP | TOI | SV% | |
| Up to date | 2 | 146.58 | 0.831 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 59.78 | +0.064 |
Parsons had the first good Heat goaltending game of the year, stopping 26/28 (0.929) in a 3-2 victory against the Barracuda.
Nick Schneider – G, Kansas City Mavericks
| GP | TOI | SV% | |
| Up to date | 3 | 183 | 0.911 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 123 | -0.041 |
Schneider continues to surprise early, picking up two strong games for the Mavericks in the early goings of the season.
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