FlamesNation prospect update: Matthew Phillips’ world

6 years ago

Drafting the shortest guy seems to work out, at least once or twice.

In case you missed it

Here’s last week’s update.
Here’s Steve McFarlane offering his opinion on how to handle Mark Jankowski.
And here’s Stockton’s Finest with his recap of Stockton’s win, plus some behind the scenes at a season ticket holder’s event.

Rasmus Andersson – D, Stockton Heat, AHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	0	3	3	1	1	1	38.54
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-19.27

Andersson played a game last week, did some things. You’re going to see that a lot for Heat players this week, as they only played one game.

Austin Carroll – RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–

Carroll still hasn’t played.

Dillon Dube – C/LW, Kelowna Rockets, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	7	3	8	11	5	8	4	37.37
Change from last week	3	0	2	2	1	0	0	-16.14

The Kelowna centre slowed down this week, only tallying two assists in three games. Ripped off 12 shots, though.

Zach Fischer – RW

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	1	0	1	1	1	1	7.93
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Just after last week’s update when up, a bit of a situation happened with Zach Fischer. The Medicine Hat Tigers announced that Fischer was no longer with the team, and had headed to Calgary. The initial wording was ambigious as to whether it was a trade or a release, but it was later revealed that Fischer had actually left the organization. Fischer later posted his reasoning:

And that’s all have for now, unfortunately. One of the problems he had in Medicine Hat was that he was one of four 20-year-olds on the roster, and with the overage cut deadline (max is three) on Tuesday, there is the possibility that the Tigers could not find a trade for him. He is presumably in Calgary with the Flames, but anything past that is anyone’s guess.

He is eligible to go to the Stockton Heat or Kansas City Mavericks, but needs an ELC first. No word on what’s happening there.

Spencer Foo – RW, Stockton Heat

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

Foo also played a hockey game

Adam Fox – D, Harvard Crimson, ECAC

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current
Change from last week

Fox doesn’t play until Oct. 21, an exhibition against the USNDT. His real regular season doesn’t begin until Oct. 29.

Josh Healey – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Healey sat this week in place of Adam Ollas Mattsson.

Mark Jankowski – C, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	2	4	1	5	3	4	2	64.23
Change from last week	1	1	-1	1	1	1	1	-32.12

Jankowski scored again this week, but also lost an assist thanks to a stat correction. I’m a big hockey nerd too, but I really don’t get rewatching nearly week old footage to double check if some guy really got that second assist on a goal.

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

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Joly is back in action after a long injury stint dating back to before the Young Stars tournament. He played in one game for Baie-Comeau and recorded two shots.

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

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
KHL current	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
VHL current	10	6	8	14	10	12	8	43.62
Change from last week	3	1	2	3	3	1	1	-5.35

Despite what was said last week, Karnaukhov was not back in the KHL for good. He’s back in the VHL again, a league he is quite clearly too good for.

Morgan Klimchuk – LW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	12.85
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-6.52

Klimchuk didn’t do much this week either.

Oliver Kylington – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	1	2	3	3	2	2	38.54
Change from last week	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	+38.54

Oli awoke, scoring a sweet goal and adding an assist this week. Unlike Jankowski, he was the benefactor of stat corrections, retroactively been given an assist in Stockton’s first game (before you ask, no, it was not the assist taken away from Jankowski- the added assist was on a Jankowski goal). Here’s that sweet snipe.

Linus Lindstrom – C/LW, Skelleftea AIK, SHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	9	1	0	1	1	1	1	5.28
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1.51

Linus Lindstrom played two games for Skelleftea AIK last week.

Ryan Lomberg – LW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	0	1	1	1	1	1	12.85
Change from last week	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	+12.85

Lomberg found his way onto the scoresheet, adding the primary assist on a Hunter Shinkaruk goal.

Andrew Mangiapane – LW/C, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	3	2	5	3	4	2	64.23
Change from last week	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	-12.85

Mangiapane added an assist this week, which keeps him neck-and-neck with Jankowski for the team scoring lead.

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

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

Mattson played in two games this weekend, but was held off the scoresheet yet again.

Adam Ollas Mattson – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ollas Mattson saw his first taste of AHL action this year, playing a third pairing role in Stockton’s win.

Matthew Phillips – C/RW, Victoria Royals, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	10	9	15	24	8	16	5	57.07
Change from last week	4	6	4	10	5	7	2	1.58

Does this kid ever stop? His numbers this year are mindboggling. He’s been getting better as the season goes along, and shows no signs of slowing down. Take it with a grain of salt, but there’s a very real chance he could finish with 120 points at the end of the year. If that sounds farfetched, he’s on pace for 160 right now.

Emile Poirier – LW/RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	12.85
Change from last week	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	+12.85

He was demoted to the fourth line, but Poirier still scored a goal.

Brett Pollock – LW/C, Stockton Heat, AHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Still hasn’t played

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	21	1	5	6	6	3	3	17.34
Change from last week	4	1	4	5	5	3	3	13.77

Still technically Flames property, Rafikov exploded for five points in four games this week.

Adam Ruzicka – C/LW, Sarnia Sting, OHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	10	8	7	15	7	12	4	36.90
Change from last week	3	1	2	3	1	2	0	-5.27

Ruzicka has probably been the most pleasant surprise of the Flames’ prospect crop. Hard not to get excited when he keeps doing things like this:

Hunter Shinkaruk – F, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Up to date	3	1	0	1	1	1	1	12.85
Change from last week	2	1	0	1	1	1	1	+12.85

Shinkaruk earned his first goal of the season against Grand Rapids. Here’s hoping to more.

Hunter Smith – RW, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Smith still has yet to play.

Filip Sveningsson – LW, HV71, Superelit/SHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
SHL current	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Superelit current	12	7	7	14	8	11	5	19.13
Change from last week	1	2	2	4	2	3	1	+4.22

Sveningsson, who added four points in one Superelit game this week, finally got the nod to play in the SHL. He was promptly healthy scratched.

Eetu Tuulola – RW, HPK, SM-Liiga

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	10	2	0	2	1	2	1	7.05
Change from last week	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1.77

Tuulola saw third line minutes for HPK last weekend. Shame he hasn’t found the scoresheet, as he’s had 32 shots so far this season.

Juuso Valimaki – D, Tri-City Americans, WHL

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	4	1	3	4	2	3	2	23.78
Change from last week	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Valimaki did not play in any Tri-City game this week due to illness.

Tyler Wotherspoon – D, Stockton Heat

	GP	G	A	P	5v5 P	P1	5v5 P1	NHLe
Current	3	0	2	2	2	0	0	25.69
Change from last week	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-12.85

Wotherspoon was again a minutes muncher for Stockton, but did not record any points.

Jon Gillies – G, Stockton Heat

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	2	118.97	0.912	68
Change from last week	0	0	0	0

Did not play last week.

Mason McDonald – G, Kansas City Mavericks, ECHL

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	0	0	0	0
Change from last week	0	0	0	0

Ditto.

Tyler Parsons – G, Kansas City Mavericks

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	1	60	0.933	42
Change from last week	1	60	0.933	42

Parsons made 39 stops in his professional debut, backstopping the Mavericks to a 5-3 win.

David Rittich – G, Stockton Heat

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	1	60	1	36
Change from last week	1	60	1	36

Rittich earned the shutout against Grand Rapids, stopping all 36 shots sent his way. I’m curious to see how the Stockton net breaks down.

Nick Schneider – G, Calgary Hitmen, WHL

	GP	TOI	SV%	SA
Current	9	521	0.898	264
Change from last week	4	219	+0.009	120

The Hitmen leaned on Schneider heavily this week, and he did not disappoint, stopping 109 of the 120 shots he saw.

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