FlamesNation Prospect Update: The season begins (kinda)
5 years ago
“Kinda” because the CHL, USHL, and European kids have already begun (and even then, in different intervals), the AHL kids will get underway this week, and the college prospects have a few more weeks to go. So just kinda.
In case you missed it:
- The first update of the year is here.
- We say goodbye to Dillon Dube and Juuso Valimaki, who will hopefully never appear on this list again – they’re staying with the Flames.
- The Stockton Heat got almost the entirety of their roster this week with the Flames cutting pretty much everyone.
D’Artagnan Joly – RW/C, Baie-Comeau Drakkar, QMJHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 5 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 32.6 |
| Change from last week | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | -2.33 |
Joly has been putting in work as the Drakkar’s #1 RW and starting to turn heads among QMJHL scouts, at least those that post on Twitter. Four points in three games for the productive winger.
Pavel Karnaukhov – LW/C, CSKA Moscow, KHL/Zvezda, VHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date (KHL) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Change from last week | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Up to date (VHL) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 20.77 |
| Change from last week | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | +20.77 |
Everyone’s favourite Russian pro tweener prospect finally hit the scoresheet this week, picking up a goal and an assist for the Red Army’s farm team.
Linus Lindstrom – C/LW, Skelleftea AIK, SHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.40 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | +6.40 |
Linus has made the most of his recent promotion to Skelleftea’s second line (one of Sweden’s most comprehensive stat resources notes that he has occasionally been listed on the first line – make of that what you will), scoring his first goal of the season. He currently sits third for average ice time among Skelleftea forwards.
Martin Pospisil – C/LW, Sioux City Musketeers, USHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 57.4 |
| Change from last week | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
It’s two games into his season, but Martin Pospisil has been absolute dynamite thus far for Sioux City. The team has only scored eight goals thus far, and Pospisil has seen his name attached to five of them. He’s an overager in a league where overagers are generally in college, but it’s still an eye-popping performance from a work-in-progress type player.
(Turn your volume down for these highlights.)
Perhaps the most impressive stat is that he’s only picked up two penalty minutes thus far.
Rushan Rafikov – D, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, KHL
| 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 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Back from injury. Still hasn’t put up any points.
Milos Roman – C, Vancouver Giants, WHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.38 |
| Change from last week | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | +12.38 |
The Vancouver centre finally found the scoresheet with two assists in his fourth game after a very slow start to the season. He hasn’t been on the ice for much at all.
Adam Ruzicka – C/LW, Sarnia Sting, OHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 26.49 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – |
Two more games, two more goals for Ruzicka. He’s struggled with consistency so hopefully this is a step in the right direction.
Filip Sveningsson – LW, IK Oskarshamn, Allsvenskan
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 24.44 |
| Change from last week | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
Another goal for Sveningsson, who continues to make noise in the Allsvenskan despite averaging fewer than 10 minutes of ice time per game.
Eetu Tuulola – RW, HPK, SM-Liiga
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15.88 |
| Change from last week | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | -11.92 |
After a dynamite start to the season, Tuulola put up zeroes in three games this week.
Dmitri Zavgorodniy – C/LW, Rimouski Oceanic, QMJHL
| GP | G | A | P | 5v5 P | P1 | 5v5 P1 | NHLe | |
| Up to date | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 29.11 |
| Change from last week | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | -29.11 |
Ditto Zavgorodniy, who failed to find the scoresheet in two games this week.
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