Ottawa Prospect watch 14-15

SpezDispensed wrote:8 goals in 8 games for Paul.   Harpur hurt his knee unfortunately.

That sucks for Harpie.

Love Nick Paul. The kind of player that can play the same game in the NHL and be as effective.

Harpur's knee is pretty swollen and will be re-evaluated tomorrow.

LeCaptain wrote:Love Nick Paul. The kind of player that can play the same game in the NHL and be as effective.

How come he's in Jr. and Curtis "Own Goal" Lazar is in the NHL?

Because Murray drafted Lazar.

i don't know, it's nice to hear nick Paul is trending up but unless the prior evaluations need updating i'm still hearing projected as a bottom 6 forward who's more defensive. not bad but there's always guys on the up in that mold.

Flo The Action wrote:i don't know, it's nice to hear nick Paul is trending up but unless the prior evaluations need updating i'm still hearing projected as a bottom 6 forward who's more defensive. not bad but there's always guys on the up in that mold.

There is no bottom 6 anymore in the NHL man. You have 3 scoring lines and a checking.

LeCaptain wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:i don't know, it's nice to hear nick Paul is trending up but unless the prior evaluations need updating i'm still hearing projected as a bottom 6 forward who's more defensive. not bad but there's always guys on the up in that mold.

There is no bottom 6 anymore in the NHL man. You have 3 scoring lines and a checking.

Have you not seen the Sabres' roster?

wprager wrote:

LeCaptain wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:i don't know, it's nice to hear nick Paul is trending up but unless the prior evaluations need updating i'm still hearing projected as a bottom 6 forward who's more defensive. not bad but there's always guys on the up in that mold.

There is no bottom 6 anymore in the NHL man. You have 3 scoring lines and a checking.

Have you not seen the Sabres' roster?

They have 4 scoring lines. They just don't do their jobs

- Nick Paul - 8GP, 8G, 3A OHL

- Tobias Lindberg - 11GP, 5G, 8A OHL

- Harpur - 7GP, 2G, 5A OHL - injured

- Dunn - 13GP, 3G, 2A QMJHL

- Hogberg - .909, 3-2, 2.64

- Perron - 11GP, 6G, 8A, QMJHL

- Wikstrand - 11GP, 2G, 0A, SEL

LeCaptain wrote:

Flo The Action wrote:i don't know, it's nice to hear nick Paul is trending up but unless the prior evaluations need updating i'm still hearing projected as a bottom 6 forward who's more defensive. not bad but there's always guys on the up in that mold.

There is no bottom 6 anymore in the NHL man. You have 3 scoring lines and a checking.

yeah well that's why i said more defensive. meaning they're not sure if his offense can translate to the NHL. hey, i want to be wrong(or for the articles i read to be wrong)

Nice to see big Tobias Lindberg putting up great stats...he's also +6.

Dunn looks to have really hit a wall, there were always rumours he wasn't right in the head and rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. Sens took a chance, not sure if that one will pan out.

Hogberg putting up ok numbers in Sweden's top league, no easy for a 19, 20 year old. Just needs to keep developing, love the size he has.

NEELY wrote:

Hogberg putting up ok numbers in Sweden's top league, no easy for a 19, 20 year old. Just needs to keep developing, love the size he has.

Some of us knew what was up with him a while ago and kept trying to vote him in that "top prospect" poll we had a couple months ago....

I would be one... but goalie are hard to put a finger on. I like both guys in the system, Dreidger will be solid as well IMO but probably only gets to the level of a backup. Playing in the ECHL will give him the starters role and hopefully he can work his way up like that, lots of hockey he needs to be playing before they really give him a look over Hammond and maybe even Hogberg at this point.

It's hard to figure out why Dunn has dropped off so much. I doubt it's because he's a loose cannon or anything like that. He was pretty consistent up until this year. He's one to watch and see if he explodes for points or if he continues his decline, because for a while he looked like he might be a nice mix of pugilist and a tiny bit of skill.

SpezDispensed wrote:It's hard to figure out why Dunn has dropped off so much.  I doubt it's because he's a loose cannon or anything like that.  He was pretty consistent up until this year.  He's one to watch and see if he explodes for points or if he continues his decline, because for a while he looked like he might be a nice mix of pugilist and a tiny bit of skill.

Well that's exactly what he is... whether it's because of that he is failing as a prospect right now is debatable but he's a guy who has always had attitude problems.

NEELY wrote:

SpezDispensed wrote:It's hard to figure out why Dunn has dropped off so much.  I doubt it's because he's a loose cannon or anything like that.  He was pretty consistent up until this year.  He's one to watch and see if he explodes for points or if he continues his decline, because for a while he looked like he might be a nice mix of pugilist and a tiny bit of skill.

Well that's exactly what he is... whether it's because of that he is failing as a prospect right now is debatable but he's a guy who has always had attitude problems.

Too bad he doesn't have a coach to reel him in and say that you can use that aggression on opponents, but if you don't put up numbers as well, you'll lose your spot on our roster and guaranteed you'll slip in Ottawa's depth charts.

I would imagine he'll get the message, if that's the case, and we'll see a stronger performance from him going forward.