Article: Minnesota's Injuries Highlight Iowa's Trouble Developing Prospects

[Robert Brent]

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[Pewterschmidt]

Garbage in Garbage out:

You didn't hear it from me but the scouting dept. is the problem, contrary to all the hype beat reporters like to spread.  Who has come out of our farm system since Judd arrived.  Yes I realize I'm calling my shot early on Judd but I never thought I'd miss Conner Dewar and Duhaime.

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[TheGoosesAreLooses]

Draft guru or otherwise, the draft is a low likelihood lottery. Like 19% of prospects end up playing more than three seasons in the NHL. 63% of first round picks, and only 25% of second round pick end up playing. With this in mind, let's do a deep dive of Brackett's way too early numbers in Minn. 

2020

Round Pick Player Games Played

1 9 Rossi 134 NHL

2 37 K Nut 44 NHL

2 39 O'Rourke 0- AHL +2

3 65 Hunt 13 AHL +1

5 146 Novak 0 KHL?

2021

1 20 Wallstedt 5 AHL+1

1 26 Lambos 0 AHL +1

2 54 Peart 0 AHL +1

3 86 Bankier 0 AHL 

4 118 Masters 0 AHL

4 127 Pillar 0 Usports (NCAA CAN Equiv)

6 182 Benoit 0 NCAA

2022

1 19 Ohgren 2 AHL

1 24 Yurov 0 KHL 

2 47 Haight 0 AHL

2 57 Lorenz 0 NCAA

3 89 Milne 1 AHL+1

4 121 Healey 0 NCAA

5 153 Spacek 0 AHL

6 185 Petrovsky Czechia

Obviously this is an extremely early look as most of his first draft is 22/23 years old at most. The average age to break into the NHL is 20.6 years, however the average age in the NHL is 26. I would say what we have is what we will get out of the 2020 draft, which is absolutely solid. A first, second, and third rounder all playing over 10 games at an NHL level is more than you can ask of most draft classes.  2021 draft is getting to the point where we have a good idea of what will come out of this. I think Bankier and Lambos both have a possibility of making it but it is getting lower and lower. Wallstedt will be an NHL goaltender, only a matter of time. 2022 draft- Ohgren and Yurov will likely both get NHL action, but still a question of will they stick. Spacek, Milne, Haight and Lorenz all have a possibility of making it, however thin. 

I'm not even getting into 23 and 24 drafts because it is WAY too early to pass judgement on either one. Still, from what we have seen so far, Brackett is exceeding the average, if not by a huge margin.

[Pewterschmidt]

We need to spend more time talking about 97’s ability to ‘flop’ pucks over defenders stick onto the tape of teammates.  Puck doesn’t bounce when it lands. It lands more like a corn hole bag would land.  Not quite a sauce pass.  And clearly easy to handle as teammates rarely bobble these passes.  Just another thing 97 can do that’s special

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[OldDutchChip]

53 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

Garbage in Garbage out:

You didn't hear it from me but the scouting dept. is the problem, contrary to all the hype beat reporters like to spread.  Who has come out of our farm system since Judd arrived.  Yes I realize I'm calling my shot early on Judd but I never thought I'd miss Conner Dewar and Duhaime.

100% That plus knowing when to sell on these gems to get some form of value, don’t over hold the prospects if you can see their trajectory taking a slide. But instead we just let them play in and hope. Creative/out-of-box thinking is missing.