Jiricek on fire wow Army and co. nailed this one

[Harry S Deals]

When guys have big WJCs they often return to their junior teams and have monster performances just after. Stancl's best game was his first after the WJC last year against Prince George, 3+2.

It's about Jiricek's defense at this point, how quickly can it be consistent. He is a high event player.

After another summer of training Ive changed my opinion that when October roles around Jiricek may be a viable option to replace Faulk right away esp with a veteran LHD partner

Unless they sign another veteran RHD, Jiricek will be on the opening night roster. We don’t have anybody better at this point.

You're probably right about this, I just hope people aren't expecting Petro, who was good enough in the NHL in his D+3 that they felt comfortable trading Johnson. It will be good if he can take Brantford to the Memorial Cup

Jiricek turns 20 this June. For APs 20 year old season he got the nine game tryout didnt he and was returned? He played in 9 NHL games and was -9. The next season AP played well though. I would expect Jiricek to play in the NHL at 20 yrs old not sure if he makes the team out of camp, promoted at some point time will tell.

'07-'08 Pietrangelo at Niagara 60GP 13 40 53
'25-'26 Jiricek 28GP 13 20 33

You can see Jiricek is going blow away APs best OHL season but comparing the two is not that productive other than they are both RHD.

[BalotelliMassive]

He is proving now he was potentially a top 5 pick.

Where would you draft on this list?

1 1 San Jose Macklin Celebrini C
1 2 Chicago Artyom Levshunov D
1 3 Anaheim Beckett Sennecke R
1 4 Columbus Cayden Lindstrom C
1 5 Montreal Ivan Demidov R
1 6 Utah Tij Iginla C
1 7 Ottawa Carter Yakemchuk D
1 8 Seattle Berkly Catton C
1 9 Calgary Zayne Parekh D
1 10 New Jersey Anton Silayev D
1 11 San Jose Sam Dickinson D
1 12 Minnesota Zeev Buium D
1 13 Philadelphia Jett Luchanko C
1 14 Buffalo Konsta Helenius C
1 15 Detroit Michael Brandsegg-Nygard R

[Harry S Deals]

He is proving now he was potentially a top 5 pick.

Where would you draft on this list?

1 1 San Jose Macklin Celebrini C
1 2 Chicago Artyom Levshunov D
1 3 Anaheim Beckett Sennecke R
1 4 Columbus Cayden Lindstrom C
1 5 Montreal Ivan Demidov R
1 6 Utah Tij Iginla C
1 7 Ottawa Carter Yakemchuk D
1 8 Seattle Berkly Catton C
1 9 Calgary Zayne Parekh D
1 10 New Jersey Anton Silayev D
1 11 San Jose Sam Dickinson D
1 12 Minnesota Zeev Buium D
1 13 Philadelphia Jett Luchanko C
1 14 Buffalo Konsta Helenius C
1 15 Detroit Michael Brandsegg-Nygard R

Either #7 or #10

[callitwhatyouwant]

He is proving now he was potentially a top 5 pick.

Where would you draft on this list?

1 1 San Jose Macklin Celebrini C
1 2 Chicago Artyom Levshunov D
1 3 Anaheim Beckett Sennecke R
1 4 Columbus Cayden Lindstrom C
1 5 Montreal Ivan Demidov R
1 6 Utah Tij Iginla C
1 7 Ottawa Carter Yakemchuk D
1 8 Seattle Berkly Catton C
1 9 Calgary Zayne Parekh D
1 10 New Jersey Anton Silayev D
1 11 San Jose Sam Dickinson D
1 12 Minnesota Zeev Buium D
1 13 Philadelphia Jett Luchanko C
1 14 Buffalo Konsta Helenius C
1 15 Detroit Michael Brandsegg-Nygard R

7th is probably today where I would see a chance based off potential/what is happening. I'm a fan of Buium as well but he's showing what it's like to be a rookie in this league. People blow up LM but Buium who has 18 points is getting lit up on defense. It's just the way that goes for young guys most of the time. BUT again, I said POTENTIAL top 5 pick, not a lock. That's all going to be reevaluated 5 or so years from now when they will look at the draft and say "redraft this class, where do they fall now". And then you would have to work that development in with the knowledge the teams had going into the draft. Again, Jiricek was seen as a good skating point scoring defensemen with good length that needed to put meat on his bones and up his defense. The knee injury made him fall.

[Cahokanut]

Good news. I never know what to think about points in jrs. As about every play is someone taking it to the net and the difference between the best and worse is literally men(size,smarts,maturity) against boys (ssm)

As for the claimed dismay, about the pick.
I can't remember anyone questioning this guy's offensive talent or ability. Most here don't follow prospects and repeat what they read, with their own various independent thoughts, added.

The concerns I mostly read was the kids health and defense.
Which are both still concerns today. No one question his draft pedigree.

[BluesDom]

Good news. I never know what to think about points in jrs. As about every play is someone taking it to the net and the difference between the best and worse is literally men(size,smarts,maturity) against boys (ssm)

As for the claimed dismay, about the pick.
I can't remember anyone questioning this guy's offensive talent or ability. Most here don't follow prospects and repeat what they read, with their own various independent thoughts, added.

The concerns I mostly read was the kids health and defense.
Which are both still concerns today. No one question his draft pedigree.

His defense in the nhl? may not know his progression till he plays in the next levels ahl then nhl.
he is healthy--health not a concern as it relates to former injury imo.

[seattleblue]

When guys have big WJCs they often return to their junior teams and have monster performances just after. Stancl's best game was his first after the WJC last year against Prince George, 3+2.

It's about Jiricek's defense at this point, how quickly can it be consistent. He is a high event player.

After another summer of training Ive changed my opinion that when October roles around Jiricek may be a viable option to replace Faulk right away esp with a veteran LHD partner

Unless they sign another veteran RHD, Jiricek will be on the opening night roster. We don’t have anybody better at this point.

You're probably right about this, I just hope people aren't expecting Petro, who was good enough in the NHL in his D+3 that they felt comfortable trading Johnson. It will be good if he can take Brantford to the Memorial Cup

Jiricek turns 20 this June. For APs 20 year old season he got the nine game tryout didnt he and was returned? He played in 9 NHL games and was -9. The next season AP played well though. I would expect Jiricek to play in the NHL at 20 yrs old not sure if he makes the team out of camp, promoted at some point time will tell.

'07-'08 Pietrangelo at Niagara 60GP 13 40 53
'25-'26 Jiricek 28GP 13 20 33

You can see Jiricek is going blow away APs best OHL season but comparing the two is not that productive other than they are both RHD.

Pietrangelo played 8/9 games in each of his D+1 and D+2 and was a full time NHL defenseman in D+3 and midway through that year he was clearly going to be a #1 defenseman. Matching Petro would mean starting next putting up 11 goals, 32 assists in 79 games and taking over the D corps. Different play styles on defense. This current year is Jiricek's D+2, he is well behind that schedule.

[theograce]

When guys have big WJCs they often return to their junior teams and have monster performances just after. Stancl's best game was his first after the WJC last year against Prince George, 3+2.

It's about Jiricek's defense at this point, how quickly can it be consistent. He is a high event player.

After another summer of training Ive changed my opinion that when October roles around Jiricek may be a viable option to replace Faulk right away esp with a veteran LHD partner

Unless they sign another veteran RHD, Jiricek will be on the opening night roster. We don’t have anybody better at this point.

You're probably right about this, I just hope people aren't expecting Petro, who was good enough in the NHL in his D+3 that they felt comfortable trading Johnson. It will be good if he can take Brantford to the Memorial Cup

Jiricek turns 20 this June. For APs 20 year old season he got the nine game tryout didnt he and was returned? He played in 9 NHL games and was -9. The next season AP played well though. I would expect Jiricek to play in the NHL at 20 yrs old not sure if he makes the team out of camp, promoted at some point time will tell.

'07-'08 Pietrangelo at Niagara 60GP 13 40 53
'25-'26 Jiricek 28GP 13 20 33

You can see Jiricek is going blow away APs best OHL season but comparing the two is not that productive other than they are both RHD.

Pietrangelo played 8/9 games in each of his D+1 and D+2 and was a full time NHL defenseman in D+3 and midway through that year he was clearly going to be a #1 defenseman. Matching Petro would mean starting next putting up 11 goals, 32 assists in 79 games and taking over the D corps. Different play styles on defense. This current year is Jiricek's D+2, he is well behind that schedule.

Quite a few different rules and generally lower scoring in 2010 as well