Tynan Lawrence Earns It Every Shift

[TBone]

I can't post it all to avoid mod problems, but this one's worth reading.

A lot of arrows pointing up for the Blues and Lawerence. Great choice at 11th in the draft.

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Player Profile: Tynan Lawrence

The St. Louis Blues 11th overall pick Tynan Lawrence showed why he earns every shift on his way to an eventual professional debut.

Blue Notes Rising
Jul 19, 2026

There’s a version of Tynan Lawrence’s draft year that reads like a prospect who experienced a slow fade. A guy who was lighting up the USHL, then got quiet once he hit college hockey. If you only look at the score sheet, that’s an easy way to read it. However, dig into the actual game log, and it’s more about how a 17-year-old learned, grew, and earned it back one shift at a time.

The Big Picture

Across three stops this year with Muskegon in the USHL, a mid-season jump to Boston University, and Canada’s U18 team, Lawrence put up 14 goals, 16 assists and 33 points in 36 games, plus a plus-7 rating and a 52 percent faceoff win rate. Not bad for a 17-year-old who spent the season bouncing between three different levels of hockey, while taking 683 draws across those stops. That’s a heavy workload for a young forward, and it tells you coaches trusted him in that role everywhere he went.

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Put it all together and you get a center who wins with anticipation and habits more than size or speed, who’s proven he can dominate against his own age group, and who just spent a season proving he can handle anything thrown at him. A mid-year jump to college hockey, a tougher conference, and best-on-best international play, all in the span of a few months. While he played fewer minutes due to the transition to the NCAA, it’s clear that BU’s coaching staff didn’t hand him minutes, he earned every one of them.

Projection: Lawrence is easily a future NHL top-nine, two-way center but has real top-six offensive upside once his frame and foot speed catch up to his hockey sense. Expect him back at BU for 2026-27 as a full-time top-six piece from day one, with a legit push for professional hockey in two to three years out.

https://bluenotesrising.substack.com/p/ ... n-lawrence

[TBone]

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[zoiks]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

[aslord]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

[TBone]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

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lol

But he's so edgy and brooding.

[zoiks]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

Thanks for the outstanding policing of grammar, Captain Typo. The point that his article is garbage still stands.

[mph6689new]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

Thanks for the outstanding policing of grammar, Captain Typo. The point that his article is garbage still stands.

There is a difference between a typo and not knowing the correct word. Neither one is a sin, but pretending it was a typo tells us a lot about you.

[zoiks]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

Thanks for the outstanding policing of grammar, Captain Typo. The point that his article is garbage still stands.

There is a difference between a typo and not knowing the correct word. Neither one is a single, but pretending it was a typo tells us a lot about you.

Thanks, General Grammar! The fact that you had to edit your comment after posting it gives me great hope, so I’ve also done so. Hopefully one day I too can reach your level of skill in the edit of grammar after publication. I’ll let you guys get back to posting your AI slop articles from Substack.

[BluesDom]

It will be exciting to follow his college career. We haven’t had very many picks this high.

Hopefully, he kicks some butt this year.

I don’t think the article is drivel. We need some hockey to in the summer to get us by.

[mph6689new]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

Thanks for the outstanding policing of grammar, Captain Typo. The point that his article is garbage still stands.

There is a difference between a typo and not knowing the correct word. Neither one is a single, but pretending it was a typo tells us a lot about you.

Thanks, General Grammar! I’ll let you guys get back to posting your AI slop articles from Substack.

Something I've never done, but

[zoiks]

An article with no author willing to take credit for the dribble.

drivel

Thanks for the outstanding policing of grammar, Captain Typo. The point that his article is garbage still stands.

There is a difference between a typo and not knowing the correct word. Neither one is a single, but pretending it was a typo tells us a lot about you.

Thanks, General Grammar! I’ll let you guys get back to posting your AI slop articles from Substack.

Something I've never done, but

But alas, I have the receipt right here.

“ Last edited by mph6689new on 20 Jul 2026 08:19 am, edited 1 time in total.”

[The Average Gatsby]

What makes the article drivel in the first place? There’s nothing earth shattering in it but I’d say it’s a pretty accurate summary of his season.

[zoiks]

What makes the article drivel in the first place? There’s nothing earth shattering in it but I’d say it’s a pretty accurate summary of his season.

If nobody will claim to have written the article by putting their name in a byline, it’s safe to assume is AI generated garbage.

[The Average Gatsby]

What makes the article drivel in the first place? There’s nothing earth shattering in it but I’d say it’s a pretty accurate summary of his season.

If nobody will claim to have written the article by putting their name in a byline, it’s safe to assume is AI generated garbage.

I don’t think it’s AI. The blog is run by this guy. I don’t think it’s super insightful or anything but he writes about blues prospects fairly often.

https://x.com/m_meyer3?s=11&t=y6wNo08FjYkwYMhuiAeShA

[TBone]

What makes the article drivel in the first place? There’s nothing earth shattering in it but I’d say it’s a pretty accurate summary of his season.

I enjoyed learning about his shot accuracy, face-off win percentage and passing accuracy numbers.

Then watching the video he was also great at stripping the puck and played end to end with decent speed.

And almost always as the youngest player on the ice.

[Harry S Deals]

Yep it will be interesting to see how many pts Lawrences puts up at as 18 yr old. He turns 18 in about 3 weeks,

Check out what some other 18 yrs old did in the NCAA

https://www.quanthockey.com/ncaa/en/pla ... ayers.html

My guess is Lawrence is the 2C behind Malhotra? Id like to see Tynan Lawrence in the 40-50 pts range would be a great season but idk with two really good centers are there enough goals to go around to reach that plateau. It may be more about the quality of play vs the point totals