Posted this on the trade thread:
I dug up Scott Wheeler’s assessment on the Panther’s top prospects for 2021. Heineman was listed 16th, description below:
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16. Emil Heineman, LW, 19 (Leksands IF)
It has been a bit of a transitional year for Heineman, who showed last season that he was ready to graduate out of Sweden’s top junior league but isn’t dynamic enough to have an immediate impact in the SHL. The good news is that in the interim while he tries to work his way into a scoring role at the pro level, he plays with enough hustle to succeed in a depth role by winning races, disrupting opposing carriers on the forecheck, and intercepting passes. He’s got a pitchfork skating stride that he’ll need to correct (though he’s actually quite quick on his edges) to elevate his game offensively at the pro level. There are some legitimate pro qualities to his game, though.
He’s a great one-touch and two-touch shooter, he protects the puck well to attack the interior, and I often argued last year that his playmaking flew a under the radar because of all of the focus on his high goal totals (I’ve seen him execute some really creative passes).
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