Who is your dark horse prospect?
Once you kind of look past the top end of our prospects ( Zary, Wolf, Pelletier) and some of the guys that should graduate like Valimaki, Pospisil, Mackey; who is your dark horse prospect?
For me its Nikolayev.
He is a 200 foot center who since coming to North America has also discovered some scoring touch. He is my choice for the Eat Bread award
(the player who best exemplifies coming out of no where to become an impact player)
To my mind we have three legitimate center prospects in the system and he is just below Zary to me, who are both slightly below Ruzicka, as far as who is ready, but both to my mind have higher ceilings as middle six centers ( not sure the skating will give Ruzicka middle six steadily, would also like to be wrong).
Honorable mention to Sergeev, who I heard actually stopped Chuck Norris for a moment the other day , as well as the Heinny Man who I just feel good about and something has to come from the Bennett Boondoggle right?
Your opinions?
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