2012/13 Prospect Stats & Updates Thread

[Henry Fool]

I don't know why exactly Granlund played only 10 min, but it's not like he's been playing that well, so it wouldn't surprise me to see the coach give more ice time to other forwards instead of him. I'm sure he'll get back to his normal time soon enough.

[kirant]

Laurent Brossoit with 15/16 stops against the Hitmen.

Some notes:
- He seems to have that tough minded spirit we see from Kiprusoff. He gave up a goal against the Hitmen fairly early, but it never seemed to rattle him. By comparison, Dreiger (Hitmen) seemed to bobble and throw around the puck more when he was scord on
- Brossoit has a tendency to drop on his knees early. As in he always drops, and was caught once or twice having to slide while in butterfly. His other movements are good for a big goalie, but if players shot high, he'd be in trouble.
- Glove hand is solid
- No major issues with rebound control, though as a big goalie his age, that can always improve. Same with lateral movement.

[Ashasx]

Elson had a goal and an assist and was named 1st star last night.

[Henry Fool]

Ortio with a 3-2 win against a good Kärpät team. 26 saves. Nice to see some wins.

[StrykerSteve]

Granlund had 1+1 in a win over Canada today at the World Juniors and by all accounts was pretty impressive.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by StrykerSteve

Granlund had 1+1 in a win over Canada today at the World Juniors and by all accounts was pretty impressive.

I don't think he won many face offs though.

[Henry Fool]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

I don't think he won many face offs though.

33%, 6-12. Surprised that he took so many. I don't think he takes many faceoffs on HIFK. Strome seemed weak on the Canadian side, but then one game is a very small sample size.

http://bigdata.lahtis-enterprises.co...357edb946253db

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Henry Fool

33%, 6-12. Surprised that he took so many. I don't think he takes many faceoffs on HIFK. Strome seemed weak on the Canadian side, but then one game is a very small sample size.

http://bigdata.lahtis-enterprises.co...357edb946253db

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised he was playing centre. I like to see as many of our forward prospects playing there as possible as the more there is the more chance we'll come up with a good one.

[devo22]

Coda Gordon had a HUGE 5-point night (2 goals + 3 assists, GWG) in 6-4 win over Medicine Hat.

Laurent Brossoit stopped 29 of 30 shots in a 6-1 win over Red Deer (Turner Elson was scoreless).

Brett Kulak had 1 assist in a 5-3 loss to Kelowna.

Michael Ferland was scoreless in his junior return (a 4-3 loss to Moose Jaw).

Ryan Culkin had 1 assist in a 4-2 loss to Baie-Comeau.

James Martin notched 2 assists and Mitch Wahl had 1 assist in Utah's 4-3 SO win over Ontario. Bryan Cameron and Gaelan Patterson were scoreless, but Cameron scored in the shootout.

[devo22]

Coda Gordon scored the lone goal in a 4-1 loss to Medicine Hat. Gordon now has 11 points (4+7) in his last 5 games.

Brett Kulak had an assist in a 9-5 loss to Kamloops. He is now one assist shy of his last year's total, after only half of the games.
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Bryan Cameron scored 2 goals and Mitch Wahl had 3 points (1+2) in Utah's 6-5 loss to Ontario. James Martin had an assist and Gaelan Patterson was scoreless.

[StrykerSteve]

Granlund had 2G, and the SO winner today against the Swiss.

[Ashasx]

Culkin picked up an assist and the SO winner tonight.

[devo22]

Brett Kulak has an assist and is a +5 (!!!) after two periods, as Vancouver leads Prince George, 6-4.

EDIT: his assist has been changed to a goal, his 6th of the season.

[Ashasx]

Ferland picked up his first goal tonight. It was the game winner.

[devo22]

Coda Gordon scored two goals tonight ... he's on fire right now! 6 goals and 7 assists in his last 6 games!

[MissTeeks]

Karri Ramo was named KHL Goalie of the month for December:

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris
Evgeni Malkin was named the KHL's top forward for December. Sergei Gonchar was top defenceman and Karri Ramo was top goalie.

http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/playerbreakingnews.asp?sport=NHL&id=2161&line=1705 46&spln=1

In seven appearance, he posted three shutouts, stopped 95.72% of shots he faced and ended up with a 1.15 goals-against average. Ramo has 21 wins in 31 games this season with his KHL club.

[dammage79]

With those kind of numbers I am starting to believe he his ready to be a full time number one in this league.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by dammage79

With those kind of numbers I am starting to believe he his ready to be a full time number one in this league.

One thing I may consider as a factor in his numbers is that Omsk Avangard last year were considered a defensive shell (if memory serves, every game of the championship series last year were 1 or 2 goals against Ramo and lost in 7). I'm not sure if that has changed. If not, then Ramo's numbers may be a little misleading.

I wouldn't doubt though that he's ready for an NHL return...but that "instant starter" might not apply.

[sureLoss]

John Weisbrod on the Fan 960 today about John Ramage:

• tough to tell where Ramage fits into Flames long term plans
• has had an up and down college hockey career from an evaluation standpoint
• good news is that this season may be Ramage's best
• leader on the team, plays in all situations
• has shown some bite and physicality this year that he hasn't shown in the past
• most importantly Ramage has tightened up his physical conditioning and off ice work ethic - something the Flames and Ramage have been working on since Ramage's first training camp.
• the times Weisbrod has seen him in person Ramage has played well

The interesting thing at the end is that Weisbrod wouldn't speculate on whether the Flames would be giving Ramage a contract. Said they would have to evaluate all the players coming in and the number of contracts they had.

[Pierre "Monster" McGuire]

So we went from Feaster reportedly asking Ramage to leave college early so he could turn pro to Weisbrod's quotes today.

What's going on?