30. In a recent pod, we mentioned Ottawa-born Luke Haymes, an NCAA free agent at Dartmouth. The Rangers, Tampa Bay and Toronto are among the teams pursuing him. Wanted to mention a couple of other names who will be watched as playoffs begin: Tom Chorske played 596 NHL games from 1989-2000. His son, Brett, is a late bloomer at Colgate. The Maple Leafs took a long look at Oregon-born Karsen Dorwart of Michigan State, but he returned for his junior season. Finally, there’s defending-champion Denver captain Carter King. Calgary-born, attended Flames development camp last summer. The success of the program means King will get seen by plenty.
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I’m staying right out of it but they’re definitely in the mix from what I’ve been told. Carter doesn’t want to even talk about it until he gets that third title.
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Wisconsin was eliminated tonight in the Big 10 playoffs.
Christian Fitzgerald is a speedy center prospect mentioned earlier in this thread
Flames have a history of signing College UFAs coached by Wisconsin coach Mike Hastings
Not sure what the connection is, but seems too frequent to be a coincidence
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I had really high hopes for Fitzgerald coming into the season but that's really low production for his third season on a decent team. Fitzy was Carter's teammate in the BCHL and were supposed to have been linemates in the lost Covid year. Great kid and great parents. Anybody that NHL teams are looking at from the NCAA should be viewed in third or fourth line roles as pros but I think you should have shown enough skill and smarts in your college production to even think of playing a fourth line role in the pros.
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Carter King
Forward, Denver
Scoop: He may well be King of the Class of undrafted free agents for 2025. The two-time NCAA national champion at Denver is also team captain. King checks so many boxes – and what he might lack in size (5-foot-10), he makes up for in compete, character and class. King is a consistent scorer, setting a new career-high in goals (18) at Denver, where he’s also been nominated for NCHC defensive forward of the year. It sounds like the Calgary Flames are one team interested in the Calgary kid. He’s already 23, so he could only sign a one-year, entry-level deal.
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with Poirier, Bru, Gru, Morin, Mews, Parekh, Kuznetzov, Solovyov, Hurtig on the depth chart, can't see a UFA D prospect being interested in the Flames
center prospects, on the other hand. Who is on the depth chart for the Flames? Kerins, Morton, Lipinski, Misa (is he really a center at the pro level?). Much clearer path
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24. John Prokop is a nice bet for Toronto. The Maple Leafs just traded two first-rounders and two prospects for Brandon Carlo and Scott Laughton. You need to fill your prospect pool. They aren’t done with free-agent shopping, trying for a centre.
25. Michigan State is expected to be the No. 1 seed in the upcoming NCAA tournament. Karsen Dorwart, their second-leading scorer behind Tampa’s Isaac Howard, nearly went to the Maple Leafs one year ago, but returned to school. Several teams suspect Philadelphia lusts after him like an Angelo's cheesesteak.
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