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November Prospect Check-in

Looking back on the past month for some hopeful news for future Flames

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November was still not great for the Flames. Let’s inject a bit of positive thinking by looking at the team’s prospects, whose performances are making this season slightly easier to digest. Check out last month’s check-in here.

Stockton Heat

It was a rough month for the Heat, who suffered the same problems as the Flames with goaltending issues dragging the team down. They've had two injured keepers, an ECHL callup, a loan, and two demoted keepers. Not that great, but they've continued to battle on. Keep up with the team by reading Ed's coverage here.

For a brief readup on NHLe, check out this post. Statisticians have also reanalyzed and changed the translation factors, which you can see here and here (NCAA).

AHL GP G A P NHLe Month-to-Month
Kenny Agostino 15 1 7 8 20.55 -16.08
Bill Arnold 13 3 3 6 17.78 0.26
Austin Carroll 11 2 0 2 7.01 7.01
Turner Elson 14 3 5 8 22.02 3.98
Derek Grant 7 5 1 6 33.03 -3.05
Markus Granlund (X) 12 5 4 9 28.91 -7.17
Freddie Hamilton 15 5 6 11 28.26 1.2
Garnet Hathaway 14 4 2 6 16.52 16.52
Keegan Kanzig (Y) 1 0 0 0 0 0
Morgan Klimchuk 7 0 0 0 0 0
Brett Kulak 12 0 3 3 9.64 9.64
Oliver Kylington 12 3 1 4 12.85 -5.19
Kenney Morrison 6 0 2 2 12.85 -5.19
Jakub Nakladal 13 1 5 6 17.79 -36.33
Emile Poirier 14 1 4 5 13.76 -4.28
Drew Shore 15 2 8 10 25.69 16.67
Patrick Sieloff 10 0 2 2 7.71 1.31
Hunter Smith 12 1 2 3 9.64 9.64
Bryce Van Brabant 11 1 1 2 7.01 7.01
Tyler Wotherspoon 14 0 3 3 8.26 -0.76

Promising:

Concerning:

  • Jakub Nakladal has slowed down after his hot start. Maybe keeping him away from the ice for an extended stretch of time isn’t a good thing.
  • Morgan Klimchuk and Kenney Morrison have both suffered injuries. Klimchuk has been a point of concern since being drafted, so this certainly doesn’t help.

CHL

CHL GP G A P NHLe Month-to-Month
Rasmus Andersson 23 3 17 20 22.82 7.17
Riley Bruce 23 1 5 6 6.85 1.17
Pavel Karnaukhov 10 2 4 6 13.28 -0.39
Keegan Kanzig 9 2 1 3 7.38 n/a
Andrew Mangiapane 23 15 17 32 36.51 0.56

Promising:

Concerning:

NCAA

NCAA GP G A P NHLe Month-to-Month
Matt DeBlouw 6 1 1 2 9.57 -7.24
Tim Harrison 15 3 2 5 6.29 -10.52
Mark Jankowski 12 7 9 16 40.45 -9.98
John Gilmour 11 3 7 10 27.58 -6.04
Brandon Hickey 14 4 2 6 13 -0.45

Promising:

Concerning:

Europe:

Europe League GP G A P NHLe Month-to-Month
Adam Ollas Mattson SHL 18 1 2 3 8.2 8.2
Rushan Rafikov KHL 17 0 0 0 0 0
VHL 1 0 1 1 N/A 0
MHL 3 0 0 0 0 0

Goalies:

Goalies League Record GP SV% GAA
Jon Gilles AHL 2-3-1 7 0.92 2.31
Joni Ortio AHL 1-0-0 2 0.864 4.92
Kevin Poulin AHL 2-0-1 4 0.918 2.40
Mason McDonald QMJHL 7-8-2 14 0.893 3.47
Nick Schneider WHL 4-7-0 9 0.857 4.07

  • Gilles and Poulin are both injured. A shame, considering that they were holding the Heat afloat for the most part. Gilles is most certainly the goaltender of the future, but don’t count out Poulin. He’s still young at 25, and he could fill a role should the Flames need another keeper (spoiler: they do).
  • Ortio hasn’t played in almost forever, so giving him the net should help. He was rocky in his first start, so hopefully some consistent time between the pipes will help him.
  • Mason McDonald’s stats are more reflective of the crazy QMJHL he plays in, and the bad Charlottetown Islanders he plays with. He’s still getting strong consideration for the World Juniors due to his previous strong international performances.
  • Nick Schneider is still incredibly meh. Still not sure what he did to deserve a contract.

Prospect of the month:

The title stays with the Barrie Colts, but transfers from Mangiapane to Rasmus Andersson. The Swede is second among 2015 draftees in the NHLe category, falling to Jeremy Roy. He's going to be something good, and hopefully sometime soon.

Thanks for tuning in again, see you next month!

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