Penguin Prospects Update 12/1/2018

We are now 2 months into the 2018-2019 season. When last I looked at the Penguins Prospects our Boys of Winter were on top of the Metropolitan Division. A month later, our Penguins are 6th in the Division, 3 points above last place. They are playing better hockey right now at the end of November than their miserable display at the beginning of the month but…..

So let’s take a look at the players waiting in the wings;

Skaters

Name	Team	League	Po	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	(+/-)
Addison, Calen	Lethbridge	WHL	D	25	4	21	25	30	-6
Almari, Niclas	HPK U20	Jr. A SM-Liiga	D	2	0	1	1	2	3
Almari, Niclas	HPK	Liiga	D	11	0	2	2	2	1
Almeida, Justin	Moose Jaw	WHL	D	19	5	23	28	2	4
Angello, Anthony	WBS	AHL	C/R	20	7	3	10	12	7
Aston-Reese, Zach	Pgh	NHL	F	11	2	0	2	0	-1
Aston-Reese, Zach	WBS	AHL	C/R	11	6	3	9	18	3
Bellerive, Jordy	Lethbridge	WHL	C	25	10	17	27	24	2
Bengtsson, Lukas	Linkoping HC	SHL	D	20	3	7	10	4	7
Birks, Dane	WBS	AHL	D	1	0	0	0	0	1
Birks, Dane	Wheeling	ECHL	D	14	0	4	4	16	-2
Bjorkqvist, Kasper	Providence	NCAA	W	14	7	5	12	4	7
Blueger, Teddy	WBS	AHL	C	22	6	9	13	14	5
DiPauli, Thomas	WBS	AHL	C	22	6	6	12	32	2
Drozg, Jan	Shawinigan	QMJHL	W	26	8	23	19	16	-17
Elliot, Stefan	WBS	AHL	D	19	1	6	7	4	2
Haggerty, Ryan	WBS	AHL	RW	17	0	9	9	15	2
Filip Hallander	Timra IK	SHL	C/W	24	4	6	10	2	-3
Filip Hallander	Sweden U20	Int-Jr	C/W	6	0	0	0	0
Hayes, Jimmy	WBS	AHL	RW	21	3	4	7	8	1
Johnson, Adam	WBS	AHL	LW	22	6	4	10	6	-5
Lafferty, Sam	WBS	AHL	C	22	4	11	15	22	0
Lindberg, Tobias	WBS	AHL	RW	15	2	4	6	10	5
Miletic, Sam	WBS	AHL	LW	13	3	3	6	0	3
Olund, Linus	WBS	AHL	C	22	2	5	7	0	3
Palojarvi, Antti	Lukko U20	Jr. A SM-Liiga	D	24	4	6	10	4	-3
Palojarvi, Antti	Lukko	Liiga	D	5	0	1	1	0	0
Pavlychev, Nikita	Penn State	NCAA	C	14	8	10	18	16	6
Pedan, Andrey	AK Bars	KHL	D	23	1	6	7	32	18
Pedan, Andrey	Russia	EHT	D	3	1	0	1	0	0
Philips, Clayton	U of Minn	NCAA	D	12	1	7	8	10	-2
Prow, Ethan	WBS	AHL	D	22	5	8	13	4	15
Reilly, William	RPI	NCAA	D	9	2	4	6	2	-1
Summers, Chris	WBS	AHL	D	21	0	6	6	18	-4
Taylor, Jeff	WBS	AHL	D	13	0	2	2	10	1
Trotman, Zach	WBS	AHL	D	11	1	1	2	21	-2
Wilson, Garret	Pgh	NHL	LW	1	0	1	1	2	1
Wilson, Garret	WBS	AHL	LW	12	6	6	12	22	0

Goalies

 

Name	Team	League	GP	GAA	GAAvg
D’Orio, Alex	Saint John	QMJHL	21	4.74	0.879
Jarry, Tristan	Pgh	NHL	2	3.50	0.887
Jarry, Tristan	WBS	AHL	11	2.89	0.909
Muse, John	WBS	AHL	2	2.06	0.938
Muse, John	Wheeling	ECHL	9	2.98	0.892

 

Before I go any further, I do want to apologize; when I posted my first look at the Penguins prospects this year, there was a typo I didn’t catch until this month. I had had Jan Drozg scoring 16 goals rather than 6. I bet if he had read that post he would want me to be his official statistician. However, no such luck.

Looking over these stats compared to the first month of hockey, many of the Penguins prospects slumped a little, like the parent team. Calen Addison only picked up 9 more points in 10 games but his +/- improved a little to -6. Jordy Bellerive only picked up 8 points over those same 10 game span.

Other players however seem to keep on rolling or improving. Ethan Prow scored 2 more goals adding 8 assists over the 14 game span last month. He also has built his +/- up to +15. Kasper Bjorkqvist, Nikita Pavlychev, and Teddy Blueger also seemed to have picked their games up or kept pace over the past month. Neither Bjorkqvist nor Pavlychev could be of any help this year (that is if the team needs it – they are trending up again). However Blueger and Prow could be of assistance. Both of these guys could get called up and let’s face it, even in this up turned state, the players ahead of them really aren’t producing. These kids couldn’t do any worse.

Penguins vs Flyers tonight – Go Pens!!!!