Thursday Coffee Shop: The Hurricanes’ Traverse City Prospects Tournament lineup

by | Aug 23, 2017 | The Coffee Shop

The Thursday Coffee Shop will again take on a ‘future is bright’ theme that has made regular appearances this summer. Piggybacking on yesterday’s Daily Cup of Joe that shared thoughts the Carolina Hurricanes Traverse City Prospects Tourney, today’s polls and discussion questions present a forum for additional conversation about individual players, forward lines and defense pairings for the mid-September prospect showcase.

 

Carolina Hurricanes polls

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Of the players who played at the professional level in 2016-17, which are you most eager to see (hopefully) dominate in Traverse City?

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Which 'moving up' player(s) do you most anticipate using Traverse City as a spring board for the next step in his development? (Select up to two.)

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With a strong group of prospects, will the Hurricanes repeat as champions in Traverse City?

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Discussion questions

 

1) Following up on the chatter that started in yesterday’s post, name your forward lines and defense pairings with bonus points awarded for themes and naming lines.

2) Who do you project to be the standouts and Hurricanes most valuable player from the tourney? 

3) With the team’s history of players (Josef Vasicek, Victor Rask, etc.) using fall prospect tourneys as a spring board to winning an NHL roster spot ahead of schedule, could we similarly see a player or two (maybe beyond Haydn Fleury is much less of a dark horse) from Traverse City still in Raleigh for opening night?

 

Go Canes!

5 Comments

  1. dogbutler
    dogbutler on August 24, 2017 at 6:39 am

    1. ?
    2. Hayden Fleury. He’s the “overripe” player. He needs to stand out.
    3. With the depth we’re building, I’d expect there will be a t least one slot open for this year’s Vasicek.

  2. ctcaniac
    ctcaniac on August 24, 2017 at 6:46 am

    At the risk of repeating myself:

    1) Top Prospect line: Kuokkanen/Necas/Gauthier
    Hustle line: Foegele/Smallman/Mattheos
    Big guys: Lorentz/Roy/Geekie
    Leading scorers: Elynuik/Poturalski/Schilkey
    D pairings: Fleury/McKeown, Bean/Wesley, Carroll/Thilander, De Jong/Hollowell

    2) Standouts: Fleury, Roy, Kuokkanen, Necas. MVP: Roy

    3) I think Roy is the most logical. I am not convinced that Jooris is a sure thing–more like an inexpensive addition that gives the team options. He can take draws, play center or right wing, kill penalties. Roy can do those things and was by far the biggest point producer among the juniors, if he performs well in the tournament, then he will hang around as 4th line RW.

    Bonus: The Hockey News just completed 20/20 vision. I think the Canes look like this in October 2020:

    TT/Aho/Necas
    Kuokkanen/Staal/Gauthier
    Skinner/Roy/Lindholm
    Foegele/Kruger/Mattheos or Smallman

    Slavin/Fleury
    Bean/Pesce
    Hanifin/Faulk

    To be honest I don’t know what happens to Risk, but there are only so many spots. One of LHD will probably flip sides and I think Fleury is most likely. I also see the organization re-signing Kruger for 3-4 years around 2.25M per.

  3. boogabob
    boogabob on August 24, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    I would question The Hockey News 20/20 article because not only is Rask missing but what happened to Williams and Stempniak?

    • caniac97
      caniac97 on August 25, 2017 at 11:22 am

      I think Williams and Stempniak’s contracts will be up by October 2020. I could be wrong but after this contract I don’t see GMRF extending or resigning Williams. Not sure on Rask unless the thought is the others will push him out of a spot.

  4. puckgod
    puckgod on August 24, 2017 at 2:02 pm

    2. Foegele, Kuokkanen, Necas, and MVP FLEURY!
    3. None

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