A shot from Jonathan Lekkerimäki. pic.twitter.com/fuPhFqILOk
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023
The Swedish first rounders Jonathan Lekkerimäki and Tom Willander battling in a drill. pic.twitter.com/4LV8tSaGnv
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023
Dmitry “the Villain” Zlodeyev continues to find twine this week.
He’s consistently beating set-goaltenders during both day one and two. pic.twitter.com/QJjMp2ML0F
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023
Quick little snipe from Lucas Forsell. pic.twitter.com/pyt6pUMOYQ
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023
Faber has been liking (LD) Jackson Dorrington early on after being drafted in the 6th round of the 2022 draft.
Producer @allard_alex nailed a double sleeper cam on @QuadreIli as well.
Watch the full YouTube video here: https://t.co/QzquAU3hiH pic.twitter.com/vNoelpY0MI
— Canucks Conversation Podcast (@CanucksConvo) October 17, 2022
Hugo Gabrielson with the PING and in. pic.twitter.com/zfQ4NSDr3c
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023
- I really liked the way that Hugo Gabrielson shot the puck today. He had a lot of power behind his shot and had a couple of times where he went post and in during some drills that featured point shots. In the final skate of the day, the defencemen spent a lot of time working on their wrist shots from the top of the zone and Gabrielson was one of the best shooters in the crop. Gabrielson was a sixth-round pick in 2021 and is expected to be back with Västerviks in the Allsvenskan next season. He had a shoulder injury that delayed his start date this past year and finished the season with six assists in 35 games.
- Another defenceman who had a good-looking shot during the final skate of the day was Cole McWard. He was making a conscious effort to be keeping his eyes up with the puck on his stick. You saw a lot of the defence prospects need to keep their eyes down on the puck but McWard was one that stuck out as he always had his eyes up during that point-shot drill.
- Tom Willander continues to show off his speed. The kid is clearly the best skater on the ice at this development camp.
- Joni Jurmo was better on day two. He has such a good set of skills but we need to see him put it all together in a game scenario. Jurmo had some of the stronger shots during the defencemen point-shot drills and he looked good in some of the full-ice skating drills that the defencemen ran through.
- There was a two-against-five drill where the two try to cut off the five from exiting the zone after a dump-in. Max Sasson and Josh Bloom were the two and they just dominated possession and even got a scoring chance off while outnumbered five-to-two. Sasson-Bloom for PK time in Abby next year. Bet on that.
- Aiden Celebrini was strong throughout the drills today. He doesn’t really have a certain skill that sticks out in this bunch but he seems to be just very solid at everything. He was one of the players who did a good job of keeping his eyes up with the puck on his stick — in a similar way to what we talked about with McWard earlier.
- I don’t think we’ve had Daimon Gardner on the ice through the first days and I stand to be corrected but I don’t believe that Jacob Truscott was on the ice for day two. Truscott was definitely on the ice on day one but I either didn’t notice him on day two, or he wasn’t out there.
- Akito Hirose earned the biggest cheer of the day as his team was a closely contested drill that saw the losing team have to do some skating for the loss. He spoke about the big win, “It was a nine-seven game. You get a point for a shot on net, two points for a goal and a single point for a block. We were at nine, the other team was at seven. I was like ‘Man, it’d be electric if I ended this with a shot block. Sass [Max Sasson] had the puck and I just baited him into shooting it and that was probably the second shot block my career. But you know what, I’ll take it.”
- Lynden Breen is a 22-year-old camp invite from the NCAA. He had 21 goals and 15 assists to be a point-per-game player in his 36 games last season. Breen had a hell of a finish to his season, with five goals and five assists in his final five games. He’s 5’9″, so the size clearly isn’t there but I thought he handled the puck extremely well on Monday and had some good finished during drills.
- Kirill Kudryavtsev looks like he’s got a lot of confidence at this camp. He is at his best when the puck is on his stick and he may be the most consistent passer on the defence corps through the first two days. He is very good at receiving and passing pucks. There’s just a calmness to how he handles the biscuit.
- Ty Young was probably our goalie of the day. None of the goalies really stuck out but Young looked like he was moving well and made some big glove saves during some the drills along with the small ice three-on-three.
- Ty Mueller caught our eye on day one and the 2023 fourth-round pick was good again on day two. He’s also been pretty impressive with how he handles the puck. The 20-year-old did have 25 points in 34 NCAA games last season — he’s been impressive through the first two days of camp.
Ty Mueller has been beating goalies a lot throughout the first two days of camp. He buries one here in the small rink 3on3. pic.twitter.com/OMvzpbvAzy
— 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 Faber 🔥🎙 (@ChrisFaber39) July 3, 2023