GCool
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The BuzzKill presents:
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Where are They Now? A look into the future for the Season 24 draft class </div>
Between the recent passing of the S25 SHL Entry Draft and talk surrounding the S26 SHL Entry Draft considering a lot of big veterans recreating, it's easy for people to forget the S24 draft class. Through history, this will probably be perceived as a holistically weak draft. There are a few names that people could rattle off the top of their head if they were asked, but it pales in comparison to the names being thrown around from S25, S20, or quite frankly, S39.
The S24 draft class stands at a crossroads in this S25 off season. Most players are coming from stellar sophomore campaigns with their respective SMJHL teams and are eager to start anew. Other players are facing stacked depth charts and must continue to wait their turn. Still others aren't sure, and that's okay! If an SHL career were to represent an entire life cycle, the 2nd send down / 1st big league year would certainly be a formative one. With the size of the draft class behind them, though -- and the unique try-hard-iness of some members of that class -- puts the pressure on the 1st and 2nd round selections in particular.
That's why I reached out to my fellow members of the S24 class who were selected in the 1st or 2nd round and asked the simple question: do you know if you're going up or staying down next season? I looked at an old article by Chris McZehrl to see how much TPE each draftee had after the 1st round of the S23 playoffs and compared it to what their player page says right now. To accompany the answer to that question, I recapped the player's rookie season, their S24 season, and a look into what they might be doing next season.
I actually had something written for it, too. That's the stupid thing. I'm panicking at what else I could possibly get wrong, and I'm too embarrassed to continue with 3000+ words of other things I could get wrong, so it's done. There was color commentary, a recap of their activity level thus far, how it accompanied their stats in the index ... a real winner. Maybe I'll stick to the podcast.
Here's where everyone's going that I know of; unknowns were left blank.
Round 1
1.
Selection:
Randy Randleman -
S25 Destination:
2.
Selection:
Damien Wert -
S25 Destination:
3.
Selection:
Beau Ballard -
S25 Destination:
4.
Selection:
Mitchell Dambach -
S25 Destination:
5.
Selection:
Brandon Girard -
S25 Destination:
6.
Selection:
Patrick Brumm - :force: /
S25 Destination:
7th pick forfeited
8.
Selection:
Buster Killington - :impact:
S25 Destination: :admirals:
9.
Selection:
Earnest Ciarelli - :impact:
S25 Destination:
10.
Selection:
Kyle Prince - :force: /
S25 Destination:
11.
Selection:
Adam Abodobe -
S25 Destination:
12.
Selection:
VLAD McZehrl -
S25 Destination:
Round 2
13.
Selection:
Winston Windsor -
S25 Destination:
14.
Selection:
Anton Fedorov -
S25 Destination:
15.
Selection:
Igor Ogorodnikov -
S25 Destination:
16.
Selection:
Richard D'Amour -
/
S25 Destination:
17.
Selection:
Shea Robinson - :force: /
S25 Destination:
18.
Selection:
Nick Leier -
S25 Destination:
19.
Selection:
Klaus Wagner - :impact:
S25 Destination:
20.
Selection:
Kaapo Kekkonen -
S25 Destination:
21.
Selection:
Reginald Howard -
S25 Destination:
22.
Selection:
Mirko Antonio Scuderi - :force: /
S25 Destination:
23.
Selection:
Ray Pejonis -
S25 Destination:
24.
Selection:
Patrikov Bure -
S25 Destination:
A true
BuzzKill article, am I right?
Rich
This should be good.
Thanks to sulovilen for the sigs!
Adam Prpich Portal Link Adam Prpich | Center | Los Angeles Panthers Height: 6'1" Weight: 208 lbs Birthplace: Zagreb, Croatia Number: 38 ============================================== 682 games to 1000 points Regular Season Stats: TBD Bobby Lane | Right Wing | Retired Height: 5'11" Weight: 183 lbs Birthplace: East Grand Forks, MN, USA Number: 88 ============================================== Regular Season Stats: S52 - TOR: 50gp | 20g | 26a | 46pts | -6 | 88hits S53 - TOR: 50gp | 12g | 23a | 35pts | -41 | 2hits S54 - TOR: 50gp | 18g | 23a | 41pts | -18 | 14hits S55 - TOR: 50gp | 8g | 10a | 18pts | -41 | 22hits S56 - TOR: 50gp | 21g | 25a | 46pts | -5 | 30hits S57 - TOR: 66gp | 24g | 39a | 63pts | +12 | 67hits S58 - TOR: 66gp | 36g | 42a | 78pts | +17 | 74hits S59 - TOR: 66gp | 28g | 32a | 60pts | +28 | 51hits S60 - TOR: 66gp | 34g | 31a | 65pts | +10 | 61hits S61 - TOR: 66gp | 14g | 40a | 54pts | +2 | 58hits S62 - TOR: 66gp | 21g | 31a | 52pts | -9 | 130hits S63 - LAP: 66gp | 28g | 33a | 61pts | +1 | 84hits S64 - LAP: 66gp | 15g | 36a | 51pts | +36 | 83hits S65 - LAP: 66gp | 12g | 18a | 30pts | +6 | 55hits Jonathan Lundberg |Center| Retired Rollergator Height: 6' Weight: 196 lbs Birthplace: Gothenburg, Sweden Number: 31 Position: Center ============================================== Regular Season Stats: S24 - KEL: 52gp | 1g | 5a | 6pts | -1 S25 - KEL: 50gp | 13g | 17a | 30pts | +14 S26 - KEL: 50gp | 13g | 32a | 45pts | +14 S27 - KEL: 50gp | 18g | 37a | 55pts | +21 S28 - WKP: 50gp | 7g | 11a | 18pts | +9 | 99hits S29 - MAN/WIN: 48gp | 9g | 27a | 36pts | +11 | 108hits S30 - NEW: 50gp | 9g | 20a | 29pts | +13 | 88hits S31 - NEW: 50gp | 11g | 22a | 33pts | +11 | 60hits S32 - NEW: 50gp | 13g | 22a | 35pts | +16 | 58hits S33 - POR: 50gp | 19g | 25a | 44pts | +8 | 156hits S34 - POR: 50gp | 21g | 27a | 48pts | +10 | 179hits S35 - POR: 50gp | 17g | 26a | 43pts | +14 | 176hits S36 - POR/SEA: 51gp | 11g | 24a | 36pts | -18 | 163hits S37 - SEA: 50gp | 17g | 34a | 51pts | +15 | 195hits S38 - SEA: 50gp | 14g | 28a | 42pts | +2 | 229hits S39 - MIN: 50gp | 14g | 25a | 39pts | +11 | 201hits S40 - MIN: 50gp | 16g | 28a | 44pts | +19 | 193hits S41 - MIN: 50gp | 13g | 27a | 40pts | +2 | 207hits S42 - MIN: 50gp | 14g | 16a | 30pts | -3 | 185hits S43 - MIN: 50gp | 15g | 14a | 29pts | -3 | 155hits S44 - TOR: 50gp | 9g | 14a | 23pts | +3 | 189hits S45 - SFP: 50gp | 11g | 17a | 28pts | -6 | 180hits S46 - SFP/EDM: 50gp | 11g | 18a | 29pts | +1 | 197hits ======================================== S24 - Signed as a UDFA with the Kelowna Knights S25 - Selected 18th overall by Calgary S25 - Won Four Star Cup with the Kelowna Knights S28 - Rights traded to West Kendall. Signed for 2 seasons S28 - Selected to SHL All-Star Rookie Team S29 - Traded to Manhattan S29 - Traded to Winnipeg S30 - Signed with New England for 2 seasons. S30 - Won Challenge Cup with New England Wolfpack S31 - Won Challenge Cup with New England Wolfpack S32 - Signed with New England for 1 season. S33 - Signed with Portland for 3 seasons. S35 - Extended with Portland for 3 more seasons. S36 - Traded to Seattle. S38 - Rights traded to Minnesota. S38 - Signed with Minnesota for 2 seasons. S39 - Won Challenge Cup with the Minnesota Chiefs S39 - Extended with Minnesota through S43. S44 - Signed with the Toronto North Stars for 1 season. S45 - Signed with the San Francisco Pride for 1 season. S46 - Signed with the San Francisco Pride for 1 season. Check out past episodes of Rich and Luke!
Ballerstorm
Nice writeup man, ton of effort put into this. My TPE is wrong though bud. I know youre going up Player pages and not update pages though.
I wonder what the % of players who go up and stay down will be.
GCool
Quote: Originally posted by Ballerstorm @Aug 6 2015, 04:11 PMMy TPE is wrong though bud.
You're basically twisting my arm to go re-check all of these.
Nice.
.bojo
Wert has 470 tpe, though... :unsure:
=]
KARI KEKKONEN | D | RETIRED NAME: Kari Kekkonen BIRTHPLACE: Oulu, Finland HEIGHT: 6'1" WEIGHT: 185 lbs NUMBER: 33 ------------------------------------------------------------ SMJHL CAREER STATS S19 KEL: GP: 40, G: 10, A: 26, P: 36, +/-: 16, H: 42 SMJHL PLAYOFF STATS S19 KEL: GP: 6, G: 0, A: 6, P: 6, +/-: 0, H: 6 ------------------------------------------------------------ KAAPO KEKKONEN | C | RETIRED NAME: Kaapo Kekkonen BIRTHPLACE: Helsinki, Finland HEIGHT: 6'3" WEIGHT: 210 lbs NUMBER: 19 ------------------------------------------------------------ SHL CAREER STATS S25 LAP: GP: 50, G: 2, A: 3, P: 5, +/-: -4, H: 75 S26 LAP: GP: 50, G: 4, A: 5, P: 9, +/-: -13, H: 94 S27 LAP: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 9, P: 15, +/-: -2, H: 35 S28 LAP: GP: 50, G: 7, A: 10, P: 17, +/-: -2, H: 96 S29 LAP: GP: 50, G: 13, A: 21, P: 34, +/-: -15, H: 85 S30 LAP: GP: 50, G: 23, A: 22, P: 45, +/-: 4, H: 130 S31 LAP: GP: 50, G: 20, A: 18, P: 38, +/-: 5, H: 162 S32 LAP: GP: 50, G: 18, A: 28, P: 46, +/-: 27, H: 183 S33 LAP: GP: 50, G: 17, A: 22, P: 39, +/-: 20, H: 210 S34 LAP: GP: 50, G: 12, A: 25, P: 37, +/-: -2, H: 131 S35 LAP: GP: 50, G: 10, A: 22, P: 32, +/-: -3, H: 115 S36 LAP: GP: 50, G: 11, A: 20, P: 31, +/-: 10, H: 138 S37 LAP: GP: 36, G: 9, A: 17, P: 26, +/-: -1, H: 72 S37 WKP: GP: 14, G: 1, A: 0, P: 1, +/-: -4, H: 19 TOT : GP: 650, G: 153, A: 222, P: 375, +/-: 20, H: 1545 ------------------------------------------------------------ SHL PLAYOFF STATS S25 LAP: DNQ S26 LAP: DNQ S27 LAP: DNQ S28 LAP: DNQ S29 LAP: DNQ S30 LAP: DNQ S31 LAP: DNQ S32 LAP: GP: 5, G: 1, A: 3, P: 4, +/-: -2, H: 15 S33 LAP: GP: 12, G: 2, A: 3, P: 5, +/-: 0, H: 38 S34 LAP: GP: 7, G: 1, A: 3, P: 4, +/-: 3, H: 23 S35 LAP: GP: 5, G: 1, A: 1, P: 2, +/-: -4, H: 4 S36 LAP: DNQ S37 WKP: GP: 12, G: 0, A: 2, P: 2, +/-: -2, H: 35 TOT : GP: 41, G: 5, A: 12, P: 17, +/-: -5, H: 115 ------------------------------------------------------------ TATU MÄKELÄ | D | RETIRED NAME: Tatu Mäkelä BIRTHPLACE: Tampere, Finland HEIGHT: 5'11" WEIGHT: 180 lbs NUMBER: 65 ------------------------------------------------------------ SHL CAREER STATS S40 BUF: GP: 50, G: 5, A: 17, P: 22, +/-: -28, H: 14, SB: 86 S41 BUF: GP: 50, G: 10, A: 21, P: 31, +/-: -3, H: 9, SB: 78 S42 BUF: GP: 50, G: 9, A: 21, P: 30, +/-: 2, H: 13, SB: 65 S43 BUF: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 24, P: 30, +/-: 1, H: 8, SB: 51 S44 BUF: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 28, P: 34, +/-: -6, H: 10, SB: 63 S45 BUF: GP: 50, G: 4, A: 37, P: 41, +/-: 10, H: 130, SB: 71 S46 BUF: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 36, P: 42, +/-: 25, H: 139, SB: 73 S47 BUF: GP: 50, G: 5, A: 23, P: 28, +/-: -4, H: 137, SB: 76 S48 BUF: GP: 50, G: 7, A: 25, P: 32, +/-: 9, H: 151, SB: 70 S49 BUF: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 22, P: 28, +/-: 5, H: 159, SB: 66 S50 BUF: GP: 50, G: 6, A: 20, P: 26, +/-: 14, H: 152, SB: 72 S51 BUF: GP: 50, G: 3, A: 23, P: 26, +/-: 8, H: 143, SB: 50 S52 BUF: GP: 50, G: 9, A: 21, P: 30, +/-: -3, H: 141, SB: 71 S53 BUF: GP: 50, G: 5, A: 14, P: 19, +/-: 23, H: 50, SB: 98 TOT : GP: 700, G: 87, A: 332, P: 419, +/-: 53, H: 1256, SB: 990 ------------------------------------------------------------ SHL PLAYOFF STATS S40 BUF: DNQ S41 BUF: GP: 7, G: 3, A: 2, P: 5, +/-: -3, H: 0, SB: 10 S42 BUF: GP: 5, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -9, H: 2, SB: 10 S43 BUF: GP: 9, G: 0, A: 5, P: 5, +/-: -1, H: 1, SB: 8 S44 BUF: DNQ S45 BUF: DNQ S46 BUF: GP: 17, G: 0, A: 12, P: 12, +/-: 11, H: 59, SB: 28 S47 BUF: GP: 13, G: 0, A: 5, P: 5, +/-: 2, H: 32, SB: 18 S48 BUF: GP: 22, G: 2, A: 10, P: 12, +/-: 2, H: 64, SB: 32 S49 BUF: GP: 5, G: 0, A: 5, P: 5, +/-: 5, H: 15, SB: 8 S50 BUF: GP: 6, G: 0, A: 5, P: 5, +/-: -2, H: 18, SB: 12 S51 BUF: GP: 8, G: 2, A: 5, P: 7, +/-: -3, H: 15, SB: 11 S52 BUF: GP: 15, G: 4, A: 5, P: 9, +/-: 4, H: 47, SB: 26 S53 BUF: GP: 4, G: 0, A: 0, P: 0, +/-: 0, H: 6, SB: 13 TOT : GP: 111, G: 11, A: 55, P: 66, +/-: 6, H: 159, SB: 176 ------------------------------------------------------------ KOLJA KEKKONEN | D | RETIRED NAME: Kolja Kekkonen BIRTHPLACE: Lappeenranta, Finland HEIGHT: 6'3" WEIGHT: 225 lbs NUMBER: 8 ------------------------------------------------------------ SMJHL CAREER STATS S53 DET: GP: 3, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -1, H: 2, SB: 0 S54 DET: GP: 50, G: 2, A: 8, P: 10, +/-: -6, H: 15, SB: 37 S55 DET: GP: 50, G: 4, A: 12, P: 16, +/-: -24, H: 32, SB: 24 S56 DET: GP: 50, G: 4, A: 17, P: 21, +/-: -20, H: 52, SB: 71 S57 ANA: GP: 66, G: 6, A: 20, P: 26, +/-: 14, H: 52, SB: 70 TOT : GP: 219, G: 16, A: 58, P: 74, +/-: -37, H: 153, SB: 202 SMJHL PLAYOFF STATS S53 DET: DNP S54 DET: GP: 7, G: 0, A: 0, P: 0, +/-: 0, H: 2, SB: 3 S55 DET: GP: 4, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -2, H: 3, SB: 0 S56 DET: GP: 5, G: 2, A: 2, P: 4, +/-: 0, H: 3, SB: 7 S57 ANA: GP: 21, G: 2, A: 13, P: 15, +/-: 5, H: 13, SB: 34 TOT : GP: 37, G: 4, A: 16, P: 20, +/-: 3, H: 22, SB: 44 ------------------------------------------------------------ KEKW KEKKONEN | C | RETIRED NAME: Karl-Erik-Karl2-Wojtek Kekkonen BIRTHPLACE: Lohja, Finland HEIGHT: 6'4" WEIGHT: 220 lbs NUMBER: 69 ------------------------------------------------------------ SHL CAREER STATS S61 BUF: GP: 66, G: 10, A: 28, P: 38, +/-: 21, H: 59, SH: 134 S62 BUF: GP: 66, G: 19, A: 36, P: 55, +/-: 9, H: 84, SH: 194 S63 BUF: GP: 66, G: 17, A: 14, P: 31, +/-: -13, H: 91, SH: 148 S64 BUF: GP: 66, G: 16, A: 51, P: 67, +/-: 36, H: 82, SH: 212 S65 BUF: GP: 66, G: 25, A: 41, P: 66, +/-: 33, H: 136, SH: 230 S66 BUF: GP: 66, G: 38, A: 43, P: 81, +/-: 18, H: 64, SH: 222 S67 BUF: GP: 66, G: 40, A: 45, P: 85, +/-: -6, H: 76, SH: 224 S68 BUF: GP: 66, G: 47, A: 46, P: 93, +/-: 45, H: 51, SH: 326 S69 BUF: GP: 66, G: 35, A: 31, P: 66, +/-: 22, H: 43, SH: 269 S70 BUF: GP: 66, G: 33, A: 48, P: 81, +/-: 18, H: 66, SH: 297 S71 BUF: GP: 66, G: 36, A: 41, P: 77, +/-: 37, H: 55, SH: 257 S72 BUF: GP: 66, G: 25, A: 35, P: 60, +/-: -1, H: 58, SH: 281 S73 BUF: GP: 66, G: 31, A: 41, P: 72, +/-: 23, H: 48, SH: 305 S74 BUF/WPG: GP: 66, G: 17, A: 47, P: 64, +/-: 33, H: 101, SH: 164 TOT : GP: 924, G: 389, A: 547, P: 936, +/-: 275, H: 1014, SH: 3263 SHL PLAYOFF STATS S61 BUF: GP: 9, G: 2, A: 6, P: 8, +/-: 4, H: 11, SH: 24 S62 BUF: GP: 9, G: 3, A: 1, P: 4, +/-: 2, H: 5, SH: 25 S63 BUF: GP: 12, G: 1, A: 2, P: 3, +/-: -1, H: 32, SH: 33 S64 BUF: GP: 11, G: 2, A: 2, P: 4, +/-: -6, H: 12, SH: 41 S65 BUF: GP: 18, G: 4, A: 7, P: 11, +/-: 8, H: 34, SH: 62 S66 BUF: GP: 16, G: 11, A: 9, P: 20, +/-: 3, H: 13, SH: 49 S67 BUF: GP: 4, G: 2, A: 2, P: 4, +/-: -3, H: 3, SH: 20 S68 BUF: GP: 17, G: 6, A: 8, P: 14, +/-: -4, H: 11, SH: 75 S69 BUF: GP: 4, G: 1, A: 0, P: 1, +/-: -5, H: 2, SH: 13 S70 BUF: GP: 7, G: 1, A: 3, P: 4, +/-: -8, H: 2, SH: 25 S71 BUF: GP: 21, G: 12, A: 9, P: 21, +/-: 6, H: 24, SH: 97 S72 BUF: GP: 5, G: 0, A: 2, P: 2, +/-: -4, H: 7, SH: 25 S73 BUF: GP: 6, G: 3, A: 0, P: 3, +/-: -3, H: 11, SH: 33 S74 WPG: GP: 22, G: 3, A: 4, P: 7, +/-: -2, H: 15, SH: 37 TOT : GP: 161, G: 51, A: 55, P: 106, +/-: -11, H: 182, SH: 559 ------------------------------------------------------------ KAL ÅKAR KEKKONEN | D | SEATTLE ARGONAUTS NAME: Kal Åkar Kekkonen BIRTHPLACE: The Wilderness, Gielinor HEIGHT: 6'6" WEIGHT: 240 lbs NUMBER: 75 ------------------------------------------------------------ SMJHL CAREER STATS S74 DET: GP: 66, G: 6, A: 14, P: 20, +/-: 3, SH: 83, H: 76, SB: 29 S75 DET: GP: 66, G: 8, A: 22, P: 30, +/-: 31, SH: 129, H: 123, SB: 114 S76 DET: GP: 66, G: 17, A: 21, P: 38, +/-: -10, SH: 193, H: 74, SB: 130 SMJHL PLAYOFF STATS S74 DET: GP: 17, G: 3, A: 7, P: 10, +/-: 8, SH: 18, H: 16, SB: 5 S75 DET: GP: 14, G: 5, A: 6, P: 11, +/-: 2, SH: 40, H: 26, SB: 27 S76 DET: GP: 4, G: 1, A: 2, P: 3, +/-: -2, SH: 8, H: 8, SB: 8 ------------------------------------------------------------
GCool
Well then ... shit. It seems I'll have to go check all of these.
Updated with S25 destinations.
Since that's the only reason you'd read, right? Sure, it's a fact that's wrong, but that was correct at one point in time. Everyone was on a "level" playing field in that it was used as our final update around the same time. For fuck's sake.
.bojo
No, I just thought it was a typo or something.
GCool
Welp, now I'm over going through all of it again, so there you have it.
GCool
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