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Brock Otten on Musty & Chernyshov’s Ceilings, Favorite 2025 Draft Prospects
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Quentin Musty (and Igor Chernyshov?) are coming to San Jose!
OHL expert Brock Otten of McKeen’s Hockey joins the pod to talk about the seasons of these top San Jose Sharks prospects. (1:33:16)
But before we talk about Musty, Chernyshov, Sam Dickinson, Kasper Halttunen, and more?
Let’s talk about the San Jose Sharks’ recent play, including the end of Shakir Mukhamadullin’s season and their lack of response to Frank Vatrano. (5:13)
Let’s be honest, Lane Hutson has moved ahead of Macklin Celebrini for the Calder Trophy.
Our thoughts on Cam Lund and Luca Cagnoni’s NHL auditions. (30:32)
Keegan is upset that Nikolai Kovalenko, Danil Gushchin, and Thomas Bordeleau haven’t gotten enough of a shot with the San Jose Sharks. We also talk about Barclay Goodrow, Zack Ostapchuk, Ty Dellandrea, Noah Gregor, Patrick Giles, and Carl Grundstrom in the bottom-six. (40:13)
Logan Couture made waves by following and unfollowing the San Jose Sharks on Instagram. (1:10:55)
We also talk about the San Jose Barracuda and Yaroslav Askarov’s return. Sheng also shares his thoughts about Musty’s trade request earlier in the season. (1:16:04)
And now, Brock Otten and his OHL expertise! (1:33:16)
We talk Musty and Chernyshov, their NHL comps and ceilings, and why Otten is more excited about Chernyshov at the moment. Who’s more ready for pro hockey? (1:34:07)
What’s Dickinson’s ceiling? Otten is a big fan, but he’s also aware of Dickinson’s possible shortcomings. (1:56:56)
How much has Halttunen’s overall game grown?
Otten is super-high on Matthew Schaefer. Who does he have at No. 2 or 3 for the 2025 Draft? No. 3 is a surprise! (2:09:22)
Otten also shares some under-the-radar OHL prospects in the 2025 Draft.
Check out the McKeen’s Hockey 2025 Draft Guide, coming soon! Their Prospects Report is also coming soon…the San Jose Sharks rank high there!
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Good grief Keegan. Out on the lawn with a boom box for Bordeleau & Gushin? The team has seen enough. Too small and far too easy to play against. They’ll probably have great AHL/KHL careers. “Quit trying to make fetch happen”. 😜🤣🤣
I agree that both these guys have seen their last shot as Sharks property. But at the same time, watching Noah Gregor play late season games makes me feel like I’ve traveled in the world’s shittiest Time Machine. So I kind of get it 😂.
Gregor has elite semi world class speed, I don’t think he uses it enough but it’s kinda like an MLB pitcher who throws 100 mph consistently, he will always have a job somewhere, even if he can’t get anyone out lol.
Oh shit, we agree again. End times are here…😮
As dumb as it sounds, Gregor keeps getting time in the NHL because he’s so fast and he’s fashioned himself into a mediocre bottom six player. Neither of those guys can play bottom six and they’re not good enough for the top six. Maybe, I mean, maybe they get a job on a team that’s in the middle of a teardown? A team that is somehow behind the sharks? I don’t know. I keep harping on it but, Bordeleau’s comments about thinking he’s big enough are just so delusional. I just can’t imagine him getting games in the NHL until… Read more »
The mind boggles at anyone wanting to see Gushchin and Bordeleau get more of a shot in the NHL. I don’t even know what to say to someone like that. Just, get your head out of your rear end.
Thomas Bordeleau has had a total of 18 games in the NHL – he’s currently 23 and playing at a .66 point per game pace in the AHL. Danil Gushchin has played a grand total of 5 games in the NHL – he’s also currently 23, and playing at a .88 point per game pace in the AHL. These guys are two years younger than Klim Kostin and Nikolai Kovalenko, and have very small sample sizes in the NHL; they’re playing credibly in the AHL, not world-beating but still making progress. The idea that there’s nothing more to evaluate about… Read more »
Tell that to the people paid to make that judgment. They both play a game that does not translate to the NHL. They’re trying to build a Stanley Cup champion, not a rec league roller hockey team.
They are the guys who happened to be in the pipeline when the pipeline sucked. They were a couple of “the guys” by default when there was nobody actually good to think about.
The Giants would do this, too. There was a time they tried getting people excited because Austin Slater was coming, for example. There was never a chance that guy was going to be an impactful major leaguer. He’s reached his upside just by hanging around and being bad.
We’re past Bordeleau and Gushchin.
Falloon sucked. He was such a 1 dimensional player when those idiot Gund brothers drafted him. He had a good shot. And that’s all he had. He wasn’t even a good skater. Brutal inaugural pick for the franchise.