We're keeping an eye on the feeder leagues for you... here's an update on some of the key prospects, has-beens and other notables playing in the AHL, Canadian Junior, NCAA and Europe.
Highlights so far include:
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Hot months in the AHL for prospects like Artem Anisimov, Janne Pesonen and Jakub Kindl.
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If people weren't writing off Al Montoya yet, then they should now.
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Taylor Hall uses his WJHC snub to pad his lead in the OHL scoring race and Dustin Tokarski continues to impress.
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Gilroy, Hanson and Bozak are three names you'll be hearing a lot about as all are un-drafted college free agents that could be in the NHL before the end of the season.
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In Europe... its mostly former NHLers in the KHL (Emery, Jagr, Radulov) or youngster in Sweden (Markstrom, Hedman, Svensson-Paajarvi) that are catching our eye.
Stats as of January 15/16.
Player | Pos | NHL Team | League | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | |
AHL | |||||||||
Zubov, Ilya | F | Ott | AHL | Binghamton | 24 | 10 | 15 | 25 | |
Joensuu, Jesse | F | NYI | AHL | Bridgeport | 34 | 12 | 6 | 18 | |
Hillen, Jack | D | NYI | AHL | Bridgeport | 27 | 4 | 12 | 16 | |
Sterling, Brett | F | Atl | AHL | Chicago | 30 | 10 | 13 | 23 | |
Pavelec, Ondrej | G | Atl | AHL | Chicago | 12 | 6W | 2.07 | .925 | |
Leino, Ville | F | Det | AHL | Grand Rapids | 38 | 9 | 24 | 33 | |
Kindl, Jakub | D | Det | AHL | Grand Rapids | 40 | 5 | 20 | 25 | |
Larsson, Daniel | G | Det | AHL | Grand Rapids | 21 | 14W | 2.31 | .924 | |
Anisimov, Artem | F | NYR | AHL | Hartford | 41 | 18 | 23 | 41 | |
Sanguinetti, Bobby | D | NYR | AHL | Hartford | 40 | 3 | 21 | 24 | |
Osala, Oskar | F | Wsh | AHL | Hershey | 39 | 18 | 11 | 29 | |
Varlamov, Simeon | G | Wsh | AHL | Hershey | 21 | 16W | 2.43 | .913 | |
Bourque, Chris | F | Wsh | AHL | Hershey | 35 | 8 | 27 | 35 | |
Frazee, Jeff | G | NJ | AHL | Lowell | 23 | 14W | 2.30 | .933 | |
Salmela, Anssi | D | NJ | AHL | Lowell | 23 | 6 | 10 | 16 | |
Bernier, Jonathon | G | LA | AHL | Manchester | 24 | 10W | 2.73 | .900 | |
Schneider, Cory | G | Van | AHL | Manitoba | 17 | 14W | 1.38 | .947 | |
Hornqvist, Patric | F | Nsh | AHL | Milwaukee | 26 | 7 | 10 | 17 | |
Downie, Steve | F | TB | AHL | Norfolk | 22 | 9 | 23 | 32 | |
Gerbe, Nate | F | Buf | AHL | Portland | 27 | 17 | 15 | 32 | |
Mancari, Mark | F | Buf | AHL | Portland | 32 | 15 | 22 | 37 | |
Hammill, Zach | F | Bos | AHL | Providence | 27 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
Boychuk, Johnny | D | Bos | AHL | Providence | 41 | 9 | 26 | 35 | |
Rask, Tuukka | G | Bos | AHL | Providence | 31 | 17W | 2.44 | .919 | |
Karsums, Martin | F | Bos | AHL | Providence | 39 | 16 | 23 | 39 | |
Irving, Leland | G | Cgy | AHL | Quad City | 17 | 8W | 2.32 | .906 | |
Matthias, Shawn | F | Fla | AHL | Rochester | 26 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
Kontiola, Petri | F | Chi | AHL | Rockford | 40 | 9 | 24 | 33 | |
Crawford, Corey | G | Chi | AHL | Rockford | 21 | 12W | 2.62 | .917 | |
Niemi, Antti | G | Chi | AHL | Rockford | 22 | 9W | 2.60 | .907 | |
Montoya, Al | G | Phx | AHL | San Antonio | 15 | 2W | 3.81 | .868 | |
Schremp, Robbie | F | Edm | AHL | Springfield | 31 | 3 | 20 | 23 | |
Mayorov, Maxim | F | Clb | AHL | Syracuse | 33 | 7 | 9 | 16 | |
Pogge, Justin | G | Tor | AHL | Toronto | 28 | 14W | 2.60 | .899 | |
Pesonen, Janne | F | Pit | AHL | WB-Scranton | 34 | 13 | 27 | 40 | |
Lemieux, Claude | F | FA | AHL | Worcester | 21 | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
CHL | |||||||||
Subban, PK | D | Mtl | OHL | Belleville | 32 | 4 | 34 | 38 | |
Grachev, Evgeny | F | NYR | OHL | Brampton | 33 | 21 | 19 | 40 | |
Hodgson, Cody | F | Van | OHL | Brampton | 26 | 21 | 25 | 46 | |
McCollum, Thomas | G | Det | OHL | Guelph | 33 | 18W | 2.27 | .924 | |
Benn, Jamie | F | Dal | WHL | Kelowna | 29 | 25 | 22 | 47 | |
Backlund, Mikael | F | Cgy | WHL | Kelowna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Boychuk, Zack | F | Car | WHL | Lethbridge | 21 | 12 | 14 | 26 | |
Beach, Kyle | F | Chi | WHL | Lethbridge | 34 | 14 | 23 | 37 | |
Tavares, John | F | '09 | OHL | London | 33 | 28 | 29 | 57 | |
Del Zotto, Michael | D | NYR | OHL | London | 36 | 8 | 28 | 36 | |
Esposito, Angelo | F | Atl | QMJHL | Montreal | 23 | 16 | 13 | 29 | |
Pietrangelo, Alex | D | StL | OHL | Niagara | 12 | 5 | 11 | 16 | |
Kugryshev, Dmitri | F | Wsh | QMJHL | Quebec | 33 | 19 | 21 | 40 | |
Eberle, Jordan | F | Edm | WHL | Regina | 36 | 24 | 22 | 46 | |
Hickey, Thomas | D | LA | WHL | Seattle | 28 | 6 | 14 | 20 | |
Bowman, Drayson | F | Car | WHL | Spokane | 32 | 16 | 19 | 35 | |
Tokarski, Dustin | G | TB | WHL | Spokane | 28 | 17W | 1.97 | .937 | |
Pickard, Chet | G | Nsh | WHL | Tri-City | 29 | 19W | 2.47 | .914 | |
Blum, Jonathan | D | Nsh | WHL | Vancouver | 30 | 15 | 33 | 48 | |
Pierro-Zabotel, C. | F | Pit | WHL | Vancouver | 41 | 23 | 50 | 73 | |
Kane, Evander | F | '09 | WHL | Vancouver | 30 | 26 | 28 | 54 | |
Hall, Taylor | F | '10 | OHL | Windsor | 39 | 24 | 37 | 61 | |
Ellis, Ryan | D | '09 | OHL | Windsor | 33 | 16 | 35 | 51 | |
NCAA | |||||||||
Wilson, Colin | F | Nsh | NCAA | BU | 18 | 7 | 16 | 23 | |
Gilroy, Matt | D | FA | NCAA | BU | 20 | 2 | 10 | 12 | |
Shattenkirk, Kevin | D | Col | NCAA | BU | 18 | 3 | 9 | 12 | |
Nash, Riley | F | Edm | NCAA | Cornell | 15 | 5 | 6 | 11 | |
Hanson, Christian | F | FA | NCAA | Notre Dame | 23 | 14 | 11 | 25 | |
Colborne, Joe | F | Bos | NCAA | U of Denver | 23 | 5 | 14 | 19 | |
Bozak, Tyler | F | FA | NCAA | U of Denver | 18 | 7 | 14 | 21 | |
Caporusso, Louie | F | Ott | NCAA | U of Mich. | 22 | 18 | 10 | 28 | |
Palushaj, Aaron | F | StL | NCAA | U of Mich. | 20 | 8 | 19 | 27 | |
Schroeder, Jordan | F | '09 | NCAA | U of Minn. | 18 | 8 | 16 | 24 | |
McBain, Jamie | D | Car | NCAA | U of Wisc. | 24 | 5 | 23 | 28 | |
Van Riemsdyk, J. | F | Phi | NCAA | UNH | 19 | 9 | 17 | 26 | |
Europe | |||||||||
Sateri, Harri | G | SJ | Fin | Tappara | 16 | 5W | 2.08 | .931 | |
Emery, Ray | G | FA | KHL | Atlant | 29 | 19W | 1.99 | .929 | |
Shirokov, Sergei | F | Van | KHL | CSKA | 42 | 11 | 19 | 30 | |
Maxim Goncharov | D | Phx | KHL | CSKA | 35 | 6 | 6 | 12 | |
Morozov, Alexei | F | FA | KHL | Kazan | 36 | 25 | 31 | 56 | |
Nikulin, Ilya | D | Atl | KHL | Kazan | 43 | 7 | 17 | 24 | |
Jagr, Jaromir | F | FA | KHL | Omsk | 43 | 22 | 23 | 45 | |
Makarov, Igor | F | Chi | KHL | St.Petersburg | 30 | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
Radulov, Alexander | F | Nsh | KHL | Ufa | 42 | 18 | 23 | 41 | |
Yashin, Alexei | F | FA | KHL | Yaroslavl | 42 | 17 | 20 | 37 | |
Markstrom, Jacob | G | Fla | Swe | Brynas | 28 | NA | 2.18 | .926 | |
Axelsson, Dick | F | Det | Swe | Djurgardens | 18 | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
Eller, Lars | F | StL | Swe | Frolunda | 33 | 8 | 4 | 12 | |
Karlsson, Erik | D | Ott | Swe | Frolunda | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Hedman, Victor | D | '09 | Swe | Modo | 29 | 4 | 9 | 13 | |
Svensson-Paajarvi | F | '09 | Swe | Timra | 36 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
Hjalmarsson, Simon | F | StL | Swe-1 | Boras | 29 | 11 | 13 | 24 | |
Tedenby, Mattias | F | NJ | Swe-1 | Oskarshamn | 13 | 2 | 9 | 11 | |
Soderberg, Carl | F | Bos | Swe-1 | Malmo | 32 | 11 | 31 | 42 | |