Defensemen
July 2023- Kuznetsov finished his first official professional season with the Calgary Wranglers of the AHL where he had a bit of a tough time adjusting to the pace of the play. He finished the year strong and his presence in the playoffs was massive. He was laying some big hits for the Wranglers and [...]
Punishing physical defenseman with limited offensive skills. Needs to work on his skating to reach the NHL but has middle-pair upside. Can provide a good amount of peripheral stats but not much in points.
An offensive defenseman with great size. Skates well for his size. Excellent puck skills and a good shot. He needs to improve his decision-making and defensive play. He projects to become a middle-pair defenseman at the NHL level with a multi-category upside.
Defensive-minded blue-liner with size and range. Some flashes of puck skills, but nothing that screams top-four producer. Likely a shutdown 4-6 D at the next level.
Undersized but physical right-handed defenseman with decent puck skills and refined defensive habits. Could become a top-four blue-liner in the near future, but likely tops out as a 5-6D with some power-play upside.
Big, physical defender who excels in his own zone. He has a heavy shot but appears to lack significant offensive upside at the pro level.
Offensive-minded defenseman with size and skill. Efficient as a power-play quarterback and a great decision-maker with the puck. Defending backwards is a work in progress, but could crack a top-four.
June 2023 - Belliveau spent the 2022-23 season in the QMJHL where he played 55 games and recorded 46 points. In previous seasons the talk about Belliveau’s tools always came with high praise from his skating to puck skills to the physical side of the game however this did not lead to the point production [...]
An undersized, offense first puck-moving defenceman with a pass first mentality who relies on his strong skating ability to make plays at both ends of the ice.
