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2/14 Prospect Update: Boucher Scoring at Record Pace and Anderson - AHL Player of the Week

This week focuses on Reid Boucher's record setting pace and Matt Anderson's AHL Player of the Week honors.

By Karen Meilands
Matt Anderson - your AHL Player of the Week!
Matt Anderson - your AHL Player of the Week!
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This week had a few exciting moments for Devils prospects, especially Reid Boucher (surprise, surprise). The Albany Devils had a few come from behind wins and one major loss. Keep reading to see each player's stats and some details on the standouts from the most recent action.

NAME YOB League Team POS GP G A PTS plus/minus PPG PP SHG SOG SH%
Graham Black 1993 WHL Swift Current Broncos C 54 21 22 43 -4 0.80 6 0
Reid Boucher 1993 OHL Sarnia Sting LW 55 49 25 74 9 1.35 17 1
Artur Gavrus 1994 OHL Owan Sound Attack RW 10 0 1 1 -3 0.10 0 0
Ben Johnson 1994 OHL Windsor Spitfires C 54 15 14 29 -16 0.54 3 0
Alexander Kerfoot 1994 BCHL Coquitlam Express C 16 8 11 19 1.19
Stefan Matteau (X) 1994 QMJHL Armada C 35 18 10 28 19 0.80 7 1 121 14.88%
Reece Scarlett 1993 WHL Swift Current Broncos D 53 7 31 38 5 0.72 1 0
Damon Severson 1994 WHL Kelowna Rockets D 57 8 35 43 31 0.75 5 0
Ben Thomson 1993 OHL Kitchener Rangers LW 53 11 13 24 -3 0.45 1 0
Jon Merrill 1992 NCAA University of Michigan D 11 1 3 4 -3 0.36 1 0 13 7.69%
Blake Coleman 1991 NCAA Miami University C 30 6 6 12 6 0.40 2 0 101 5.94%
Curtis Gedig 1991 NCAA Ohio State D 25 2 7 9 3 0.36 2 0 43 4.65%
Blake Pietila 1993 NCAA Michigan Tech LW 26 14 7 21 -2 0.81 3 0 78 17.95%
Derek Rodwell 1990 NCAA University of North Dakota LW 25 1 1 2 -1 0.08 0 0 36 2.78%
Seth Helgeson 1990 NCAA University of Minnesota D 28 0 3 3 -3 0.11 0 0 27 0.00%
Joe Faust 1991 NCAA University of Wisconsin D 28 1 0 1 0 0.04 0 1 23 4.35%
League Team POS GP Mins W L OTL/SOL SO GA GAA SVS SV%
Maxime Clermont 1991 ECHL Elmira G 25 1417 11 9 2/1 0 83 3.51 722 0.897
Jeff Frazee 1987 AHL Albany G 17 995 4 8 0/4 0 39 2.35 419 0.915
Keith Kinkaid 1989 AHL Albany G 30 1799 16 10 0/4 2 79 2.63 777 0.908
Scott Wedgewood 1992 ECHL Titans G 35 1955 14 16 3/1 0 108 3.32 916 0.895
Player League Team POS GP G A PTS +/- PPG PP SHG SOG SH%
Bobby Butler (X) 1987 AHL Albany Devils RW 37 16 11 27 10 0.73 5 1 105 15.2
Joe Whitney 1988 AHL Albany Devils LW 36 12 14 26 14 0.72 1 0 116 10.3
Matt Anderson 1982 AHL Albany Devils RW 44 10 18 28 8 0.64 1 1 115 8.7
Steve Zalewski 1986 AHL Albany Devils C 44 7 17 24 -5 0.55 1 0 90 7.8
Harri Pesonen 1988 AHL Albany Devils LW 43 9 11 20 2 0.47 3 0 81 11.1
Jacob Josefson (X) 1991 AHL Albany Devils C 30 8 12 20 10 0.67 2 2 82 9.8
Adam Larsson (X) 1992 AHL Albany Devils D 33 4 15 19 -1 0.58 2 0 46 8.7
Mattias Tedenby 1990 AHL Albany Devils LW 30 9 8 17 -5 0.57 2 0 56 16.1
Tim Sestito 1984 AHL Albany Devils C 45 7 12 19 -1 0.42 0 0 68 10.3
Eric Gelinas 1991 AHL Albany Devils D 28 4 10 14 0 0.50 3 0 74 5.4
Brandon Burlon 1990 AHL Albany Devils D 30 0 12 12 7 0.40 0 0 30 0
Adam Henrique (X) 1990 AHL Albany Devils C 16 5 3 8 1 0.50 1 0 40 12.5
Darcy Zajac 1986 AHL Albany Devils C 40 5 4 9 2 0.23 0 1 48 10.4
Chad Wiseman 1981 AHL Albany Devils LW 21 3 6 9 -7 0.43 0 0 38 7.9
Mike Sislo 1988 AHL Albany Devils RW 32 2 7 9 -2 0.28 0 1 51 3.9
Chris McKelvie 1985 AHL Albany Devils LW 26 1 7 8 -1 0.31 0 0 32 3.1
Phil DeSimone 1987 AHL Albany Devils C 19 5 2 7 -1 0.37 3 0 33 15.2
Mike Hoeffel 1989 AHL Albany Devils LW 30 2 4 6 0 0.20 0 0 47 4.3
Jay Leach 1979 AHL Albany Devils D 39 2 4 6 9 0.15 0 0 33 6.1
Stephen Gionta (X) 1983 AHL Albany Devils C 11 2 3 5 -2 0.45 0 0 22 9.1
Raman Hrabarenka 1992 AHL Albany Devils D 21 1 3 4 0 0.19 0 0 36 2.8
Corbin McPherson 1099 AHL Albany Devils D 43 1 3 4 4 0.09 0 0 50 2
Alexander Urbom 1990 AHL Albany Devils D 41 0 4 4 2 0.10 0 0 34 0
Kelly Zajac 1988 AHL Albany Devils C 6 2 1 3 2 0.50 0 0 7 28.6
Dan Kelly 1989 AHL Albany Devils D 31 0 3 3 3 0.10 0 0 15 0
Matthew Corrente (X) 1988 AHL Albany Devils D 11 0 2 2 -1 0.18 0 0 7 0
Scott Parse 1084 AHL Albany Devils RW 13 1 2 2 -7 0.15 1 0 17 5.9
David Wohlberg 1990 AHL Albany Devils C 17 0 2 2 2 0.12 0 0 22 0
Bryan Haczyk (X) 1987 ECHL Trenton Titans RW 27 8 6 14 -5 0.52 3 0 75 10.7
Harry Young (X) 1989 ECHL Trenton Titans LW 2 0 0 0 1 0.00 0 0 1 0
Cam Janssen 1984 AHL Albany Devils RW 6 0 0 0 -2 0.00 0 0 0 0
Andrei Lokitionov (total) (X) AHL Albany Devils 39 7 15 22 5 0.56 1 2 82 8.5

(X indicates player is no longer on active roster)

Notes:

  • Graham Black and Reece Scarlett had successful weeks with the Swift Current Broncos. In five games, Black had two goals and four assists while Scarlett had five assists.
  • Reid Boucher continued to tear it up for the Sarnia Sting. He now has 49 goals in 55 games. Even more impressive, Boucher is just nine goals shy of the single season goal record set by Steven Stamkos (58) with fourteen games remaining in the season. He is scoring .89 goals per game - if he keeps up that pace he is set to hit the 61-goal mark by the end of the season. I must say it is exciting reading about a Devils prospect being compared to Steven Stamkos!
  • Jon Merrill got his first goal of the season in his eleventh game back for the Wolverines.

Albany news:

  • Matt Anderson was named the AHL player of the week. He had three goals and four assists in Albany's three game winning streak last week. Congratulations to him!
  • Albany's 3 game winning streak ended with a 6-0 loss to Syracuse Crunch last night.
  • Albany had two come from behind wins last week with a 4-3 win over Syracuse and a 3-2 shootout win over Binghamton.
  • After just three games with Albany, Andrei Lokitionov was called up to the Devils Tuesday.
  • Last week, Albany signed Stefan Stepanov from Russia. There are no stats for him available on him yet. I will give an update as soon as I get more information on him.

Prospect Spotlight:

My star this week is Matt Anderson. He was called up to the Devils for a short time and only registered one point, but since he was sent back to Albany he has been shining. As noted above, he was the AHL player of the week for the period ending February 10. He only has 10 goals on the season, but three of those came this past week. Hopefully his hot streak continues.

That will do it for the recap this week. Do you think Boucher has it in him to pass by Stamkos for the Sting goal scoring record? Does Stepanov have what it takes to stay with the Devils? What are your thoughts on Anderson being named AHL player of the week? Please discuss anything prospect related below. Thanks for reading!

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