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New Jersey Devils Prospect Update: 2/13/18

Week 19 of the 2017-18 prospect update saw Jeremy Davies lead Northeastern to a Beanpot title, Colby Sissons stay among the most productive defensemen in the WHL, and Jesper Boqvist continue to play an important role for his club.

Boston College v Northeastern
Jeremy Davies helped lead Northeastern to their first Beanpot title since 1988.
Photo by Richard T Gagnon/Getty Images

The nineteenth week of the 2017-18 prospect update is here. It’s highlighted by Jeremy Davies being a key part in Northeastern capturing the Beanpot, while Colby Sissons, Jesper Boqvist, and Aarne Talvitie continue to produce for their teams.

QMJHL

Name Pos. Age Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP
Jocktan Chainey D 18.44 Halifax 53 6 27 33 19 46 5.94% 1.91 0.62
Height: 6'0 A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 195 13 19 4 13 17 2 12 14 0 1 1 13

Jocktan Chainey had 2 assists, +4, 6 PIM, and 7 shots over 4 games for Halifax last week.

OHL

Name Pos. Age Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO%
Michael McLeod C 20.04 Mississauga 23 14 14 28 -3 20 18.67% 3.26 1.22 66.47%
Height: 6'2 A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 195 8 22 9 12 21 4 2 6 1 0 1 31
Name Pos. Age Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO%
Marian Studenic RW 19.30 Hamilton 48 15 22 37 24 12 12.61% 2.48 0.77 40.00%
Height: 6'1 A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 170 16 31 11 15 26 3 7 10 1 0 1 20
Name Age GP GS W L OTL SOL GAA SV% GA%- GSAA GSAA/60
Evan Cormier 20.28 46 44 20 15 7 0 3.16 0.899 101 -1.20 -0.03
Height: 6'3 Team SO SO% QS QS% RBS RBS% BO BO% EVG% PPG% SHG%
Weight: 200 Saginaw 2 4.55% 20 45.45% 11 25.00% 6 13.64% 70.37% 26.67% 2.96%

Michael McLeod had a goal, -2, 8 shots, and a 48.28 FO% across 2 games for Mississauga. His goal came with 1:37 left in regulation against Erie on Sunday to tie the game up. Mississagua ended up dropping the other point in the shootout.

Marian Studenic was a -1 with 7 shots in 3 games for Hamilton last week. The 2017-18 season continues to be a streaky affair for the Slovakian winger. He started the season with no points in his first 5 games, went on to have 36 points in his next 35 games, and now has 1 point in his last 8 games. His shots per game rate has remained fairly steady with it at 3.00 during the 2 slumps and 2.78 during his hot streak. While he’s not one of the “go to guys” on a stacked Hamilton squad, he’s still retained an important secondary scoring and special teams role, often doing the little things to help the team. Tim Bolen of CHCH has this interview with Studenic and Bulldogs GM Steve Staios which offers some insight into life off the ice as he adjusts to Canada, what the Bulldogs think of him, and what players Studenic looked up to growing up.

Evan Cormier made 29 saves on 33 shots in an overtime loss to Guelph on Friday. The following night he made 23 saves on 26 shots in an overtime loss to Windsor.

WHL

Name Pos. Age Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP
Colby Sissons D 20.09 Swift Current 57 11 49 60 48 55 6.88% 2.81 1.05
Height: 6'2 A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 190 34 45 7 26 33 4 20 24 0 3 3 24
Name Pos. Age Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP
Nikita Popugaev LW 19.24 Prince George 13 2 5 7 -13 4 4.08% 3.77 0.54
Height: 6'5.5 A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 210 1 3 0 1 1 2 4 6 0 0 0 12

Colby Sissons had 2 assists, +5, and 6 shots over 3 games for Swift Current last week. He continues to stay productive with 10 assists over his last 8 games.

NCAA

Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% NHLe
Brett Seney LW Merrimack 29 11 16 27 -7 42 16.18% 2.34 0.93 42.13% 29
Height: 5'10 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 180 21.97 Hockey East 10 21 3 5 8 7 11 18 1 0 1
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% NHLe
JD Dudek RW Boston College 29 5 10 15 -10 24 7.46% 2.31 0.52 46.49% 16
Height: 5'11 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 185 22.05 Hockey East 3 8 5 6 11 0 4 4 0 0 0
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% NHLe
Joey Anderson RW Minnesota Duluth 22 6 12 18 7 14 7.89% 3.45 0.82 14.29% 29
Height: 6'0 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 195 19.67 NCHC 9 15 3 7 10 3 5 8 0 0 0
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP Blks NHLe
Jeremy Davies D Northeastern 28 4 22 26 8 33 6.35% 2.25 0.93 41 29
Height: 5'11 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 188 21.21 Hockey East 10 14 1 7 8 3 13 16 0 1 1
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP Blks NHLe
Reilly Walsh D Harvard 25 3 9 12 2 16 5.56% 2.16 0.48 15 13
Height: 6'0 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 185 18.83 ECAC 4 7 0 4 4 3 5 8 0 0 0
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH% SH/GP Pts/GP Blks NHLe
Matt Hellickson D Notre Dame 30 2 7 9 5 8 6.06% 1.10 0.30 20 8
Height: 6'0 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 181 19.91 Big Ten 3 5 0 7 7 2 0 2 0 0 0

Brett Seney had an even rating and 3 shots in a loss to UMass last Tuesday. Over on the Devils site, Julie Robenhymer has a few quotes from Seney about his work to improve his defensive game and his strength training to improve his odds of success at the next level.

JD Dudek had 2 shots and won 7/13 faceoffs against UMass Lowell on Friday. Yesterday, in the Beanpot 3rd place game against Harvard, Dudek was a -1 with 2 PIM, a shot, and won 5/12 faceoffs in an overtime loss.

Joey Anderson and Minnesota Duluth had the week off from game action.

Jeremy Davies had an assist, -1, and 3 shots against UConn on Friday. Yesterday, he helped Northeastern to their first Beanpot title since 1988 with a victory over Boston University. He had 3 assists, +1, and 5 shots with 2 of those assists coming on the PP and the other one when BU pulled their goaltender.

Reilly Walsh had an even rating and 2 shots against Union on Friday. Yesterday, he had an even rating and 3 shots as Harvard took 3rd place in the Beanpot over Boston College.

Matt Hellickson had an even rating and 2 shots in 2 games for Notre Dame against Ohio State.

KHL/VHL

KHL

Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP Blks ATOI
Yegor Rykov D SKA St. Petersburg 51 2 12 14 13 20 44 4.55% 0.86 0.27 30 12:24
Height: 6'2 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 216 20.85 KHL 5 7 2 12 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 17
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Mikhail Maltsev C SKA St. Petersburg 17 0 5 5 6 4 24 0.00% 1.41 0.29 56.25% 8:21
Height: 6'3 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 205 19.94 KHL 3 3 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 19
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP Blks ATOI
Yegor Zaitsev D Dynamo Moscow 28 0 2 2 0 30 14 0.00% 0.50 0.07 11 9:32
Height: 5'11 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 185 19.80 KHL 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Nikita Popugaev LW CSKA Moscow 11 0 1 1 1 2 4 0.00% 0.36 0.09 0.00% 4:11
Height: 6'5.5 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 210 19.25 KHL 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6

VHL

Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Mikhail Maltsev C SKA-Neva 21 5 11 16 13 8 48 10.42% 2.29 0.76 56.63% 15:51
Height: 6'3 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 205 19.94 VHL 7 12 4 10 14 1 1 2 0 0 0 21
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Nikita Popugaev LW Zvezda Chekhov 14 3 2 5 0 2 18 0.00% 1.29 0.36 N/A 11:39
Height: 6'5.5 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 210 19.25 VHL 1 4 3 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 11

Yegor Rykov had no game action last week after helping the Russian team prepare for the Olympics.

Mikhail Maltsev also had no game action.

Yegor Zaitsev was a -1 with 2 PIM in 24:46 in his only MHL game last week.

Nikita Popugaev had an assist, +1, and 4 shots in 15:24 in his MHL appearance last week.

Europe

Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Jesper Boqvist C Brynas IF 15 3 6 9 2 2 26 11.54% 1.73 0.60 N/A 15:03
Height: 6'0 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 179 19.30 SHL 5 8 3 6 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 31
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Fabian Zetterlund F Farjestads BK 34 3 3 6 -3 6 30 10.00% 0.88 0.18 N/A 8:50
Height: 5'11 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts NHLe
Weight: 180 18.48 SHL 3 6 3 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
Name Pos. Team GP G A Pts +/- PIM SH SH% SH/GP Pts/GP FO% ATOI
Aarne Talvitie C Blues U20 36 28 21 49 22 32 188 14.89% 5.22 1.36 51.81% 19:30
Height: 5'11 Age League A1 Pts1 EVG EVA EV Pts PPG PPA PP Pts SHG SHA SH Pts
Weight: 198 19.02 Jr. A SM-liiga 13 41 20 14 34 6 6 12 2 1 3
Name Age GP GS W L OTL SOL GAA SV% GA%- GSAA GSAA/60
Gilles Senn 21.96 27 25 12 8 1 3 2.88 0.905 106 -4.62 -0.18
Height: 6'5 Team SO SO% QS QS% RBS RBS% BO BO% EVG% PPG% SHG%
Weight: 192 HC Davos 1 4.00% 13 52.00% 4 16.00% 4 16.00% 81.58% 17.11% 1.32%

Jesper Boqvist had an assist, +1, and 5 shots while playing between 15-19 minutes per game across 2 games last week.

Fabian Zetterlund had a goal and 2 shots while playing about 9 minutes per game over 2 games last week.

Aarne Talvitie had 2 goals (including the OT winner), an assist, +2, 7 shots, and won 17/29 faceoffs in 19:25 against Pelicans on Friday. The following day he was a -2 with 12 PIM, 3 shots, and won 10/16 faceoffs in 14:16 against JYP.

Gilles Senn and HC Davos are on an Olympic break until the end of the month.

Your Take

Which prospects stood out to you this week? How do you feel about Davies adding a Beanpot title to go with his recent Spengler Cup title? Are you concerned about Studenic’s lack of point production recently? Leave your comments below and thank you for reading!