BSH prospect report: Still doing the Beanpot Trot

The news of the week

We have just a couple of news updates for this week (it\'s been a pretty quiet one). First up, a transaction: the Phantoms called up Matt Brown from Reading at long last, but to make some space for him, Zayde Wisdom was sent down.

In overall lighter news, we have an accolade to recap. Alex Bump has been named the NCHC rookie of the week, which is neat!

What\'s up with the Phantoms?

It was a relatively quiet week for the Phantoms, with just two games on the schedule, but it was a successful week all the same. The Phantoms came out of this weekend with a pair of shootout wins over divisional opponents Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Bridgeport, and this was very good news. They haven\'t pulled themselves out of that seventh place spot in the standings yet, but they have gotten themselves within two points of sixth place Springfield with a game in hand. It\'s still going to be an uphill climb for them to get into the playoff mix, but this weekend was a good start.

And as for the big contributors on the prospect side, those probably won\'t come as much of a surprise Wade Allison was leading the scoring charge among that group, with a goal and an assist on the weekend.

Tied for that lead, too, was J.R. Avon, who also had a goal and an assist of his own. He also scored in the shootout on Saturday, and while that doesn\'t go into his final stats total, that shootout goal was a good one. So props for that.

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And to round things out, it was a nice group of other prospects that were still able to get involved in the scoring on the weekend, even if they didn\'t manage to put up any goals. All of Emil Andrae, Ronnie Attard, Bobby Brink, and Elliot Desnoyers put up an assist apiece in their two games played.

The prospect world tour

In the NCAA, things have slowed down a bit for Bryce Brodzinski, who had a very hot start to the season. He still found a bit of production this weekend though -- he came away with one assist over Minnesota\'s last two games played.

On the flip side, things seem to be heating up for Cole Knuble, who\'s picking up a bit of steam as the season goes on. He also played two games this weekend, and he came away with a goal.

But the biggest contributor of the weekend, to little surprise, was the NCHC rookie of the week, Alex Bump. In his last two games with Western Michigan, his tear has continued, and he put up a pretty stellar two goals and two assists.

And of course, let\'s not forget that this was also the week of the final for the Beanpot, where we had a pair of Flyers prospects facing off for Boston University and Northeastern. Devin Kaplan, coming into this game with a bit of momentum from his game on the weekend against Merrimack (wherein he put up an assist), scored a goal in the Beanpot... which incidentally deflected in off of Hunter McDonald.

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It would be McDonald who got the last laugh in this one -- though he wasn\'t able to come away with any points himself, it was still his Northeastern team that was able to come away with the overtime win to take this year\'s Beanpot.

Up in the QMJHL, Alexis Gendron remains out with injury (a surprise bit of news outside of the news section, wow), but Matteo Mann picked up on the points getting slack for that region, putting up an assist this week.

Over in London, it was three games played for the Knights, and the first one was a bit of a shocker -- both Oliver Bonk and Denver Barkey were both held without a point. Before we get too worried, though, they both responded well for the next two games of the weekend. Bonk had three goals and Barkey had a goal and four assists (so we suppose we can say that qualifies for coming back with a vengeance.

And out West, it was another solid week for Carson Bjarnason, who\'s gotten himself back up to speed nicely after being out with injury. In his last two games played, he stopped 21 of 22 shots (.955 save percentage) and 32 of 34 shots (.941 save percentage).

In the KHL, their regular season is winding down and the playoffs are approaching. Sochi has already been eliminated from playoff contention, but Matvei Michkov isn\'t slowing down on an individual level -- in his last two games played this week, he had a goal and an assist.

Minsk\'s chances are still alive, though, and the play of Alexei Kolosov has been a huge part of that. He picked up two wins on the week, with starts in two of their three games on the schedule, and stopped 35 of 36 shots in the first and 16 of 18 in the second, for a nice bit of work done.

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