BSH prospect report: Trending up

The news of the week

In transaction news: Mason Millman is on the move again, having been recalled to join the Phantoms from the Royals.

In non-transaction news: no recalls have been made from the Phantoms in light of the injury to Noah Cates, but it stands to reason that we might see one before too long, as the Flyers have some trips scheduled for next month. We\'ll be keeping an eye out!

What\'s up with the Phantoms?

Speaking of the Phantoms, it\'s a short recap of their week, as they only had two games on the schedule, but it\'s a generally pretty positive one. They picked up one regulation win on the weekend, as well as an overtime loss, collecting three of the available four standings points. This, in turn, has helped to propel them out of the basement of the division and up into third place.

And as far as the key contributors in that successful weekend go, well, there are no real surprises here. Same Tuomaala led the points-getting charge, picking up a goal and three assists, while Olle Lycksell had one goal of his own and two assists.

The real star of the show, though, was Alexis Gendron, who had two goals in Saturday\'s win over Rochester. He\'s been something of an under the radar impressive player for the Phantoms so far -- even when he isn\'t contributing goals, he\'s buzzing and creating good looks -- and it\'s getting to the point where we\'re wondering why in the world he hasn\'t gotten in for more than nine of the Phantoms\' 18 games up until this point.

And to round things out, we had a handful of prospects who, while without a goal, were still able to contribute a bit offensively -- each of Elliot Desnoyers and all A last named prospects (that is, Wade Allison, Emil Andrae, and Ronnie Attard) each chipped in an assist on the weekend.

The prospect world tour

We\'ll kick things off here with the NCAA update, and strap in folks, we\'ve got a lot to cover.

Cutter Gauthier -- fresh off his Hockey East Player of the Week previous week -- didn\'t seem to hit much of a hangover, didn\'t slow down his offensive contributions too dramatically. In BC\'s last two games played, while not the star of the show (it\'s Ryan Leonard\'s turn this week), Gauthier came away with a tidy little goal and two assists total. And elsewhere in the Hockey East, not to be overlooked, Devin Kaplan was able to chip in an assist for BU over the weekend.

The prospects in the NCHC have also been chipping in nicely. Massimo Rizzo had himself another big week, with a goal and three assists in Denver\'s last two games, while Alex Bump had a goal and an assist, and Owen Mclaughlin chipped in one assist.

The Flyers college prospect points leader of the week though (we need a snappier title there)? It was Bryce Brodzinski again, with three goals and two assists for Minnesota on the weekend.

Up in the Canadian leagues, it\'s the pair of prospects on the London Knights continuing their offensive tear -- a note which might as well be pre-written into this report, at this point. In their last three games, it was a tidy two goals and three assists for Oliver Bonk (who\'s still chipping in nicely, playing something of a rover role on their power play), and five assists for Denver Barkey.

And finally, the trip abroad will also be a brief one. It was a somewhat slow week of contributions for a pair of the skaters playing in Europe -- Alex Ciernik had one assist in his last two games played, and Matvei Michkov had two in his last three played. This, of course, is still far from a poor week offensively, but it speaks to how well they\'ve been doing up until this point, that a half or two thirds of a point per game scoring pace is notably low. We\'ll see what next week holds!

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