Prospect stat report: Regular season wrap-up

Another month, another big picture check-in with how the prospects are doing in the numbers department. This month, we\'re wrapping up the regular season numbers -- well, most of them, with the exception of the Phantoms, who still have a couple more weeks in their regular season -- and seeing where everyone landed, before we dive into some of the playoff excitement next month.

Prospects Playing in North American Professional Leagues

We\'ll begin again with our largest group -- those playing with the Phantoms and/or the Royals down in Reading.

Despite running into a bit of a cool spell in this last month, Samu Tuomaala has still been able to maintain his spot at the top of this prospect group\'s scoring chart, which is certainly good news. He hasn\'t, though, proved to be the Phantoms\' most efficient points getter -- that goes to Olle Lycksell, who, despite only playing two games with the Phantoms in the month of March, managed to put up six points across the pair of them, moving him back past that point per game threshold again.

On the back end, with more minutes to go around with Ronnie Attard and Adam Ginning both up with the Flyers, Emil Andrae has taken some of those and run with them. He\'s playing well of late and continuing to serve as a consistent maker and setter up of plays for him teammates, and finding a way to be positively impactful even if the goals aren\'t coming for him individually.

We also have a handful of games for Hunter McDonald -- who\'s with the Phantoms on a tryout -- captured here. There\'s not much doing on the offensive side, but that\'s also not much of a surprise. McDonald didn\'t put up huge numbers in college, even in one of the slightly less difficult conferences to score in, it\'s just not his game. A little bit of offense is a nice bonus, but that\'s not where our focus falls on this one.

Prospects Playing in the NCAA

In some ways, what\'s most interesting about this group is what hasn\'t changed, more than what has. That is, when we last spoke, Massimo Rizzo had just recently gone down with injury, and it\'s one that has kept him out all the way up until the Frozen Four this weekend (we\'ll see if he plays for Denver tomorrow). But even so, he had built up such a cushion by the time he did go out that he\'s still quite comfortably in the lead of this prospect group, ahead of Alex Bump who\'s played 10 more games and who we\'ve been going on and on about, how he\'s been on a tear in the back half of the season and just doing great work.

And we\'re not done yet: the movement in the ranking since last time around came in the form of Bump passing Bryce Brodzinski, and that\'s quite a feat for a few reasons: with Brodzinski being a fifth year senior while Bump is a freshman (though with that extra year of USHL development), and while Bump is playing in what\'s generally understood to be a more difficult conference to score in. He fell just shy of that point per game pace, but that\'s still a really excellent bit of work done.

Prospects Playing in Canada

The big news from this section, of course, is that Denver Barkey didn\'t just hit the 100 point mark in the OHL this season, but he was actually able to surpass it (obviously not by a huge margin, but to surpass it at all is still a huge achievement in and of itself). He finished the regular season fifth in points in the whole of the OHL, and he did it as still an 18 year old. Not too shabby indeed.

A couple of the defensemen also had very good seasons for themselves -- Oliver Bonk also surpassed to point per game mark pretty comfortably, which was certainly impressive. And while his numbers don\'t have quite the same type of pop, Carter Sotheran had a quietly very solid run this year, far exceeding his goal scoring figure from last season (when he had just four goals), and coming just short of doubling up on points overall (going from 23 to 40).

Prospects Playing Abroad

Not too much change on the regular season numbers for these prospects playing in Europe, with their seasons wrapping up so much earlier than those over here, but we\'ll still include a refresher. Matvei Michkov put up pretty stellar offensive numbers this season after his move to Sochi, even if the team didn\'t find the overall success to match. It was also pretty solid seasons for Santeri Sulku (who may still be a bit outside of the team\'s Big Picture Vision though), as well as Alex Ciernik in his first season bumped up a level to the Allsvenskan.

The Goalie Grab Bag

And finally, the goalies. We aren\'t seeing much change here from last month, because Zavragin and Kolosov\'s regular seasons were also pretty wrapped up by the time we got to them (more on them next month though). So that just leaves Carson Bjarnason, who still finishes the regular season with an alright save percentage on the season, even if the end of the run was a little tough, a little up and down, and as a result saw his numbers dip a bit.

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