Avec le choix #16 les Flames sélectionnent F Samuel Honzek
The #Flames select forward Samuel Honzek 16th overall from the Vancouver Giants
— Salim Nadim Valji (@salimvalji) June 29, 2023
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MonkeySailor
@Flames de Calgary
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You fucking suck Conroy
I know nothing about this guy but 6’4 sounds good to me
That’s a big boy
Who?
Iggy and Conroy up there you love to see it
Why
check out the scouting report by Kyle Pereira
https://lastwordonsports.com/hockey/2023/05/25/2023-nhl-scouting-report-22-samuel-honzek/
Big body hockey is back…
Where’s Burkie?
I’m liking this pick. Wasn’t what i expected, but it feels positive
Very safe pick. Kinda disappointed but not mad
Easily the best player in the draft.
[Samuel Honzek](https://thehockeywriters.com/samuel-honzek-2023-nhl-draft-prospect-profile/)
Don’t think Treliving was running to spoil that pick anytime soon
Oliver Moore and Sandin-Pelika were right there for the taking :’(
Wtf
He is a player in my opinion who will make the nhl but is he a top line player time will tell congrats to Samuel though and glad he is here
Woooooo let’s go
I’ve seen a few minutes mock drafts where Honzek was around the mid teens. Seems like a decent pick
The fly buzzing around Maloney feels like it means something
Meh. Based off what the panel is saying seems like a high floor low ceiling pick. Not sure I’m a fan but no one ever knows how things pan out.
I don’t hate it. Looks like he’s got a good ceiling, but won’t really help us next year or probably the year after.
I wanted Colby Barlow or that Sandin-Pelika kid with this pick.
23 goals, 56 points in 43 GP with the Vancouver Giants last season
Wanted Moore or Perrault. Feel like this guy is just tall.
He’s big, and he skates well, and accelerates quickly from the game I saw.
Preferred someone with more speed. Slightly disappointed but never know.
Scouting report he was ranked 19 on
Honzek is a well-rounded prospect with the skills to make plays and can be a nuisance in front of the net. If not for injuries this year, he would have been slotted higher in this year’s class
That’s a little more reassuring. I wanted Moore really bad
The Athletic NHL Draft analyst Corey Pronman’s scouting report: Honzek’s game is exciting from a pro-projection standpoint. He’s a big forward who can skate well, which when combined with the offense he’s showing makes for a well-rounded player. I don’t think he’s amazing with the puck, but he has good hands, can make tough plays with pace and can finish chances both from range and in tight. In the WHL he ran the power play from the flank but that likely won’t be his role as a pro. Off the puck he shows good details and a strong work rate. He wins a lot of battles and can kill penalties. Honzek dabbled at center for a couple of WHL games but is likely a winger as a pro. Even as a wing he projects to be an important two-way player for an NHL team.
Pronman’s player ranking: No. 13
As a Slovak Flames fan I am overjoyed even though he wouldn’t be my pick
Maloney looks like a miserable prick. He wasn’t barking at Iggy was he?
I watched thg and he really wanted Barlow at 11, which means I wanted him too… Honestly I don’t know anything about this guy, will have to check it out in the morning
I’ve read the elite prospects article on him and I’m not exactly thrilled, but it’s not like its totally out of left field, just woulda preferred Moore, Perrault, Barlow, even Perron or Cristall as a gamble.
I hate how we making our pick they have to do a bedard interview and then they don’t even show his highlights just bunch of guys in suits
We couldve at least traded down a couple picks and get some more draft capital.
I would’ve seen us selecting him a lot lower with so many more ‘high profile’ guys still available
Make sure his passport doesn’t say usa
We’ve got lucics number replaced with yegor, lindholm with hondzek. What other numbers we gotta do
[Sportsnet calling him a possible steal](https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/prospect-of-interest-why-samuel-honzek-has-potential-to-be-a-steal-in-round-1/sn-amp/)
Decent pick, might work out well. A pass on Barlow, Perreault, Moore and Axel sandin pellikka.. I would have pick one before
Honzek has been rated all over the board.
10, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 26, and 29.
Not sure how to feel.
Pumped!
I thought we were gonna be done with being the « smartest guy in the room » when treliving left? Weren’t there like 3 players ranked ahead of this guy like Moore and Perrault?
Not happy with this personally. I wanted Sandin Pellikka and of course he gets picked next. He is gonna be a stud
I may be naive but i choose to believe Conroy and the team know more than the Reddit crowd. Time will tell.
He did really really well in the physical testing this year. The local sports outlets here in Vancouver were raving about how well he tested.
He’s a centre, I love that. If Lindholm and Backlund are uncertainties, and Kadri doesn’t bounce back, then it could be all hands on deck at centre real soon.
Maybe there’ll be some connection with Ruzicka, also a Slovak, that will make his NHL transition smoother.
Like the pick but his height shows that they still want big body rather than speedy guys