Debuts way down in 2022

[re-ac-tor]

Hi All,

I posted a bit about this in the Debuts thread, but thought I would go a bit deeper here. New player debuts are way down and it makes me wonder if they will be able to do 3 series of Young Guns this year. Naturally most debuts are in October as new guys make teams, but this October is way down compared to the last few years

22-23 21 October debuts
21-22 43 October debuts
20-21 Covid Year-no October Games
19-20 53 October debuts
18-19 50 October debuts
17-18 53 October debuts

Interesting, anyone have any ideas as to why? Maybe so many guys have been pushed up the last few years, that they have run out of players. Maybe expansion has something to do with it? Will there be enough guys to do a full Extended Series Young Guns?

My best,

Ken

 

[will-411]

I’d take a look at how the trend of minimum to $900k contracts has changed… maybe there are more pros, proven commodities taking those spots. Also, teams may be more reluctant to pay farm team players even - let them stay with their European team lingers (overseas guys).

Point being, it’s either just random, or based on money.

Cory

 

[Fred Bear]

I was thinking the same thing the other day. It didn't seem like the normal number of young, ELC-guys stuck around for the beginning of the season this year.

I think one factor is that so many teams are running very tight to the cap ceiling and several teams would even have to waive guys to free up enough space to bring in a guy in to try them out. I think we may see more debuts this spring as teams get an idea of where the cap will be next year, and teams begin actively tanking to try and win Bedard

 

[troy95]

I was talking about this recently with someone. Even 2022-23 Series Two is going to struggle to get enough good rookies.

We have 20 players who debuted this season:

Cole Koepke
Andrei Kuzmenko
Arber Xhekaj
Filip Roos
Jakub Lauko
Juraj Slafkovsky
Kaiden Guhle
Nils Aman
Pavol Regenda
Shane Wright
Brandt Clarke
Jake Sanderson
Wyatt Johnston
Elmer Soderblom
Dylan Guenther
Olle Lycksell
Nick Perbix
Sam Poulin
David Jiricek
Filip Kral

We have 3 players who debuted last season but have played this season and aren't in Series 1:

Casey Fitzgerald
Joe Snively
Dylan Holloway

We have 26 players who debuted last season, haven't played this season, aren't in Series 1 (or other 2021-22 products), and still have NHL contracts:

Santeri Hatakka
Walker Duehr
Ben Jones
Grant Hutton
Kristians Rubins
Jesper Froden
Kristian Reichel
Corey Schuenman
Michael Carcone
Dmitri Samorukov
Ethan Prow
Brandon Baddock
Lucas Johansen
Declan Chisholm
Brandon Biro
Ronald Attard
Cole Reinhardt
Filip Hallander
Michael Eyssimont
Mitchell Chaffee
Linus Hogberg
Nikita Okhotyuk
Bokondji Imama
Hunter Drew
Reilly Walsh
Viktor Lodin

That gets you to 49 rookies but it really scrapes the bottom of the barrel. It also leaves essentially no one for an Extended Series. UD could push the cutoff back but it would likely delay Series 2 and further impact an Extended Series.

 

[Burner]

I think part of it has to do with a lot of the rookies missing a year of development in the minors due to Covid, so a lot of them aren't making the jump to the NHL right away

 

[jverreault]

Hope they cancel Extended and work on the backlog !!

Still no 20-21 The Cup !!!!!

 

[timcheveldae]

this doesn't necessarily help with volume, or likely with quality either, but I'm sure there are some goalies that dressed that can be added to the list (despite not getting into a game) Ex. Arturs Silovs w/ Vancouver