LA Kings Prospect Update – Week 2/9

Another week has passed, and it’s time for another LA Kings‘ weekly prospect update. This week’s update saw two players have a strong week, making it a tough choice to make on who highlighted the week. Ultimately, that honor went to defenseman Henry Brzustewicz.

Brzustewicz — turned 19 during the week — played in three games for the London Knights (OHL) during the week. Although his 11-game point streak came to a halt in the first game of the week in a loss to the Kitchener Rangers, the young defenseman tallied all four of his points (1 G, 3 A) in the following two games.

His best performance came in the final game of the week, a 4-3 shootout win over the Soo Greyhounds. Brzustewicz recorded a goal, two secondary assists, and a shootout goal against fellow King prospect Carter George.

Brzustewicz has 40 points (16 G, 24 A) in 45 games with London and is logging plenty of ice time. He has seen time on London’s top power-play unit and the penalty kill in addition to his five-on-five usage.

Here is how the rest of the prospects in the pipeline fared during the week:

Overseas players:

  • Alexander Dergachyov: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, -6, 9 SOG in three games played
  • Bulat Shafigullin: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, -1, 10 SOG in three games played
  • Petteri Rimpinen: 2 GA, 38 saves on 40 shots faced (.950 sv%) in two games played

NCAA players:

  • Ryan Conmy: 0 G, 5 A, 5 Pts, -1, 11 SOG in three games played

  • James Reeder: 2 G, 1 A, 3 Pts, +4, 5 SOG in two games played

  • Kristian Epperson: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +1, 1 SOG in one game played
  • Brendan McMorrow: NO GAMES PLAYED (INJURED/HEALTHY SCRATCH)
  • Caeden Herrington: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in two games played
  • Jack Sparkes: NO GAMES PLAYED (NO GAMES SCHEDULED)
  • Hampton Slukynsky: 4 GA, 51 saves on 55 shots faced (.927 sv%) in two games played

OHL players:

  • Jimmy Lombardi: 0 G, 3 A, 3 Pts, +2, 8 SOG in three games played
  • Jan Chovan: 2 G, 0 A, 2 Pts, +/- 0, 6 SOG in two games played

  • Jared Woolley: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +4, 6 SOG in three games played
  • Carter George: 8 GA, 62 saves on 70 shots faced (.886 sv%) in two games played

WHL players:

  • Vojtěch Čihař: 3 G, 0 A, 3 Pts, +4, 10 SOG in three games played

  • Will Sharpe: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -3, 1 SOG in two games played

AHL players:

  • Francesco Pinelli: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 4 SOG in one game played
  • Martin Chromiak: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 3 SOG in one game played
  • Andre Lee: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in one game played

  • Aatu Jamsen: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 1 SOG in one game played
  • Kenny Connors: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 3 SOG in one game played
  • Jared Wright: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in one game played
  • Koehn Ziemmer: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 1 SOG in one game played
  • Jack Hughes: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 0 SOG in one game played
  • Kaleb Lawrence: NO GAMES PLAYED (INJURED/HEALTHY SCRATCH)
  • Otto Salin: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -2, 2 SOG in one game played
  • Angus Booth: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in one game played
  • Kirill Kirsanov: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in one game played
  • Jakub Dvořák: NO GAMES PLAYED (INJURED/HEALTHY SCRATCH)
  • Erik Portillo: 2 GA, 11 saves on 13 shots faced (.846 sv%) in one game played

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1 thought on “LA Kings Prospect Update – Week 2/9”

  1. why even include Alexander Dergachyov or Bulat Shafigullin in prospects list ? Dergachyov was a 2015 year draft pick! Been in KHL like 10 years and dude is almost 30 years old lol ! Clearly he’s not ever gonna be a King let alone even come to NHL. Same goes for Shafigullin.

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