Prospect Weekly: Opportunity Knocks

Nicolas Meloche scored his first professional goal and added an assist in a 5-3 loss to the San Jose Barracuda last week. Mason Geertsen getting tossed out of the game and subsequently suspended three games for a flagrant elbow is what opened the door for Meloche to see more ice time in both this game and then later in during the weekend. It’s too bad that it took an Avalanche prospect’s removal from the lineup to make it happen. In the goal seen below, Meloche uses his offensive instincts to jump into the play and his nice wrist shot to finish it off.

AJ Greer scored his fourth goal in four consecutive games before missing the weekend with what was determined to be a minor lower body injury. Meloche began the play getting the puck up ice as not pictured here.

JC Beaudin was doing work for the Eagles last week before he was called up to San Antonio. Four goals in two games must have got someone’s attention. Here’s the last two in a 3-2 win over Greenville.

CHL Update:

The Greyhounds have now won 12 straight with an incredible record of 21-3-2. This is their year to really make some noise.

For Your Listening Pleasure:

A new episode of Prospect Monthly podcast is live! We talk about the month that was. Can you guess the current top three producers in the Avs system? The answer and more HERE.

For Your Viewing Pleasure:

Big week in coverage as the Ottawa 67s (Barron) are featured on television on Saturday, December 2nd at 1:30pm MT to take on the Barrie Colts (with no Andrei Svechnikov, boo). This can be seen on Sportsnet and NHL Network.

UMass (Makar) is on the Eleven Sports Network (check if you have a dish) on Friday, December 1st at 5pm MT.

Also on Friday the 1st at 5pm, BU (Bowers) takes on Boston College, which can be accessed on the ESPN ap.