Penguins Prospect Watch: Nathan Legare extends scoring streak to 5 games
A weekly look at how Penguins prospects and minor leaguers have fared over the past seven days:
• In the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), forward Nathan Legare had a goal and two assists for the Val-d’Or Foreurs in a 9-0 home victory against the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies on Wednesday.
Legare is in the midst of a five-game scoring streak. A third-round pick (No. 74 overall) in 2019, Legare, 20, is signed to a three-year entry-level contract that has yet to begin.
• Also for Val-D’Or, forward Sam Poulin had a goal and an assist in a 5-1 home win against the Quebec Remparts on Thursday.
A first-round pick (No. 21 overall) in 2019, Poulin, 20, is signed to a three-year entry-level contract that has yet to begin.
• Elsewhere in the QMJHL, forward Raivis Ansons recorded a power-play assist for the Baie-Comeau Drakkar during a 6-2 road loss to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens on Wednesday.
The 19-year-old Ansons was a fifth-round pick (No. 149 overall) in 2020 and has yet to sign with the Penguins.
• In the American Hockey League (AHL), forward Josh Currie had a goal and two assists for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins during a 6-3 home loss to the Syracuse Crunch on Wednesday.
A free agent signing this past offseason, the 28-year-old Currie is signed to a one-year, two-way contract.
• On Friday, forward Jody Bellerive scored Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s only goal in a 3-1 road loss to the Hershey Bears.
An undrafted free agent signing in 2017, Bellerive, 21, is in the second-year of a three-year entry-level contract.
• On Sunday, goaltender Max Lagace made 27 saves on 29 shots in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton’s 3-1 home loss to Hershey.
A free agent signing this past offseason, Lagace, 28, is signed to a one-year, two-way contract.
• In the Western Hockey Leagues (WHL), forward Lukas Svejkovsky scored two goals for the Medicine Hat Tigers during a 3-0 home win against the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Friday.
A fourth-round pick (No. 108 overall) in 2020, Svejkovsky, 19, has yet to sign with the Penguins.
• In Finland’s Liiga, forward Kasper Bjorkqvist had two goals and an assist for KooKoo in an 8-1 road win against JYP on Wednesday. They were Bjorkqvist’s first goals since Feb. 6.
A second-round pick (No. 61 overall) in 2016, Bjorkqvist, 23, is in the second year of a two-year entry-level contract with the Penguins.
• Elsewhere in the Liiga, defenseman Niclas Almari recorded a season-high two assists for Pelicans during a 3-0 home win against Luuko on Thursdsay.
A fifth-round pick (No. 151) in 2016, Almari, 22, is in the second year of a three-year entry-level contract with the Penguins.
• Also in the Liiga, forward Valtteri Puustinen recorded an assist for HPK in a 2-1 home loss to KooKoo on Tuesday.
A seventh-round pick in 2019 (No. 203 overall), Puustinen, 21, has yet to sign with the Penguins.
• In the NCAA, forward Judd Caulfield recorded an assist for North Dakota in a 5-1 home win against American International in an regional semifinal game on Friday.
Caulfield, 20, was a fifth-round pick of the Penguins in 2019 (No. 145 overall) and has yet to sign with the team.
• In Finland’s Mestis, goaltender Joel Blomqvist made 21 saves on 22 shots for Hermes in a 3-1 home win against Hokki on Friday.
Blomqvist, 19, was a second-round draft pick (No. 52 overall) in 2020 and has yet to sign with the Penguins.
Statistics
(Players currently on the NHL roster and taxi squad are excluded.)
Forwards and defensemen
Goaltenders
*-Current team
(All figures are through Sunday.)
Seth Rorabaugh is a TribLive reporter covering the Pittsburgh Penguins. A North Huntingdon native, he joined the Trib in 2019 and has covered the Penguins since 2007. He can be reached at srorabaugh@triblive.com.
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