Penguins Prospect Watch: Nathan Legare leads Val-d'Or to QMJHL quarterfinals
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) postseason, forward Nathan Legare scored a goal for the Val-d’Or Foreurs in a series-clinching 4-1 road win against the Baie-Comeau Drakkar in Game 3 of a second-round series on Tuesday.
Val-d’Or swept the best-of-three series and will face the Rimouski Oceanic in the quarterfinal round.
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.
• In Finland’s Mestis championship final, goaltender Joel Blomqvist was pulled after allowing three goals on three shots in only 3:08 of ice time for Hermes which dropped Game 5 of the series, 8-3, to Kettera on Thursday.
Kettera won the best-of-five series, 3-2.
A second-round pick (No. 52 overall) in 2020, Blomqvist, 19, has yet to sign with the Penguins.
• In the American Hockey League (AHL), defenseman P.O Joseph recorded two assists for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 2-1 overtime home win against the rival Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Wednesday.
Acquired in a 2019 trade, Joseph, 21, is in the second year of a three-year entry-level contract.
• On Friday, goaltender Alex D’Orio made 23 saves on 24 shots for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in a 3-1 road win against the Binghamton Devils.
An undrafted free agent signing in 2017, D’Orio, 22, is in the second year of a three-year entry-level contract.
• Forward Sam Miletic had a goal and an assist for Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in a 4-3 overtime home loss to the Hershey Bears on Saturday.
An undrafted free agent signing in 2017, Miletic, 24, is currently signed to a one-year, two-way contract.
• In the Western Hockey League (WHL), forward Lukas Svejkovsky scored two goals for the Medicine Hat Tigers in a 6-2 road win against the Lethbridge Hurricanes on Thursday.
A fourth-round pick (No. 108 overall) in 2020, Svejkovsky 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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