Pohlkamp reaches San Jose, and the board does not move
Eric Pohlkamp played his first four NHL games. Ivar Stenberg is the prospect of the week, and all thirty places hold.
Nobody on the prospect board moved this week, and the change that matters is not in the order. Eric Pohlkamp, third on the board, played his first four NHL games, all four of San Jose's in the week.
Ivar Stenberg is the prospect of the week, with three goals in four games and the only goal of an eight-round shootout against the Islanders. It is the louder week and the smaller change. Stenberg was already in San Jose's lineup, and the goals move his season from nine points in sixteen games to twelve in twenty. Four games of a rookie are mostly noise in either direction.
Pohlkamp's four games are a change of level, and too few for a verdict. He was fourth, fifth, fifth and fifth of San Jose's six defensemen in ice time, with two second assists and four shots. That is a sheltered start, not a grade on his defense.
Filip Bystedt went the other way. He played two of the four games, twelfth of twelve San Jose forwards in ice time both nights, and is back on the Barracuda's roster. Neither address moves either man. The board ranks eligibility and seasons, not where a player sleeps. That is also why Cam Lund holds at No. 10 after four points in three AHL games. His season is six games old, and the board held Cole McKinney until his was eight.
Sources: NHL game logs and box scores; AHL league feed; College Hockey News box scores.
