Another week has passed, and it’s time for our weekly LA Kings prospect update. This week’s prospect update was highlighted by rookie defenseman Brandt Clarke , who scored his first career NHL goal against the Boston Bruins, which came as the overtime winner. Clarke finished serving his two-minute hooking penalty he got whistled for when he took down David Pastrnak entering the Kings zone. After exiting the penalty box, Clarke picked up the puck at the offensive blue line, which had just been banked off the boards and out to center ice by Phillip Danault. Clarke finished his breakaway chance against last year’s Vezina trophy winner, Linus Ullmark, with a good stick-handling move in tight by going from his backhand to forehand to complete the comeback for LA.
Clarke became the third Kings prospect (Alex Laferriere and Alex Turcotte the other two) to record their first career NHL goal this season and the second one (Laferriere being the other) to do it against Boston. Per the LA Kings PR, he was the first player in franchise history to score his first career NHL goal in overtime.
Here is how the rest of the players in the system fared:
Overseas players:
- Alexander Dergachyov: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 8 SOG in three games played
- Bulat Shafigullin: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 2 SOG in one game played
- Kirill Kirsanov: No games played
- Kasper Simontaival: 2 G, 0 A, 2 Pts, -3, 15 SOG in three games played
- Aatu Jamsen: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 0 SOG in two games played
- Otto Salin: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, -3, 7 SOG in two games played
- Juho Markkanen: No games played
USHL players:
- Hampton Slukynsky: 2 GA, 18 saves on 20 shots faced in one game played
NCAA players:
- Ryan Conmy: 1 G, 3 A, 4 Pts, +3, 4 SOG in two games played
- Kenny Connors: 1 G, 1 A, 2 Pts, -1, 8 SOG in two games played
- Ben Meehan: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 2 SOG in two games played
- Braden Doyle: No games played
- Jared Wright: 1 G, 1 A, 2 Pts, +/- 0, 5 SOG in two games played
- Jack Hughes: 0 G, 3 A, 3 Pts, +2, 2 SOG in three games played
QMJHL players:
- Angus Booth: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 3 SOG in two games played
OHL players:
- Kaleb Lawrence: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 4 SOG in two games played
- Matthew Mania: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +/- 0, 3 SOG in three games played
WHL players:
- Jakub Dvorak: 1 G, 1 A, 2 Pts, +5, 7 SOG in three games played
- Koehn Ziemmer: No games played
BCHL players:
- Jack Sparkes: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +/- (N/A), SOG (N/A) in two games played
ECHL players:
- Jacob Ingham: 5 GA, 33 saves on 38 shots faced in two games played
AHL players:
- TJ Tynan: 0 G, 3 A, 3 Pts, +3, 3 SOG in two games played
- Samuel Fagemo: 3 G, 0 A, 3 Pts, +3, 12 SOG in two games played
- Akil Thomas: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, +1, 5 SOG in two games played
- Martin Chromiak: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +1, 3 SOG in two games played
- Taylor Ward: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, +1, 5 SOG in two games played
- Tyler Madden: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, +1, 3 SOG in two games played
- Jacob Moverare: 0 G, 3 A, 3 Pts, +4, 3 SOG in two games played
- Samuel Helenius: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +1, 0 SOG in two games played
- Steven Santini: 3 G, 0 A, 3 Pts, +2, 4 SOG in two games played
- Kevin Connauton: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +3, 5 SOG in two games played
- Francesco Pinelli: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, +/- 0, 4 SOG in two games played
- Cole Krygier:
- Hayden Hodgson:
- Andre Lee: No games played
- Joe Hicketts: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +3, 4 SOG in two games played
- Kim Nousiainen: No games played
- Erik Portillo: 1 GA, 23 saves on 24 shots faced in one game played
NHL players:
- Alex Turcotte: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, +/- 0, 3 SOG in four games played
- Alex Laferriere: 1 G, 0 A, 1 Pt, -1, 8 SOG in four games played
- Jaret Anderson-Dolan: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 5 SOG in three games played
- Jordan Spence: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -2, 3 SOG in one game played
- David Rittich: 10 GA, 66 saves on 76 shots faced in three games played
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