Carolina Hurricanes: Jamieson Rees Prospect Profile
I know this isn’t really my first article here at Cardiac Cane, but since the first two were just a game preview and recap, we’re going to go ahead and pretend like it is.
If you know me at all, or at least follow me on Twitter, you know this is the most on-brand introductory article I could possibly write.
Prospect tracking and scouting are some of my favorite parts of my sports fandom. It has been that way for years, and definitely isn’t partial to hockey. There is just something exciting about watching young players get drafted into the leagues they have dreamed of and worked toward for years, then continuing to develop their game in order to break through into that league.
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This is why, for myself as well as many of my friends in the Canes and hockey coverage community, this current era of the Carolina Hurricanes franchise is like a long Christmas morning. Not only is the current NHL product absolutely electrifying with its young talent, but the pipeline is stacked with players that could keep this team in contention for the foreseeable future.
This brings us to my favorite of all those prospects I have tracked over the years: the pesky but incredibly talented forward, Jamieson Rees.
Rees is currently – and temporarily – playing for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves, alongside fellow top prospects Ryan Suzuki and Seth Jarvis (as well as Nashville’s Philip Tomasino). He has provided flashes that show why he is a highly-regarded prospect, but also shown some rough edges – which should be expected from a player that isn’t actually eligible to play in the minors for another year.
In this post, we’ll take a look at how he got here, break his game down in-depth as I’ve seen it over the last couple of years, and consider what his future has in store from a ceiling and floor standpoint.