Prospect Watch is a weekly feature checking in on the Penguins' prospects playing in juniors, college, or Europe. This is the first Prospect Watch of the season, and subsequent editions will provide full updates on what each player did that week.
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FORWARDS
Judd Caulfield
Position: Forward
Size: 6-3/207
Drafted: 2019, fifth round
Team: North Dakota (NCAA)
Season totals: 2 games, 1 assist
Caulfield has played in just two games so far for North Dakota in his freshman year, playing both games on the fourth line.
His first collegiate point was this impressive move, knocking a pass out of the air and driving to the net to pick up an assist:
Icing on the Cake. #UNDproud #LGH @UNDmhockey pic.twitter.com/yFXZscmynF
— UND Insider (@UNDinsider) October 13, 2019
Liam Gorman
Position: Center
Size: 6-3/196
Drafted: 2018, sixth round
Team: Princeton (NCAA)
Season totals: None
Over the summer Gorman decommitted from Boston University and enrolled at Princeton for his freshman year.
Gorman has yet to play this season.
Filip Hallander
Position: Center/Wing
Size: 6-1/190
Drafted: 2018, second round
Team: Lulea HF (SHL)
Season totals: 2 games, 1 assist
Hallander fractured his leg in his second game of the season and is expected to be out until at least Christmas.
Nathan Legare
Position: Right wing
Size: 6-0/205
Drafted: 2019, third round
Team: Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL)
Season totals: 11 games, 6 goals, 6 assists
Legare is the leading scorer for the struggling Drakkar, which rank next-to-last in the QMJHL's Eastern Conference.
Legare will be playing for Team QMJHL in the upcoming Canada-Russia series.
Linus Olund
Position: Center
Size: 5-11/183
Drafted: 2017, fifth round
Team: Brynas IF (SHL)
Season totals: 8 games, 1 goal, 2 assists
Olund is back in Sweden this season on loan to Brynas after playing in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton last season.
Olund scored his first goal of the season after returning from a concussion:
Nikita Pavlychev
Position: Center
Size: 6-8/225
Drafted: 2015, seventh round
Team: Penn State (NCAA)
Season totals: 2 games, 1 goal
Pavlychev is in his final year at Penn State and is centering the fourth line.
His first point of the season was a power play tally in a 7-0 win over Alaska.
Samuel Poulin
Position: Wing
Size: 6-1/207
Drafted: 2019, first round
Team: Sherbrooke Phoenix (QMJHL)
Season totals: 11 games, 9 goals, 13 assists
Poulin is off to an incredible two-points-per-game pace after his eight-point night this week.
Poulin will be playing for Team QMJHL in the upcoming Canada-Russia series.
Valtteri Puustinen
Position: Wing
Size: 5-9/183
Drafted: 2019, seventh round
Team: HPK (Liiga)
Season totals: 14 games, 5 goals, 7 assists
Puustinen is off to a strong start, a point shy of being HPK's team-leading scorer.
DEFENSEMEN
Calen Addison
Size: 5-10/180
Drafted: 2018, second round
Team: Lethbridge Hurricanes (WHL)
Season totals: 12 games, 3 goals, 6 assists
Addison has played on all three defense pairings for Lethbridge, and has been playing on both the left and right side, as he did last season.
Addison will be playing for Team WHL in the upcoming Canada-Russia series.
Santeri Airola
Size: 5-11/165
Drafted: 2019, seventh round
Team: SaiPa (Liiga)
Season totals: 2 games
After playing primarily in Finnish juniors last season, Airola's plan this season was to move to the second-tier professional Mestis league and play for Kettera.
Airola hasn't played for Kettera at all this season, and is instead being loaned to SaiPa of the top men's league. He's been injured since September and is projected to return to the lineup in about a week. When he was healthy, he was playing on the right side of SaiPa's third pairing.
Ryan Jones
Size: 6-2/186
Drafted: 2016, fourth round
Team: Nebraska-Omaha (NCAA)
Season totals: 4 games, 2 goals, 2 assists
Just four games into the season, Jones has already matches his goal total from his first three collegiate seasons combined, and is a third of the way to his point total from last season.
? The power play parade continues from last night!
Jones with a blast to double @OmahaHKY's lead#NCHCHockey | #EveryoneForOmaha pic.twitter.com/NdZldlES80
— The NCHC (@TheNCHC) October 13, 2019
Not a bad way to kick off his senior year.
Antti Palojarvi
Size: 6-1/172
Drafted: 2017, sixth round
Team: Lukko (Liiga), Lukko U20 (Jr. A SM-liiga)
Season totals: 5 games with Lukko; 11 games, 2 assists Lukko U20
Palojarvi still isn't a regular in the top Finnish men's league. He was with the main Lukko team in September, playing on the left side of the third defense pairing, but has been playing for the junior team this month.
He spent last season with both Lukko's main and U20 teams, as well as a second-tier Mestis team.
Clayton Phillips
Size: 5-11/183
Drafted: 2017, third round
Team: Penn State (NCAA)
Season totals: 4 games, 2 assists
Phillips transferred from Minnesota to Penn State for his junior season, and is playing on the Nittany Lions' second pairing.
The Daily Collegian put together a feature on Phillips on this week.
“I think it’s going to be a great fit,” he said. “[They like] to play really fast here, and I think that playing fast is one of my bigger assets of my game.”
William Reilly
Size: 6-2/196
Drafted: 2017, seventh round
Team: Rensselaer Polytech (NCAA)
Season totals: 4 games, 1 goal, 3 assists
Reilly is in his senior collegiate season.
Reilly ? takes advantage of the giveaway for his first goal of the season! pic.twitter.com/NjEItj7vsS
— RPI Men's Hockey (@RPI_Hockey) October 12, 2019
Four games into RPI's season, Reilly ranks No. 1 in team scoring.