Scouting Report
EVALUATED 01/02/2024![Joel Henderson](https://puckpreps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/thumbnail_Image-1-e1623369243412.png)
Joel Henderson
Director of Scouting
EVENT John Reid Memorial Tournament
The first of two super tall players for Calgary had a more effective weekend than I was anticipating too. He isn’t a north-south burner through the neutral zone so he relies on possession and puck control in small areas in the offensive zone to leverage his reach and size. When he is barreling down on you as a forechecker though, he can cause turnovers and pick pocket defenders who try to escape. I watched him make a couple very smart passes from behind the goal line to teammates driving the slot on the short side which led to some points. The showoff moments came when he was stickhandling through the defensive triangles down low and finding shooting space in the home plate areas. I thought his best game came against Yale since he was able to match processing speed and skating atrides with a lot of their bigger forwards. It is still a mixture of effectiveness with him but with the flashes of stickhandling and his understanding of how to protect in the cycle, I think every team out there will be discussing just how high it is reasonable to take him.
LEAGUE PREDICTION
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WHL 100%