{"id":140174,"date":"2025-09-13T04:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140174\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T04:14:15","slug":"prospect-notes-frondell-kraken-pickford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140174\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospect Notes: Frondell, Kraken, Pickford"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blackhawks were originally hoping to have Anton Frondell<\/a> with them for rookie camp as well as main training camp this month, relays Scott Powers of The Athletic (subscription link<\/a>).\u00a0 However, when the center indicated that he felt his development would be best served by staying in Sweden with SHL Djurgarden instead of an early-season interruption, they agreed to that plan instead.\u00a0 Frondell was the third-overall pick back in June on the heels of an impressive showing with Djurgarden in the second-tier Allsvenskan when he had 25 points in 29 games.\u00a0 That team earned a promotion to the SHL this season, which will give Frondell tougher competition to play against.\u00a0 GM Kyle Davidson noted that the expectation is that no matter what, this will be Frondell\u2019s final year in Sweden.<\/p>\n

More prospect news from around the NHL:<\/p>\n

The Kraken are without a pair of prospects as their rookie camp begins. The team announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that defenseman Alexis Bernier<\/a> is out as he continues to recover from ACL surgery while center Julius Miettinen<\/a> is dealing with an upper-body injury sustained in training camp with WHL Everett.\u00a0 Bernier had a strong post-draft season with QMJHL Baie-Comeau, collecting 14 goals and 32 assists in 59 games but isn\u2019t eligible to play in the minors this season.\u00a0 As for Miettinen, he notched 39 points in 36 games with the Silvertips and briefly spent time as a reserve with AHL Coachella Valley in the playoffs.\u00a0 However, he also isn\u2019t eligible to play in the minors this season.
\nThe Canadiens announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that defenseman Bryce Pickford<\/a> is dealing with a lower-body injury and didn\u2019t take part in practice today. The 19-year-old wasn\u2019t drafted in his first year of eligibility last year but went in the third round back in June, going 81st overall.\u00a0 Pickford had a breakout year offensively in 2024-25, notching 20 goals and 27 assists in 48 regular season games with WHL Medicine Hat before adding 24 more points in 18 postseason contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blackhawks were originally hoping to have Anton Frondell with them for rookie camp as well as main…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[75447,75448,22722,49,48,756,5718,75449,743,448,768,82],"class_list":["post-140174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alexis-bernier","tag-anton-frondell","tag-bryce-pickford","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-injury","tag-julius-miettinen","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}