Scouting report: Ragnar Hagstrom

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Name: Ragnar Hagstrom 

Height: 6’5

Weight: 186 LB 

Nation: Sweden, Uppsala 

Team: VHLM: Minnesota Storm, Ottawa Lynx. VHLE: Oslo Strom. VHL: Calgary Wranglers. 

 

Ragnar Hagstrom draft 23rd overal in the S81 VHL draft by Calgary. What king of defenseman has Calgary selected in the second round. Well let’s analyze his play style and try to answer that questions. 

 

He join the VHLM during the start of the season, joining the Minnesota Storm. He did pretty well with the Strom. Starting on the second pairing only robe to be retrograde to the third a couple of games after and finally finish on the first pairing. He adjusted pretty well to any situation. 

 

With Minnesota Ragnar Hagstrom have some interesting stats. In 63 games Hagstrom had 82 points with 23 goals. 16 of them are power play goal. With his 35 power play points, a +/- of 42 and 5 games winning goals. Ragnar his good offensive defenseman he play a lot of minutes averaging 21.75 minutes per game and the Minnesota trust  him during the power play playing 266 total minutes this past season and 211 during being short handed. 

 

This season with Ottawa Lynx Hagstrom played 16 games have 11 goals, 25 points, +/- of 9. He have a more productive pace to the season. Pretty similar to last season he is averaging 21.89 minutes per game. For his power play stats 10 points, 3 goals in 63 minutes in total this season. No points for Hagstrom while short handed only playing 3 minutes in total this season. 

 

Ragnar Hagstrom is a great all around players who love to shoot the puck averaging 3.5 shots a game. Offensive menace with or without the puck, he move to control the pace of the game using his speed and puck handling ability. Yes is really good in offense but he doesn’t comprise his game in the defensive zone, he rarely do mistake, he his a smart players who think fast about all his decisions on the ice in a fraction of a seconde. He is rarely on the bench and that’s help the teams a lot. 

 

He his a really good defenseman, but like every good players he has some weakness. He is not a physical player he doesn’t like that aspect of hockey and feel like it doesn’t affect that the game if you hit a player or not. If you end up with the puck after a corner fight for it that what matter for him. 

 

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