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September 22, 2026
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Pohlkamp scored 97 seconds in, and he has played one professional game

Pohlkamp moves up a place after scoring at Anaheim. Landen's repeated first-pair assignment at TPS offers a longer look.

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Dom CahillSep 22, 20262 min read
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Sam Dickinson in San Jose's teal home sweater, carrying the puck up out of his own zone at SAP Center. A league photograph, undated by its source. Dickinson led San Jose's six defensemen in ice time at Anaheim on September 20, the night Eric Pohlkamp scored the club's first preseason goal.

Sort Sunday's six San Jose defensemen by ice time. You get Dickinson, Sahlin Wallenius, Allan, Pohlkamp, McKeown, Hajek, with Pohlkamp fourth at 18:31.

Eric Pohlkamp scored San Jose's first preseason goal at Anaheim on September 20, five on five from Ethan Cardwell, at 1:37 of the first period. San Jose lost 6-2; Pohlkamp rises from fourth to third among thirty prospects.

Anaheim dressed Carlsson, Gauthier, Granlund and Killorn; San Jose lacked Celebrini, Smith and Toffoli. That is a real Anaheim lineup, which is the argument for the goal. Two things argue against making more of it than one rank:

  1. Pohlkamp is 22, with a professional career before Sunday consisting of one AHL playoff game.
  2. Ryan Lin falls from third to fourth without playing. College Hockey News' September schedule offered no NCAA Division I games in which he could answer.

Now give repeated assignments more weight than an exhibition goal. Axel Landen rises from 30th to 29th, displacing Nate Misskey to 30th, after Saturday's first point of his Liiga season. The Finnish league's own game files put Landen on the first pair in all six of TPS's six games.

The prospect board covers Friday September 18 through Monday September 21. The Pohlkamp-Lin and Landen-Misskey swaps change four of the thirty positions.

Sources: NHL box score, play-by-play and player record; Liiga game files; College Hockey News September schedule.

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This follows from the arithmetic in the piece rather than from a read on any individual prospect, which is why it is worth scoring. Nineteen of the 41 players San Jose lists are at 100 or more career NHL games and the new collective bargaining agreement caps each of them at two exhibition appearances, so at most 38 of roughly 80 lineup slots across four games can go to that group. The other 22 have to fill the rest, and 11 of the 22 have never played an NHL game. Against the call, and it is a real risk: four games divided across 22 eligible bodies is under two each, so a staff that rotates evenly can hold every one of them to two and never play anybody four times. Injury or a reassignment to the Barracuda before September 26 does the same thing to any individual candidate. The named candidates on the list at filing are Ivar Stenberg, Filip Bystedt, Quentin Musty, Andre Gasseau, Carson Wetsch, Jimmy Huntington, Eric Pohlkamp, Mattias Havelid, Leo Sahlin Wallenius, Phillip Sinn and Kyle Keyser.

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