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Scouting Report written by Matthew Somma

When I first started watching the Kamloops Blazers this season, I was more focused on what Mats Lindgren and Fraser Minten were doing. I didn’t pay much attention to Seminoff at first. However, as time went on, one player stood out above all the rest on the Blazers. Every shift, Matthew Seminoff was making something happen, hounding the puck and becoming a legitimate nuisance for opposing teams trying to execute a breakout. Seminoff grabbed my attention almost immediately with his work ethic and speed, and I’ve been a fan since that moment.

One of my colleagues at Smaht Scouting, Jordan Malette, described Shane Wright as an airport. If Wright is an airport, Seminoff is a Formula 1 car. He’s constantly moving, but the slightest deviation can knock him off track and be disastrous. With time and some fine-tuning, though, those problems will become a thing of the past. You’ll just have to be patient. In our preliminary rankings, I didn’t list Seminoff in our top 50 or as an honorable mention. Part of that is for the reason I stated earlier, in that I hadn’t watched Kamloops for Seminoff at that point. As of right now, I’d consider Seminoff to be a fringe 2nd/3rd round pick.

Seminoff’s work ethic is something that will carry him a lot further than it probably should, which is a good thing. There are always going to be players more skilled than Seminoff that don’t make it as far because he’s willing to out work all of them. The work ethic won’t be everything, though. There are a lot of areas in Seminoff’s game where he’s just starting to develop and improve upon, and as a result, he’s fairly raw as a prospect. In this profile, I hope to paint a picture of Seminoff as a player and give my assessment as to why I believe that Seminoff will be an NHL forward in the future.

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