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A week has passed, and it’s time for another LA Kings prospect update. Liam Greentree highlighted the prospect update for the final time this season with a sensational performance to open the week. Greentree went bonkers in game three of the Windsor Spitfires’ second-round matchup against the Kitchener Rangers with a six-point night in a 6-3 victory to give the Spitfires a 3-0 series lead. The 19-year-old recorded a primary point on all six Windsor goals and notched the first five-goal playoff game in Windsor history. Truly Remarkable.

However, the next three games weren’t kind to Greentree. He went scoreless in game four and played through an illness that would eventually keep him out of the lineup for game five despite being a part of warm-ups.

Greentree would return to the Spitfire lineup for game six and was held off the scoresheet again — the first time he was held off the scoresheet in back-to-back games in these OHL playoffs —  as the Rangers forced a game seven with a 4-0 victory. You have to wonder if the illness has affected him physically and his performance for the last three games, but Windsor has something bigger to worry about. The Spitfires will play in a game seven after having a stranglehold 3-0 series lead and will look to avoid being on the wrong side of a reverse sweep tomorrow. Whether Greentree is still battling an illness or not by then, Windsor will need him to find a way to regain his scoring touch from their first nine playoff games if they want to advance.

If Windsor is on the losing side of game seven, Greentree will be eligible to be re-assigned to the Ontario Reign, as they will look to embark on a deep playoff run of their own, or serve as a black ace to the Kings. Let’s hope Windsor prevails in game seven and keeps Greentree’s hopes of captaining Windsor to a Memorial Cup alive.

Here is how the rest of the players in the pipeline fared:

Overseas players:

  • Alexander Dergachyov: No games played (Season over)
  • Bulat Shafigullin: No games played (Season over)
  • Kirill Kirsanov: 1 G, 1 A, 2 Pts, +2, 8 SOG in two games played (VHL playoffs)

NCAA players:

  • Ryan Conmy: No games played (Season over)
  • James Reeder: No games played (Season over)
  • Jack Hughes: No games played (Season over)
  • Jack Sparkes: No games played (Season over)
  • Braden Doyle: No games played (Season over)
  • Hampton Slukynsky: No games played (Season over)

OHL players:

  • Jared Woolley: 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +3, 4 SOG in two games played (Playoffs)

AHL players:

  • Koehn Ziemmer: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 3 SOG in three games played
  • Jared Wright: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, -1, 7 SOG in three games played
  • Otto Salin: 0 G, 1 A, 1 Pt, -1, 2 SOG in two games played
  • Angus Booth: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 0 SOG in two games played (injured in the second game)
  • Jakub Dvořák: 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -1, 0 SOG in two games played
  • Cole Krygier: No games played (Injured)
  • Carter George: 1 GA, 27 saves on 28 shots faced in one game played
  • Erik Portillo: No games played (Injured)
  • Jacob Ingham: No games played (backup goalie or third-string goalie in all three games)

NHL players:

This article first appeared on Hockey Royalty and was syndicated with permission.

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