Pavel Jenys Will Play For The Sudbury Wolves

The Minnesota Wild’s 7th round pick (199th overall) in 2014, Pavel Jenys, is joining the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League it was recently announced. Sudbury selected Jenys as their first round pick (#31 overall) in the 2014 OHL Import Draft and Jenys has arrived for camp along with fellow import draftee Ivan Kashtanov.

The OHL should offer Jenys, an 18-year-old center, the opportunity to play against a high level of competition at the junior level. OHL Prospects notes that Jenys should join the Wolves competing to be a two center.

At 6-foot-3, 200 pounds Jenys has good size and Hockey’s Future tags him as a notable player for his “hard work,” though they also note there are consistency issues. That’s a criticism that’s also leveled at Jenys in Elite Prospect’s assessment, though they add that he “has great size and willingness to use it in corner battles as well as in front of the oppositions cage. Has a good shot that is both hard and accurate.”

Jenys jumped around a lot last season and though he was brought up out of juniors to HC Kometa in the Extraliga, he never played a game with the team. Instead he trained with them, played in the Czech U20 league where he posted 13 goals and six assists in 26 games, and joined the Kometa Brno U18 team for the playoffs where he potted ten goals in ten games.

While Jenys has joined Sudbury for camp, one week from today he will join the Wild for the 2014 Traverse City Prospects Camp where he will contend with the team in the five-day tournament between prospect squads from six NHL teams including the Wild, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Rangers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Buffalo Sabres.

Take a look at the Wild’s full prospect tournament roster.

Sudbury will open their season on September 26 at home against the Niagara IceDogs.

Watch a Jenys highlight below.

UPDATE: A previous version of this post mistakenly cited Mathew Campagna as a member of the Wolves. He was traded to the Plymouth Whalers on August 15.