The draft is over and so is last season. In addition, we also acquired Tim Erixon and Lindberg, and lost Grachev, Horak and Werek to a trade, as well as Sauer and Stepan to graduation. And so it's once again time to vote on our top prospects.
THE RULES
WHO IS A PROSPECT: We can't all have different standards based on what we each want personally. We are on the HF board, so let's follow their rules. The standard for what's a prospect is here: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect
HOW TO RANK PROSPECTS: Based on their value in a hypothetical trade or waiver draft. This takes into consideration a prospect's ceiling, how close he's to making it, his health, work ethic, the whole deal. Imagine there was a prospect waiver draft and you could keep only one prospect. That guy is our #1 prospect. Then imagine we had one more waiver protection. That guy is our #2 prospect.
CATEGORIES: We'll have top 25 prospects with 5 unranked honorable mentions. The top 10 will be "Top Prospects", the second 10 will be "Second-Tier" and the final 5 will be "Projects & Suspects".
Don't forget to list who you want added to the poll in the next round.
The previous rankings from the winter of 2011:
TOP PROSPECTS
1. (0) C Derek Stepan
2. (0) LW Chris Kreider
3. (+2) RW Mats Zuccarrello-Aasen
4. (+8) D Michael Sauer
5. (+1) D Dylan McIlrath
6. (-2) D Ryan McDonagh
7. (-4) LW Evgeny Grachev
8. (+1) RW Christian Thomas
9. (+1) LW Carl Hagelin
10. (-3) C Ethan Werek
SECOND TIER PROSPECTS
11. (+1) D Pavel Valentenko
12. (+5) LW Roman Horak
13. (+8) RW Jesper Fasth
14. (+4) D Tomas Kundratek
15. (-1) LW Ryan Bourque
16. (-8) RW Dale Weise
17. (+2) C Andrew Yogan
18. (-7) G Chad Johnson
19. (-4) D Mikhail Pashnin
20. (NR) C Chad Kolarik
PROJECTS & SUSPECTS
21. (+10) G Cam Talbot
22. (-2) LW Brodie Dupont
23. (+10) C Max Campbell
24. (+8) LW Jason Wilson
25. (-3) D Jyri Niemi
HONORABLE MENTIONS
* G Scott Stajcer
* D Dan Maggio
* RW Randy McNaught
* LW Devin DiDiomete
* LW Justin Soryal
* C Danny Hobbs
Voted for Tim Erixon. Several sources (THN, the re-draft of 2009) ranked him above Kreider, and the Rangers think he's already top-4 and may be top-2. That's a hell of a prospect.
Add Carl Hagelin, who I am hoping will make the NHL this year.
Definitely either Tim Erixon or McD, I went with Erixon. Kreiders slowed development and decision to stay at the NCAA level pushed him to 3 in my books.
Like Esq said, most scouts has Erixon rated higher higher then any of our other prospects as well.
Happy to say that this is the most difficult top spot I've ever had to consider in one of these polls since joining these boards during the lockout. For me, it was pretty much a four-way tie. In my mind, McDonagh and Thomas caught up to Kreider this year and Erixon joins at about the same ranking. Going with Kreider, simply because I believe that he will take that next step and, if he does, will put some distance between himself and the other three again.
EDIT: add Fasth.
Really looking forward to these rankings. Personally, upside is the biggest factor in my voting (followed by probability of reaching that upside, THEN progress to date), so I'm going to be voting for Fogarty/St. Croix/McColgan as early as the 6-10 range. Loved this draft.
Last edited by BrooklynRangersFan: 06-26-2011 at 12:49 PM.
Voted Erixon. I don't quite consider McDonagh a prospect anymore, so that's why I went with Erixon. I think he's the most NHL ready out of the group and is quite talented.
Voted Erixon. I don't quite consider McDonagh a prospect anymore, so that's why I went with Erixon. I think he's the most NHL ready out of the group and is quite talented.
by HF rules he still may be a prospect. He was so solid though that it's hard for me to view him as such.
I'm going with Kreider though as his development is probably more important than McDonagh's. Not to say that Mcdonagh isn't important but we desperately need help in the scoring department.
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Last edited by twistedwrister17: 06-26-2011 at 02:02 PM.
The draft is over and so is last season. In addition, we also acquired Tim Erixon and Lindberg, and lost Grachev, Horak and Werek to a trade, as well as Sauer and Stepan to graduation. And so it's once again time to vote on our top prospects.
THE RULES
WHO IS A PROSPECT: We can't all have different standards based on what we each want personally. We are on the HF board, so let's follow their rules. The standard for what's a prospect is here: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect
HOW TO RANK PROSPECTS: Based on their value in a hypothetical trade or waiver draft. This takes into consideration a prospect's ceiling, how close he's to making it, his health, work ethic, the whole deal. Imagine there was a prospect waiver draft and you could keep only one prospect. That guy is our #1 prospect. Then imagine we had one more waiver protection. That guy is our #2 prospect.
CATEGORIES: We'll have top 25 prospects with 5 unranked honorable mentions. The top 10 will be "Top Prospects", the second 10 will be "Second-Tier" and the final 5 will be "Projects & Suspects".
Don't forget to list who you want added to the poll in the next round.
The previous rankings from the winter of 2011:
TOP PROSPECTS
1. (0) C Derek Stepan
2. (0) LW Chris Kreider
3. (+2) RW Mats Zuccarrello-Aasen
4. (+8) D Michael Sauer
5. (+1) D Dylan McIlrath
6. (-2) D Ryan McDonagh
7. (-4) LW Evgeny Grachev
8. (+1) RW Christian Thomas
9. (+1) LW Carl Hagelin
10. (-3) C Ethan Werek
SECOND TIER PROSPECTS
11. (+1) D Pavel Valentenko
12. (+5) LW Roman Horak
13. (+8) RW Jesper Fasth
14. (+4) D Tomas Kundratek
15. (-1) LW Ryan Bourque
16. (-8) RW Dale Weise
17. (+2) C Andrew Yogan
18. (-7) G Chad Johnson
19. (-4) D Mikhail Pashnin
20. (NR) C Chad Kolarik
PROJECTS & SUSPECTS
21. (+10) G Cam Talbot
22. (-2) LW Brodie Dupont
23. (+10) C Max Campbell
24. (+8) LW Jason Wilson
25. (-3) D Jyri Niemi
HONORABLE MENTIONS
* G Scott Stajcer
* D Dan Maggio
* RW Randy McNaught
* LW Devin DiDiomete
* LW Justin Soryal
* C Danny Hobbs
winter of 2011? your flux capacitor got fixed i take it?
