Steven Fogarty won round 10 and Pavel Valentenko is added to the poll.
Don't forget to write who should be added to the poll.
Rangers property eligible to be added as prospects:
Lee Baldwin
Francois Bouchard
Peter Ceresnak
Chris Chappell
Tommy Grant
Danny Hobbs
Chad Johnson
Sam Klassen
Chad Kolarik
David Kveton
Randy McNaught
Jason Missiaen
Jyri Niemi
Mikhail Pashnin
Scott Stajcer
Cameron Talbot
Andreas Thuresson
Jason Wilson
Lukas Zeliska
TOP PROSPECTS
1. LW Chris Kreider
2. D Tim Erixon
3. C J.T. Miller
4. LW Carl Hagelin
5. D Dylan McIlrath
6. RW Christian Thomas
7. RW Jesper Fasth
8. C Michael St. Croix
9. RW Mats Zuccarello
10. C Steven Fogarty
Steven Fogarty
Center
Born Apr 19 1993 -- Edina, MN
Height 6.02 -- Weight 195
Add Lindberg. He is on a conditioning stint down, but he's still a regular in the SEL for a couple of years. Add Peter Ceresnak. Not too many valuable prospects left, to be honest.
is anyone else concerned with the lack of a quality net minder in the system?
Honestly, not really. I mean, we're ****ed if Henrik goes down for an extended period of time, regardless. In the next three years or so we may want to take a look at developing some guys in the later rounds (and honestly, I think that's what they tried with Stajcer), but as long as you have Henrik in net, I think you want to spend your higher picks on surrounding him with talent rather than developing a young backup.
Honestly, not really. I mean, we're ****ed if Henrik goes down for an extended period of time, regardless. In the next three years or so we may want to take a look at developing some guys in the later rounds (and honestly, I think that's what they tried with Stajcer), but as long as you have Henrik in net, I think you want to spend your higher picks on surrounding him with talent rather than developing a young backup.
Exactly. Any goalie we have in our system at present will most likely never be a starting goalie for the New York Rangers. That said, we need to have a couple in our system if only for Hartford. We can worry about who will be groomed to be Hank's replacement in 4 or 5 years...assuming he has 7 or 8 years left with us.
Personally, not really. As long as we got Henrik signed over the long term, we don't really have to worry about it too much at this point.
That said, I wouldn't mind if they spent a high pick on a goalie in the upcoming draft. As long as he doesn't turn out the way Antoine LaFleur did.
By high pick I hope you meant to say low pick. I'd be pissed if we blew a 1st or 2nd rounder on a goalie in the next couple of years. We need to be shooting for more guys with offensive upside again in the first couple of rounds again this year.
By high pick I hope you meant to say low pick. I'd be pissed if we blew a 1st or 2nd rounder on a goalie in the next couple of years. We need to be shooting for more guys with offensive upside again in the first couple of rounds again this year.
I don't know about you, but I'm not comfortable with Stajcer being our best goalie prospect. We've drafted well enough in the past couple of years where we could afford to gamble on a goalie with a 2nd or 3rd rounder. Heck, if our first rounder ends up being a late one this year, and if he's available, I wouldn't mind Malcolm Subban.
Add Stajcer: Putting up .930 SV% while his partner is putting up a .890 SV%. People are so apt to vote for Yogan and they are both overagers in the OHL. Stajcer's numbers are more impressive as well.
I don't know about you, but I'm not comfortable with Stajcer being our best goalie prospect. We've drafted well enough in the past couple of years where we could afford to gamble on a goalie with a 2nd or 3rd rounder. Heck, if our first rounder ends up being a late one this year, and if he's available, I wouldn't mind Malcolm Subban.
I would be enraged if they took any goalie with our 1st round pick this year...or next. Is any prospect we draft this year or next going to be better than Biron if Hank were to go down for an extended period or longer? Doubtful. We want to burn a 3rd rounder on a goalie the organization is high on I guess I'm ok with that. But this is supposed to be a deep draft. We better swing for the fences for two forwards with upside the first two rounds....assuming we actually have those picks come the trade deadline. Knowing Sather that 2nd rounder is likely in play. If we only have 1 pick in the first 80 selections it better not be for a goalie...that much I can say for sure.
