Prospect Info: 2020 HFDevils Prospect Rankings #24

[Nubmer6]

Rank	Player	Draft POS	Vote %	2019 Result	2018 Result
1	Alexander Holtz	2020 #7	88.6	Jack Hughes	Ty Smith
2	Ty Smith	2018 #17	90.1	Ty Smith	Michael McLeod
3	Dawson Mercer	2020 #18	63.8	Jesper Boqvist	Joey Anderson
4	Nolan Foote	2019 #27	80.4	MacKenzie Blackwood	Jesper Boqvist
5	Kevin Bahl	2018 #55	65.7	Joey Anderson	John Quenneville
6	Shakir Mukhamadullin	2020 #20	58.7	Aarne Talvitie	Reilly Walsh
7	Tyce Thompson	2019 #96	45.8	Reilly Walsh	Brett Seney
8	Janne Kuokkanen	2016 #43	41.2	Michael McLeod	Jeremy Davies
9	Reilly Walsh	2017 #81	26.8	Nathan Bastian	Fabian Zetterlund
10	Daniil Misyul	2019 #70	27.8	Daniil Misyul	Blake Speers
11	Nico Daws	2020 #84	37.0	Marian Studenic	Aarne Talvitie
12	Nick Merkley	2015 #30	30.0	Brett Seney	MacKenzie Blackwood
13	Yegor Sharangovich	2018 #141	27.9	Fabian Zetterlund	T-Nathan Bastian
14	Nathan Bastian	2016 #41	31.7	Nikita Okhotyuk	T-Colby Sissions
15	Nikita Okhotyuk	2019 #61	30.4	Brandon Gignac	Marian Studenic
16	Case McCarthy	2019 #118	32.3	Mikhail Maltsev	Matt Hellickson
17	Graeme Clarke	2019 #8o	33.3	Michael Vukojevic	Xavier Bernard
18	Arseni Gritsyuk	2019 #129	40.8	Case McCarthy	Mikhail Maltsev
19	Patrick Moynihan	2019 #158	37.9	Patrick Moynihan	Yegor Sharangovich
20	Aarne Talvitie	2017 #160	45.7	T-Grame Clarke
21	Mikhail Maltsev	2016 #102	31.7	T-Akira Schmidt
22	Jaromir Pytlik	2020 #99	30.0
23	Gilles Senn	2017 #129	32.5

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Last Pick: Gilles Senn - HC Davos / NL

Added: Josh Jacobs

Eligible Prospects: Benjamin Baumgartner Cole Brady Evan Cormier Jeremy Groleau Matthew Hellickson Nikita Popugayev David Quenneville Akira Schmid Artem Shlaine Colby Sissions Colton White _____________________________

In Poll: Ethan Edwards Josh Jacobs Eetu Päkkilä Nikola Pasic Brandon Gignac Nathan Schnarr Marian Studenic Michael Vukojevic Yegor Zaitsev Fabian Zetterlund Ripshot 43 ____________________________

Selected: Alexander Holtz Ty Smith Dawson Mercer Nolan Foote Kevin Bahl Shakir Mukhamadullin Tyce Thompson Janne Kuokkanen Reilly Walsh Daniil Misyul Nico Daws ____________________________

Nick Merkley Yegor Sharangovich Nathan Bastian Nikita Okhotyuk Case McCarthy Graeme Clarke Arseni Gritsyuk Patrick Moynihan Aarne Talvitie Mikhail Maltsev Jaromir Pytlik Gilles Senn _______________________

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[NJ Fan 12]

Zaitsev add White

 

[MartyOwns]

i'm just blindly voting at this point, who the hell knows? add...um...shlaine?

 

[Nubmer6]

i'm just blindly voting at this point, who the hell knows? add...um...shlaine?

I know we just added Jacobs, but he was reportedly the best D in Bing last year, so I'm surprised it took so long for him to make the poll. He may have a shot at 7th D in the NHL.

Zetterlund looked promising, but had injury issues, so he's a viable option for me. Pakkila and Pasic have both surprised and may have an outside shot at the NHL some day. Vukojevic probably has as good of a shot as any of our other prospective shutdown D we drafted last year to eventually make the NHL. It's like we just drafted a bunch and will see what sticks to the wall, and he's a definite possibility.

I'm really not sure of any of the other guys.

My odds-on favorite for biggest impact is Ripshot43 though.

 

[My3Sons]

I’ll trust Guadana who makes it sound like Zaiysev could play in the NHL but I’ve picked Ripshot43 since he clearly has NHL upside as a poster.

 

[MartyOwns]

I know we just added Jacobs, but he was reportedly the best D in Bing last year, so I'm surprised it took so long for him to make the poll. He may have a shot at 7th D in the NHL.

Zetterlund looked promising, but had injury issues, so he's a viable option for me. Pakkila and Pasic have both surprised and may have an outside shot at the NHL some day. Vukojevic probably has as good of a shot as any of our other prospective shutdown D we drafted last year to eventually make the NHL. It's like we just drafted a bunch and will see what sticks to the wall, and he's a definite possibility.

I'm really not sure of any of the other guys.

My odds-on favorite for biggest impact is Ripshot43 though.

i've kinda given up on ripshot, tbh. he has the tools but he can't seem to put it all together. maybe a different moderator can bring out the best in him though, i don't know.

 

[Goptor]

Did something happen to Vukojevic last year? I thought he had a similar year to Okhotyuk and McCarthy but here he is looking at a 26/27 spot where those guys are at 15/16.

 

[Beastdog75]

Voted for Studenic, add Baumgartner

 

[Guttersniped]

Add Baumgartner.

I voted Pasic but could see voting for Studenic or Zetterlund, or even Edwards, Vukojevic or Schnarr. They’re getting bunched up as gets hard to quantify their intriguing qualities. I could of vote for someone else easily in a few hours.

I assume Guadana’s scouting of Zaitsev is spot on but Dynamo Moskva is using him in a completely defensive role to point where it’s likely hard for the Devils to gauge if he can be offensively productive in the NHL. It’s hard to think of a purely defensive defenseman that a NHL team has brought over from the KHL with similarly meager stats, other than maybe Arizona’s Ilya Lyubushkin.

The Devils lose Zaitsev’s rights on July 1st 2021, (unless that shifts with Free Agency to July 28th) so a decision will be made relatively soon [Edit: Cap Friendly link actually says we have have Zaitsev’s rights indefinitely, but having Vukojevic’s deadline on my brain, I misinformed everyone. My apologies.]

Vukojevic’s rights end in 2021 (I’m not sure why, just going by Cap Friendly’s reserve list here) and the dwindling OHL season will make his future harder to decide but he is competition for a spot. I guess there isn’t any other unsigned defensemen who are also candidates for contract assuming Hellickson goes unsigned and McCarthy spends another year in college. (Maybe Case gets signed, I’m not making a firm prediction here but the Devils have until 2023 to decide with him.)

Edit: Corrected dumb mistake about Zaitsev’s right.
New Jersey Devils Reserve List - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

Pasic, fantasy of mine he becomes another late round gem. Add BB.

 

[HBK27]

Went Vukojevic.

It was only a year ago that NJ took him 12 spots after Misyul (10th ranked player in our prospect rankings), 2 spots after Clarke (17th ranked, despite only playing 16 games last season) and ahead of Thompson (7th), McCarthy (16th), Gritsyuk (18th), and Moynihan (19th).

I know a few of these players had really good seasons that would've bumped them up the rankings. Appears that Vukojevic had a solid season as well, but we just didn't hear a lot about him since he's a defensive defenseman. I would think he's still in the same ballpark as some of these other players he was drafted ahead of or near.

 

[Triumph]

Add Baumgartner.

I voted Pasic but could see voting for Studenic or Zetterlund, or even Edwards, Vukojevic or Schnarr. They’re getting bunched up as gets hard to quantify their intriguing qualities. I could of vote for someone else easily in a few hours.

I assume Guadana’s scouting of Zaitsev is spot on but Dynamo Moskva is using him in a completely defensive role to point where it’s likely hard for the Devils to gauge if he can be offensively productive in the NHL. It’s hard to think of a purely defensive defenseman that a NHL team has brought over from the KHL with similarly meager stats, other than maybe Arizona’s Ilya Lyubushkin.

The Devils lose Zaitsev’s rights on July 1st 2021, (unless that shifts with Free Agency to July 28th) so a decision will be made relatively soon. Vukojevic’s rights also end in 2021 (I’m not sure why, just going by Cap Friendly’s reserve list here) and the dwindling OHL season will make his future harder to decide but he is competition for a spot. I guess there isn’t any other unsigned defensemen who are also candidates for contract assuming Hellickson goes unsigned and McCarthy spends another year in college. (Maybe Case gets signed, I’m not making a firm prediction here but the Devils have until 2023 to decide with him.)


New Jersey Devils Reserve List - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps

I always get this wrong, it took Pronman correcting me on Twitter, but the Devils do not lose Zaitsev's rights until he's 27, as the KHL and NHL do not have a transfer agreement. This is how Tampa was able to trade Gusev's rights to Vegas.

 

[Guttersniped]

I always get this wrong, it took Pronman correcting me on Twitter, but the Devils do not lose Zaitsev's rights until he's 27, as the KHL and NHL do not have a transfer agreement. This is how Tampa was able to trade Gusev's rights to Vegas.

Yes, and I’m an idiot (even more than usual) because it actually said just that in the Cap Friendly link I provided. So much thanks for catching that and correcting me. It was a weird brain fart too since I know that about Russian prospects. Woof.

I also forgot that Elite Prospects lists how long players are under contract and shows Zaitsev only under contract for 2020-21. I’m probably over thinking this, if he doesn’t extend with the KHL then he’s presumably willing to give it a go in North America.