Butch's top 150 Prospect List

Include all player who is not established in NHL
What I saw from some CHL game, NCAA, U17, U18 - U20, Jrn A challenge, Memorial Cup, Rookie tournament and pre-season. I don't see the games in europe (Liiga,SHL,KHL) therefore international tournaments is really important for me to evaluate them. The problem is that it's small tournaments in a short time , so i don't have the best vision for some Euro player

I'm a french canadian who does not speak English very well . I have a description for every player in top 50 in french but translate it into English is too long for me . If you have any question about these player or question about my rankings , i will do my best , but keep in head that i'm not talk well your languages

My first list is there , one year ago . Keller was 1 , McCavoy 3 , Boeser 11 , Girard 19 . If I look at it a year later, I think it's a decent list

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/butch-list-115.2178829/

1. Cale Makar
2. Thomas Chabot
3. Ellias Petterson
4. Kyle Connor
5. Tyson Jost
6. Kirill Kaprizov
7. Jesse Puljujarvi
8. Eeli Tolvanen
9. Casey Mittelstadt
10. Timothy Liljegren
11. Miro Heinskanen
12. Martin Necas
13. Lias Andersson
14. Adam Fox
15. Nick Suzuki
16. Dylan Strome
17. Klim Kostin
18. Oli Juolevi
19. Kristian Vesalainen
20. Janne Kuokkonen
21. Filip Chytil
22. Ryan Poehling
23. Kale Clague
24. Dante Fabbro
25. Tage Thompson
26. Alex Tuch
27. Luke Kunin
28. Robert Thomas
29. Phillipe Myers
30. Victor Mete
31. Cal Foote
32. Jordan Greenway
33. Erik Brannstrom
34. Juuso Valimaki
35. Jack Roslovic
36. Joel Eriksson-Ek
37. Logan Brown
38. Kailer Yammamoto
39. Alexander Nylander
40. Connor Timmins
41. Aleksi Heponiemi
42. Sam Steel
43. Cody Glass
44. Kieffer Bellows
45. Rasmus Andersson
46. Henri Jokiharju
47. Colin White
48. Owen Tippet
49. Gabriel Villardi
50. Michael Rasmussen
51. Denis Malgin
52. Josh Ho-Sang
53. Troy Terry
54. Daniel Sprong
55. Julius Honka
56. Michael McLoed
57. Sebastian Aho
58. Jacob Forbascka-Karlsson
59. Kasperi Kapanen
60. Henrik Borgstrom
61. Adam Gaudette
62. Jordan Kyrou
63. Taylor Raddysh
64. Gabriel Carlsson
65. Chad Krys
66. Josh Norris
67. Josh Mahura
68. Anthony De Angelo
69. Jake Bean
70. Sami Niku
71. Nikolay Guldobin
72. Nicolas Hague
73. Jacob Larsson
74. Olivier Kylington
75. Brendan Guhle
76. Cliff Pu
77. Vitaly Abramov
78. Rasmus Asplund
79. Oscar Lindblom
80. Wade Allison
81. Jonathan Dahlen
82. Trent Frederic
83. Caleb Jones
84. Noah Juulsen
85. Nicolas Roy
86. Jake Evans
87. Vladislav Kamenev
88. Evgeni Svechnikov
89. Jonathan Dahlen
90. Max Gildon
91. Dylan Samberg
92. Ryan Donato
93. Denis Gurianov
94. Julien Gauthier
95. Aapeli Rasanen
96. Max Jones
97. Pier-Olivier Joseph
98. Alexandre Texier
99. Drake Batherson
100. Riley Tufte
101. Anatoly Golishev
102. Mike Amadio
103. Urho Vaakanainen
104. Andrei Mironov
105. Cam Morrison
106. Dennis Cholowski
107. Morgan Frost
108. Adam Mascherin
109. Kole Lind
110. Shane Bowers
111. Andrew Nielsen
112. Michael Dal Colle
113. Alex Formenton
114. Tanner Laczynski
115. Travis Dermott
116. Nic Merkley
117. Eemeli Rasanen
118. Lucas Johansen
119. Jonah Gadjovich
120. Anthony Cirelli
121. Samuel Morin
122. Libor Hajek
123. Tyler Stenbergen
124. Joni Ikonen
125. Lukas Elvenes
126. Jesper Boqvist
127. Patrick Harper
128. Joey Anderson
129. Boris Katchouk
130. Nikita Scherbak
131. Nic Petan
132. Steleo Matthoes
133. Maxim Comtois
134. Jason Robertson
135. Otto Koivula
136. Jeremy Lauzon
137. German Rubstov
138. Marcus Davidsson
139. Ethan Bear
140. Dillon Dube
141. Zach Senyshin
142. Rudolf Balcers
143. Yegor Korshov
144. Mathieu Joseph
145. Kyle Wood
146. Logan Stanley
147. Eetu Tuulola
148. Ryan Lindgren
149. Jacob Moverare
150. Yakov Trenin
151. Mitchell Vande Sompel
152. Jonas Rondberg
153. Erik Foley
154. Yegor Sharangovich

Goalie :
Igor Shestorkyn
Filip Gustavsson
Ilya Samsonov
Tchatcher Demko
Ilya Sorokin
Carter Hart
Colton Pont
Connor Ingram
Jake Oettinger
Tyler Parsons

 

If Andrew Neilson is 113, than Dermott deserves to be about 100 spots higher.

He's the Leafs 7th or 8th best prospect.

 

You have Kole Lind twice on your list at 106 & 111. Also, he is way too low on it.

 

100 to 160 is pretty random but never that Dermott has such a big gap with Nielsen . Dermott is pretty good offensively and play a smart game but he is still a small left defensemen who does not have the wow factor . No dominant skills at all . Nielsen is big and strong with a very good shot . He don't have the IQ of Dermott but still had a good first pass . If you have Dermott ahead of Nielsen i understand but never that Nielsen and Dermott had this gap in my book . You probably see Marlies more often so maybe you're right too

 

I think you mean Dylan and not Ryan Strome.

 

This thread is gonna be a good one

 

Very impressive, good list for sure, thanks for sharing it with us.

 

Thanks.

Lot of people will find 1-2 player who will be too low , it's okay and normal . The games I saw, Lind did not impress me . Part of scouting i guest . I can see 3 match of such a player when you need nothing good on the ice and you see 4 match where he fills the goal , it's happens

 

Thanks !

 

Chytil needs to be way higher than 21. He’s top 10.

 

The gap is pretty significant. Dermott is the Leafs 3rd best prospect, Neilson somewhere around 7-10. Personally I have him ranked lower (just going with a consensus) as he has major skating issues, laterally, pivoting etc. He gets exposed on the regular. His decision making leaves alot to be desired as well.

 

To be a nhl ready , i say yes is a top 10 . Chytil is so strong that he can play with men but i have to go for long term and i prefer the skilz package of Suzuki/Andersson/Necas for that .

 

Nice list! I enjoyed your list last time too! Thanks for putting this together.

 

because the people say that Dermott is the 3rd prospect that it becomes a fact? No . And it's not a list that follows a consensus . I love debating about these prospect but leave the consensus alone, this is not an argument .


Funny because last year i don't have ranked Nielsen and I got quibbled and this time is the opposite

 

Leafs fans last year ''The Leafs best prospect after Kapanen is Andrew Nielsen (maybe he is 3rd to Grundstrom). Personally, I'd switch him from Bracco.''

Time fly

 

I appreciate , thanks a lot

 

You don't seem to know much about Leaf prospects, so I'll leave it alone. It's tough putting together a list this extensive, so it's understandable.

 

Nice list!

I think you forgot Vilardi.

 

Howden dropped out?

 

Impressive list. Bruins with 7 in the top 150, and I think you got the order of them almost exact. I would have Zboril in there too, but everyone will have some quibble. Nice job.

 

Chytil is the most skilled player there though.. Andersson isn’t exactly that skilled though coming from a Rangers fan. He just thinks the game highly and has a better shot

 

You left off Igor Shestyorkin.

 

Liljegren about 9 spots too low

 

Just curious... why are Jost and Chabot included on your list but not Hishier and Patrick?

The Avs fan in me loves to see Makar at #1 even though my brain may not necessarily agree.

Good one.

 

Nice to see 2 Canucks prospects in the top 20 and Petterson at 3. 7 in the overall list as well.

Oh and Dahlen is too low.