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[Evilo]

IMO the list is awful.
If I didn't miss it, Konstantin Koltsov for instance is not in the top 100 ? Nor Brroks Orpik ?
Now would Burke refuse a Fedor Fedorov for Konstantin Koltsov deal ?
Yeah right...

 

[Still a Bruin fan]

With this hap-hazard effort, HF took a step back in their credibility as a source for hockey's prospects.

 

[Habsfunk]

I'm not a prospect buff like some people, but this list looks pretty sad to me. From a Habs perspective I would switch Komisarek and Katsytsin. Hossa is also too high. Most Habs fans will tell you Perezhogin, Higgins, and possibly Hainsey, are better prospects than he is. I would say Hainsey is too high as well. Perezhogin and Higgins should be switched with Hainsey and Hossa.

Also, 12 2003s in the top 25 seems pretty skewed. I know it was a deep draft, but its not that good.

 

[Dr_Chimera*]

Ugh... Even Ivan Huml wouldn't put himself this high.

 

[Gags1288]

I agree with those who said that the list put too much weight on this last draft, way too much weight. I'm a flyers fan and I can admit that Carter is not a top 25 prospect, top 50 maybe. For the Flyers, Woywitka should be slightly higher, Carter lower, and Richards is about right. Also, I believe Pitkanen is a top 4 prospect with Lehtonen, Fleury, and Spezza(who isn't a prospect anymore). I think that he's half a step above Staal and Horton, but that could be my bias a little. Some other things that I noticed are that Ruutu is way too low, should be #5, imo. Suter and Coburn above Miller and Ruutu is a joke, imo.

 

[Slowe]

I'll speak from a hawks fan point of view mostly because I can't say I've seen many other prospects. I don't know about Leighton that high, but I won't complain. He'll be earning a lot more respect in the near future. Just because he wasn't a highly touted first rounder doesn't mean things can't change. Vorobiev is too low. The whole time I thought they simply forgot him, because there's no way he just squeaks in when all those average 2003 prospects are so high. At the very least put him above Yakubov. Vorobiev is doing well for himself in the NHL while Yakubov still needs to play consistently in the AHL.

 

[Stock Rocks]

I want to put together my own list but I am too lazy at the moment, maybe later.

Terrible list. If Jason Spezza is on it, then Patrice Bergeron, who has 7 points in 9 games with the B's and is hands-down one of the top rookies playing in the NHL this season, SHOULD be somewhere on the frigging thing. This is why I hate these lists. They are more about where a player was drafted and less about what the player has actually done to justify such a lofty ranking. I also perceive a distinct Western Canadian bias on this list as well. A big thumbs down to Malloy and whoever else helped him with this.

 

[David A. Rainer]

Terrible list. If Jason Spezza is on it, then Patrice Bergeron, who has 7 points in 9 games with the B's and is hands-down one of the top rookies playing in the NHL this season, SHOULD be somewhere on the frigging thing.

I think the list was compiled before the season started. If you read some of the comments, it mentions that some prospects that are already in the NHL might get a shot at making the NHL. So it appears the list was done about 1 month before the season even started.

 

[Stock Rocks]

I think the list was compiled before the season started. If you read some of the comments, it mentions that some prospects that are already in the NHL might get a shot at making the NHL. So it appears the list was done about 1 month before the season even started.

Ahhh. Well, if that's the case, my apologies.

But they should do a mid-season list and update it at the very least.

 

[DutchLeafsfan]

I think the list was compiled before the season started. If you read some of the comments, it mentions that some prospects that are already in the NHL might get a shot at making the NHL. So it appears the list was done about 1 month before the season even started.

That's because the write-ups for the prospects weren't done for the list but are quoted from their scouting profiles here at HF, some of which probably haven't been updated since the start of the season...

 

[David A. Rainer]

Don't sweat it Buffaloed. We all skip over threads sometime.

:moon: <---- trying it out for the first time

 

[petec1978*]

Alex Polushin behind Garnet Exelby?

Dropped about 50 spots in half a year? The 2003 draft wasn't THAT deep!

-Pete Choquette

 

[A Good Flying Bird*]

That's because the write-ups for the prospects weren't done for the list but are quoted from their scouting profiles here at HF, some of which probably haven't been updated since the start of the season...

Some of those profiles haven;t been updated a year — at least.

 

[Roughneck]

Phaneuf at 19??? How can you rank him that low with the excellent summer he's had? And then have a guy like Colaiacovo 4 spots behind him?

If Coburn and Suter are top10, Dion had better be.

 

[Enoch]

If Coburn and Suter are top10, Dion had better be.

Not necessarily.

 

[VO #23]

No Eric Fehr? This guy has been amazing to start the season (almost a goal a game pace), and had a great Team Canada summer camp. I realize this was done earlier in the year, but Fehr should be in the top 50, especially when Shawn Belle is number 50.

Bold statement of the day: If the draft was held today instead of in June, Eric Fehr goes top 10.

 

[Roughneck]

Not necessarily.

Well, if Phaneuf is better than Coburn (and all d-men in the dub) right now, its only fair. And definitely when he's showing offensive potential that wasn't really seen the year he was drafted.

 

[Blatny Spears]

Alex Polushin behind Garnet Exelby?

What has Polushin done to warrant being ranked ahead of Exelby? He's just another so-so big Russian stiff, the kind of which Tampa's loaded up on the last few years. If they're lucky, they'll be able to deal him for a guy like Mark Savard, like we did with ex-Tampa flotsam Ruslan Zainullin.

 

[Stock Rocks]

Bold statement of the day: If the draft was held today instead of in June, Eric Fehr goes top 10.

I'd buy that. I read that Boston was very high on Fehr and was tempted to take him 16th before deciding to move down for the extra picks.

I'd also say that Patrice Bergeron goes top-15 if the draft was held today.

 

[thestonedkoala]

I agree with the rankings of the Wild prospects...

 

[Other Dave]

I believe Pitkanen is a top 4 prospect with Lehtonen, Fleury, and Spezza(who isn't a prospect anymore).

Spezza isn't a rookie, but he was still a prospect coming into this season. See http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect.php for more information.

Other Dave

 

[King of Stankonia]

Says in rather large print at the top of the article .

The question was intended as a rhetorical one :p.

 

[Hossa]

What has Polushin done to warrant being ranked ahead of Exelby? He's just another so-so big Russian stiff, the kind of which Tampa's loaded up on the last few years. If they're lucky, they'll be able to deal him for a guy like Mark Savard, like we did with ex-Tampa flotsam Ruslan Zainullin.

Zainullin has never had more than 1 goal or 4 points in the Russian Super League. Polushin had 5 goals and 11 points last year. He's also on pace for much more this season.

Furthermore, Polushin has been a stand out at the World Juniors. He has played on the top line for two straight years, and had about a point a game both times.

Just because he's not in the NHL doesn't mean he's not a good prospect. For every Ruslan Zainullin, there is an Alex Frolov too.

 

[Blatny Spears]

Mmmmmmmore like: for every bakers dozen of Zainullins there's a Frolov.

 

[Slats432]

As an Oiler fan even I think that JDD is too high. Lots of pretty darn good tenders ranked below him at 32.