HFStars Boy Rankings [#11]

[Satan]

2022 Boy Rankings

Prospect definition: 23 or under by September 15, 2022 with < 50 NHL games played.

Rank	Boy	Position	Country	Acquired	Poll %
#1	Wyatt Johnston	C	Canada	2021 Draft - 23rd	86.8
#2	Logan Stankoven	C/RW	Canada	2021 Draft - 47th	75.0
#3	Mavrik Bourque	C	Canada	2020 Draft - 30th	76.5
#4	Thomas Harley	D	Canada	2019 Draft - 18th	87.5
#5	Lian Bichsel	D	Switzerland	2022 Draft - 18th	52.2
#6	Ty Dellandrea	C	Canada	2018 Draft - 13th	66.7
#7	Antonio Stranges	LW	USA	2020 Draft - 123rd	37.7
#8	Artem Grushnikov	D	Russia	2021 Draft - 48th	53.7
#9	Riley Damiani	C/RW	Canada	2018 Draft - 137th	96.3
#10	Christian Kyrou	D	Canada	2022 Draft - 50th	43.2

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[BG44]

Martino then Arcuri.

We're in the exciting range now where you know all of them aren't going to work out for sure, but you feel like one or more has a chance to potentially breakout this year.

 

[starsfan86]

Pretty crazy that Martino is 11th. Finally some decent depth

 

[LT]

Arcuri or Martino again. Went Arcuri last time so I’ll go Martino now.

 

[LT]

Pretty crazy that Martino is 11th. Finally some decent depth

I was thinking about this earlier. When Nill took over our best prospects were what? Faksa, Brett Ritchie, Oleksiak, Chiasson? Klingberg was ranked pretty low until all of a sudden he wasn’t.

Guys like Martino and Arcuri probably would’ve been top 5 prospects for us back then. Now they aren’t even consensus top 10 picks.

I don’t know what kind of culture shift happened in 2017, but I’m all here for it. The top end talent and depth is at a level I don’t think we’ve gotten to experience before as Stars’ fans. And most impressive is that we didn’t have to tank and be miserable for a while in order to get that.

I am more excited for the near and far future than I think I might have ever been for Dallas. Obviously not all of them will pan out but if even 1/3 or 1/2 hit, we are absolutely loaded going forward.

 

[hairylikebear]

I was thinking about this earlier. When Nill took over our best prospects were what? Faksa, Brett Ritchie, Oleksiak, Chiasson? Klingberg was ranked pretty low until all of a sudden he wasn’t.

Guys like Martino and Arcuri probably would’ve been top 5 prospects for us back then. Now they aren’t even consensus top 10 picks.

I don’t know what kind of culture shift happened in 2017, but I’m all here for it. The top end talent and depth is at a level I don’t think we’ve gotten to experience before as Stars’ fans. And most impressive is that we didn’t have to tank and be miserable for a while in order to get that.

I am more excited for the near and far future than I think I might have ever been for Dallas. Obviously not all of them will pan out but if even 1/3 or 1/2 hit, we are absolutely loaded going forward.

Martino is basically Alex Guptill from 2013. IIRC Guptill was somewhere close in our rankings, maybe 7-10 range? The prospects back then included Campbell, Reilly Smith, Brenden Dillon, Esa Lindell. Like Klingberg, Lindell didn't shoot up the rankings until post-Nill.

Arcuri is maybe like Devin Shore? The Stars didn't draft out of the CHL back then so it's hard to compare.

The top 5 of Campbell, Oleksiak, Chiasson, Faksa, R. Smith would have been tough for a player like Martino to crack. Honestly prospect depth is something the Stars have had for ages. The clear difference here is in the top 3. Only player the Stars could argue was in that tier was Campbell.

I'm all in for being excited though. The U23 talent on the system is clearly better than it's ever been. Imagine if they pull Lindell and Klingberg out of their asses again.