NHL Entry Draft 2006 (Top 30 Europeans)

My Top 30:
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Skaters:
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1. Nicklas Bäckström SWE C 87
2. Michael Frolik CZE RW 88
3. Jesse Joensuu FIN W 87
4. Jiri Tlusty CZE C 88
5. Tomas Kana CZE C 87
6. Yuri Alexandrov RUS D 88
7. Alexander Vasuynov RUS LW 88
8. Vladimir Zharkov RUS RW 88
9. David Ruzicka CZE D 88
10. Artem Anisimov RUS C 88
11. David Kveton CZE RW 88
12. Patrik Berglund SWE C 88
13. Joonas Lehtivuori FIN D 88
14. Robin Figren SWE LW 88
15. Tomas Marcinko SVK D 88
16. Ondrej Fiala CZE C 87
17. Ivan Vishnevski RUS D 88
18. Martin Latal CZE RW 88
19. Jiri Suchy CZE D 88
20. Martin Bartos CZE LW 88
21. Igor Makarov RUS RW 87
22. Valeri Zhukov RUS D 88
23. Jonas Ahnlelof-Pihl SWE D 88
24. Jonas Enlund FIN C 87
25. Richard Lelkes SVK W 87
26. Dennis Persson SWE D 88
27. Eetu Heikkinen FIN D 88
28. Lukas Zeliska CZE C 88
29. Tony Lagerström SWE C 88
30. Robert Nyholm FIN RW 88
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CZE=10, RUS=7, SWE=6, FIN=5, SVK=2.
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Goalies:
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1. Riku Helenius FIN G 88
2. Jhonas Enroth SWE G 88
3. Niko Hovinen FIN G 88
4. Reto Berra SWI G 87
5. Semen Varmalov RUS G 88
6. Mikko Tolvanen FIN G 88
7. Stefan Ridderwall SWE G 88
8. Joel Gistedt SWE G 87
9. Michal Neuwirth CZE G 88
10.Juha Toivonen FIN G 87
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FIN=4, SWE=3, SWI=1, RUS=1, CZE=1
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So...What do you think

 

Nice list man. Good job. Thanks!

Vasyunov is extremely talented i heard with no heart. In terms of forwards..i would rank him a little higher than Kana. But then again i only saw Kana once. I didnt make out what type of a player he was. Can you pleased enlighten me on him...?

 

Not bad list imo.
I would change Frolik and Bäckström and put Vasyunov and Visnevsky a bit higher.
And you also forget the germans.
I think Schütz and Müller could be in the 25-30 area for the european prospects.

 

No--Backstrom is better than Frolik;also the fact that everyone including Central Scouting doesn't have a rating for Jonas Junland (probably the "sleeper pick' of this draft) is totally mystifying to me. He's been the top scoring D-man this year in Super Elit J-20 and Super Elit-J-20 top 8,has good size at 6'2 198...I think I saw 17g+23a in 32GP ...how in the world can he not be even considered?

 

Its a huge blunder by CSS. Yes. Extremily good offensively. And the amount of points is as you´ve written... 40 points in 32 games so far. The second best defenseman in points has 22 points.

He just had his international debut with the junior-national team, and was nominated "best defenseman" in a Five-nation-tournament in Germany. Against the chechz in the first game he scored both goals. The first one was a soloraid from the defensive zone, and the second one was a hard slapper from the blueline. Junland rocks!