Rate a rival prospects upside/probability.

[leafaholix*]

Take HF.com's system.

You can rate at most 2 prospects from a rival team, preferably a prospect from a rival NHL team (state the team name, some may not have an idea what team the player belongs to).

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[Patty Ice]

RIVAL:


PROSPECTS:
Tim Gleason 7.5B
Dustin Brown 7A​

 

[markov`]

Toronto Maple Leafs

Alexander Steen 8B
Carlo Colaiacovo 7C

 

[BuppY]

Flyers:

Jeff Carter
9 B
NHL comparision: Mats Sundin

Mike Richards
8 B
NHL comparision: Mike Peca

 

[MrMastodonFarm*]

Flames fan here

Oilers - Rob Schremp - 8C

Canucks - Ryan Kesler - 7B

 

[hockeyfan125]

Calgary Flames

Dion Phaneuf
9 - A

Kris Chuko
7.5 - B

 

[leafaholix*]

Christopher Higgins: 7B (6A)
Tomas Plekanec: 6B

 

[Captain Conservative]

From the evil


Kirill Koltsov 8D

Ryan Kesler 7.5C

Matt Violin 0F

 

[Poochie_D]

Christopher Higgins: 7B (6A)
Tomas Plekanec: 6B

yikes... if we used ur scale of measurement id hate to see where the best leaf prospects stand...

 

[hockeyfan125]

From the evil


Kirill Koltsov 8D

Ryan Kesler 7.5C

Matt Violin 0F

How is Kesler a C?

 

[MrMastodonFarm*]

How is Kesler a C?

Ya, no doubt. This is Kesler, he is not a project whatsoever. Kesler is about as sure of a thing as it gets when it comes to a prospect. If the guy's AHL scoring doesn't translate to the NHL he will have a long career as a heart and soul, two way 3rd liner. The type of player every NHL team needs to win.

 

[AgentNaslund*]

How is Kesler a C?

7.5 c is hell of alot better then plain 7.

Dion Phaneuf 9

Vojtec Volski 7.5

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

Ya, no doubt. This is Kesler, he is not a project whatsoever. Kesler is about as sure of a thing as it gets when it comes to a prospect. If the guy's AHL scoring doesn't translate to the NHL he will have a long career as a heart and soul, two way 3rd liner. The type of player every NHL team needs to win.

Your description is pretty fair. The problem is, it does sound loosely like a 7.5 C.

More accurately, your description would be a 7B, although you didn't specify how much you think his scoring might translate.

Kesler, IMO, is more of a 7C, so I actually think the original poster was a tiny bit generous.

Ratings from 5.5 to 7.5, and letters from B to D, are all reasonable (if not accurate) to describe this player, IMO.

 

[Vyse64]

Dion Phaneuf 8.5B
Ryan Kesler 7.5C
Wojtek Wolski 8C
Carlo Colaiacovo 7.5C

 

[Jamie]

Because he's the Flame prospect I've seen the most:

Chucko 6.5B

 

[Jason MacIsaac]

Philly
Jeff Carter - 9C

Rangers
Montoya - 8.5D

Pittsburgh
Fleury - 9C

Islanders
Nillson - 8D

 

[BIG GIFS]

Toronto
Kyle Wellwood: 8C
Carlo Colaiacova: 7.5B

Sens
Antoine Vermette: 7A
Andrej Meszaros: 8B

Bruins
Brad Boyes: 6B
Mark Stuart: 8C

 

[leafaholix*]

yikes... if we used ur scale of measurement id hate to see where the best leaf prospects stand...

My ratings suggest...

Higgins: Potential is a 2nd liner, should reach it, could drop to 3rd liner
Plekanec: Potential is 3rd liner, should reach it, could drop to 4th liner

Plekanec's rating may be a bit low when you look at his AHL numbers, but I've seen him quite a few times and have come away impressed that he'll likely find himself in the NHL one day, but not as a top 6 forward. He's kind of like Robert Reichel, does some things well, but lacks a physical game and isn't great at anything in particular.

 

[Captain Conservative]

Christopher Higgins: 7B (6A)
Tomas Plekanec: 6B

Philly
Jeff Carter - 9C

Rangers
Montoya - 8.5D

Pittsburgh
Fleury - 9C

Islanders
Nillson - 8D

Glad to see that some of us know how to use the ratings system.

How is Kesler a C?

Well, I've worked in retail, so i'm used to explaining things to people like you.

Let me lay out for you what 7.5C means. The 7.5 means he has the potential to be a very good second line forward(what can I say, i'm biased towards american prospects), and the C means that you multiply his potential rating by 80%.


7.5 x .8 = 6


So he is guaranteed to be a third line forward. Got it?

 

[trentmccleary]

8.0C = Kostitsyn (currently a 9.0C)
7.5A = Perezhogin (currently 8.5C)
7.0B = Chris Higgins (currently 8.0B)
7.0C = Plekanec (currently 7.5B)
6.0A = Chipchura (currently 7.0A)

The letter grades are not supposed to be used to make unreasonable predictions and then be able to back track on them when (not if) they fail to come true.

If they were, I'd petition our mod to make Teemu Sainomaa (couldn't make it as a 4th liner in the Finnish Elite League) a 10.0 Z

Where 10.0 means that he could be a record breaking hockey player and Z means "if the NHL uses replacement players... composed entirely of Girl Scouts.... who have never seen ice before.