Spetzky's Top 30 of 2006

[Spetzky]

1. Erik Johnson
1a. Phil Kessel
3. Jonathan Toews
4. Nik Backstrom*
5. Peter Mueller
6. Derick Brassard
7. Jordan Staal
8. Bryan Little
9. Kyle Okposo
10. Jiri Tlusty
11. Nigel Williams
12. Michael Frolik
13. James Sheppard
14. Bobby Sanguinetti
15. Cory Emmerton
16. Ty Wishart
17. Jonathan Bernier
18. Alexander Vasyunov
19. Michael Grabner*
20. Ben Shutron
21. Cal Clutterbuck
22. Chris Stewart*
23. Tomas Kana*
24. Brady Calla
25. Ryan Hillier
26. Nick Foligno
27. David Fischer
28. Brian Strait
29. Riku Helenius
30. Ben Maxwell

* - limited viewing.

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[bullsville]

St.Louis will pick Kessel and Muller 5?mmm i think 7 or 8 best

 

[Steve Latin*]

St.Louis will pick Kessel and Muller 5?mmm i think 7 or 8 best

What?

 

[Corona-12]

St.Louis will pick Kessel and Muller 5?mmm i think 7 or 8 best

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[Beesfan]

I like rankings that stray from the norm a little, so nice work.

Two Questions if you have a moment...

1. Can you elaborate on Phil Kessel and why you still have him at the top?

2. How much did you get to see the NCAA and CHL players?

Thanks for a nice list.

 

[Spetzky]

Phil Kessel, was the projected first pick last year. Last year, he was mainly criticized for was apathy
in the d-zone. He has started playing much better defence. Kessel, just has the flare and ability to
take you out of your seat and put pucks in the net. This last year, he had trouble putting pucks in the not because of effort but he's not taking shots in the right places. I just love his dynamism.

For alot of the international players I watched alot of the tournament games, i must've skipped 10 classes just to watch hockey , NHL network shows 2 NCAA games a week, and Sportnet has 1 CHL
game a week on each of it's networks. I've download a lot of games from bittorrent and just watched.