I do this crap every offseason, and I still don't ever really get an answer.
How is everybody grading here? Is this a favorite's ranking? Is this a highest ceiling list? Players you think are most NHL ready? Like their name? I never understand.
Yeah my "methodology" is a mix of ceiling, floor, and likely bust factor which is compounded by age.
So while Honka may have the highest ceiling, and that's debatable itself, he also has a higher bust factor than Klingberg because he's further from the NHL and hasn't proven anything against men.
In case of #15, McKenzie has a much lower ceiling than some of the other guys remaining but his floor is bottom six NHLer and a pretty sure bet to achieve that so it trumps his lack of elite upside to me.
His floor is a bottom six NHLer? How do you figure that? (Also, I consider an "NHLer" someone who plays season after season for more than 20 games a year.)
Until he proves me wrong, I'm going to give McKenzie the benefit of the doubt that he can be a 20+ game a year 4th liner at minimum. If someone wants to make him prove it, that's understandable.
I think he can, but that certainly isn't his floor.
At this point I think it is. If Dallas didn't already have so much money tied up in bottom sixers like Horcoff and Cole then he'd be on this team from the start. Has he done it, no. But that's more about the roster than it is about him. Just like I think you can say that if Glennie goes on waivers he's sure bet to get picked up and play on someone's bottom six and if Buffalo or Calgary take a chance he might get an opportunity at top six for them to see if he's got the hands to go with his skating at the NHL level.