2013-14 Mid-Season Prospect Poll: #8

[Woodhouse]

I used the first ten eligible prospects from Kris Baker's February rankings for the opening poll. Per usual, after casting your vote, suggest one player from the remaining prospect pool to add to the next poll.

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2013-14 Mid-Season Prospect Poll Results:

• Poll #1: Rasmus Ristolainen, 84/121, 69.42% – Runner-up: Nikita Zadorov, 20/121, 16.53% – Add: Brayden McNabb
• Poll #2: Nikita Zadorov, 77/103, 74.76% – Runner-up: Mikhail Grigorenko, 23/103, 22.33% – Add: Chad Ruhwedel
• Poll #3: Mikhail Grigorenko, 77/96, 80.21% – Runner-up: JT Compher, 5/96, 5.21% – Add: Gustav Possler
• Poll #4: Johan Larsson, 29/101, 28.71% – Runner-up: Joel Armia, 27/101, 26.73% – Add: Justin Bailey
• Poll #5: Joel Armia, 47/107, 43.93% – Runner-up: Jake McCabe, 34/107, 31.78% – Add: Justin Kea
• Poll #6: Jake McCabe, 56/107, 52.34% – Runner-up: JT Compher, 32/107, 29.91% – Add: Daniel Catenacci
• Poll #7: JT Compher, 60/89, 67.42% – Runner-up: Linus Ullmark, 14/89, 15.73% – Add: Phil Varone

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F: Christian Isackson, Colin Jacobs, Eric Locke, Sean Malone, Brad Navin, Logan Nelson, Jonathan Parker, Judd Peterson, Tim Schaller, Kevin Sundher, Shawn Szydlowski.

D: Mark Adams, Brady Austin, Nick Crawford, Anthony Florentino, Jerome Gauthier-Leduc, Matt MacKenzie.

G: Matt Hackett, Connor Knapp, Nathan Lieuwen, Andrey Makarov, Cal Petersen.

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Eligibility Note: A player will be considered a prospect until he meets the following criteria. Thus, there are four subtractions from the last set of polls. Brian Flynn (80 GP) graduated, while Corey Tropp was claimed by Columbus. Zemgus Girgensons (56 GP) and Mark Pysyk (61 GP) also have "arrived" and could very well meet the 65 NHL GP graduating prospect threshold by the end of this set of polls.

Crawford, Hackett, Knapp, Ruhwedel, and Szydlowski are approaching the upper limit of the age criteria. I'd also project Hackett, McNabb, and Ruhwedel to be tendered offers as RFA's, while Crawford, Knapp, MacKenzie, Parker, and Szydlowski may not get another contract. Further, Buffalo holds the rights to Austin, Kea, Nelson, and Ullmark until June 1, 2014 and to Adams until August 15, 2014.

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[Woodhouse]

Linus Ullmark, add Cal Petersen.

 

[Heraldic]

Ullmark, add Petersen.

 

[Paxon]

Ullmark, Petersen

 

[OcAirlines]

Ullmark, add Malone

 

[jBuds]

Ullmark, Cal

 

[Jame]

Ullmark, Malone

 

[JLewyB]

Baptiste, +Florentino

 

[ZeroPT*]

Ullmark and petersen

 

[La Cosa Nostra]

Baptiste. The jump he has done from last year to this year is incredible.

 

[Sabreality]

Baptiste, Hackett

 

[mgeise]

Baptiste, add Hackett.

 

[Jim Bob]

add Hackett

 

[Zip15]

Ullmark. Cal Petersen for the billionth time.

 

[26CornerBlitz]

Baptiste with the vote, add Petersen.

 

[jc17]

Bailey, add locke

 

[Fly Boy]

Hurley add Hackett

 

[B U F F A L O]

Ullmark finally. Add Malone, having a great freshman year at Hah-vahhd.

 

[cshf]

Baptiste, add Peterson.

It's a little bit crazy that a prospect who could eventually be a starting goaltender in the NHL is the 8th or 9th best prospect in the system right now. And will likely be 11th or 12th next preseason.

 

[Ruckus007]

Ullmark, add Cal Petersen.

The next few polls after this one should be interesting. A few low ceiling, really close players against some dream big, may fail spectacularly moon shots.

 

[Zman5778]

Ullmark, add Cal Petersen.

This

 

[Ball1374]

Ullmark, add Cal

 

[msm29]

Goalie, add goalie.

 

[kenfury]

Im still not sold on Ulmark having anything other than a good year. Going with McNabb.

 

[Sabre the Win]

Baptist, I like Ullmark but it's still to early to tell what he will become. He's defiantly moving up on my list tho. However I find it unfair to rate Goalie prospects in the same category as player prospects but that's just me.