Prospect Info: 2018 Prospect Rankings #1

#1

  • Max Jones

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Julius Nattinen

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Marcus Pettersson

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Maxime Comtois

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Antoine Morand

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jack Kopacka

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jack Badini

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Brent Gates

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Olle Eriksson Ek

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Deven Sideroff

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Alex Dostie

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Giovanni Fiore

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chase De Leo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Benoit Olivier Groulx

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Blake McLaughlin

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Kiefer Sherwood

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Steven Ruggiero

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lukas Dostal

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Angus Redmond

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    67
  • Poll closed .

MMC

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I've been excited for this all offseason, and it looks like I'll be taking over in @Goose of Reason 's absence. I'm sure I'll have missed some, so please let me know any notable names I seem to have forgotten. As always, each poll will run for 48 hours unless it isn't close after 24.

Vote using any whatever criteria you'd like. Only prospects that are eligible under HF's prospect criteria (less than 65 games played before 24th birthday, or 45 for goalies) will be eligible for this poll.

Last year's rankings:

1. Montour
2. Steel
3. Larsson
4. Jones
5. Kase
6. Terry
7. Mahura
8. Comtois
9. Pettersson
10. Morand
11. Kerdiles
12. Nattinen
13. Welinski
14. Megna
15. Kossila
16. Roy
17. Kopacka
18. Badini
19. Sorensen
20. Gates Jr.
21. Eriksson Ek
22. Sideroff
23. Soy
24. Dostie
25. Fiore

Notable Graduates/Departures:

Montour
Kase
Kerdiles
Roy
Soy
Welinski
Megna
Kossila
Sorensen? (someone correct me if I'm wrong about him)
 
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Vinegar Strokes

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I’ll bet Jones drops quite a bit and OEE rises quite a bit.

Will be interesting to see where Lundestrom lands, he’s an interesting prospect but doesn’t have the wow factor to get ranked super high right off the bat.
 

rlstine

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Jun 14, 2017
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Prospects liked by advanced stat models: Lundestrom, Terry, Comtois, Larsson

Prospects that rank poorly on advanced stat models: Steel, Jones (almost definitely because of the injuries), Morand
 

Boo Boo

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gotta vote steel on this one. Im trying not to get my hopes up too much though because theres not many top line centers as slight as he is.
 

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Jones is going to take a kerdiles-like fall. We were very high on that kid once upon a time and Jones is following his trajectory to a tee unfortunately.
 
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Jones is going to take a kerdiles-like fall. We were very high on that kid once upon a time and Jones is following his trajectory to a tee unfortunately.

People were at least still high on Kerdiles before he turned pro, I remember people thinking he might get a look in 2014 after a good college year. I really cant remember everyone souring on a guy like this while he was still in junior. Nattinen, maybe, but he wasn't nearly as touted, and Rakell bought himself some cred by making the team out of the lockout before being sent down(although that didn't help a ton).
 

Trojans86

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I always find it interesting looking in the past and seeing guys ranked 5 or up and make the team like Kase. It is cool to think some of these guys we arent projecting too high will exceed our projected ceilings.
 

Masch78

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Oct 5, 2017
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Steel
Terry
Comtois
Lundeström
Mahura

My top 5. It is a good top 5 tbh.
 

bsu

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Sep 27, 2017
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Steel
Terry
Mahura
Larsson
Lundestrom
Comtois

for me

I think Steel and Terry are our only prospects that can control the pace of the game so they are easily my top 2, after that is very close.
 

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