Prospect Info: 2019 Anaheim Ducks Top Prospects Final Rankings

[Paul4587]

Final rankings:
1. Zegras (1st yr eligible)
2. Steel (-1)
3. Terry (-1)
4. Comtois (+2)
5. Lundestrom (-)
6. Jones (+2)
7. Tracey (1st yr eligible)
8. Dostal (+11)
9. Larsson (-6)
10. Guhle (1st yr Ducks property)
11. Mahura (-7)
12. Grouxl (+1)
13. LaCombe (1st yr eligible)
14. McLaughlin (-)
15. Sherwood (+6)
16. Morand (-7)
17. Thrun (1st yr eligible)
18. Benoit (1st yr Ducks property)
19. Drew (+3)
20. Perbix (-)
21. Kopacka (-5)
22. Janicke (-)
23. De Leo (-)
24. Eriksson Ek (-8)
25. Badini (-7)

HM:
Brent Gates
Roman Durny
William Francis

Biggest risers:
Dostal (+11)
Sherwood (+6)
Drew (+3)

Biggest fallers:
Eriksson Ek (-8)
Mahura (-7)
Morand (-7)
Badini (-7)

Last years results
2017 results
2016
2015

The future is looking pretty bright. This has to be the deepest pool in the league and we are finally starting to get some upper echelon forward talent coming through with Zegras IMO having arguably the highest upside of any forward we’ve drafted since 2003 and guys like Steel, Terry and Comtois coming through who all look like they should be low end 1st liners/high end 2nd liners and Lundestrom has intriguing upside also.

There were some massive falls, especially among our dmen as clearly we have a lot less to be excited about on the backend and we also had two incoming forwards drafted in the first round in the 2019 draft. On the backend LaCombe could be someone to watch for, same with Thrun. Benoit had a great camp and could be a late bloomer with number 4-5 potential.

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[The Midnight Burrito]

Thanks, Paul.

 

[neelynugs]

Final rankings:
1. Zegras (1st yr eligible)
2. Steel (-1)
3. Terry (-1)
4. Comtois (+2)
5. Lundestrom (-)
6. Jones (+2)
7. Tracey (1st yr eligible)
8. Dostal (+11)
9. Larsson (-6)
10. Guhle (1st yr Ducks property)
11. Mahura (-7)
12. Grouxl (+1)
13. LaCombe (1st yr eligible)
14. McLaughlin (-)
15. Sherwood (+6)
16. Morand (-7)
17. Thrun (1st yr eligible)
18. Benoit (1st yr Ducks property)
19. Drew (+3)
20. Perbix (-)
21. Kopacka (-5)
22. Janicke (-)
23. De Leo (-)
24. Eriksson Ek (-8)
25. Badini (-7)

HM:
Brent Gates
Roman Durny
William Francis

Biggest risers:
Dostal (+11)
Sherwood (+6)
Drew (+3)

Biggest fallers:
Eriksson Ek (-8)
Mahura (-7)
Morand (-7)
Badini (-7)

Last years results
2017 results
2016
2015

The future is looking pretty bright. This has to be the deepest pool in the league and we are finally starting to get some upper echelon forward talent coming through with Zegras IMO having arguably the highest upside of any forward we’ve drafted since 2003 and guys like Steel, Terry and Comtois coming through who all look like they should be low end 1st liners/high end 2nd liners and Lundestrom has intriguing upside also.

There were some massive falls, especially among our dmen as clearly we have a lot less to be excited about on the backend and we also had two incoming forwards drafted in the first round in the 2019 draft. On the backend LaCombe could be someone to watch for, same with Thrun. Benoit had a great camp and could be a late bloomer with number 4-5 potential.

halfway through the season, what's the current top 10 looking like? obviously a couple
of guys probably considered graduated. biggest riser? biggest disappointment?

 

[AngelDuck]

halfway through the season, what's the current top 10 looking like? obviously a couple
of guys probably considered graduated. biggest riser? biggest disappointment?

Not a whole lot of changes. Tracey slides ahead of Jones and Lundestrom for me. Janicke moves way up

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

halfway through the season, what's the current top 10 looking like? obviously a couple
of guys probably considered graduated. biggest riser? biggest disappointment?

1. Zegras
2. Comtois
3. Steel
4. Lundestrom
5. Dostal
6. Tracey
7. Terry
8. Jones
9. Mahura
10. Groulx

Biggest Riser: Janicke
Biggest disappointment: Guhle or Terry
People will probably flip out on terry... its not that I don't think he has potential to be a good player... but hes really been underwhelming for us... he shows a bit of skill occasionally but doesn't get much done. Hes also older than most of the other prospects, so he should be closer to makin the jump.

Granted I didn't bother with graduating players until end of year.

 

[Kalv]

7 NHL goals and 2 broken legs. Troy Terry.

He has skill tho, but needs AHL seasoning, with emphasis on the gym

 

[duxfan1101]

I would say Terry, Steel, Jones, Larsson, and maybe Guhle don't count as prospects anymore.

 

[Paul4587]

halfway through the season, what's the current top 10 looking like? obviously a couple
of guys probably considered graduated. biggest riser? biggest disappointment?

Tracey, Janicke and maybe Grouxl all rise. Terry probably drops although he’s no longer a prospect really. Not sure exactly what my top 10 would be but Zegras is still clearly no 1.

 

[Goose of Reason]

For our lists we use 50 games played as graduated, right? So that means no Steel, Terry, Larsson and Jones. So I would say something like

Zegras
Comtois
Lundestrom
Dostal
Mahura
Tracey
Guhle
Jones
Groulx
Janicke

That was pretty quick so I may have a few changes. I gave Mahura the edge over Tracey because I think he has looked really good in limited action this year and has definitely taken a step forward this year. I always really liked Mahura but his first pro season was tough.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

With no sports and a need for distraction, I thought I'd do this to help us be pre-occupied for a minute or two.

• FA Date = date we signed the player, either as a UDFA or prospect FA
• T Date = we got this player in a trade, but the date is their draft year by their original team
• For Goalies, it's: Games, GAA, and Save Pct

Anaheim Ducks Prospects
Production Review from the 2019 October Finals ranking done by @Paul4587

Rank	Pos	Name	Draft Yr/ FA Sign	Movement	League	Team	Games	G	A	P	"+/-"
1	C	Zegras	2019	1st yr eligible	NCAA	Boston U	33	11	25	36	8
2	C	Steel	2016	-1	NHL	Anaheim	65	6	16	22	-13
3	RW	Terry	2015	-1	NHL	Anaheim	47	4	11	15	-5
					AHL	San Diego	14	7	9	16	14
4	RW	Comtois	2017	2	NHL	Anaheim	29	5	6	11	-4
					AHL	San Diego	31	9	15	24	7
5	C	Lundestrom	2018	0	NHL	Anaheim	15	0	4	4	-2
					AHL	San Diego	43	6	15	21	-6
6	LW	Jones	2016	2	NHL	Anaheim	59	8	4	12	-6
					AHL	San Diego	8	2	0	2	-4
7	LW	Tracey	2019	1st yr eligible	WHL	Moose Jaw	28	15	23	38	-11
					WHL	Victoria	24	7	16	23	-5
8	G	Dostal	2018	11	Liiga	Ilves	43	1.78	0.929
9	LD	Larsson	2015	-6	NHL	Anaheim	60	2	9	11	-9
					AHL	San Diego	5	1	1	2	3
10	LD	Guhle	T 2018	Ducks' 1st yr	NHL	Anaheim	30	4	4	8	-2
					AHL	San Diego	27	4	10	14	9
11	LD	Mahura	2016	-7	NHL	Anaheim	11	1	3	4	-3
					AHL	San Diego	44	4	17	21	0
12	C	Groulx	2018	1	QMJHL	Halifax	26	15	26	41	6
						Moncton	29	14	23	37	14
13	LD	LaCombe	2019	1st yr eligible	NCAA	Minny	37	3	10	13	-1
14	LW	McLaughlin	2018	0	NCAA	Minny	37	8	16	24	-9
15	W/C	Sherwood	FA 2017	6	NHL	Anaheim	10	0	1	1	-1
					AHL	San Diego	37	16	7	23	6
16	C	Morand	2017	-7	AHL	San Diego	54	5	11	16	4
17	LD	Thrun	2019	1st yr eligible	NCAA	Harvard	31	3	18	21	17
18	LD	Benoit	FA 2019	Ducks' 1st yr	AHL	San Diego	56	4	15	19	15
19	D	Drew	2018	3	AHL	San Diego	29	2	5	7	6
20	RW	Perbix	2018	0	NCAA	Minny	35	2	5	7	-5
21	LW	Kopacka	2016	-5	AHL	San Diego	37	7	8	15	-4
22	C	Janicke	2019	1st yr eligible	NCAA	Notre Dame	37	8	5	13	1
23	C	De Leo	FA 2018	0	NHL	Anaheim	1	0	0	0	0
					AHL	San Diego	51	10	15	25	4
24	G	Eriksson Ek	2017	-8	AHL	San Diego	0
					ECHL	Tulsa	27	3.01	0.902
25	C	Badini	2017	-7	NCAA	Harvard	31	6	8	14	5
				TLD Acquisition
New	RD	Andersson	T 2018	Trade Deadline	QMJHL	Moncton	43	3	21	24	19

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

If there are any mistakes, then let me know so I can amend them. After compiling all of the info, my brain's kinda fried as I just see numbers at the moment. LoL Thanks in advance for finding mistakes that I can update to be correct info.

And since we know which prospects will no longer be eligible in next year's prospect ranking, then "maybe" we can do a re-ranking before the NHL entry draft. It'll be far easier to slot the new draftees afterward. I know we usually do this in September, but I needed the distraction myself. Just wanted to throw content out there for us to discuss.

 

[Paul4587]

For what it's worth the following have graduated since the last rankings:

Steel
Terry
Jones
Larsson

Of those who played in the NHL this season Comtois, Guhle, Mahura, De Leo and Sherwood are all still prospects as per the criteria used here. I don't think I've missed anyone else off the top of my head.

 

[Paul4587]

If I personally were to re rank the above (including graudations) I think there would be quite a few changes.

In my opinion it would be something like this (I only bothered going to 20):

1. Zegras
2. Dostal
3. Comtois
4./5. Steel/Terry (if they were the same age I think I would have Terrry ahead but given Steel half a year younger and a full draft year behind in his development I am going to say it's a toss up)
6. Lundestrom
7. Thrun
8. Tracey
9. Mahura
10. Larsson (he made massive strides the last 10-15 games, without him making such strides he would have dropped considerably)
11. Jones
12. LaCombe
13. Grouxl
14. Guhle
15. Benoit
16. McLaughlin
17. Sherwood
18. Janicke
19. Morand
20. Kopacka

Big risers for me are Dostal and Thrun. Only real big faller is Jones (because I don't see huge upside there - I see a high floor, low ceiling) but that whole group from 8 to 14 is really interchangable for me. I was tempted to rank Benoit higher but it's hard to know where to put him exactly. As good as he's been his trajectory and pedigree reminds me a bit of Brett Festerling with maybe a bit more offensive talent. McLaughlin I also wanted to rank higher but a lot of the guys ahead of him are more sure things so even though I still like his upside more I am skeptical he will reach his ceiling.

 

[duxfan1101]

I want Benoit to get a shot, but I'm not sure when there will be an opening when/if we're healthy.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

If I personally were to re rank the above (including graudations) I think there would be quite a few changes.

In my opinion it would be something like this (I only bothered going to 20):

1. Zegras
2. Dostal
3. Comtois
4./5. Steel/Terry (if they were the same age I think I would have Terrry ahead but given Steel half a year younger and a full draft year behind in his development I am going to say it's a toss up)
6. Lundestrom
7. Thrun
8. Tracey
9. Mahura
10. Larsson (he made massive strides the last 10-15 games, without him making such strides he would have dropped considerably)
11. Jones
12. LaCombe
13. Grouxl
14. Guhle
15. Benoit
16. McLaughlin
17. Sherwood
18. Janicke
19. Morand
20. Kopacka

Big risers for me are Dostal and Thrun. Only real big faller is Jones (because I don't see huge upside there - I see a high floor, low ceiling) but that whole group from 8 to 14 is really interchangable for me. I was tempted to rank Benoit higher but it's hard to know where to put him exactly. As good as he's been his trajectory and pedigree reminds me a bit of Brett Festerling with maybe a bit more offensive talent. McLaughlin I also wanted to rank higher but a lot of the guys ahead of him are more sure things so even though I still like his upside more I am skeptical he will reach his ceiling.

Hmmm... Odd that Thrun skyrockets to 7th, but LaCombe is at 12th with Mahura and Larsson in between? LaCombe and Thrun are similarly positioned in point production with their respective teams, but Thrun needs to work on his skating whereas LaCombe's skating is just fine. As much as I love Thrun's booming hits, that skating will be exposed at the NHL level. Separating both seems to lose some consistency in rating. Although, I think Guhle should drop further on that list. LoL

Finally, the Dostal Barge is getting recognition! woot!

 

[MMC]

If I personally were to re rank the above (including graudations) I think there would be quite a few changes.

In my opinion it would be something like this (I only bothered going to 20):

1. Zegras
2. Dostal
3. Comtois
4./5. Steel/Terry (if they were the same age I think I would have Terrry ahead but given Steel half a year younger and a full draft year behind in his development I am going to say it's a toss up)
6. Lundestrom
7. Thrun
8. Tracey
9. Mahura
10. Larsson (he made massive strides the last 10-15 games, without him making such strides he would have dropped considerably)
11. Jones
12. LaCombe
13. Grouxl
14. Guhle
15. Benoit
16. McLaughlin
17. Sherwood
18. Janicke
19. Morand
20. Kopacka

Big risers for me are Dostal and Thrun. Only real big faller is Jones (because I don't see huge upside there - I see a high floor, low ceiling) but that whole group from 8 to 14 is really interchangable for me. I was tempted to rank Benoit higher but it's hard to know where to put him exactly. As good as he's been his trajectory and pedigree reminds me a bit of Brett Festerling with maybe a bit more offensive talent. McLaughlin I also wanted to rank higher but a lot of the guys ahead of him are more sure things so even though I still like his upside more I am skeptical he will reach his ceiling.

Mine's very similar but with Dostal a bit lower, Groulx over Lacombe, and Kindopp over Kopacka.

 

[Goose of Reason]

Zegras
Comtois
Dostal
Lundestrom
Mahura
Tracey
Guhle
Groulx
Thrun
LaCombe

Going to go with this as an update on my last list. Jones graduated (which I noted in my post and still listed him lol) and Thrun has been the big riser I think. LaCombe was drafted as a project and Thrun outplayed him on both sides of the puck in their freshman years so he gets the nod for now.

 

[Kalv]

I want Benoit to get a shot, but I'm not sure when there will be an opening when/if we're healthy.

Sooner or later the opening will come up. But we`ll likely have to get rid of Irwin and MDZ (who will be a good pickup for another team). Would like to keep Hawk around.

Injuries will come as we know. Benoit is having a solid run since he became a pro and I`m his fan but he`s still only 21 years old. He can keep developing in the A for at least most of the next season.