Prospect Info: 2020 NHL Draft Thread Vol. 1

[FLYguy3911]

Ozzy Wiesblatt at eliteprospects.com

Brothers: Ocean Wiesblatt, Orca Wiesblatt, Oasiz Wiesblatt

What the hell is in the water up there?

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Ozzy Wiesblatt at eliteprospects.com


What the hell is in the water up there?

 

[Magua]

Ozzy Wiesblatt at eliteprospects.com


What the hell is in the water up there?

The only way to accurately scout is to look for the best names and start from there:

• Primo Self
• Jean-Luc Foudy
• Hugo Styf
• Ethan Szmagaj
• Ozzy Wiesblatt (wait, wait, his siblings names are Ocean, Orca, and Oasiz. Imagine how unbearable those parents are jfc)
• Fabio Iacobo
• Aidan De La Gorgendiere

They're sick sick people. Strong likelihood they were cult members in their younger days. That's a red flag.

 

[CanuckistanFlyerfan]

Ozzy Wiesblatt at eliteprospects.com


What the hell is in the water up there?

Definitely not your average names. Mom was clearly of the hippy persuasion. Then again, we canucks get a laugh at your Billy Bobs, Jebs, Merles, Virgils, Zekes and all those other banjo mfers!

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[BigToe]

Looks like Nybeck is my guy.

 

[kudymen]

I know I may be forgetting someone but was there ever a Russian goalie with hopes to be drafted at such high position?

I don't recall anyone being this high on these rankings, be it Vasilevski, Bryzgalov, Samsonov or Varlamov. And the generation before (Nabokov, Khabibulin) certainly wasnt there afaik

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I know I may be forgetting someone but was there ever a Russian goalie with hopes to be drafted at such high position?

I don't recall anyone being this high on these rankings, be it Vasilevski, Bryzgalov, Samsonov or Varlamov. And the generation before (Nabokov, Khabibulin) certainly wasnt there afaik

Probably not. Obviously selecting goalies in the first round has gone way down all across the board.

Then add in the Soviet Union stuff the time frame probably isn’t big enough of a sample to find someone comparable.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I think Askarov and Lapierre are too high. I think it might be because I'm pretty partial to Stutzle.

 

[Chinatown88]

I think Askarov and Lapierre are too high. I think it might be because I'm pretty partial to Stutzle.

Brother!

 

[FLYguy3911]

Busy week at work. Here's what the scoring breakdown by CHL league looks like at the 1/3 mark of the season.

OHL is nearly a full goal per game higher than the other two leagues. Windsor is the highest scoring team in the CHL by a wide margin (4.81/game).

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Wasn't the WHL the highest scoring league of the past few seasons the the Q was the least?

 

[FLYguy3911]

Off the top of my head, with the exception of the 16-17 season when Regina and Medicine Hat went bonkers, the WHL has almost always been the lowest scoring CHL League. I know it was when Provorov and Sanheim were in the league because I did a lot of historical comparisons.

 

[denominator]

Took me a little while to get caught up for the 2020 draft since I started a new job and moved this summer (I guess I should change my avatar now, bleh), but I finally have my rankings to a reasonable point.

As always, these do not reflect my personal opinions but are more like Bob McKenzie's rankings in that they are a consensus of what's out there. It's a good point to start at as the guys near the top are more hyped than the guys at the bottom.

Also as a caveat: there seems to be something dicey about players in the 75-90 range of my rankings. For whatever reason this is about the range that collects players that will go undrafted. I think this is an effect of "group-think" where guys show up on enough lists that they get hyped on other lists, but the actual scouts move past them once the draft actually comes. Think Samuel Fagemo in 2018 or Josh Williams in 2019 (although looking back at 2015, that range included Andrew Mangiapane, Travis Dermott, Ethan Bear, Sami Niku, Conor Garland, and Sebastian Ah; so who knows.

1	Alexis Lafreniere	Left Wing	Rimouski	QMJHL
2	Quinton Byfield	Centre	Sudbury	OHL
3	Cole Perfetti	Left Wing	Saginaw	OHL
4	Yaroslav Askarov	Goaltender	St. Petersburg	KHL
5	Hendrix Lapierre	Centre	Chicoutimi	QMJHL
6	Lucas Raymond	Right Wing	Frolunda	SHL
7	Tim Stutzle	Left Wing	Mannheim	DEL
8	Jamie Drysdale	Defence	Erie	OHL
9	Alexander Holtz	Right Wing	Djurgardens	SHL
10	Connor Zary	Centre	Kamloops	WHL
11	Marco Rossi	Centre	Ottawa	OHL
12	Dylan Holloway	Left Wing	Okotoks	AJHL
13	Anton Lundell	Centre	HIFK	Liiga
14	Justin Barron	Defence	Halifax	QMJHL
15	Noel Gunler	Right Wing	Lulea	SHL
16	Braden Schneider	Defence	Brandon	WHL
17	Rodion Amirov	Left Wing	Tolpar	MHL
18	Jake Sanderson	Defence	USA NDTP
19	Dawson Mercer	Right Wing	Drummondville	QMJHL
20	Jean-Luc Foudy	Centre	Windsor	OHL
21	Zion Nybeck	Right Wing	HV71	J20
22	Jacob Perreault	Centre	Sarnia	OHL
23	Jeremie Poirier	Defence	Saint John	QMJHL
24	Mavrik Bourque	Centre	Shawinigan	QMJHL
25	Ty Smilanic	Centre	USA NDTP
26	Justin Sourdif	Right Wing	Vancouver	WHL
27	Kaiden Guhle	Defence	Prince Albert	WHL
28	Ryan O'Rourke	Defence	Sault Ste. Marie	OHL
29	Emil Andrae	Defence	HV71	J20
30	Kasper Simontaival	Left Wing	Tappara	Liiga
31	Jake Neighbours	Left Wing	Edmonton	WHL
32	Roni Hirvonen	Centre	Assat	Liiga
33	Vasily Ponomaryov	Centre	Shawinigan	QMJHL
34	Daniil Gushchin	Left Wing	Muskegon	USHL
35	Lukas Cormier	Defence	Charlottetown	QMJHL
36	Seth Jarvis	Right Wing	Portland	WHL
37	Helge Grans	Defence	Malmo	J20
38	Jaromir Pytlik	Centre	Sault Ste. Marie	OHL
39	Jan Mysak	Centre	Litvonov	Czech Extraliga
40	Antonio Stranges	Left Wing	London	OHL
41	Ozzy Wiesblatt	Right Wing	Prince Albert	WHL
42	Carter Savoie	Left Wing	Sherwood Park	AJHL
43	Alexander Pashin	Left Wing	Tolpar	MHL
44	Luke Tuch	Centre	USA NDTP
45	Tyler Kleven	Defence	USA NDTP
46	Alexander Nikishin	Defence	Moskva	MHL
47	Theo Rochette	Centre	Chicoutimi	QMJHL
48	Michael Benning	Defence	Sherwood Park	AJHL
49	Thomas Bordeleau	Left Wing	USA NDTP
50	Topi Niemela	Defence	Karpat	Liiga
51	Oliver Suni	Right Wing	Oshawa	OHL
52	Tyler Tullio	Centre	Oshawa	OHL
53	Will Cuylle	Left Wing	Windsor	OHL
54	Veeti Miettinen	Right Wing
55	Dylan Peterson	Centre	USA NDTP
56	Pavel Novak	Right Wing	Kelowna	WHL
57	William Villeneuve	Defence	Saint John	QMJHL
58	Evan Vierling	Centre	Flint	OHL
59	Connor McClennon	Right Wing	Kootenay	WHL
60	Martin Chromiak	Centre
61	William Wallinder	Defence	Modo	SuperElit
62	Shakir Mukhamadulin	Defence	Ufa	MHL
63	Eemil Viro	Defence	TPS	J20
64	Lukas Reichel	Left Wing
65	Jack Quinn	Right Wing	Ottawa	OHL
66	Yan Kuznetsov	Defence	Sioux Falls	USHL
67	Brendan Brisson	Centre	Chicago	USHL
68	Marat Khusnutdinov	Centre	St. Petersburg	MHL
69	Tyson Foerster	Centre	Barrie	OHL
70	Ridley Greig	Left Wing	Brandon	WHL
71	Sean Farrell	Left Wing	USA NDTP
72	Christoffer Sedoff	Defence	Red Deer	WHL
73	Daemon Hunt	Defence	Moose Jaw	WHL
74	Ryder Rolston	Centre	USA NDTP
75	Noah Delemont	Defence	Acadie-Bathurst	QMJHL
76	Maxim Groshev	Right Wing
77	Donovan Sebrango	Defence	Kitchener	OHL
78	Joel Blomqvist	Goaltender
79	Ruben Rafkin	Defence	Windsor	OHL
80	Daniel Ljungman	Centre	Linkoping	J20
81	Simon Kubicek	Defence	Seattle	WHL
82	Eamon Powell	Defence	USA NDTP
83	Simon Knak	Right Wing	Portland	WHL
84	Brock Faber	Defence	USA NDTP
85	Roby Jarventie
86	John-Jason Peterka	Left Wing
87	Ville Ottavainen	Defence	Kitchener	OHL
88	Kasper Puutio	Defence	Swift Current	WHL
89	Ryan Francis	Right Wing	Cape Breton	QMJHL
90	Luke Prokop	Defence	Calgary	WHL
91	Logan Morrison	Centre	Hamilton	OHL
92	Luke Evangelista	Right Wing	London	OHL
93	Theodor Neiderbach	Right Wing	Frolunda	J20
94	Nick Malik	Goaltender
95	Michal Gut	Centre	Everett	WHL
96	Charlie DesRoches	Defence	Saint John	QMJHL
97	Jan Bednar	Goaltender
98	Noah Ellis	Defence	Des Moines	USHL
99	Samuel Knazko	Defence
100	Tyrel Bauer	Defence
101	Ethan Bowen	Centre	Chilliwack	BCHL
102	Blake Biondi	Right Wing
103	Isac Garfve	Left Wing
104	Stanislav Rangayev
105	Calle Clang	Goaltender	Rogle	SHL
106	Lleyton Moore	Defence	Oshawa	OHL
107	Juuso Maenpaa	Centre
108	Carson Bantle	Left Wing	Madison	USHL
109	Emil Heineman	Left Wing
110	Adam Raska	Left Wing	Rimouski	QMJHL
111	Leo Loof	Defence
112	Jack Finley	Centre	Spokane	WHL
113	Landon Slaggert	Centre	USA NDTP
114	Cross Hanas	Left Wing	Portland	WHL
115	Alex Gaffney	Centre	Muskegon	USHL
116	Ronan Seeley	Defence	Everett	WHL
117	Dylan Garand	Goaltender	Kamloops	WHL
118	Kyle Crnkovic	Left Wing	Saskatoon	WHL
119	Patrick Guay	Centre	Sherbrooke	QMJHL
120	Pavel Tyutnev	Centre	Yaroslavl	MHL
121	Vsevolod Skotnikov	Goaltender	Moskva	MHL
122	Ben King	Right Wing	Swift Current	WHL
123	Drew Commesso	Goaltender	USA NDTP
124	Jack Smith	Centre
125	Sam Colangelo	Right Wing
126	Hugo Styf	Defence
127	Anton Johannesson	Defence	HV71	SuperElit
128	Oskar Magnusson	Centre	Malmo	SuperElit
129	Wyatt Schingoethe	Centre
130	Rhett Rhinehart	Defence	Prince George	WHL
131	Carter Souch	Centre	Edmonton	WHL
132	Josh Lawrence	Centre	Saint John	QMJHL
133	Andrei Bakanov	Left Wing	Cedar Rapids	USHL
134	Stephen Halliday
135	Jeremie Biakabutuka	Defence	Val d'Or	QMJHL
136	Brandon Coe	Right Wing	North Bay	OHL
137	Ivan Zivlak	Defence
138	Elliot Desnoyers
139	Joel Maatta	Centre
140	Timur Zakirov	Right Wing
141	Mitchell Miller	Defence
142
143	Nick Wong	Centre	Oshawa	OHL
144	Tanner Latsch
145	Semen Demidov
146	William Provost
147	Egor Kuzminov
148	Savely Kuvardin
149	Noah Boyko
150
151
152	Linus Loof	Defence	Farjestad	SuperElit
153
154
155	Reid Valade	Right Wing	Kitchener	OHL
156	Jack Thompson	Defence	Sudbury	OHL
157	Joni Jurmo
158	Maxim Berzyokin
159	Alex Laferriere	Right Wing	Des Moines	USHL
160	Ivan Didkovsky	Left Wing
161	Joona Kiviniemi	Left Wing
162	Elliot Ekmark
163	Rory Kerins	Centre	Sault Ste Marie	OHL
164	Hayden Fowler	Centre
165	Ben Schoen
166	Tristen Robins	Centre	Saskatoon	WHL
167	Matej Kaslik	Centre
168	Marek Blaha	Defence
169	Lukas Svejkovsky
170	Antoine Coulombe
171	Brady Burns	Centre	Saint John	QMJHL
172	Lucas Ramberg	Defence	Lulea	SHL
173	Marko Stacha	Defence	Sudbury	OHL
174	Joona Lehmus	Defence	Saint John	QMJHL
175	Winter Wallace	Left Wing
176	Luke Reid
177	Ivan Ivan	Centre	Cape Breton	QMJHL
178	Senna Peeters	Centre	Halifax	QMJHL
179	Keanu Derungs	Left Wing	Victoria	WHL
180	Maximillian Glotzl	Defence
181	Mark Estapa	Left Wing
182	Jack Williams	Right Wing
183	Brett Berard	Left Wing
184	Mikael Pyyhtia	Centre	TPS	Liiga
185	Jesse Seppala	Left Wing	Edmonton	WHL
186	Calle Spaberg Olsen
187	Daniel Torgersson
188	Mateusz Szurowski
189	William Hallen
190	Rasmus Simila
191	Colby Ambrosio	Centre
192	Dmitri Ovchinnikov	Left Wing
193	Jackson Kunz	Left Wing
194	Alexandre Doucet	Centre	Val d'Or	QMJHL
195	Erik Hedlund
196	Daniil Zaitsev
197	Simon Andersson	Centre
198	Daniil Gutik
199	Maxim Golod
200	Ake Stakkestad
201	Florian Elias
202	Fabian Herrmann
203	Kirill Steklov
204	Zach Urdahl
205	Tomi Niku
206	Artem Shlaine
207	Nikita Shuidin
208	Jakub Kolenic
209	Maxim Nevolin
210	Aidan Prueter
211	Theo Nordlund
212	Sergei Yudin
213	Sergei Safin-Tregubov
214	Aidan Campbell
215	Bogdan Trineyev
216	Payton Mount
217	Gerard Keane
218	Miguel Tourigny
219	Jacob Dion
220	Kyle McDonald
221	Danil Aimurzin
222	Cole MacKay	Right Wing
223	Filip Wiberg
224	James Hardie
225	Tomas Chlubna
226	Dominik Binias
227	Tanner Dickinson
228	Oscar Tellstrom
229	Alexander Ljungkrantz
230	David Ma
231	Dylan Robinson
232	Ryan Alexander
233	Primo Self
234	Oliver Fatul
235	Finn Brown
236	Jake Ratzlaff
237	Josh Williams
238	Aidan De la Gorgendiere
239	Jakub Simko
240	Dawson Stairs
241	Nate Hanely
242	Raivis Ansons
243	Leo Ring
244
245	Cameron Supryka
246	Justin Bergeron
247	Tucker Tynan
248	Cole Shepard
249	Landon Kosior
250	Ryan Helliwell
251	Oliver Tarnstrom
252	Ryan Kirwan
253	Owen Gallatin
254	Luka Nyman
255	Veeti Korkalainen
256	Ilya Rychkov
257	Roman Faith
258	Samuel Krajc
259	Jakub Lewandowski
260	Yegor Smirnov
261	William Dufour
262	Thimo Nickl
263	Karel Klikorka
264	Vitali Pinchuk

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

As always, please let me know if I have the teams or leagues wrong for anyone (it's a lot to keep track of and I am but a simple archaeologist). If you have questions are particular players, ask and I will tell you what I know.

My favourites from this class: Byfield, Perfetti, Askarov, Stutzle, Zary, Foudy, Savoie, and Garfve (although that last one is really just because that's a ridiculously awesome name).

 

[gertbfrobe16]

Ivan Ivan or bust.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Caught the WJAC game tonight. Pat Brisson’s son looks like a player. Smart. Skilled. Sweet hands.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Caught the WJAC game tonight. Pat Brisson’s son looks like a player. Smart. Skilled. Sweet hands.

It does appear Michigan will be getting some help next year if York &/or Beecher stay.

Eliteprospect isn’t really good with getting accurate classes but I’d have to imagine Owen Power will be there too. They have him for the following year but he’s a late birthday.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Son of a gun. He's supposed to be a secret.

Actually Gordo spelled his last name wrong.

That's where Seider played/plays I believe. I was there last summer. Apparently a big hockey town. The train station in the middle of town was all decked out in Mannheim Eagles stuff and it wasn't even hockey season. The arena also looked like it was pretty big and new. Is that typical in Germany? Always figured it was soccer or bust everywhere in non-Scandanvian European countries.

 

[pit]

Caught the WJAC game tonight. Pat Brisson’s son looks like a player. Smart. Skilled. Sweet hands.

Yeah, but do you really want to deal with the headaches of the contract negotiations if you draft him?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

That's where Seider played/plays I believe. I was there last summer. Apparently a big hockey town. The train station in the middle of town was all decked out in Mannheim Eagles stuff and it wasn't even hockey season. The arena also looked like it was pretty big and new. Is that typical in Germany? Always figured it was soccer or bust everywhere in non-Scandanvian European countries.

Even in Scandinavian countries, football (soccer) had passed hockey in overall numbers as of the early parts of this century, and I would think that has only grown. There are still plenty of hockey fans, obviously, and most people like both, but except for the northern parts of at least Sweden, football is bigger.

 

[denominator]

Caught the WJAC game tonight. Pat Brisson’s son looks like a player. Smart. Skilled. Sweet hands.

I finally got to see some good hockey since moving here as I caught the Russia vs Canada West game on Thursday.

I wasn't as impressed with Carter Savoie as I expected. He's.... pedestrian except on the powerplay. Not a great sign for a prospect coming out of the AJHL.

Michael Benning was impressive. Really fluid skater and was all over the place for the entire game. Tried doing too much when Canada was down in the third, but the entire team fell into that.

Shakir Mukhamadullin is HUGE. He moves well for a player this age with his frame. Definitely want to keep an eye on him for this draft.

Vasili Ponomaryov was one of Russia's best forwards. Hard on the forecheck, physical but not needing to run every player through the boards. Hits were hockey plays, not a junior age player running around trying to smash everything (can't say the same for a lot of the Canadian forecheck).

Alexander Pashin was exceptional. He's short but stocky and really zippy. He seems like a kid that will grow a bit and be a really strong middle-6 forward. Good anticipation and ridiculous shot. He wasn't the crash and bang forechecker like Pono, but was great at reading passes and picking them off just inside the offensive blueline then taking the puck to the net. Not great on the back check, but it was Team Russian in an exhibition game so... nobody was great on the back check.

Canada East vs USA is here on Wednesday, I'm hoping to get to that one as well. Brisson and Colangelo are on my radar. Then I'm hoping to make the run down to Dawson on Sunday for the finals (of course, the company Christmas party is on Saturday so I can't go to the semis).

 

[VladDrag]

That's where Seider played/plays I believe. I was there last summer. Apparently a big hockey town. The train station in the middle of town was all decked out in Mannheim Eagles stuff and it wasn't even hockey season. The arena also looked like it was pretty big and new. Is that typical in Germany? Always figured it was soccer or bust everywhere in non-Scandanvian European countries.

I saw a DEL game in Germany back in 2005 - the Augsburger Panthers. One of my cousins took me to the game. The area was tiny, maybe 5,000 people if I had to guess.

But, the building was rocking the whole time. There was a supporter section, where just like in soccer, all fans were chanting and singing. It was pretty cool. The vibe that I got was that hockey isn't as large as other sports in Germany, but has a pretty strong following.

 

[FLYguy3911]

I wasn't as impressed with Carter Savoie as I expected. He's.... pedestrian except on the powerplay. Not a great sign for a prospect coming out of the AJHL

Yeah kinda left the same impression on me. SSS, but he looked like a floater and I'm not sure he's that great of a skater. Didn't look like he anticipated plays very well.

Michael Benning was impressive. Really fluid skater and was all over the place for the entire game. Tried doing too much when Canada was down in the third, but the entire team fell into that.

He had a nightmare game last night, but I can see the appeal. His scoring numbers are excellent, even on a stacked team.

Another undersized defenseman caught my eye though on Canada West - Ethan Edwards. Scored a sweet goal on an otherwise poor showing by his team. I guess I have a thing for Michigan commits.

They have a young blueline but the 4 underagers are all pretty intriguing.

Shakir Mukhamadullin is HUGE. He moves well for a player this age with his frame. Definitely want to keep an eye on him for this draft.

Yup. Really intrigued by him as well. Need to see more of him.

 

[denominator]

Another undersized defenseman caught my eye though on Canada West - Ethan Edwards. Scored a sweet goal on an otherwise poor showing by his team. I guess I have a thing for Michigan commits.

Edwards caught my eye too. Didn't get the same utilization as Benning or Lund or Henry (the latter two are older). His skating reminds me of Ville Heinola - lots of opening of the hips and conservation of motion. He's really small though - like, REALLY small. TC has him listed at 5'9" and 166, and I suspect that's with all the gear on.

 

[Appleyard]

That's where Seider played/plays I believe. I was there last summer. Apparently a big hockey town. The train station in the middle of town was all decked out in Mannheim Eagles stuff and it wasn't even hockey season. The arena also looked like it was pretty big and new. Is that typical in Germany? Always figured it was soccer or bust everywhere in non-Scandanvian European countries.

It is really big... in places. Then other places nothing at all. Austria is the same in my experience. Massive in some areas.

It helps that Mannheim have been the most successful team in the modern era of German hockey too!

Had the pleasure of watching a few DEL games in Berlin. Really fun to go to.