Prospect Info: 2021 HFDevils Prospect Rankings #18

[Nubmer6]

Just 3 more polls and 10 days left before rookies report!

Rank	Player	Draft POS	Vote %	2020 Result	2019 Result
1	Luke Hughes	2021 Round 1 #4 overall	88.6	Alexander Holtz	Jack Hughes
2	Dawson Mercer	2020 Round 1 #18 overall	61.3	Ty Smith	Ty Smith
3	Alexander Holtz	2020 Round 1 #7 overall	63.8	Dawson Mercer	Jesper Boqvist
4	Nolan Foote	2019 Round 1 #27 overall	80.4	Nolan Foote	MacKenzie Blackwood
5	Shakir Mukhamadullin	2020 round 1 #20 overall	40.7	Kevin Bahl	Joey Anderson
6	Kevin Bahl	2018 round 2 #55 overall	39.1	Shakir Mukhamadullin	Aarne Talvitie
7	Graeme Clarke	2019 round 3 #80 overall	44.0	Tyce Thompson	Reilly Walsh
8	Chase Stillman	2021 round 1 #29 overall	72.3	Janne Kuokkanen	Michael McLeod
9	Nikita Okhotiuk	2019 round 2 #61 overall	41.6	Reilly Walsh	Nathan Bastian
10	Samu Salminen	2021 round 3 #68 overall	25.0	Daniil Misyul	Daniil Misyul
11	Michael Vukojevic	2019 round 3 #82 overall	19.7	Nico Daws	Marian Studenic
12	Jaromir Pytlik	2020 round 4 #99 overall	27.4	Nick Merkley	Brett Seney
13	Tyce Thompson	2019 round 4 #96 overall	28.4	Yegor Sharangovich	Fabian Zetterlund
14	Reilly Walsh	2017 round 3 #81 overall	32.8	Nathan Bastian	Nikita Okhotyuk
15	Fabian Zetterlund	2017 round 3 #63 overall	21.1	Nikita Okhotyuk	Brandon Gignac
16	Nico Daws	2020 round 3 #84 overall	24.0	Case McCarthy	Mikhail Maltsev
17	Arseni Gritsyuk	2019 round 5 #129 overall	25.4	Graeme Clarke	Michael Vukojevic

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Last Pick: Arseni Gritsyuk - Avangard Omsk / KHL

Added: Viktor Hurtig

Eligible Players: Benjamin Baumgartner Chase De Leeo AJ Greer Jeremy Groleau Ripshot 43 Jakub Malek Eetu Päkkilä Nikola Pasic Nikita Popugayev Nathan Schnarr Gilles Senn Artem Shlaine Topias Vilen Colton White Yegor Zaitsev _____________________________

In Poll: Zakhar Bardakov Cole Brady Ethan Edwards Viktor Hurtig Case McCarthy Daniil Misyul Patrick Moynihan Akira Schmid Marian Studenic Aarne Talvitie _____________________________

Selected Players: Kevin Bahl Graeme Clarke Nico Daws Nolan Foote Arseni Gritsyuk Alexander Holtz Luke Hughes Dawson Mercer Shakir Mukhamadullin Nikita Okhotiuk Jaromir Pytlik Samu Salminen Chase Stillman Tyce Thompson Michael Vukojevic Reilly Walsh Fabian Zetterlund _____________________________

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[Its Always Sundstrom]

Case add Malek just to annoy @Guttersniped

 

[Nubmer6]

Case add Malek just to annoy @Guttersniped

Wouldn't adding Ripshot serve that purpose?

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Studenic add AJ Greer.

 

[Guadana]

This is a case about actual info. If I have a chance to rerank players with actual performance - Misyul have to be higher in my rankings.

 

[Its Always Sundstrom]

Wouldn't adding Ripshot serve that purpose?

I think more of a @My3Sons storyline.

 

[Beastdog75]

Voted for Moynihan, add Greer

 

[Guttersniped]

Case add Malek just to annoy @Guttersniped

 

[OmNomNom]

Case add Malek just to annoy @Guttersniped

i give up, case isn't making it to top 20

 

[A Devils Fan]

Kinda nuts to still have so many players on the list that I feel like have a really good chance of being NHL players. 10 years ago, a player like Schnarr would probably be getting penciled in as our fourth line center or something.

 

[HyperX]

I finally got my voting privileges!..

as soon as Danil didnt need my vote anymore lol

 

[Nubmer6]

I finally got my voting privileges!..

as soon as Danil didnt need my vote anymore lol

Damn. I should have sped up the polls so they'd be done before you got your privileges back

 

[HyperX]

Damn. I should have sped up the polls so they'd be done before you got your privileges back

I just unlocked them for the first time.. Its voter suppression, I tell ya!

damn politics of it all; FREE THE HARD WORKING PROSPECTS!

#ProspectVotesMatter

 

[RememberTheName]

I've been crazy busy lately with college starting up so I haven't been able to post much. Here is my updated personal prospect rankings up to #18.

Spoiler

1. Luke Hughes
2. Dawson Mercer
3. Alex Holtz
4. Shakir Mukhamadullin
5. Nolan Foote
6. Graeme Clarke
7. Nikita Okhotiuk
8. Kevin Bahl
9. Chase Stillman
10. Michael Vukojevic
11. Akira Schmid
12. Nico Daws
13. Tyce Thompson
14. Zakhar Bardakov
15. Daniil Misyul
16. Reilly Walsh
17. Jaromir Pytlik
18. Arseni Gritsyuk

Daws and Schmid are being crazy underrated in my opinion, especially Schmid. The fact that he seemingly won't crack the top 20 is ridiculous.

 

[My3Sons]

I've been crazy busy lately with college starting up so I haven't been able to post much. Here is my updated personal prospect rankings up to #18.

Spoiler

1. Luke Hughes
2. Dawson Mercer
3. Alex Holtz
4. Shakir Mukhamadullin
5. Nolan Foote
6. Graeme Clarke
7. Nikita Okhotiuk
8. Kevin Bahl
9. Chase Stillman
10. Michael Vukojevic
11. Akira Schmid
12. Nico Daws
13. Tyce Thompson
14. Zakhar Bardakov
15. Daniil Misyul
16. Reilly Walsh
17. Jaromir Pytlik
18. Arseni Gritsyuk

Daws and Schmid are being crazy underrated in my opinion, especially Schmid. The fact that he seemingly won't crack the top 20 is ridiculous.

i think had Schmid been healthy since he was drafted he’d be more highly regarded. He has two good years sandwiched around a bad one that seems to have been chalked up to injury. Hopefully he is healthy next season and gets a chance to show his talent and develop it.

 

[Guttersniped]

The Misyul shame votes pile on. Add Vilen.

 

[Guttersniped]

I've been crazy busy lately with college starting up so I haven't been able to post much. Here is my updated personal prospect rankings up to #18.

Spoiler

1. Luke Hughes
2. Dawson Mercer
3. Alex Holtz
4. Shakir Mukhamadullin
5. Nolan Foote
6. Graeme Clarke
7. Nikita Okhotiuk
8. Kevin Bahl
9. Chase Stillman
10. Michael Vukojevic
11. Akira Schmid
12. Nico Daws
13. Tyce Thompson
14. Zakhar Bardakov
15. Daniil Misyul
16. Reilly Walsh
17. Jaromir Pytlik
18. Arseni Gritsyuk

Daws and Schmid are being crazy underrated in my opinion, especially Schmid. The fact that he seemingly won't crack the top 20 is ridiculous.

Players are winning by such a small margins now (this poll notwithstanding) that clearly lots of posters like a lot of these guys.

There’s bit of a pile-up at goal and people don’t quite know what to make of any of them.

Daws is overager w/ a December 2000 birth, he would have been older draft 2019 pick.

Schmid has a May 2000 birthday so they both finished their age 20 year.

Brady is a year younger with a February 2001 birthday. Malek was also an overager too so he’s only a year younger than Brady, with a April 2002 birthday.

 

[My3Sons]

Players are winning by such a small margins now (this poll notwithstanding) that clearly lots of posters like a lot of these guys.

There’s bit of a pile-up at goal and people don’t quite know what to make of any of them.

Daws is overager w/ a December 2000 birth, he would have been older draft 2019 pick.

Schmid has a May 2000 birthday so they both finished their age 20 year.

Brady is a year younger with a February 2001 birthday. Malek was also an overager too so he’s only a year younger than Brady, with a April 2002 birthday.

I don’t know much about Malek but the others have something to commend them. Daws was a WJC goalie for Cannada which is obviously impressive. Schmid was a goalie of the year for the USHL. Brady chased a veteran starter into the transfer portal. I could see at least one playing in the NHL.

 

[Guttersniped]

I don’t know much about Malek but the others have something to commend them. Daws was a WJC goalie for Cannada which is obviously impressive. Schmid was a goalie of the year for the USHL. Brady chased a veteran starter into the transfer portal. I could see at least one playing in the NHL.

They all have upside, they’re just sort of in a massive tie after Daws barely played in the DEL, Brady had a tough season (he went old school viral with Mono) with some real promise, while Schmid came roaring back in the USHL against teens. This season will be big for all of them, far from decisive, but at least we’ll get a better sense what we have.

 

[Billdo]

Y'all are so wrong with regard to not picking McCarthy by now.

 

[Guttersniped]

Y'all are so wrong with regard to not picking McCarthy by now.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Daws and Schmid are being crazy underrated in my opinion, especially Schmid. The fact that he seemingly won't crack the top 20 is ridiculous.

That may end up to be the case but based on their play to this point their futures are anything but certain; and their lower rankings seem justified.

Schmid did well last season, but was playing in a junior league as a 20-year-old; when many prospects are in either their first or second year of college or playing pro hockey.

Daws, who was drafted in his second year of eligibility and lackluster in the WJC as a 19-year-old, barely played last season.

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

This is a case about actual info. If I have a chance to rerank players with actual performance - Misyul have to be higher in my rankings.

Believe I may have brought this up in a previous poll, but other than their draft position what is the case for Misyul being ahead of Zaitsev other than draft position or age?


In last year's KHL playoffs Misyul skated in just four of 10 games for Lokomotiv; Yaitsev played all 10 with Dynamo.

And so far this season Zaitsev is seeing solid second pair minutes on what is looking like one of the KHL's better teams.

 

[Guadana]

Believe I may have brought this up in a previous poll, but other than their draft position what is the case for Misyul being ahead of Zaitsev other than draft position or age?


In last year's KHL playoffs Misyul skated in just four of 10 games for Lokomotiv; Yaitsev played all 10 with Dynamo.

And so far this season Zaitsev is seeing solid second pair minutes on what is looking like one of the KHL's better teams.

Misyul is younger. And now he is playin 2nd pair minutes. And he is 1st PK unit player. Misyul is better skater and he has some offensive upside\potential.

I like Zaitsev and I think he can be solid 3rd pairing defenseman with PK minutes, but he has no chanse to have more than 2-3 mil per year. Taxes, prices, injuries. It is not good idea to travel in USA for him. Most likely Zaitsev will never score 10 points even if he will play in NHL. Yeah, I like how he can hit everyone, he is solid one on one, but he mill make more real money in Russia for his job. He play RD and play this defensive role pretty solid. If he he will try himself as NHL player - that`s great. But I dont think this will gonna happend.

 

[Triumph]

Believe I may have brought this up in a previous poll, but other than their draft position what is the case for Misyul being ahead of Zaitsev other than draft position or age?


In last year's KHL playoffs Misyul skated in just four of 10 games for Lokomotiv; Yaitsev played all 10 with Dynamo.

And so far this season Zaitsev is seeing solid second pair minutes on what is looking like one of the KHL's better teams.

Age is the one case - Zaitsev was drafted in 2017 as an overage selection so he is 23, Misyul turns 21 in a month. Zaitsev's minutes jumped from 13 to 16 a game when he went into his age 21 season. So far Misyul is playing 19 minutes a game, if he keeps that up, then yes, he will have to be thought of as better than Zaitsev.