Prospect Info: 2021 Leafs Board Prospect Rankings #14

[Morgs]

Steeves was added with 6 votes and Hollowell was added with 2. Vote for who to add next.

1. Each poll will be open for 24 hours.

2. As we never have a consensus way as to which players are still considered prospects, we'll be using my way (at least for the first few polls). The player must be U24 and have less than 50 GP in the NHL. The "prospects" that are left off because of these rules are Joey Anderson, Brennan Menell, Adam Brooks, Joseph Duszak, Vladimir Bobylev, and Nickolai Chebykin. The player also must be either drafted by the team, or signed to an ELC to be considered a prospect. This leaves off a player like Keith Petruzzelli.

3. At this time we'll stick to the top-20, but if we want to go to 25 or 30 (I believe the Leafs have just over 30 guys that are eligible) I'll definitely go further.

Rankings:
1. Rasmus Sandin - 53.2%
2. Nick Robertson - 50.9%
3. Timothy Liljegren - 56.9%
4. Rodion Amirov - 90.6%
5. Topi Niemela - 62.1%
6. Matthew Knies - 45.4%
7. Roni Hirvonen - 61.1%
8. Mikhail Abramov - 47.5%
9. Mikko Kokkonen - 44.7%
10. Veeti Miettinen - 49.4%
11. Nick Abruzzese - 40.2%
12. Pontus Holmberg - 27.2% (tiebreaker - 57.1%)
13. Dmitri Ovchinnikov - 27.2% (tiebreaker - 42.9%)
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On the Docket:

Player	Position	Age	League	GP	Goals	Points	PPG	NHLe	Acquired
Semyon Der-Arguchintsev	C	21.0	KHL	10	1	5	0.50	25.3	3rd Round Pick 2018
Pavel Gogolev	W	21.5	AHL	13	6	12	0.9	31.2	UDFA
Filip Kral	LHD	21.9	CZE	48	6	21	0.44	14.2	5th Round Pick 2018
Mike Koster	LHD	20.4	NCAA	31	3	12	0.39	7.3	5th Round Pick 2019
Artur Ahktyamov	G	19.8	VHL	14	0	0	0	0.927	4th Round Pick 2020
Ty Voit	W	18.2	OHL	0	0	0	0.00	0	5th Round Pick 2021
William Villeneuve	RHD	19.5	QMJHL	33	3	20	0.61	7.9	4th Round Pick 2020
Axel Rindell	RHD	21.4	Liiga	47	7	19	0.40	12.0	6th Round Pick 2020
Alex Steeves	C/W	21.7	NCAA	29	15	32	1.10	20.9	UDFA
Mac Hollowell	RHD	22.9	AHL	27	2	10	0.37	12.5	4th Round Pick 2018

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Next:

Player	Position	Age	League	GP	Goals	Points	PPG	NHLe	Acquired
Ryan Tverberg	C	19.6	NCAA	14	4	7	0.50	8.4	7th Round Pick 2020
Semyon Kizimov	W	21.6	VHL	35	7	14	0.40	8.8	7th Round Pick 2018
Kalle Loponen	RHD	20.5	U20 Sarja	44	11	36	0.82	4.9	7th Round Pick 2019
Wyatt Schingoethe	C	19.1	USHL	44	10	21	0.48	4.6	7th Round Pick 2020
Joe Miller	C/W	19.0	USHL	40	8	18	0.45	4.4	6th Round Pick 2020
Kristans Rubins	LHD	23.7	AHL	22	1	3	0.14	4.6	UDFA
John Fusco	RHD	20.2	USHL	20	2	12	0.60	5.8	7th Round Pick 2020
Ryan O'Connell	LHD	22.4	NCAA	27	0	6	0.22	4.2	7th Round Pick 2017
Vladislav Kara	W	23.4	KHL	23	1	3	0.13	6.6	4th Round Pick 2017

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Player	Position	Age	League	GP	SV%	Acquired
Ian Scott	G	22.6	AHL	1	0.857	4th Round Pick 2017
Joseph Woll	G	23.1	AHL	15	0.892	3rd Round Pick 2016
Vyacheslav Peksa	G	19.0	MHL	17	0.909	6th Round Pick 2021

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Past Results:
Prospect Info: - 2019 Leafs Board Prospect Ranking #20
Prospect Info: - 2020 Leafs Board Prospect Rankings #20

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[Morgs]

Tough choice between SDA, Gogolev, Kral, and Koster for me.

I think Kral has the best floor, and is the most likely to be a 100+ GP NHL player left. I think Gogolev and SDA have the highest upsides left, but they both have AHL tweener/KHL top-6 written all over them without showing more. Koster is the guy in the middle, and is just so fun to watch. Easily has proven the least, but it's not his fault a bunch of high picks also went to Minnesota. Gotta go with Kral.

I think I'm gonna go:
Kral
SDA
Gogolev
Koster

Add Tverberg.

 

[Morgs]

Also, please like this post if you want to go to 25. The Leafs by my count have 35 eligible prospects, so it should be interesting if you guys want. When (if) we get to 25 we'll talk about possibly going to 30.

 

[stickty111]

SDA

 

[Prominence]

I haven’t seen gogolev play yet. I got voit as a faster sda.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Add Woll.

 

[Lauro]

Ovchinnikov shouldn't be 13th yet, all Holmberg voters could have SDA or ... above him.

 

[daethfromabove1979]

Voted Kral over SDA. I just don’t think much of SDA, super skilled but underperforms and I don’t see how he ever makes it into the Leafs lineup.

 

[tmlfan98]

Add Woll

 

[zeke]

Much like Abramov, I don't get the SDA love.

Guys like Ovchinnikov and Voit seem far more interesting.

 

[Morgs]

Much like Abramov, I don't get the SDA love.

Guys like Ovchinnikov and Voit seem far more interesting.

I'm not really a "watch the games" type of guy, but I'd argue both of them are better than their basic production suggests.

Unless you play in pretty much SHL/Liiga/CZE, you don't have public access to underlying stats to get the full context of players. Production is a great measure (especially NHLe) but in regards to places like the MHL/CHL/AHL, production can only take you so far.

 

[supermann_98]

Kral put up very decent numbers in the WHL for a Dman and then went on to a very respectable rookie season in the Czech league as a 21 year old. I don't see him setting the world on fire but I definitely see him being a decent #5 Dman in the NHL with future top 4 potential.

Nobody else on this list I see as being an NHL regular in the future

 

[Ashdown2]

gogo

add a goalie

 

[Twine Tickler]

I think I am going with the Gog's. I honestly think this guy can be a sneaky call up this year. Guy can absolutely melt the biscuit

 

[Magic Man]

Interesting that these two end up coming to a draw. Both born in Moskva, Russia. Both 21 year olds from the OHL, coming into their second pro season. Similar production in the OHL and AHL so far. Each with an unimpressive showing in second tier leagues in their early pro debuts (ECHL for SDA, Allsvenskan for Gogo).

I think they end the 3rd tier of prospects. The A-prospects in tier 1 (top-4), the B+ prospects (5-7) and then the B-prospects from (8-15). I don't have Ovchinnikov in my top-3 tiers, so 8-14 for me. He's a big riser compared with my list. Based on this ranking the next prospect to do that will be Filip Kral. But, I think we're entering territory where I wouldn't be surprised with any of these guys being voted in.

 

[hockeynorth]

I still have 5/6 guys in this tier

Ahktyamov
Koster
Kral
Woll
Voit
~ Steeves/Hollowell

 

[aingefan]

Ima keep going with Filip Kral.