Guess I'll post some ramblings for once
This is where I am at
Celebrini
Levshunov - 2 years removed from belarus juniors, believe the mental game will come.
Eiserman - Knows how to score goals and I believe that translates, if it does the rest of his game doesn't knock him out of this tier.
Catton - Don't think his size is an issue, that's the only thing I can think of that has kept him out of many top-5 lists.
Demidov - Russians go to the bottom of their tier due to uncertainty of their arrival to the NHL game, I don't think Demidov is above this group of players.
Dickinson - Safest player in this tier, just don't know if he's a top of roster guy, probably just top-half.
Helenius - Already productive in a professional league. Don't know if he'll be able to remain at center but his game will translate to the wing just fine.
Lindstrom - He's a man amongst boys in the WHL, slightly concerned how it will translate to the NHL level, but there's nobody left that I feel good enough about to pass on what could be.
Silayev - See Demidov, not sold on his offensive game so he falls in this tier for me.
Yakemchuk - He can turn pro in a year, which is great because he's being asked to do too much. Needs to find a structured game for when its required, while also keeping the physical edge and confidence attacking when its required, all the tools are there.
Buium - I do think his puck game will translate to some degree, I just don't know how much I can trust him on the defensive side, everything is kind of "meh" there, and that's not good enough.
After that I feel like I'm looking at guys I thought would be there around our pick last year(forwards similar to Ritchie/Perrault/Barlow/Stenberg/Musty and defenseman like Molendyk/ASP/Lindstein). Around 50 it evens out for me compared to last year. Last year's forward crop was insanely good though.
Hypothetically we go on a bit of a run and those 11 are out of reach I think about Calgary(look to be selling so they'll fall) moving up from Vancouver's 1st for Iginla IF we could get Artamonov(he'd be in my next tier but seems to be a consensus borderline 1st, I do recall passing on Yurov for Ohgren knowing he'd still be there at 24 so I would trust our group having an idea of where Artamonov might go) with that pick. Would probably net their 2 and 3 as well, based on what I'm looking at on rankings that could be Artamonov + Emery/Hage/Vanacker + Zether with Fischer as our own 2. Would prefer that trio to anything not in my top-11.
