Best prospect pool in the NHL (DET vs LA vs NYR vs OTT)

[Puikiou]

Simple question. Which team has the best prospect pool in hockey?

* = stats from last season

1. Lucas Raymond (RW, 18yo, SHL/23gp-5g-12pts)
2. Moritz Seider (D, 19yo, SHL/23gp-3g-17pts)
3. Filip Zadina (RW, 20yo, Extraliga/17gp-8g-14pts)
4. Jonatan Berggren (C, 20yo, SHL/27gp-5g-26pts)
5. Joe Veleno (C, 20yo, SHL/29gp-9g-14pts)
6. Albert Johansson (D, 19yo, SHL/21gp-3g-7pts)
7. William Wallinder (D, 18yo, Allsvenskan/23gp-0g-4pts)
8. Theodor Niederbach (C/RW, 18yo, SHL/5gp-0g-0pts)
9. Michael Rasmussen (C, 21yo, EBEL/18gp-5g-18pts)
10. Emil Viro (D, 18yo, SM-Liiga/16gp-1g-6pts)
11. Jared McIssac (D, 20yo, SM-Liiga/1gp-0g-0pts)
12. Elmer Soderblom (LW, 19yo, SHL/8gp-0g-0pts)
13. Robert Mastrosimone (LW, 19yo, *NCAA/34gp-7g-17pts)
14. Antti Tuomisto (D, 19yo, NCAA/12gp-0g-4pts)
15. Alex Cotton (D, 19yo, AJHL/2gp-1g-3pts)
16. Evgeny Svechnikov (RW, 23yo, *AHL/51gp-11g-25pts)
17. Ethan Philips (C, 19yo, *NCAA/31gp-2g-10pts)
18. Filip Larsson (G, 22yo, Allsvenskan/6gp-3.54gaa-.883sv%)
19. Cross Hanas (LW, 18yo, *WHL/60gp-22g-49pts)
20. Chase Pearson (C, 23yo, *AHL/59gp-8g-22pts)

***



1. Quinton Byfield (C, 18yo, *OHL/45gp-32g-82pts)
2. Gabriel Vilardi (C, 21yo, *AHL/32gp-9g-25pts)
3. Alex Turcotte (C, 19yo, WJC/7gp-3g-8pts)
4. Tobias Bjornfot (D, 19yo, SHL/15gp-1g-3pts)
5. Arthur Kaliyev (RW, 19yo, WJC/7gp-3g-8pts)
6. Samuel Fagemo (RW, 20yo, Allsvenskan/18gp-6g-10pts)
7. Mikey Anderson (D, 21yo, *AHL/53gp-3g-15pts)
8. Tyler Madden (C, 20yo, DEL/0gp-0g-0pts)
9. Rasmus Kupari (C, 20yo, *AHL/27gp-6g-8pts)
10. Helge Grans (D, 18yo, SHL/23gp-3g-10pts)
11. Akil Thomas (C, 20yo, DEL/0gp-0g-0pts)
12. Jaret Anderson-Dolan (C, 21yo, *AHL/53gp-8g-28pts)
13. Kale Clague (D, 22yo, *AHL/49gp-8g-25pts)
14. Aidan Dudas (C, 20yo, DEL/0gp-0g-0pts)
15. Brock Faber (D, 18yo, WJC/7gp-0g-5pts)
16. Jordan Spence (D, 19yo, WJC/2gp-1g-1pts)
17. Jacob Ingham (G, 20yo, Allsvenskan/9gp-2.51gaa-.898sv%)
18. Cole Hultz (D, 22yo, *NCAA/34gp-8g-30pts)
19. Jacob Moverare (D, 22yo, SM-Liiga/7gp-0g-1pts)
20. Kasper Simontaival (RW, 18yo, SM-Liiga/7gp-0g-1pts)

***



1. Alexis Lafreniere (LW, 19yo, *QMJHL/52gp-35g-112pts)
2. Igor Shesterkin (G, 24yo, *AHL/25gp-1.90gaa-.934sv%)
3. Nils Lundkvist (D, 20yo, SHL/28gp-7g-17pts)
4. Vitali Kravtsov (RW, 20yo, KHL/18gp-8g-11pts)
5. K'Andre Miller (D, 20yo, *NCAA/36gp-7g-18pts)
6. Braden Schneider (D, 19yo, *WJC/6gp-1g-3pts)
7. Matthew Robertson (D, 19yo, *WHL/60gp-13g-47pts)
8. Julien Gauthier (RW, 23yo, *AHL/44gp-26g-37pts)
9. Morgan Barron (C, 21yo, *NCAA/29gp-14g-32pts)
10. Zac Jones (D, 20yo, NCAA/13gp-5g-13pts)
11. Will Cuylle (LW, 18yo, *OHL/62gp-22g-42pts)
12. Brett Berard (LW, 18yo, WJC/13gp-1g-5pts)
13. Karl Henriksson (C, 19yo, SHL/27gp-0g-4pts)
14. Tarmo Reunanen (D, 22yo, SM-Liiga/7gp-1g-2pts)
15. Libor Hajek (D, 22yo, Extraliga/10gp-0g-2pts)
16. Tyler Wall (G, 22yo, *NCAA/32gp-2.10gaa-.931sv%)
17. Lauri Pajuniemi (RW, 21yo, SM-Liiga/14gp-6g-9pts)
18. Evan Vierling (C, 18yo, *OHL/43gp-14g-44pts)
19. Tim Gettinger (LW, 22yo, *OHL/53gp-16g-27pts)
20. Olivier Tarnstrom (C, 18yo, Allsvenskan/12gp-4g-8pts)

***



1. Tim Stützle (C/LW, 18yo, *WJC/5gp-5g-10pts)
2. Jake Sanderson (D, 18yo, *WJC/7gp-0g-2pts)
3. Erik Brännström (D, 21yo, NLA/10gp-2g-8pts)
4. Drake Batherson (RW, 22yo, *AHL/44gp-16g-54pts)
5. Josh Norris (C, 21yo, *AHL/56gp-30g-61pts)
6. Logan Brown (C, 22yo, *AHL/25gp-7g-28pts)
7. Shane Pinto (C, 19yo, NCAA/10gp-5g-13pts)
8. Jacob Bernard-Docker (D, 20yo, NCAA/10gp-1g-5pts)
9. Alex Formenton (LW, 21yo, *AHL/61gp-27g-53pts)
10. Ridly Greig (C, 18yo, *WHL/56gp-26g-60pts)
11. Roby Järventie (LW, 18yo, WJC/6gp-0g-0pts)
12. Vitaly Abramov (RW, 22yo, NLA/8gp-5g-7pts)
13. Lassi Thomson (D, 20yo, SM-Liiga/12gp-0g-2pts)
14. Tyler Kleven (D, 18yo, NCAA/3gp-0g-1pts)
15. Rudolfs Balcers (LW, 23yo, Norway/5gp-1g-5pts)
16. Joel Daccord (G, 24yo, *AHL/24gp-2.61gaa-.915sv%)
17. Egor Sokolov (LW, 20yo, *QMJHL/52gp-46g-92pts)
18. Kevin Mandolese (G, 20yo, *QMJHL/37gp-2.33gaa-.925sv%)
19. Mads Soogard (G, 19yo, *WHL/37gp-2.53gaa-.908sv%)
20. Filip Gustavsson (G, 22yo, Allsvenskan/19gp-2.30gaa-.919sv%)​

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[Dache]

I’d go NYR with Ott pretty close behind. Why no poll?

 

[Isaac Nootin]

Ottawa
NYR
LA
DET

 

[Roasted Nuts]

LA has its top six set in stone for sure. But NY has the elite talent in Shest and Laf. Byfield isn't bad either.

 

[Mitch nylander]

1. La
2. NYR
3. Ottawa
4. Detroit

 

[Mickey Marner]

I think Ottawa and LA have deeper pools, but Lafreniere and Shesterkin are too good to turn down. Detroit 4th.

 

[WingsMJN2965]

NYR is obviously the best on the top end, but Detroit's top 10 is insane.

Can't go wrong with any of these pools. All four have an incredible top 3.

 

[Puikiou]

Obviously biased opinion, but top to bottom, I think Ottawa has the better and deeper prospect pool out there.

 

[pown]

Ottawas top 5 is pretty insane if they all pan out, 2nd is rangers

 

[A Loyal Dog]

NYR
LAK
OTT
DET

 

[WingsMJN2965]

NYR is one of those teams whose prospect pool is gonna fall of a cliff real quick.

That's not a knock, either. Mainly because two, if not three of their top 5 will graduate this year. And their top 5 is heavily influencing their ranking.

 

[LarKing]

LA for me. Their farm is insane.

 

[Taluss]

Rangers imo.

 

[SpezDispenser]

NYR
LAK
OTT
DET

Switch la and ny for me, but otherwise, this.

 

[MitchMurphy]

NYR

 

[TheMule93]

the teams that have won the draft lotteries are ahead of the team that falls in the draft order year after year

 

[ricky0034]

i'll go with LA,Lafreniere is the clear best player here but I think the advantage LA has in the rest of the pool more than makes up for it

in any case those are the clear top 2

i'm honestly not sure if i'd even have Ottawa or Detroit at 3/4,possibly but i'd need to see more pools

I think Ottawa's group is incredibly overrated in general(never been all that high on Sanderson and a group of honestly kinda mediocre forward talent that has become heavily overrated due to hitting the ground running in the AHL) and as a Wings fan while there's certainly some exciting names in the teams pool if they pan out I don't think most of those guys are particularly likely to come anywhere near their ceilings

 

[EdJovanovski]

NYR

 

[EdJovanovski]

NYR is one of those teams whose prospect pool is gonna fall of a cliff real quick.

That's not a knock, either. Mainly because two, if not three of their top 5 will graduate this year. And their top 5 is heavily influencing their ranking.

Crazy that last year Kakko & Fox graduated too loo and they’re still arguably the best after that

 

[bert]

I’d go NYR with Ott pretty close behind. Why no poll?

I like the Rangers high end better but Ottawa has more depth. Votes Rangers.

Really think quite a few of L.A's prospects are overrated. Specifically Turcotte and Kaliyev. Meanwhile Vilardi is underrated.

 

[Dache]

I like the Rangers high end better but Ottawa has more depth.

That’s pretty much my opinion too. Just though the top 4-5 for NYR were a bit better than 4-5 for Ottawa. After that it’s for sure Ottawa for me, but by then who knows what will come from them

 

[Mrb1p]

LA and it isnt close.

Best top end and the depth destroys all.

NYR after because of Laf and good depth

Then Ottawa

Detroit doesnt belong in the conversation with the other three for lack of top end.

 

[bert]

LA and it isnt close.

Best top end and the depth destroys all.

NYR after because of Laf and good depth

Then Ottawa

Detroit doesnt belong in the conversation with the other three for lack of top end.

Ottawa is deeper than L.A.

 

[EXTRAS]

Ott/nyr/la all seem fairly equal. Det has a nice couple guys just not the depth of the other teams.

 

[Mrb1p]

Ottawa is deeper than L.A.

Define deeper ? Depth is also a by-product of top end, and theres no top end in Ottawa after Stutzle.

Id take the top 4 of Ottawa before Sanderson.

A good exercise would be to try and rank every prospects in both pools, youd have a lot more LA kings in the top 20, fading as it goes, which is the most important part.