Prospect Info: Blues Prospect Rankings #1

[EastonBlues22]

I'm still going for Tarasenko at #1. I watched quite a bit of his play in Russia, and he has a lot more to his game that what he's shown so far here. The adaptation period might be longer than commonly thought, but I still think his ceiling is the highest of all the youngsters.

 

[Kasparov]

Time to vote for the blues top 25 prospects now that the draft is over and there isn't much going on.

Remember- Frank and Schwartz are still prospects by HF terms.

I will make a new one every week or less.

Here are the results from the fall:

#1 Vladimir Tarasenko, RW, 6'0, 191, 12/13/1991 (92.16%)
#2 Jaden Schwartz, LW, 5'9, 179, 6/25/1992 (92.50%)
#3 Ty Rattie, RW, 6'0, 167, 2/5/1993 (57.38%)
#4 Ian Cole, D, 6'1, 225, 2/21/1989 (75.61%)
#5 Jake Allen, G, 6'2, 195, 8/7/1990 (73.33%)
#6 Jordan Schmaltz, D, 6'2, 170, 10/8/1993 (38.1%)
#7 Jani Hakanpaa, D, 6'5, 218, 3/31/1992 (64.71%)
#8 Cade Fairchild, D, 5'11, 175, 1/15/1989 (61.7%)
#9 Philip McRae, C, 6'2, 200, 3/15/1990 (57.89%)
#10 Sebastian Wannstrom, RW, 6'1, 183, 3/3/1991 (30.95%)
#11 Evgeny Grachev, C/LW, 6'4, 225, 2/21/1990 (38.10%)
(tie) #12 Sam Kurker, RW, 6'2, 198, 4/8/94 (30.00%)
(tie) #12 Jori Lehtera, C, 6'1, 201, 12/23/87 (30.00%)
#14 Joel Edmundson, D, 6'4, 192, 6/28/93 (51.85%)
#15 Dmitrij Jaskin, RW, 6'2, 198, 3/23/93 (40.54%)
#16 Brett Ponich, D, 6'7, 220, 2/22/91 (42.11%)
#17 Yannick Veilleux, LW, 6'2, 190, 2/22/93 (48.48%)
#18 MacKenzie MacEachern, LW, 6'2, 174, 3/9/94 (35.39%)
#19 Ryan Tesink, C/LW, 6'0, 165, 5/21/93 (44.83%)
#20 Teemu Eronen, D, 5'10, 181, 11/22/91 (50.00%)
#21 Sergei Andronov, RW, 6'0, 183, 7/19/89 (44.00%)
#22 Colton Parayko, D, 6'5, 191, 5/12/93 (40.00%)
#23 Jordan Binnington, G, 6'1, 154, 7/11/93 (59.38%)
#24 Cody Beach, RW, 6'5, 184, 8/8/1992 (38.46%)
#25 Anthony Peluso, RW, 6'3, 235, 4/18/89 (25.00%)

Anthony Peluso is currently playing for the Jets.

Edit: nevermind. just realized those are from LAST FALL.

 

[bleedblue1223]

I'm more interested in who will be this year's Jaskin. Who will be the player that we think is out of the top 10 or even top 15 that makes a big jump.

 

[EastonBlues22]

I'm more interested in who will be this year's Jaskin. Who will be the player that we think is out of the top 10 or even top 15 that makes a big jump.

Carrier is my bet.

 

[letmesleep]

Carrier is my bet.

Absolutely. The kid has 1st round talent, a big frame, and a load of confidence.

 

[Frenzy31]

Carrier is my bet.

When I think of the jaskin effect.... I think of someone who was drafted and fell off the map. And then takes off.

I am torn between schmaltz who got better as the year went on, but didnt have as big of an impact on the score card. And Kurker - I almost have to go with Kurker really did very little last year.

Yep..I think kurker will have a breakout year production wise.

As for the poll. I went with vt. If e works on his conditioning this year, I think he will look like the player who was nearly at a point per game prior to his injury. Not the giy who was scratched.

 

[letmesleep]

We should close this poll and move on to the next one ASAP. Tarasenko has run away with the vote.

 

[Bluesnatic27]

The biggest question I have is where Vanelli will go on this list. The kid sounds like one heck of skater and I'm wondering if he could end up being like another Bouwmeester

 

[rumrokh]

When I think of the jaskin effect.... I think of someone who was drafted and fell off the map. And then takes off.

I am torn between schmaltz who got better as the year went on, but didnt have as big of an impact on the score card. And Kurker - I almost have to go with Kurker really did very little last year.

Yep..I think kurker will have a breakout year production wise.

As for the poll. I went with vt. If e works on his conditioning this year, I think he will look like the player who was nearly at a point per game prior to his injury. Not the giy who was scratched.

Kurker has the tools and he's not a stupid player. He mostly was a victim of his team having set veteran lines and he had nobody to play with and didn't get a lot of minutes. Watching him, he plays aggressively, uses his body, has some speed, appears to have a good shot, and he supports puck battles well. Opportunity isn't the only thing missing (consistency is an issue), but it's probably the biggest thing.

I don't know if he'll be able to leapfrog guys like Binnington, Lundstrom, and Carrier and end up in Jaskin's range, but I definitely agree that Kurker has a good chance to move quickly from forgotten to a player who everyone sees as clear NHL talent.

 

[EastonBlues22]

When I think of the jaskin effect.... I think of someone who was drafted and fell off the map. And then takes off.

I am torn between schmaltz who got better as the year went on, but didnt have as big of an impact on the score card. And Kurker - I almost have to go with Kurker really did very little last year.

Yep..I think kurker will have a breakout year production wise.

As for the poll. I went with vt. If e works on his conditioning this year, I think he will look like the player who was nearly at a point per game prior to his injury. Not the giy who was scratched.

Jaskin never fell off my map. I had him ranked in my personal top 6 at the bottom of my second tier after the draft, which I believe can be verified by the search function, and he never slid any lower.

In the interest of full disclosure, my tiered top 21 was:
Tarasenko
Schwartz
Rattie
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Cole
Grachev
Jaskin
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Allen
McRae
Edmundson
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Cundari
Wannstrom
Ponich
Porter
Della Rovere
Bishop
Reaves
Cracknell
Fairchild
Beach
Beukeboom
Hakanpaa


Strickland did the Blues writeup for HF that year. As a comparison, his (and thus HF's) top 20 was:
Tarasenko
Schwartz
Allen
Cole
McRae
Ponich
Lehtera
Junland
Rattie
Jaskin
Grachev
Della Rovere
Beach
Wannstrom
Fairchild
Hakanpaa
Edmundson
Cundari
Shields
Binnington

 

[EastonBlues22]

We should close this poll and move on to the next one ASAP. Tarasenko has run away with the vote.

Agreed. I'll put up the next one.

Closed.