Rangers Prospect List (Summer 2021) - #13

[The Crypto Guy]

Ranger's Summer 2021 Prospect Ranking

1. Alexis Lafrenière (F) (2020 Draft - 1st round) (Not Ranked)
2. Nils Lundkvist (D) (2018 Draft - 1st round) (+3)
3. K'Andre Miller (D) (2018 Draft - 1st round ) (+3)
4. Vitali Kravtsov (F) (2018 Draft - 1st round) (Same Rank)
5. Braden Schneider (D) (2020 Draft - 1st round) (Not Ranked)
6. Zac Jones (D) (2019 Draft - 3rd round) (+1)
7. Matthew Robertson (D) (2019 Draft - 2nd round) (+6)
8. Brennan Othmann (F) (2021 Draft - 1st round) (Not Ranked)
9. Morgan Barron (F) (2017 Draft - 6th round) (+2)
10. Julien Gauthier (F) (2016 Draft - 1st round) (Not Ranked)
11. Brett Berard (F) (2020 Draft - 5th round) (Not Ranked)
12. Will Cuylle (F) (2020 Draft - 2nd round) (Not Ranked)

ADDED: Jayden Grubbe (F)
Please post who you wanted added!

Player	Pos.	Sh.	DOB	Ht.	Wt.	Team/League	Acquired
Aaltonen, Levi	W	L	01/24/01	5'9"	168	KooKoo/Liiga	Drafted R5 #130 2019
Boyko, Talyn	G	L	10/16/02	6'7"	196	Tri-City Americans/WHL	Drafted R4 #112 2021
Chmelar, Jaroslav	RW	R	07/20/03	6'4"	198		Drafted R5 #144 2021
Ciccolini, Eric	F	R	01/14/01	6'0"	170	Michigan Wolverines/B10	Drafted R7 #205 2019
Edström, Adam	F	L	10/12/00	6'8"	225	Rögle BK/SHL	Drafted R6 #161 2019
Elmer, Jake	RW	R	12/31/98	6'1"	190		Signed as UDFA 2019
Gettinger, Tim	LW	L	04/14/98	6'6"	218		Drafted R5 #141 2016
Henriksson, Karl	C/LW	L	02/05/01	5'9"	174	Frölunda HC/SHL	Drafted R2 #58 2019
Hughes, Riley	W	R	06/27/00	6'2"	195	Northeastern Huskies/HEA	Drafted R7 #216 2018
Húska, Adam	G	L	05/12/97	6'4"	218		Drafted R7 #184 2015
Kempf, Hank	D	L	04/15/02	6'2"	190	Cornell Big Red/ECAC	Drafted R7 #208 2021
Khodorenko, Patrick	C	L	10/13/98	6'0"	198		Signed as UDFA 2020
Kjellberg, Simon	D	L	02/17/00	6'3"	190	RPI Engineers/ECAC	Drafted R6 #163 2018
Korczak, Ryder	C	R	09/23/02	5'11"	174	Moose Jaw Warriors/WHL	Drafted R3 #75 2021
Lamb, Brody	RW	R	08/30/03	6'1"	165	Green Bay Gamblers/USHL	Drafted R4 #104 2021
Lindbom, Olof	G	L	07/23/00	6'2"	183	Kristianstads IK/Allsvenskan	Drafted R2 #39 2018
Ollas, Hugo	G	L	04/24/02	6'8"	238	Merrimack Warriors/HEA	Drafted R7 #197 2020
Ragnarsson, Jacob	D	L	09/23/99	6'0"	176	Almtuna IS/Allsvenskan	Drafted R3 #70 2018
Rempe, Matthew	C	L	06/29/02	6'8"	240	Seattle Thunderbirds/WHL	Drafted R6 #165 2020
Ronning, Ty	RW	R	10/20/97	5'9"	178		Drafted R7 #201 2016
Rueschhoff, Austin	C/RW	R	09/07/97	6'7"	230		Signed as UDFA 2020
Skinner, Hunter	D	R	04/29/01	6'2"	187		Drafted R4 #112 2019
Tärnström, Oliver	C/LW	L	08/30/02	6'0"	159	Rögle BK J20/J20 Nationell	Drafted R3 #92 2020
Väisänen, Kalle	LW	R	01/28/03	6'4"	178	HC TPS/Liiga	Drafted R4 #106 2021
Vierling, Evan	C	L	06/20/02	6'0"	167	Barrie Colts/OHL	Drafted R5 #127 2020
Wall, Tyler	G	L	01/14/98	6'3"	214		Drafted R6 #174 2016

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[Fitzy]

Keep Cuylle's name small I like it.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Keep Cuylle's name small I like it.

Haha, for some reason he kept coming in small, even with the same size letters, I think I made it bigger now

 

[Kendo]

Paju. Add Korczak, again.

 

[Clark Kellogg]

Tim Gettinger.

 

[NYR425]

Grubbe add Vierling

 

[cwede]

add Skinner
(who knows, these other RHD guys - Fox, Lundkvist, Schneider - might all bust ...

 

[bernmeister]

Reu
add
Wall

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

add Vierling

 

[nyr2k2]

Add Skinner, who has exceeded expectations each year and turned himself into a very viable prospect.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Add TY RONNING

 

[n8]

Paju. Add Huska.

 

[Kodiak]

Add Skinner

 

[E-Train]

Grubbe, add Skinner

 

[bmoak]

Paju. Add Skinner.

 

[H00fHearted]

Pajuniemi.

 

[Edge]

Went with Reunanen.

I don't think his future is with us, but I think he's got a decent shot to find a place in the NHL somewhere.

 

[CTRanger]

Add Wall

 

[Joey Bones]

Shiny toy syndrome going on in these polls. Reunanen is being severely undrevalued.

 

[cwede]

Shiny toy syndrome going on in these polls. Reunanen is being severely undrevalued.

agreed,
also he plays a position with a crowded pipeline,

but IMHO sorting out the guys from about #10 > #25 is not straightforward
~ Gauthier, Berard, Cuylle,
Reunanen, Richards, Gettinger
Lamb, Korczak, Vierling,
Henriksson, Edstrom, Tarnstrom
Skinner, Garand, Wall, Huska

these next ~dozen polls gonna be unpredictable with very balanced(split) voting

and my stab at that list doesn't even include guys who have their advocates:
Ronning, Khodorenko, Rueschhoff, Ciccolini

... or everyone's favorite 2ndRndG

 

[Savant]

Voted for Tarmo but no problem with it going to the other Finn. They are the next two.

I guess add Skinner? Korczak next?

Starting to get less exciting.

 

[nyr2k2]

Shiny toy syndrome going on in these polls. Reunanen is being severely undrevalued.

I don't think that's accurate at all. We have 12 guys up there and only 1 is from this recent draft. The next two are likely to be from the 2018 and 2016 drafts. We're going to get to 15 before we add our second pick from this draft. Barron and Gauthier are up there from four and five years ago. They'd be several spots higher, too, if Miller, Lafreniere, and Kravtsov didn't qualify.

I watched most of Reunanen a games last year and he looks like a defender who will struggle in his own end, doesn't excel at carrying the puck out of his own end, and will be reliant on PP time to put up points. This doesn't make him a worthless player, but I like the upside of a Pajuniemi better even if I have serious doubts that Pajuniemi reaches it.

If last year was a normal year and those three guys I mentioned weren't eligible, Reunanen is probably 11th in the poll which seems reasonable for an offensively-inclined bottom-pair defenseman. IMO.

 

[Joey Bones]

I don't think that's accurate at all. We have 12 guys up there and only 1 is from this recent draft. The next two are likely to be from the 2018 and 2016 drafts. We're going to get to 15 before we add our second pick from this draft. Barron and Gauthier are up there from four and five years ago. They'd be several spots higher, too, if Miller, Lafreniere, and Kravtsov didn't qualify.

I watched most of Reunanen a games last year and he looks like a defender who will struggle in his own end, doesn't excel at carrying the puck out of his own end, and will be reliant on PP time to put up points. This doesn't make him a worthless player, but I like the upside of a Pajuniemi better even if I have serious doubts that Pajuniemi reaches it.

If last year was a normal year and those three guys I mentioned weren't eligible, Reunanen is probably 11th in the poll which seems reasonable for an offensively-inclined bottom-pair defenseman. IMO.

We might have to agree to disagree here because although Reunanen struggled a bit defensively, he still brought his game to the team offensively and produced the most steady play as a top-2 defender for Hartford. No other defenseman on that team really showed any way to bump him down the lineup, nor should they with what he provided offensively. He also got a few games under the belt in the NHL whereas most of the players ranked above him on the poll have yet to produce at the level where Tarmo is at currently. We seem to forget too that Tarmo is a year removed from when he was logging 25+ minutes a night for the past two seasons in Liiga.

Think he easily flows in the top-10, especially since guys like Gauthier, Lafreniere, and Miller technically shouldn't be considered prospects anymore. In a normal year, they all would've been past their GP's to be considered as such (maybe not Gauthier on second thought). Even then, I think what he has brought as a prospect the last few seasons trumps guys like Othmann, Cuylle, and Berard ATM. Barron and Robertson are a few that I think could be debated to put over.

... And for the record, I watch the Hartford games too.

 

[nyr2k2]

We might have to agree to disagree here because although Reunanen struggled a bit defensively, he still brought his game to the team offensively and produced the most steady play as a top-2 defender for Hartford. No other defenseman on that team really showed any way to bump him down the lineup, nor should they with what he provided offensively. He also got a few games under the belt in the NHL whereas most of the players ranked above him on the poll have yet to produce at the level where Tarmo is at currently. We seem to forget too that Tarmo is a year removed from when he was logging 25+ minutes a night for the past two seasons in Liiga.

Think he easily flows in the top-10, especially since guys like Gauthier, Lafreniere, and Miller technically shouldn't be considered prospects anymore. In a normal year, they all would've been past their GP's to be considered as such (maybe not Gauthier on second thought). Even then, I think what he has brought as a prospect the last few seasons trumps guys like Othmann, Cuylle, and Berard ATM. Barron and Robertson are a few that I think could be debated to put over.

... And for the record, I watch the Hartford games too.

His last full season in Liiga he played more like 19 minutes and was stapled to the bench at times because his coach didn't like his defensive effort. I've said a few times recently that Liiga's overall quality of play has slipped in the past several years, so I'm less impressed by what he did there than I would have been, say, 10 years ago.

You're correct that no one consistently pushed him down the lineup in Hartford, but really, who would? The only other LD on the team were Sieloff and Geertsen. They're both okay AHL players, but one is a stay-at-home guy who provides no offense and the other is...Mason Geertsen. I mean look, credit to Reunanen for holding his own in the AHL; but there were several other guys that had good years on that team though that I don't exactly see as upside NHL players (Gettinger and Ronning, for example).

If you wanted to rank him above Berard, Cuylle, and Othmann, that's what, three spots? I don't think that's being severely undervalued.

I didn't mean to imply you didn't watch Hartford. I'm just pointing out that I've watched a lot of Reunanen, and my ranking of him (he'll get my vote next) is based off of what I've seen of him and not "shiny new toy" stuff. I only voted for one shiny new toy.