Grant,borowiecki, and Hoffman are not prospects anymore. If they don't make the NHL permanently this year, they will be labeled career ahlers...if they haven't already. These guys are 24-25. They should be entering their prime. Most players have had their career year offensively by that age. Not saying they won't make it but just trying to put some perspective. Every team has 25 year olds who haven't cracked the NHL yet their fans believe they got what it takes. They're most likely nothing special and shouldn't be used to try to say we have strong pipeline because we'll get laughed at.
Personally, I could care less about what others say, particularly Leafs and Habs fans who get amazing grades but it's always best-case scenario compared to the Sens that is always very conservative.
I mean Habs have 5 (yes FIVE) forwards with the same grade as Curtis Lazar. The hype for everything Ottawa is very small compared to Toronto/Montreal
Personally, after the 5-6 obvious ones, I'm high on guys like Dzingel, Guptill, Wikstrand, Baillargeon and Harpur.
We seem to dismiss Prince as a prospect for some kind of reason. 99% sure it's heavily related to he sister tweets or whatever crap it was. Guy still have a good to great potential
And there's Claesson who was one of the best D-men in the AHL last year in just his 2nd AHL season.
Driedger has a much bigger potential than people seem to think around here. He's actually a top-quality prospect
Lindberg seems to be emerging. Nick Paul is rising, could establish himself as top prospect as soon as this year. I predict Baillargeon will be one of our next emerging prospects
Guys like Schneider, McCormick, Dunn, Hogberg, Robinson, Sdao, Baillargeon, Lindberg, Shore will be in the low 10's and some won't even crack the top-20. There's still a lot of quality in Sens pool, the only difference is it lacks guys like Zibanejad and Lehner. I mean, add those 2 guys and our pool is as good as before. It's just that a ton of youth just graduated from the team over the last 2-3 seasons, so it's a bit normal if it lacks 1 or 2 high end guys. Still very strong with Lazar, Ceci, Stone, Puempel and Prince (but we voted Pageau)
Anyway, I don't care. I've been behind a lot of prospects over the years and most have panned out. Obviously, I have some misses too (like Petersson and Regin) but I'm very confident to say we will manufacture another 10 NHL players out of the actual list.
I guess. I'm not arguing for myself. I've been fortunate to vote every time and have the guy I voted for win.
I just think it would be cool to establish some type of rule...like next poll after 24 hours or a certain number of votes. I'll shut up now lol I've made my point.
Yes, always need some kind of standardization... Every 24 hours would be perfect. I think for the rest (since none should be a landslide win), we should do like that
