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With the WJC over, now is the time to get back to ranking our prospects. Because we added so many prospects and only graduate J.T. Miller and lost Andrew Yogan, we'll rank 30 prospects plus "Honorable Mentions" for the few who remain in the poll without winning a spot.
THE RULES
WHO IS A PROSPECT: We can't all have different standards based on what we each want personally. We are on the HF board, so let's follow their rules. The standard for what's a prospect is here: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect
* Please don't write that so-and-so should or should not be a prospect. It's not up to each individual here to decide, it's up to the HF rules. Therefore, since no NHL games were played, all the prospects from the winter are still eligible because no NHL games were played
HOW TO RANK PROSPECTS: Based on their value in a hypothetical trade or waiver draft. This takes into consideration a prospect's ceiling, how close he's to making it, his health, work ethic, the whole deal. Imagine there was a prospect waiver draft and you could keep only one prospect. That guy is our #1 prospect. Then imagine we had one more waiver protection. That guy is our #2 prospect.
CATEGORIES: We'll be ranking the top 30 prospects.
- The top 10 will be "Top Prospects"
- The second 10 will be "Second-Tier"
- The third 10 will be "Projects & Suspects"
- The last few will be "Honorable Mentions"
The first 6 options in the poll are the top 5 prospects from the summer who haven't graduated and Chris Hayes because he made the NHL, so obviously he's in our top half dozen prospects.
Please write who you want added to the poll, and give a reason for it. This makes the discussion here more lively.
The previous rankings from the summer of 2014:
TOP PROSPECTS
1. C J.T. Miller
2. D Brady Skjei
3. LW Anthony Duclair
4. D Dylan McIlrath
5. RW Jesper Fast
6. LW Pavel Buchnevich
7. C Oscar Lindberg
8. D Conor Allen
9. RW Danny Kristo
10. RW Ryan Haggerty
SECOND TIER
11. G Brandon Halverson
12. C Adam Tambellini
13. LW Marek Hrivik
14. C Boo Nieves
15. D Ryan Graves
16. LW Ryan Bourque
17. D Petr Zamorsky
18. C Keegan Iverson
19. D Mat Bodie
20. G Igor Shestyorkin
PROJECTS & SUSPECTS
21. C Michael St. Croix
22. RW Richard Nejezchleb
23. G Mackenzie Skapski
24. D Calle Andersson
25. LW Chris McCarthy
26. D Daniel Walcott
27. D Ryan Mantha
28. D Tommy Hughes
29. D Sam Noreau
30. C Steven Fogarty
LONG SHOTS
31. LW Andrew Yogan
32. RW Michael Kantor
33. D Troy Donnay
34. G Jason Missiaen
35. D Tyler Nanne
36. RW Josh Nicholls
THE RULES
WHO IS A PROSPECT: We can't all have different standards based on what we each want personally. We are on the HF board, so let's follow their rules. The standard for what's a prospect is here: http://www.hockeysfuture.com/whatmakesaprospect
* Please don't write that so-and-so should or should not be a prospect. It's not up to each individual here to decide, it's up to the HF rules. Therefore, since no NHL games were played, all the prospects from the winter are still eligible because no NHL games were played
HOW TO RANK PROSPECTS: Based on their value in a hypothetical trade or waiver draft. This takes into consideration a prospect's ceiling, how close he's to making it, his health, work ethic, the whole deal. Imagine there was a prospect waiver draft and you could keep only one prospect. That guy is our #1 prospect. Then imagine we had one more waiver protection. That guy is our #2 prospect.
CATEGORIES: We'll be ranking the top 30 prospects.
- The top 10 will be "Top Prospects"
- The second 10 will be "Second-Tier"
- The third 10 will be "Projects & Suspects"
- The last few will be "Honorable Mentions"
The first 6 options in the poll are the top 5 prospects from the summer who haven't graduated and Chris Hayes because he made the NHL, so obviously he's in our top half dozen prospects.
Please write who you want added to the poll, and give a reason for it. This makes the discussion here more lively.
The previous rankings from the summer of 2014:
TOP PROSPECTS
1. C J.T. Miller
2. D Brady Skjei
3. LW Anthony Duclair
4. D Dylan McIlrath
5. RW Jesper Fast
6. LW Pavel Buchnevich
7. C Oscar Lindberg
8. D Conor Allen
9. RW Danny Kristo
10. RW Ryan Haggerty
SECOND TIER
11. G Brandon Halverson
12. C Adam Tambellini
13. LW Marek Hrivik
14. C Boo Nieves
15. D Ryan Graves
16. LW Ryan Bourque
17. D Petr Zamorsky
18. C Keegan Iverson
19. D Mat Bodie
20. G Igor Shestyorkin
PROJECTS & SUSPECTS
21. C Michael St. Croix
22. RW Richard Nejezchleb
23. G Mackenzie Skapski
24. D Calle Andersson
25. LW Chris McCarthy
26. D Daniel Walcott
27. D Ryan Mantha
28. D Tommy Hughes
29. D Sam Noreau
30. C Steven Fogarty
LONG SHOTS
31. LW Andrew Yogan
32. RW Michael Kantor
33. D Troy Donnay
34. G Jason Missiaen
35. D Tyler Nanne
36. RW Josh Nicholls