Hi again, it's me. I decided that due to Craig Button's hilarious list, I had to make another one of these but make it better! I made a few of these back in the day so you can laugh at them below.
2019 Top 250 NHL Affiliated Prospect Big Board
2018 Top 150 NHL Affiliated Prospect Big Board
Before we get started, I'd like to get a few things out of the way first:
1. Keeping up with all these prospects is literally impossible. The making of this list involves a whole lot of stat-watching, I don't claim to have prophetic powers and this will look really bad in probably even a years time, but it's fun to do.
2. I've ranked these players on a combination of a ton of factors that include, potential, skill, projectability, age, position, production, etc.
3. While I try to be as unbias as possible, I do have an inevitable bias towards play styles and certain prospects in general but I tried my best to be impartial. I do believe some players will do much better than where I've ranked them, but I've tried to take more of a power rankings approach than a scouting approach.
4. I may have forgot a few players! Please don't kill me if I omitted someone! I'll let you know if that's the case.
5. I understand 250 is a lot of players, but I had fun doing this and yes it's hard to distinguish from players as it gets lower.
6. As always, I will be happy to explain rationale on decisions in the comments!
Criteria
- No Goalies! I don't have enough knowledge in this area and I didn't feel safe comparing goalie values to skater values.
- 2020-2024 Drafts only. This sets the eligible range at September 16, 2001-September 15, 2005.
-Players with 25 or more NHL games are ineligible. This makes it easier to compare actual prospects.
The List
RW Ozzy Wiesblatt - SJS, RW Yegor Sokolov - OTT, LD Sawyer Mynio - VAN, LW Eliott Desnoyers - PHI, LW Martin Misiak - CHI, LW Josh Filmon - NJD, RD Aram Minnetian - DAL, RW Ty Voit - TOR, C Red Savage - DET, LW Connor Hvidston - ANA, LD Igor Solovyov - CGY, LW Mikael Pyyhtia - CBJ, LD Vladimir Grudinin - CAR, RW Tristen Robins - SJS, LW Dylan James - DET, C Matt Copponi - EDM, LW Daniel Torgersson - WPG, Luca Pinelli - CBJ
Cool Stats
Most Players: Anaheim Ducks with 15
Least Players: Edmonton Oilers with 2
Anaheim Ducks Players: 15
Arizona Coyotes Players: 11
Boston Bruins Players: 3
Buffalo Sabres Players: 8
Calgary Flames Players: 8
Carolina Hurricanes Players: 12
Chicago Blackhawks Players: 10
Colorado Avalanche Players: 5
Columbus Blue Jackets Players: 8
Dallas Stars Players: 7
Detroit Red Wings Players: 11
Edmonton Oilers Players: 2
Florida Panthers Players: 5
Los Angeles Kings Players: 5
Minnesota Wild Players: 12
Montreal Canadiens Players: 14
Nashville Predators Players: 11
New Jersey Devils Players: 4
New York Islanders Players: 5
New York Rangers Players: 8
Ottawa Senators Players: 4
Philadelphia Flyers Players: 9
Pittsburgh Penguins Players: 5
San Jose Sharks Players: 10
Seattle Kraken Players: 12
St. Louis Blues Players: 9
Tampa Bay Lightning Players: 7
Toronto Maple Leafs Players: 7
Vancouver Canucks Players: 5
Vegas Golden Knights Players: 7
Washington Capitals Players: 6
Winnipeg Jets Players: 6
2019 Top 250 NHL Affiliated Prospect Big Board
2018 Top 150 NHL Affiliated Prospect Big Board
Before we get started, I'd like to get a few things out of the way first:
1. Keeping up with all these prospects is literally impossible. The making of this list involves a whole lot of stat-watching, I don't claim to have prophetic powers and this will look really bad in probably even a years time, but it's fun to do.
2. I've ranked these players on a combination of a ton of factors that include, potential, skill, projectability, age, position, production, etc.
3. While I try to be as unbias as possible, I do have an inevitable bias towards play styles and certain prospects in general but I tried my best to be impartial. I do believe some players will do much better than where I've ranked them, but I've tried to take more of a power rankings approach than a scouting approach.
4. I may have forgot a few players! Please don't kill me if I omitted someone! I'll let you know if that's the case.
5. I understand 250 is a lot of players, but I had fun doing this and yes it's hard to distinguish from players as it gets lower.
6. As always, I will be happy to explain rationale on decisions in the comments!
Criteria
- No Goalies! I don't have enough knowledge in this area and I didn't feel safe comparing goalie values to skater values.
- 2020-2024 Drafts only. This sets the eligible range at September 16, 2001-September 15, 2005.
-Players with 25 or more NHL games are ineligible. This makes it easier to compare actual prospects.
The List
- LD Alexander Nikishin - CAR
- RW Matvei Michkov - PHI
- RD Brandt Clarke - LAK
- RW/LW Ryan Leonard - WSH
- C Will Smith - SJS
- LW/RW Gabe Perreault - NYR
- C/RW Logan Stankoven - DAL
- LD Simon Edvinsson - DET
- C Cutter Gauthier - ANA
- C/RW Matthew Savoie - BUF
- RD David Reinbacher - MTL
- C/RW Brad Lambert - WPG
- RW Jonathan Lekkerimaki - VAN
- C Shane Wright - SEA
- C/RW Mavrik Bourque - DAL
- RW Danila Yurov - MIN
- C/LW Jiri Kulich - BUF
- C/RW Frank Nazar - CHI
- LD Lane Hutson - MTL
- RW Jimmy Snuggerud - STL
- LW/C Rutger McGroarty - WPG
- LW Quentin Musty - SJS
- LD Dmitry Simashev - ARZ
- RD Tom Willander - VAN
- RD Axel Sandin Pellikka - DET
- LD Denton Mateychuk - CBJ
- C Marco Kasper - DET
- LW/C Matthew Wood - NSH
- C Conor Geekie - ARZ
- C Nate Danielson - DET
- LW Daniil But - ARZ
- C Calum Ritchie - COL
- LW Ivan Miroschnichenko - WSH
- LW Brennan Othmann - NYR
- C Noah Ostlund - BUF
- LW Colby Barlow - WPG
- RW Joakim Kemell - NSH
- C Dalibor Dvorsky - STL
- C Chaz Lucius - WPG
- RW/LW Matthew Coronato - CGY
- LD Olen Zellweger - ANA
- C Brayden Yager - PIT
- RD Logan Mailloux - MTL
- LW/C Samuel Honzek - CGY
- C Oliver Moore - CHI
- RW Jordan Dumais - CBJ
- LW Joshua Roy - MTL
- RW Fabian Lysell - BOS
- C/LW Otto Stenberg - STL
- LD Ryker Evans - SEA
- RD Scott Morrow - CAR
- RW/C Gavin Brindley - CBJ
- LD Shakir Mukhamadullin - SJS
- LD Tanner Molendyk - NSH
- C/RW Easton Cowan - TOR
- RD Seamus Casey - NJD
- RW/C Mackie Samoskevich - FLA
- RD Tristan Luneau - ANA
- C Filip Bystedt - SJS
- RW Jagger Firkus - SEA
- LD Mikhail Gulyayev - COL
- C/LW Fyodor Svechkov - NSH
- LD Jeremie Poirier - CGY
- LW/RW Nikita Chibrikov - WPG
- RW/LW Isak Rosen - BUF
- C/LW Carson Rehkopf - SEA
- LD Lian Bichsel - DAL
- RW Jackson Blake - CAR
- C David Edstrom - VGK
- LW Isaac Howard - TBL
- RW Lenni Hameenaho - NJD
- RD Hunter Brzustewicz - CGY
- C Zachary Bolduc - STL
- C Vasily Ponomaryov - CAR
- LW Liam Ohgren - MIN
- RD Oliver Bonk - PHI
- RW/C Bradly Nadeau - CAR
- C/LW David Goyette - SEA
- LD Owen Pickering - PIT
- C Anton Wahlberg - BUF
- RW Eduard Sale - SEA
- RW Josh Doan - ARZ
- LW/C Ville Koivunen - CAR
- RW Jani Nyman - SEA
- C Riley Heidt - MIN
- LW Andrew Cristall - WSH
- LD Etienne Morin - CGY
- LW/RW Brendan Brisson - VGK
- LD Adam Engstrom - MTL
- LD Lukas Cormier - VGK
- RD Ryan Chesley - WSH
- LW Brett Berard - NYR
- RD Maveric Lamoureux - ARZ
- RD Elias Salomonsson - WPG
- RW Filip Mesar - MTL
- RW Daniil Gushchin - SJS
- RD Topi Niemela - TOR
- LW/RW Mikhail Ye. Ilyin - PIT
- LW/RW Zachary L’Heureux - NSH
- RD Ty Nelson - SEA
- C Marat Khusnutdinov - MIN
- C Xavier Bourgault - EDM
- RW Jayden Perron - CAR
- LW/C Adam Sykora - NYR
- RD Christian Kyrou - DAL
- C Fraser Minten - TOR
- C Luca Del Bel Belluz - CBJ
- RW Ethan Gauthier - TBL
- RD Corson Ceulemans - CBJ
- RW Samu Tuomaala - PHI
- LD Ethan Del Mastro - CHI
- LD Shai Buium - DET
- RD Beau Akey - EDM
- C/RW Charlie Stramel - MIN
- C Thomas Bordeleau - SJS
- LD Calle Odelius - NYI
- LD Theo Lindstein - STL
- LD Stanislav Svozil - CBJ
- C Cameron Lund - SJS
- LD William Wallinder - DET
- RW/C Justin Sourdif - FLA
- LW Sean Farrell - MTL
- LD Caden Price - SEA
- C Oscar Fisker-Mølgaard - SEA
- LW Sasha Pastujov - ANA
- RD Jack Thompson - TBL
- RD Mattias Havelid - SJS
- LW Oskar Olausson - COL
- C Owen Beck - MTL
- C Danny Nelson - NYI
- LD Topias Vilen - NJD
- RW Prokhor Poltapov - BUF
- LD Tyler Kleven - OTT
- RD Sam Rinzel - CHI
- LD Emil Andrae - PHI
- RW Kasper Halttunen - SJS
- RD Andrew Gibson - DET
- C Noan Dower Nilsson - DET
- C Ryan Greene - CHI
- C Tanner Ludtke - ARZ
- LD Sean Behrens - COL
- RD Lukas Dragicevic - SEA
- C Nathan Gaucher - ANA
- C Aatu Raty - VAN
- RW Felix Unger-Sorum - CAR
- LW Carter Mazur - DET
- LW Roby Jarventie - OTT
- RW Niko Huuhtanen - TBL
- LW Jan Mysak - MTL
- C Zach Dean - STL
- LD Carson Lambos - MIN
- RW Jacob Perreault - ANA
- LW Nikita Grebyonkin - TOR
- LW Arshdeep Bains - VAN
- RW Koehn Ziemmer - LAK
- C Matt Rempe - NYR
- RD Maxim Strbak - BUF
- LW/RW Emil Heineman - MTL
- RW Mathieu Cataford - VGK
- LD Artyom Duda - ARZ
- RW Jack Devine - FLA
- LW Zach Ostapchuk - OTT
- RW William Dufour - NYI
- RW Aiden Fink - NSH
- RW Ryan Winterton - SEA
- RW Ryan Conmy - LAK
- C/LW Colton Dach - CHI
- C Cameron Berg - NYI
- RD William Villeneuve - TOR
- C Oliver Kapanen - MTL
- LW Dmitri Buchelnikov - DET
- C Jonathan Castagna - ARZ
- LD Arttu Karki - VGK
- C Felix Nilsson - NSH
- RW Cruz Lucius - CAR
- RW Sam Colangelo - ANA
- RD Vsevolod Komarov - BUF
- RD Ryan Healey - MIN
- RW/LW Tyler Boucher - OTT
- LD Yan Kuznetsov - CGY
- LD Daemon Hunt - MIN
- LW Ludwig Persson - WSH
- LD Tyson Hinds - ANA
- LD Luca Cagnoni - SJS
- LW Luke Tuch - MTL
- RW Chase Stillman - NJD
- LW Kalan Lind - NSH
- LW Julian Lutz - ARZ
- RD Michael Benning - FLA
- RW Jesse Kiiskinen - NSH
- LD Nolan Allan - CHI
- LD Samuel Knazko - CGJ
- RW Alexander Rykov - CAR
- LD Ryan O’Rourke - MIN
- LD Rodwin Dionicio - ANA
- C Jean-Luc Foudy - COL
- RW/LW Martin Chromiak - LAK
- LW/RW Zion Nybeck - CAR
- LD Emil Martinsen Lilleberg - TBL
- C Carey Terrance - ANA
- C Paul Ludwinski - CHI
- C Gracyn Sawchyn - FLA
- LW William Stromgren - CGY
- C Dylan Duke - TBL
- C/RW Nicholas Moldenhauer - TOR
- RD Eamon Powell - TBL
- C William Whitelaw - CBJ
- RD Helge Grans - PHI
- LW Nico Myatovic - ANA
- C Tristan Broz - PIT
- C Amadeus Lombardi - DET
- LW/RW Juraj Pekarcik - STL
- LW Timur Mukhanov - CAR
- C Caedan Bankier - MIN
- LW Ilya Fedotov - ARZ
- LW/RW Nick Lardis - CHI
- RD Noah Warren - ANA
- LW/RW Alex Ciernik - PHI
- RW Simon Robertsson - STL
- LW/C Denver Barkey - PHI
- LD Jack Peart - MIN
- C/RW Ryan Tverberg - TOR
- C/LW Rory Kerins - CGY
- C/LW Ben Hemmerling - VGK
- RD Ian Moore - ANA
- C Francesco Pinelli - LAK
- RW Devin Kaplan - PHI
- LD Tristan Bertucci - DAL
- LW Reid Schaefer - NSH
- RW/C Coulson Pitre - ANA
- RW Roman Kantserov - CHI
- RW Yegor Sidorov - ANA
- LD Elias Pettersson - VAN
- LW/C Antonio Stranges - DAL
- C Owen McLaughlin - PHI
- C Riley Kidney - MTL
- LW Jakub Brabanec - VGK
- LW Sam Lipkin - ARZ
- C Bryce McConnell-Barker - NYR
- RD Vincent Iorio - WSH
- RW Matthew Maggio - NYI
- LW Ayrton Martino - DAL
- C Noah Laba - NYR
- C Vinzenz Rohrer - MTL
- RW James Malatesta - CBJ
- LD Graham Sward - NSH
- C Aleksanteri Kaskimaki - STL
- LD Drew Fortescue - NYR
- LW Oskar Jellvik - BOS
- C Rasmus Kumpulainen - MIN
RW Ozzy Wiesblatt - SJS, RW Yegor Sokolov - OTT, LD Sawyer Mynio - VAN, LW Eliott Desnoyers - PHI, LW Martin Misiak - CHI, LW Josh Filmon - NJD, RD Aram Minnetian - DAL, RW Ty Voit - TOR, C Red Savage - DET, LW Connor Hvidston - ANA, LD Igor Solovyov - CGY, LW Mikael Pyyhtia - CBJ, LD Vladimir Grudinin - CAR, RW Tristen Robins - SJS, LW Dylan James - DET, C Matt Copponi - EDM, LW Daniel Torgersson - WPG, Luca Pinelli - CBJ
Cool Stats
Most Players: Anaheim Ducks with 15
Least Players: Edmonton Oilers with 2
Anaheim Ducks Players: 15
Arizona Coyotes Players: 11
Boston Bruins Players: 3
Buffalo Sabres Players: 8
Calgary Flames Players: 8
Carolina Hurricanes Players: 12
Chicago Blackhawks Players: 10
Colorado Avalanche Players: 5
Columbus Blue Jackets Players: 8
Dallas Stars Players: 7
Detroit Red Wings Players: 11
Edmonton Oilers Players: 2
Florida Panthers Players: 5
Los Angeles Kings Players: 5
Minnesota Wild Players: 12
Montreal Canadiens Players: 14
Nashville Predators Players: 11
New Jersey Devils Players: 4
New York Islanders Players: 5
New York Rangers Players: 8
Ottawa Senators Players: 4
Philadelphia Flyers Players: 9
Pittsburgh Penguins Players: 5
San Jose Sharks Players: 10
Seattle Kraken Players: 12
St. Louis Blues Players: 9
Tampa Bay Lightning Players: 7
Toronto Maple Leafs Players: 7
Vancouver Canucks Players: 5
Vegas Golden Knights Players: 7
Washington Capitals Players: 6
Winnipeg Jets Players: 6
