Your Top-30 Sabres 2014 Draft Board

[Paxon]

I know probably everyone has seen this link:http://www.extraskater.com/chl/players?age=17&sort=points_ev_per60

Just wanted to know what you guys think. It actually impacted my list and made me notice a few players worth mentioning.

Heads up: it's being talked about a bit on the draft thread already, starting on page 36 (currently the latest page).

I haven't gone through enough to compare among guys, I've only checked the top of each stat. I feel like the data bodes well for me having Scherbak and Goldobin fairly high, and makes me feel good about putting Ehlers over Dal Colle. Ehlers comes through shining in a lot of those numbers, and perhaps I'd consider swapping him with Nylander at #4 and #5.

 

[EichHart]

1.) Sam Reinhart
2.) Aaron Ekblad
3.) Sam Bennett
4.) Leon Draisaitl
5.) Michael Dal Colle
6.) Nikolaj Ehlers
7.) William Nylander
8.) Nick Ritchie
9.) Jake Virtanen
10.) Kasperi Kapanen
11.) Haydn Fleury
12.) Alex Tuch
13.) Jared McCann
14.) Ivan Barbashev
15.) Brendan Perlini
16.) Nikolai Goldobin
17.) Sonny Milano
18.) Dylan Larkin
19.) Robby Fabbri
20.) Kevin Fiala
21.) David Pastrnak
22.) Julius Honka
23.) Adrian Kempe
24.) Roland McKeown
24.) Julius Honka
25.) Conner Bleackley
26.) Anthony Deangelo
27.) Anton Karlsson
28.) Jakub Vrana
29.) Josh Ho-Sang
30.) Brendan Lemieux

 

[SamsonReinFart]

I put the 10 rankings done so far into excel and calculated out each players average draft rank.

If a player wasn't included on anyone's draft board, I gave them a draft spot of 35 for the calculation. If anyone has a better suggestion, let me know, and it's an easy fix. It 's just impossible to know for example if Ho-Sang was 31st on someone's board or 50th.

Average Rank Name
1.3 Sam Reinhart
2.5 Aaron Ekblad
2.8 Sam Bennett
3.8 Leon Draisaitl
5.6 Nikolaj Ehlers
6.1 Michael Dal Colle
6.4 William Nylander
9.3 Nick Ritchie
10.7 Ivan Barbashev
11.6 Haydn Fleury
14.3 Alex Tuch
14.4 Jared McCann
14.6 Kasperi Kapanen
16.4 Jake Virtanen
16.4 Robby Fabbri
16.7 Adrian Kempe
17.3 Nikita Scherbak
19.1 Brendan Perlini
19.9 Sonny Milano
20.0 Kevin Fiala
20.4 Nikolay Goldobin
21.2 Dylan Larkin
23.1 Roland McKeown
25.4 Travis Sanheim
26.8 David Pastrnak
28.0 Connor Bleackley
28.5 Julius Honka
29.3 Jack Dougherty
30.0 Josh Ho Sang
31.1 Brandon Lemieux
31.4 Thatcher Demko
31.5 Jack Glover
31.6 Jakub Vrana
32.1 Jayce Hawryluk
32.4 Nick Schmaltz
32.9 Markus Pettersson
33.1 Eric Cornel
33.5 Anton Karlsson
33.6 Chase De Leo
33.9 Vlad Kamenev
34.1 Hunter Smith
34.2 Brett Pollock
34.3 Brayden Point
34.4 Ville Husso
34.5 Anthony DeAngelo
34.5 Jonathan Macleod

 

[Paxon]

I put the 10 rankings done so far into excel and calculated out each players average draft rank.

If a player wasn't included on anyone's draft board, I gave them a draft spot of 35 for the calculation. If anyone has a better suggestion, let me know, and it's an easy fix. It 's just impossible to know for example if Ho-Sang was 31st on someone's board or 50th.

[...]

Good work, I'm glad someone did it. 35 sounds like a reasonable solution. There's not too much to take issue with on this groupthink draft board. If we held the pick at most of those spots and took the player indicated, I would be OK with it.

 

[cybresabre]

I put the 10 rankings done so far into excel and calculated out each players average draft rank.

If a player wasn't included on anyone's draft board, I gave them a draft spot of 35 for the calculation. If anyone has a better suggestion, let me know, and it's an easy fix. It 's just impossible to know for example if Ho-Sang was 31st on someone's board or 50th.

I did the same thing with drafts on the mock draft forum's competition thread for the hell of it. I was actually thinking 35 felt right, too, but made it 31 because I couldn't explain why 35 felt right and not 37 or 40.

n=17, a work in progress

1.2 Ekblad
2.0 Reinhart
3.4 Draisaitl
3.6 Bennett
5.3 Dal Colle
7.0 Nylander
7.4 Ritchie
7.9 Ehlers
8.8 Virtanen
10.4 Fleury
12.0 Perlini
12.7 Fabbri
14.2 Fiala
15.0 Kapanen
15.5 Tuch
17.1 McCann
17.3 Larkin
17.6 Barbeshev
19.2 Milano
21.1 Scherbak
21.4 Kempe
23.3 Pastrnak
23.5 Honka
25.4 Vrana
25.5 Sanheim
26.0 McKeown
26.4 Goldobin
27.1 Bleackley
28.4 Lemieux
28.8 Ho-Sang
29.1 Dougherty
29.6 Demko
29.8 Schmaltz
30.5 Quennville
30.6 Kamenev
30.8 Pettersson
30.9 Donato
31.0 Karlsson

 

[Jim Bob]

Here is my top 30 from a Sabres POV:

1 - Sam Reinhart
2 - Sam Bennett
3 - Leon Draisaitl
4 - Aaron Ekblad
5 - Michael Dal Colle
6 - Nick Ritchie
7 - Jake Virtanen
8 - William Nylander
9 - Nikolaj Ehlers
10 - Kasperi Kapanen
11 - Dylan Larkin
12 - Brendan Perlini
13 - Robert Fabbri
14 - Kevin Fiala
15 - Alex Tuch
16 - Jared McCann
17 - Haydn Fleury
18 - Sonny Milano
19 - Jakub Vrana
20 - Nikita Scherbak
21 - David Pastrnak
22 - Ivan Barbashev
23 - Nick Schmaltz
24 - Adrian Kempe
25 - Conner Bleackley
26 - John Quenneville
27 - Brendan Lemieux
28 - Nikolay Goldobin
29 - Anton Karlsson
30 - Thatcher Demko