2022 Leafs Board Prospect Rankings #7

[Morgs]

Schenn's Leaf Prospect Rankings. Lisowsky was added with 2 votes (tie with Douglas goes to my vote)

Here are the rules:

1. Each poll will be open for 24 hours.

2. As we never have a consensus way as to which players are still considered prospects, we'll be using my way of cutting off prospects. The player must be U24 and have less than 50 GP in the NHL. A Prospect MUST be connected to the Leafs, AHL contracts or PTO's don't count.

3. I will start the poll with 10 of the most consensus guys I've seen on the Marlies/Draft boards. I will list the players on the docket (and their most recent season stats) as well as guys that have the ability to be added. Vote on who to be added next or I'll choose myself.

4. When there is a tie, we will do a tie-breaker. The loser of the tie-breaker does not immediately go into the place below (eg: If we tie on prospect #13, the winner is 13 and the loser goes back onto the docket).

5. We will be going to 30 like we did last year.

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Rankings:
1. Knies, Matthew - 77.1%
2. Robertson, Nick - 47.6%
3. Niemela, Topi - 82.2%
4. Amirov, Rodion - 73.4%
5. Minten, Fraser - 32.1%
6. Holmberg, Pontus - 46%
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On The Docket:

Player Name	Age	Pos	League	GP	Goals	Points	PPG	NHLe
Abramov, Mikhail	21.3​	C	AHL	66​	7​	28​	0.42​	14.3​
Abruzzese, Nick	23.1​	C/W	NCAA	28​	9​	33​	1.18​	16.0​
Hirvonen, Roni	20.5​	C/W	Liiga	46​	9​	26​	0.57​	16.8​
Kokkonen, Mikko	21.5​	LHD	Liiga	58​	1​	15​	0.26​	7.7​
Kral, Filip	22.8​	LHD	AHL	58​	3​	21​	0.36​	12.2​
Lisowsky, Brandon	18.3​	W	WHL	68​	33​	58​	0.85​	11.3​
Moldenhauer, Nicholas	18.2​	C/W	USHL	41​	18​	43​	1.05​	10.1​
Steeves, Alex	22.6​	C/W	AHL	58​	23​	46​	0.79​	26.8​
Tverberg, Ryan	20.5​	C/W	NCAA	36​	14​	32​	0.89​	14.9​
Voit, Ty	19.1​	C/W	OHL	67​	26​	80​	1.19​	15.2​

Next:

Player Name	Age	Pos	League	GP	Goals	Points	PPG	NHLe
Der-Arguchintsev, Semyon	21.9​	C	AHL	51​	13​	32​	0.63​	21.2​
Douglas, Curtis	22.4​	C	AHL	67​	13​	34​	0.51​	17.1​
Ellis, Max	22.5​	W	NCAA	39​	16​	28​	0.72​	9.8​
Fusco, John	21.1​	RHD	NCAA	26​	1​	2​	0.08​	1.0​
Gogolev, Pavel	22.4​	W	AHL	31​	3​	8​	0.26​	8.7​
Grebenkin, Nikita	19.5​	W	MHL	58​	17​	64​	1.10​	15.4​
Hollowell, Mac	23.8​	RHD	AHL	45​	5​	26​	0.58​	19.5​
Kizimov, Semyon	22.5​	W	VHL	48​	13​	27​	0.56​	12.4​
Koster, Mike	21.3​	LHD	NCAA	36​	3​	14​	0.39​	7.4​
Kressler, Braeden	19.6​	C	OHL	28​	5​	16​	0.57​	7.3​
Loponen, Kalle	21.4​	RHD	Liiga	38​	1​	4​	0.11​	3.1​
Miettinen, Veeti	20.8​	W	NCAA	37​	10​	23​	0.62​	9.0​
Miller, Joe	19.9​	C/W	USHL	62​	23​	68​	1.10​	10.6​
O'Connell, Ryan	23.3​	LHD	NCAA	30​	0​	10​	0.33​	6.3​
Ovchinnikov, Dimitri	19.9​	C/W	KHL	17​	1​	3​	0.18​	8.9​
Rindell, Axel	22.3​	RHD	Liiga	42​	1​	17​	0.40​	12.0​
Schingoethe, Wyatt	20.0​	C	NCAA	20​	0​	0​	0.00​	0.0​
Villeneuve, William	20.4​	RHD	QMJHL	64​	8​	56​	0.88​	11.4​

Player Name	Age	Position	League	GP	SV%
Ahktyamov, Artur	20.7	G	VHL	38	0.912
Hildeby, Dennis	20.9	G	SHL	7	0.931
Peksa, Vyacheslav	19.9	G	MHL	56	0.936

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Past Results:

2019 Leafs Board Prospect Ranking
2020 Leafs Board Prospect Ranking
2021 Leafs Board Prospect Ranking

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[Eye Test]

Kral

 

[Canada4Gold]

Hirvonen and then it gets interesting again. Still not sure who I'm voting for once Hirvonen gets chosen.

Add Villeneuve

 

[Phion Keneuf]

Kral

Same here. Should be a sure fire bottom pairing guy, steady D presence.

 

[Morgs]

Hirvonen.

EDIT: Changing my vote to SDA.

 

[ponder]

Was between Hirvonen and Steeves, went Hirvonen. Not very high on any of these guys, though.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Abruzzese.

Add Villeneuve

 

[Mitch nylander]

Abruzzese for me, then Steeves, Hirvonen and kokkonen in that order.

Add Villeneuve, Hildeby after that

 

[Prominence]

I went tverberg. Oddly enough, i’ve never seen hirvonen play besides wjc, but he’s a strong pick. I probably should have went hirvonen, but my fingers dove straight for the toyberg.

I have tverbeg over abbruzzese cuz he’s accomplished more at the same age. Near ppg in ncaa > ushl domination on a good team. Abbruzese is 24 and 33 points in 28 games as a 22 year old is meh. Watching abbruzese in ncaa, he gets manhandled and does not have the skating to evade this contact or create space. Toyberg is the moving force. He lays people out and i’ve seen him get physically dominate only to score later on in the game.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

Roni

To put SDA

 

[Maplebeasts]

Abruzzese. Add Villeneuve.

 

[aingefan]

Tough choice between 3-4 guys, almost a tie for me….
Gonna go with RoniH over Steeves n Tverberg by a hair.
Add Villeneuve.

 

[TheScandal89]

Looks like not much faith in Abruzzese

 

[JSn0w93]

Looks like not much faith in Abruzzese

I honestly think his stretch with the Leafs at seasons end has soured some people. Little unfair to judge him off that, but he wasn't an 18 year old kid coming in either. I think he's going to have a great season in the AHL. He's still high on my list, I just like Hirvonen more.

 

[zoA]

This was Roni vs Steeves for me. I think Steeves has a better shot at being impactful at the NHL level while Roni has a higher ceiling, so I went with what I viewed as a safer pick. Would go Steeves > Roni > Tverberg > Abruzzese > Kral > Voit. Would add Villeneuve.

 

[zeke]

It's pretty hard to put Holmberg Steeves Abruzzese ahead of young guys like Hirvonen when those young guys are better than the older guys were at their respective ages and the older guys aren't even locks to be NHLers this year at age 23.

 

[hockeynorth]

Add Villeneuve

 

[TheDoldrums]

Hirvonen

edit: add Douglas, I had said him in an earlier thread and skipped him this time whoops

 

[Magic Man]

I voted Hirvonen.

I'm really surprised at the lack of attention Curtis Douglas is getting. He only has a bottom-6 upside, I'm thinking Adam Lowry. But, he is 6'9 and has good defensive skills. He also scored above .5PPG playing from the fourth line as a rookie banking in pucks off Rich Clune's shin pads.

I think he is one of the most likely prospects to make the NHL from this list. Guys like Abramov, Abruzzese, Kral, Villeneuve etc. probably never make it. Douglas seems like a guarantee.

Add Douglas.

 

[daethfromabove1979]

I voted Steeves after a very solid year with the Marlies. I feel like Hirvonen is pretty overrated around here, he's small, not a great skater, and his stats are really not very good for the Finnish league.

 

[stickty111]

I voted Steeves after a very solid year with the Marlies. I feel like Hirvonen is pretty overrated around here, he's small, not a great skater, and his stats are really not very good for the Finnish league.

His stats are good for his age and the role he plays on the team. He had a great season and his analytics showed a huge jump.

 

[justashadowof]

I honestly think his stretch with the Leafs at seasons end has soured some people. Little unfair to judge him off that, but he wasn't an 18 year old kid coming in either. I think he's going to have a great season in the AHL. He's still high on my list, I just like Hirvonen more.

It was clear that he shouldn't have been in the NHL at this point in his career. I didn't think all that much of him before he was signed watching him in NCAA clips despite the nice production. Honest to goodness I think more of him now from his audition with the Leafs than I did before he was signed. He can take a pass in motion and make a pass in motion. His footspeed is NHL level and he has some skating agility. I can see him eventually being an NHL player but I'm not seeing a lot of top 6 potential.


edit: add Villeneuve

 

[Byron Bitz]

Start number 8

 

[darrylsittler27]

Guys who should be 15 to 18 are gonna be 8 to 10 on this years weak pool.