2022 Prospect Poll #12

[tsujimoto74]

A day overdue with this one. My bad.

RESULTS SO FAR:

1. Owen Power, D (--): 86/103 votes (83.5%). Runner up: Jack Quinn (11 votes).
2. Jack Quinn, F (+2): 65/78 votes (83.3%). Runner up: Devon Levi (4 votes).
3. J.J. Peterka, F (--): 40/91 votes (43.8%). Runner up: Matthew Savoie (35 votes).
4. Matthew Savoie, F (NR): 59/96 votes (61.5%). Runner up: Devon Levi (27 votes).
5. Devon Levi, G (+4): 79/96 votes (82.3%). Runner up: Jiri Kulich (11 votes).
6. Jiri Kulich, F (NR): 54/96 votes (56.3%). Runner up: Noah Ostlund (29 votes).
7. Noah Ostlund, F (NR): 77/98 votes (78.6%). Runner up: Ryan Johnson (8 votes).
8. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, G (+3): 30/97 votes (30.9%). Runners up: Ryan Johnson, Isak Rosen (28 votes).
9. Isak Rosen, F (-4): 40/95 votes (42.1%). Runner up: Ryan Johnson (40 votes, see tie-breaker)
10. Ryan Johnson, D (-4): 40/95 votes (42.1%). Runner up: Erik Portillo (7 votes).
11. Erik Portillo, G (-1): 36/73 votes (49.3%). Runner up: Prokhor Poltapov (10 votes).

RULES: Each poll will remain open for 2 days. In the case of a tie within the top 10, I'll create a 1-day runoff poll to decide the winner. Ties outside of the top 10 will be left as ties. For each additional poll, I will add the most commented next to add prospect.

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ELIGIBILITY: All players whose rights are held by the Buffalo Sabres and who are eligible to win the Calder Trophy for the 2022-23 season are eligible inclusion. That means a prospect is eligible if--

• He is under age 26 (as of September 15, 2022);
• He has played no more than 25 games in any single preceding season; and
• He has not played 6 or more games in each of any two or more preceding seasons.

NEXT TO ADD: Comment the player you want to see added to the next poll. The following players are eligible:

• Forwards: Filip Cederqvist, Linus Sjodin, Matej Pekar, Linus Weissbach, Matteo Costantini, Gustav Karlsson, Jake Richard, Joel Berndtsson, Stiven Sardaryan, Viljami Marjala, William von Barnekow, Jakub Konecny, Brett Murray, Vasili Glotov
• Defensemen: Oskari Laaksonen, Vsemolod Komarov, Albert Lyckasen, Philip Nyberg
• Goalies: Topias Leinonen

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[NotABadPeriod]

Neuchev, add Leinonen.

 

[Zman5778]

Add Leinonen.

I think Poltapov still has the most potential out of this group by a hair. But holy crap this tier is basically "eye of the beholder" territory.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Now we’re in the tough area. I voted Rousek, as I think he’s gonna have a strong season for the Amerks. I have him tied with Kisakov and Weissbach here.

I have a feeling he’d be the runaway candidate had he not missed all of last season with his knee injury.

Add Weissbach, even though he’s “old”.

 

[Snippit]

Add Cederqvist

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Posters sleeping on Rousek.

 

[Dingo44]

Kisakov, add Cederqvist

 

[Rowley Birkin]

I'm going with Nadeau here simply because he brings something different to the table than everyone ahead of him.

 

[old kummelweck]

No idea. Add Cederqvist.

 

[GOALOFSSON]

Add Cederqvist

I wonder how our 2nd top 10 compares to the rest of the league's prospects.

 

[truthbluth]

Neuchev add Cederqvist

 

[Matt Ress]

Nadeau add Cederqvist

Pretty much dealer's choice

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Add Cederqvist

I wonder how our 2nd top 10 compares to the rest of the league's prospects.

Our second top 10 probably rivals some teams top 10. Perhaps it’s homerism but I feel that some fanbases would be excited by what’s in our pipeline.

 

[Chainshot]

Kisakov. Add Leinonen.

 

[billsandsabres]

add buravchikov

 

[K8fool]

Our second top 10 probably rivals some teams top 10. Perhaps it’s homerism but I feel that some fanbases would be excited by what’s in our pipeline.

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McKeen's Hockey's 2022/23 NHL Yearbook has been released and in it you will find many prospect goodies (top 300 prospects rankings, organizational rankings, team by team top 20's with reports, etc). Thought I'd pop on here to share a few tidbits and possibly answer some questions.

Organizational Prospect Rankings:
Buffalo Sabres
Anaheim Ducks
New Jersey Devils
Columbus Blue Jackets
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens
Dallas Stars
Los Angeles Kings
Chicago Blackhawks
Arizona Coyotes

Top 50 Prospect Rankings:
Owen Power
Luke Hughes
Bowen Byram
Matthew Beniers
Jake Sanderson
Mason McTavish
Shane Wright
Logan Cooley
Juraj Slafkovsky
Simon Nemec
Jack Quinn
Simon Edvinsson
Kent Johnson
Marco Rossi
Alexander Holtz
Wyatt Johnston
Brandt Clarke
David Jiricek
Matthew Savoie
Pavel Mintyukov
Lukas Reichel
John-Jason Peterka
Yaroslav Askarov
Dylan Guenther
Jesper Wallstedt
William Eklund
Xavier Bourgault
Olen Zellweger
Cole Perfetti
Logan Stankoven
Mavrik Bourque
Vitali Kravtsov
Brennan Othmann
Devon Levi
Frank Nazar
Denton Mateychuk
Kirill Marchenko
Thomas Bordeleau
Jakob Pelletier
Philip Broberg
Cutter Gauthier
Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Scott Perunovich
Kevin Korchinski
Dustin Wolf
Danila Yurov
Noah Ostlund
Cam York
Fabian Lysell
Jiri Kulich

For more info on some rankings and biggest risers and fallers, check out this piece:

Add a couple from the recent tourney that are more ready and may have higher than expected ceilings


KA boom or bust philosophy I've seen before may have a snowball effect that some that may bust cone into a favourable situation... Looking like some good hockey like the first 37 years

 

[JLewyB]

Add Weissbach who was rousek before he got injured. Or rousek was Weissbach…idk

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Our second top 10 probably rivals some teams top 10. Perhaps it’s homerism but I feel that some fanbases would be excited by what’s in our pipeline.

Our 2nd round pick from this year, the top goalie prospect in this year's draft, is currently not even on the board to vote, which puts him in the 20-25 range overall. Which is insane. How many teams would that be the case? He's probably a top 10 guy on a bunch of other teams.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Hmmm. Idk, I had an opinion on the top 11…which seems pretty clear to me.

Now we’re in the territory where i can’t really rank them. But I’m voting kisakov

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Our 2nd round pick from this year, the top goalie prospect in this year's draft, is currently not even on the board to vote, which puts him in the 20-25 range overall. Which is insane. How many teams would that be the case? He's probably a top 10 guy on a bunch of other teams.

We all have our personal rankings. I’m sure he gets dinged because he’s not any of the RHD our fanbase was in to. I’m not holding that against him.

 

[SECRET SQUIRREL]

Kisakov, add Cederqvist

This x2

 

[debaser66]

1
McKeen's Hockey's 2022/23 NHL Yearbook has been released and in it you will find many prospect goodies (top 300 prospects rankings, organizational rankings, team by team top 20's with reports, etc). Thought I'd pop on here to share a few tidbits and possibly answer some questions.

Organizational Prospect Rankings:
Buffalo Sabres
Anaheim Ducks
New Jersey Devils
Columbus Blue Jackets
Minnesota Wild
Montreal Canadiens
Dallas Stars
Los Angeles Kings
Chicago Blackhawks
Arizona Coyotes

Top 50 Prospect Rankings:
Owen Power
Luke Hughes
Bowen Byram
Matthew Beniers
Jake Sanderson
Mason McTavish
Shane Wright
Logan Cooley
Juraj Slafkovsky
Simon Nemec
Jack Quinn
Simon Edvinsson
Kent Johnson
Marco Rossi
Alexander Holtz
Wyatt Johnston
Brandt Clarke
David Jiricek
Matthew Savoie
Pavel Mintyukov
Lukas Reichel
John-Jason Peterka
Yaroslav Askarov
Dylan Guenther
Jesper Wallstedt
William Eklund
Xavier Bourgault
Olen Zellweger
Cole Perfetti
Logan Stankoven
Mavrik Bourque
Vitali Kravtsov
Brennan Othmann
Devon Levi
Frank Nazar
Denton Mateychuk
Kirill Marchenko
Thomas Bordeleau
Jakob Pelletier
Philip Broberg
Cutter Gauthier
Jonathan Lekkerimaki
Scott Perunovich
Kevin Korchinski
Dustin Wolf
Danila Yurov
Noah Ostlund
Cam York
Fabian Lysell
Jiri Kulich

For more info on some rankings and biggest risers and fallers, check out this piece:

Add a couple from the recent tourney that are more ready and may have higher than expected ceilings


KA boom or bust philosophy I've seen before may have a snowball effect that some that may bust cone into a favourable situation... Looking like some good hockey like the first 37 years

I wonder what his thinking was in placing Kulich below Ostlund in this recent ranking while having him at 15 in his draft ranking quite ahead of Ostlund. If anything Kulich should have improved not fallen below Ostlund with his WJC performance.

 

[old kummelweck]

Our second top 10 probably rivals some teams top 10. Perhaps it’s homerism but I feel that some fanbases would be excited by what’s in our pipeline.

I would trade our deep prospect pool in a second for a playoff team. I think any dominant team over the last 5 years that has their roster locked and a modest prospect pool is perfectly acceptable to the fans and their front office. A deep prospect pool like the Sabres is a sign of other organizational struggles.

It'll be interesting to see how these guys play out. There is not enough room for all these players, and only so many can be turned into roster improvement, so.... I think we'll see some picks going back into future draft pools.

 

[GOALOFSSON]

I would trade our deep prospect pool in a second for a playoff team. I think any dominant team over the last 5 years that has their roster locked and a modest prospect pool is perfectly acceptable to the fans and their front office. A deep prospect pool like the Sabres is a sign of other organizational struggles.

I certainly wouldn't. Not all playoff teams are equal and we're about to be one anyway.

May have been a sign of other struggles at one point but now it's just a sign that we're about to be great (and that our drafting went up a couple of notches).

 

[GOALOFSSON]

*This isn't your usual deep pool, it's legit stacked and we still have guys like Dahlin, Samuelsson,Tuch, Thompson, VO, Mitts that are young enough.