I've seen him make some big hits. I know he was suspended at least once for a hit in the SHL.
So Sykora was signed to ELC right away after being drafted that allowed him to join Hartford at D+2?
What do mean? From a prior page the Rangers just got ranked 19th by the Athletic’s Scott Wheeler
Thanks for the ranking. 19th isnt really good or bad. That seems to fit. I think Drury has done a good job drafting but we traded multiple picks over the years.
There’s no a concept of above or below expectated in hockey’s prospects rankings but based on the Rangers (lack of) “strength” of draft positions in the last few years I do agree that Drury’s done pretty well.
With all of our graduations and lack of draft picks, I think our prospect pool is pretty healthy. There's not a ton of top-end talent, but we have a very good stable of projectable bottom-6ers. And all it takes is one or two of them surprising (looking at you, Berard and BMB) and becoming top-6ers to replenish our ranks as our current core ages out. We're about 15 prospects deep with players that have a decent shot to play some kind of role in the NHL. That's very good, considering our dearth of picks, especially high picks, lately.
I think we do in terms of the body "count" (sorry for the dark humor) but digging deeper (again lol) the pool is very homogeneous / lacks diversity in many way.
We have holes, for sure. Our RD and C depth is poor. Yes, we have a ton of wings. But wingers make up close to half your roster. So I don't think it's quite as dire as some make out.
Picking where the Rangers have been picking (plus some trades of draft choices) is going to make it difficult to rank much higher. Need top of the draft blue chippers to rank high In this kind of survey.
