Hockey sense should always be a priority. I think asking for "playmakers" or "creative" players is getting too cute and asking for a big mistake. As soon as you start going looking for something narrow, you end up seeing things that aren't really there in players.
| RANK | AVG | Range | Pos | 2024 draft | Size/Hand | Nation |
| 1 | 1,0 | 1-2 | C | Macklin Celebrini | 5'11 - L | CAN |
| 2 | 2,7 | 1-6 | LW | Cole Eiserman | 5'11 - L | USA |
| 3 | 3,1 | 2-5 | C/RW | Ivan Demidov | 5'11 - L | RUS |
| 4 | 4,4 | 3-8 | RD | Artyom Levshunov | 6'2 - R | BLR |
| 5 | 4,8 | 3-9 | F | Berkly Catton | 5'11 - L | CAN |
| 6 | 6,2 | 3-9 | C | Konsta Helenius | 5'10 - R | FIN |
| 7 | 7,6 | 3-17 | LD | Anton Silayev | 6'7 - L | RUS |
| 8 | 7,7 | 4-13 | LD | Sam Dickinson | 6'3 - L | CAN |
| 9 | 7,9 | 2-18 | F | Cayden Lindström | 6'4 - L | CAN |
| 10 | 10,4 | 8-17 | RW | Michael Bransdegg-Nygård | 6'1 - R | NOR |
| 11 | 10,8 | 4-17 | RD | Zayne Parekh | 6'0 - R | CAN |
| 12 | 11,0 | 8-17 | RD | Adam Jiricek | 6'1 - R | CZE |
| 13 | 13,1 | 5-20 | LW | Zeev Buium | 5'11 - L | USA |
| 14 | 13,8 | 5-17 | LD | Aron Kiviharju | 5'10 - L | FIN |
| 15 | 14,0 | 11-28 | LW | Igor Chernyshov | 6'2 - R | RUS |
| 16 | 14,0 | 10-23 | F | Tij Iginla | 6'0 - L | CAN |
| 17 | 14,3 | 11-21 | F | Ryder Ritchie | 6'0 - R | CAN/SWE |
| 18 | 15,3 | 11-29 | C/LW | Trevor Connelly | 6'1 - L | USA |
| 19 | 15,9 | 13-25 | RW | Liam Greentree | 6'1 - L | CAN |
| 20 | 16,3 | 9-22 | RD | Henry Mews | 6'0 - R | CAN |
| 21 | 16,6 | 9-26 | W | Emil Hemming | 6'2 - R | FIN |
| 22 | 18,0 | 9-33 | F | Tanner Howe | 5'10 - L | CAN |
| 23 | 19,1 | 11-26 | RW | Maxim Masse | 6'1 - R | CAN |
| 24 | 19,1 | 15-30 | RW | Beckett Sennecke | 6'2 - R | CAN |
| 25 | 19,4 | 14-30 | RD | Carter Yakemchuk | 6'2 - R | CAN |
| 26 | 19,6 | 8-27 | LD | Cole Hutson | 5'8 - L | USA |
| 27 | 20,7 | 11-30 | C | Sacha Boisvert | 6'2 - L | CAN |
| 28 | 21,4 | 18-32 | LD | Matvei Shuravin | 6'2 - L | RUS |
| 29 | 22,9 | 17-37 | LD | Will Skahan | 6'4 - L | USA |
| 30 | 23,1 | 13-32 | C | Michael Hage | 6'1 - R | CAN |
| 31 | 23,1 | 20-34 | RW | Terik Paraschak | 5'11 - R | CAN |
| 32 | 23,6 | 26-38 | LD | Jesse Pulkkinen | 6'7 - L | FIN |
| HM | RD | Charlie Elick | 6'3 - R | CAN | ||
| HM | LD | Leo Sahlin Wahlenius | 6'0 - L | SWE | ||
| HM | LD | Veeti Väisänen | 6'0 - L | FIN | ||
| HM | C | Alexander Zetterberg | 5'8 - R | SWE | ||
| HM | RD | Anthony Cristoforo | 5'11 - R | CAN | ||
| HM | F | Andrew Basha | 5'11 - L | CAN | ||
| HM | LD | Alfons Frej | 6'1 - L | SWE | ||
| HM | C | Kamil Bednarik | 5'11 - L | USA | ||
| HM | C | Tuomas Suoniemi | 5'10 - L | FIN | ||
| HM | C/RW | Yegor Surin | 6'1 - L | RUS | ||
| HM | C | Christian Humphreys | 5'11 - R | USA | ||
| HM | RD | Tomas Lavoie | 6'4 - R | CAN | ||
| HM | RW | Justin Poirier | 5'8 - R | CAN | ||
| HM | RD | Sebastian Soini | 6'1 - R | FIN | ||
| HM | LD | Stian Solberg | 6'2 - L | NOR |
I like Greentree but always thought he would be gone before we picked. Then December happened...
hockeyprospect.com
Give me 12 or 13Not sure if anyone posted/shared it, but HP released an updated ranking on Xmas. Getting the vibe there is not much of a “consensus” with this draft.
2024 NHL Draft Rankings - HockeyProspect.com
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Also if people want to get the meltdown out of the way now, just be prepared for us to draft this kid in the 1st round despite where he's ranked (like half kidding
Colton Roberts - Stats, Contract, Salary & More
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I am very skeptical on whoever it is we have scouting the USDP and USHL.
Yzerman and Draper are there a lot themselves. A bunch of the kids billet with close Red Wings ties. I find it curious that we haven't had more going on with it, but I also have to acknowledge we should have a better understanding of USDP than pretty much everyone else. There is a lot that we know about it from locals that suggests as much in terms of a heavy presence and intersection of hockey people.
For someone who should have a better understanding of that team than most, I found some of those decisions they made curious last year (Augustine aside)
I agree we haven't done well there, at least you would hope we would do better with the advantages.
Because one of the biggest benefits of the draft is to get quality players on cost-controlled deals and that only happens for the period of time prior to being a UFA.
I will not pretend to know what our draft list looks like each year or what the organization actually thinks of the respective NDTP kids each year. I do think, however, our geographic proximity to the program may actually be hurting us because it results in a certain amount of overexposure to the NDTP kids over two years. If you watch a kid a ton, you run the risk of fault finding after a certain point and you find yourself looking for something new and better. Now that said, metro Detroit is a massive hockey scouting hotbed generally and we aren't the only organization with scouts living in the area.
