Yeah if he's there it would be amazing, Scouching's April rankings had him 5th. He looked pretty good the U18s too.
From what I've watched of Elick he reminds me of Trouba and not in a good way. Big and mean, sure, but some god awful turnovers and handles the puck like its a grenade. Maybe I just watched the wrong games, but I was very unimpressed.
Cole Beaudoin is a name I could see the Rangers being interested in. Ranked by most scouts in the 30-40 range. His playstyle just screams playoff hockey
I was going to bring up Beaudoin myself. EP has him at 29th in their rankings, HP at 21. Adam Lowry, Boone Jenner, Andrew Copp as a few listed comps. Skating and skill aren't strengths, but very high compete and physicality. You don't get a 9 in Compete from HP without earning it
EDIT: To quote a previous BB:
"We rarely give out elite grades, which means PLAYER has a unique property to his game. When evaluating an elite compete level, we don’t just factor in how hard they work, it’s how smart they work."
"Thanks to his development primarily in the Extraliga, it gave him an opportunity to play full time against other professionals and he accelerated his
development. In that league, he learned that he couldn’t just overwhelm players, but needed to predict their skating patterns, predict when he should and shouldn’t dial up the physicality, and recognize when he should take his peddle off the gas instead of just playing at mach speed."
The quoted prospect ranking is Adam Sykora.