Elite Prospects Top 100 Affiliated Prospect Skaters

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Ranking the NHL's top 100 affiliated prospects ahead of the 2024-25 season

Mitch Brown, David St-Louis, and J.D. Burke team up to rank the top 100 affiliated prospects ahead of the 2024-25 NHL season.

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[CallMeShaft]

Here's the list.

 

[BigRangy]

Parekh, Honzek, and Basha on the list for the Flames if anyone is curious.

Surprised Brzustewicz isn’t there based on how many people love to dunk on the Canucks for trading him.

Wolf is on the goalies list as well.

 

[Michoulicious]

Montreal having 7 in the top 100 and 3 in the top 30 is pretty telling in a 32 teams league.

I think they'll pick top 10 next year again, and then add to that they have another 1st and 2 seconds. Man.

That prospect pool will be stacked.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Leafs too high, Habs too low (except Demidov).



But like, actually....

 

[Juxtaposer]

Sharks have four in the top-21, seems good.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Where is Nikishin ranked?

Im not even a Canes fan but in all prospect rankings he's always the guy I look for to see how accurate the rankings are lol

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Sharks have four in the top-21, seems good.

They def turned up their rebuild the last 2 drafts getting 4 impact players in smith musty celebrini and dickinson.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Where is Nikishin ranked?

Im not even a Canes fan but in all prospect rankings he's always the guy I look for to see how accurate the rankings are lol

A disguisting 24th, up from 33rd place last year

 

[Michoulicious]

Here's the list.

Danford in front of Luchanko is certainly a choice.

 

[Just Linda]

A disguisting 24th, up from 33rd place last year

I mean, is there really that many names above him that you'd find shocking?

Hes in the same range as Silayev, Meteychuk, Hutson, and Dickenson on their list. That seems about the right spot to me.

 

[strattonius]

Parekh, Honzek, and Basha on the list for the Flames if anyone is curious.

Surprised Brzustewicz isn’t there based on how many people love to dunk on the Canucks for trading him.

Wolf is on the goalies list as well.

He's a B prospect. An offensive defenseman that is still a long shot to translate to the NHL.

There was a group of fans that overrated the hell out of him based on his junior production but the reality is he was sold high by Alvin and has a long way to go to be an NHL'er.

 

[EveryDay]

Danford in front of Luchanko is certainly a choice.

Most definitely, Luchamko is way too low.

 

[Michoulicious]

Most definitely, Luchamko is way too low.

And I don't get the Frank Nazar love either.

Before Catton, Senneke, Dickinson, Silayev, Perreault, ASP? Wtf

 

[Namikaze Minato]

I mean, is there really that many names above him that you'd find shocking?

Hes in the same range as Silayev, Meteychuk, Hutson, and Dickenson on their list. That seems about the right spot to me.

I think he's the best defensive prospect in hockey right now and our own boards voting has him as the 5th overall prospect (not that it means anything, just an observation).

 

[Golden_Jet]

Here's the list.

Didn’t help

 

[Kshahdoo]

A disguisting 24th, up from 33rd place last year

People care about such lists too much to me...

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

A disguisting 24th, up from 33rd place last year

Aaaand I have no reason to even look at this list now.

I mean, is there really that many names above him that you'd find shocking?

Hes in the same range as Silayev, Meteychuk, Hutson, and Dickenson on their list. That seems about the right spot to me.

He is better than them

 

[Mrfenn92]

And I don't get the Frank Nazar love either.

Before Catton, Senneke, Dickinson, Silayev, Perreault, ASP? Wtf

just curious what don’t you like about Frank Nazar?

 

[Xirik]

Didn’t help

you click the > button on the side of the picture and it goes to the list.



Anyone able to share who the honorable mentions are?

 

[Jared Dunn]

Nikishin stands out as too low and Musty too high imo

Edit - Yurov is way too low as well, feels like there's some rankings in here just to be conversation starters lol

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Nikishin and Hutson too low

 

[Michoulicious]

just curious what don’t you like about Frank Nazar?

He's an ok prospect, but he has lost a big development year with his injury, was the 6th best scorer on a stacked Michigan team behind guys like Brindley, Duke, Hughes...

Add to that he's on the small side, projects like a winger and that I don't see a safe bottom 6 floor for him like I see for a guy like McGroarty (that outproduced him big time while playing playoffs style hockey and being team USA captain at the U20s), who played on the same team as him and was drafted on the same year.

You'd pick Nazar over the guys I listed? No way he is a top 15 prospect in all hockey.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

There's no way Nikishin isn't a top 10 prospect in hockey. I haven't even viewed the list to develop complaints about my own team prospects but just chiming in on the convo here - Nikishin is probably the very best prospect who wasn't originally drafted as a blue chipper. I can understand the merits of having some of these very early picks right at the top but he should be right up there as well.

 

[EbonyRaptor]

Hawks well represented with 7 in their top-100: Levshunov, Nazar, Moore, Boisvert, del Mastro, Rinzel, and Vanacker. This after 3 graduated from the list last year: Bedard, Korchinski and Kaiser.