Fall 2020 Prospect Ranking #2

[tsujimoto74]

RESULTS SO FAR:

1. Dylan Cozens, C (--): 51/60 votes (85.0%). Runners up: Victor Olofsson and Jack Quinn (4 votes each).
2. ???

RULES: Each poll will remain open for 2 days. In the case of a tie within the top 10, I'll create a 24-hour runoff poll to decide the winner. Ties outside of the top 10 will just be left as ties. Each new poll, I will add the most commented "next to add" prospect (or the top 2 for ties outside of the top 10).

ELIGIBILITY: All players who meet HF prospect criteria are included. A prospect is eligible for inclusion if--

• He has not yet completed his age 24 season and has no more than 65 games played (skater) or 45 games played (goalie); or
  
• If signed from a European league or the NCAA at age 22 or older, he has played no more than 65 games (skater) or 45 games (goalie) within 3 years of signing, regardless of age.
  
• Note: Olofsson's eligibility is based on the 22+ signing rule. Had Covid not cut last season short, he would've graduated out of eligibility, but, as it stands, he's got 5 games of "prospect" status remaining. As much as I agree with many of you that he isn't really a prospect any more, the eligibility criteria sets a bright-line rule that I'm going to stick to. (If I deviate from the rule to cut Olofsson, why not also deviate to include guys like Mittelstadt and Thompson? The line has to go somewhere; where is kind of arbitrary.)

NEXT TO ADD: Comment the player you want to see added to the next poll. Asplund and Pekar got an equal number of votes in the first poll, so I cast my vote for Pekar and broke the tie in his favor.

Prospects eligible to be added (let me know if you spot any I've missed or messed up the eligibility on!):

• Forwards: Rasmus Asplund, Lukas Rousek, Matteo Constantini, Linus Weissbach, Brandon Biro, Filip Cederqvist, Brett Murray, Aaron Huglen, Jakub Konecny, Vasili Glotov, Marcus Davidsson, Dawson DiPietro, Andrew Oglevie
  
• Defensemen: Oskari Laaksonen, William Borgen, Miska Kukkonen, Linus Cronholm, Albert Lyckasen, Casey Fitzgerald, Philip Nyberg, William Worge Krue
  
• Goalies: Erik Portillo

 

[Dahlicious]

Olofsson, add Borgen.

 

[DJN21]

add borgen

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Add Asplund

 

[NotABadPeriod]

Add Asplund

 

[jc17]

Olofsson, add asplund

 

[Sabre the Win]

Ukko, add Asplund

 

[Rastin]

Add Asplund

 

[nickdawg95]

Olofsson /Cozens
Quinn/UPL

 

[billsandsabres]

add klimentiev

 

[Puppa2Miller]

Anyone else shocked to look at the results so far? I thought Oloffson looked like more of a one trick pony type whose play badly tapered off last year. I think Quinn is our #1 prospect and with a considerable gap after him and Cozens.

add Borgen

 

[Zman5778]

Still boycotting Olofsson. Voted Quinn here, he's easily our next-best actual prospect.

Add Borgen

 

[jc17]

Anyone else shocked to look at the results so far? I thought Oloffson looked like more of a one trick pony type whose play badly tapered off last year. I think Quinn is our #1 prospect and with a considerable gap after him and Cozens.

add Borgen

Proving something in the nhl is significant. Quinn has a lot of potential, but so did many players taken around 8 over the years, and they're far from locks at contributing nhl players. Im not even the biggest olofsson fan but he's proven to contribute in the nhl, which I think is something that gets underestimated

 

[hockeyman1]

Come one, this needs more Quinn. I really believe he will end up a star in this league, especially playing with Jack. I can already see the two Jacks jacking it up.

Olofsson has a top 5 shot in this league, and we all love him for that. But this is about prospects, and while it's true that there is value in being a proven NHL scorer, i think we should be talking more about what they will end up when all is said and done, rather than their current status.

With that being said i believe it would have been better if Olofsson wasn't a part of this survey, he just played too much games already imo, that's without considering he is much older and refined than the rest.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Come one, this needs more Quinn. I really believe he will end up a star in this league, especially playing with Jack. I can already see the two Jacks jacking it up.

Olofsson has a top 5 shot in this league, and we all love him for that. But this is about prospects, and while it's true that there is value in being a proven NHL scorer, i think we should be talking more about what they will end up when all is said and done, rather than their current status.

With that being said i believe it would have been better if Olofsson wasn't a part of this survey, he just played too much games already imo, that's without considering he is much older and refined than the rest.

Maybe next time around I'll go with Calder eligibility as the defining rule (not that it'll affect Olofsson by then, since I'm sure he'll have gotten his 5 more games). I just used HF prospect criteria because that's what we've always used.

 

[sufferer]

Don't like that VO is included, went Jack Quinn.

add Borgen

 

[jc17]

Don't like that VO is included, went Jack Quinn.

add Borgen

But he is included. If he's in the poll, whether people like it or not, its only going to mess up the poll more if people avoid voting for him solely because they dont think he should be here.

 

[brian_griffin]

Maybe next time around I'll go with Calder eligibility as the defining rule (not that it'll affect Olofsson by then, since I'm sure he'll have gotten his 5 more games). I just used HF prospect criteria because that's what we've always used.

You might be looking at goals instead of games played. Calder eligibility is 25 or fewer games in the preceding season. Oloffson exceeds that already.

 

[tsujimoto74]

You might be looking at goals instead of games played. Calder eligibility is 25 or fewer games in the preceding season. Oloffson exceeds that already.

I'm talking about next time we do a prospect ranking, which is usually toward the season's end---at that point, Olofsson wouldn't be a prospect anymore using HF criteria either.