HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects Ranking #37 (closed)

[amnesiac]

TOP 50 PROSPECTS


Criteria is 22 and under, 30 NHL GP or less, no goalies

1. Macklin Celebrini - C		18. Tij Iginla - C/W		35. Axel Sandin-Pellikka - D
2. Matvei Michkov - RW		19. Sam Dickinson - D		36. Brad Lambert - C/W
3. Ivan Demidov - RW		20. David Reinbacher - D		37.
4. Will Smith - C		21. Zayne Parekh - D		38.
5. Alexander Nikishin - D		22. Berkly Catton - C		39.
6. Cutter Gauthier - C		23. Gabe Perreault - RW		40.
7. Artyom Levshunov - D		24. Jiri Kulich - C/W		41.
8. Cayden Lindstrom - C/W		25. Olen Zellweger - D		42.
9. Ryan Leonard - LW		26. Denton Mateychuk - D		43.
10. Simon Edvinsson - D		27. Rutger McGroarty - RW		44.
11. Zeev Buium - D		28. Nate Danielson - C		45.
12. Brandt Clarke - D		29. Dmitri Simashev - D		46.
13. Danila Yurov - C/W		30. Carter Yakemchuk - D		47.
14. Lane Hutson - D		31. Quintin Musty - LW		48.
15. Shane Wright - C		32. Tom Willander - D		49.
16. Beckett Sennecke - RW		33. Jonathan Lekkerimaki - RW		50.
17. Anton Silayev - D		34. Dalibor Dvorsky - C/W

To add:
Noah Oslund - C
Marco Kasper - C
Matthew Wood - RW
Fabian Lysell - RW
Liam Ohgren - LW
Joakim Kemell - RW
Joshua Roy - RW
Michael Hage - C
Jett Luchanko - C
Sacha Boisvert - C
Liam Greentree - LW
Colby Barlow - LW
Ville Koivunen - C/W
Jani Nyman - RW
Andrew Cristall - LW
Gavin Brindley - C
Jordan Dumais - RW
Zachary Bolduc - C
Riley Heidt - C/W
Marat Khusnutdinov - C
Ivan Miroshnichenko - LW
Theo Lindstein - D
Tanner Molendyk - D
Stian Solberg - D
Ethan Del Mastro - D
Scott Morrow - D
Maveric Lamoureux - D
Hunter Brzustewicz - D



Past lists:
HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects Ranking #50 (closed) (summer 23)
HFBoards Top 50 Prospects Ranking #50 FINAL (summer 22)
HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects Ranking #50 FINAL (summer 21)
HFBoards TOP 75 Prospects Ranking #75 (FINAL) (winter 20-21)
HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects (summer 19)
Top 50 Drafted Prospects 2018: #46 - #50 (summer 18)
HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects #48 (summer 17)

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[Bouboumaster]

Eiserman

Add Joshua Roy because he's getting picked soon (at least, he should be, unless someone wants to argue that one of the best scorer for two years in the Q + top 3 best player on Team Canada Junior in 2023 shouldn't be picked?!)

 

[shaner8989]

Cowan

 

[amnesiac]

Helenius next best from the draft. Some lists had him around 10th

then:
Bourque
Ritchie
Eiserman
MBN
Yager

 

[biturbo19]

Feel like Savoie is getting overrated here. Presumably due to some combination of his high draft position (in a pretty wide open year), and his "flashy" style of player + fairly stacked juniors stats. Ignoring the fact he's real small and plays a style of game that can often be a very significant adjustment to the NHL level for that sort of player.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Eiserman

Add Joshua Roy because he's getting picked soon (at least, he should be, unless someone wants to argue that one of the best scorer for two years in the Q + top 3 best player on Team Canada Junior in 2023 shouldn't be picked?!)

Maybe if you and MrB1P get to vote a dozen times each...

 

[LemonSauceD]

Muhkhamidullin

 

[Bouboumaster]

Maybe if you and MrB1P get to vote a dozen times each...

You should also vote for him, because you know, it's a legit good choice

 

[Satan]

insane that Bourque (AHL MVP) is still on the board

recency bias is strong with this one

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

You should also vote for him, because you know, it's a legit good choice

Yes. All Habs are. I should've voted for Lane Hutson numba won!

 

[Bouboumaster]

Yes. All Habs are. I should've voted for Lane Hutson numba won!

Boohoo Boohoo none of the Habs should be voted ever, because I don't like Them!!!1

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Boohoo Boohoo none of the Habs should be voted ever, because I don't like Them!!!1

Nah I just don't homer overrate them lmao.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Nah I just don't homer overrate them lmao.

AKA you have terrible takes and shouldn't rate prospects like, at all

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

AKA you have terrible takes and shouldn't rate prospects like, at all

Coming from the guy who went into a Hughes/Bratt vs. Stutzle/Tkachuk thread and thought the Hughes being referred to was Quinn.

 

[Haatley]

Eiserman

Add Joshua Roy because he's getting picked soon (at least, he should be, unless someone wants to argue that one of the best scorer for two years in the Q + top 3 best player on Team Canada Junior in 2023 shouldn't be picked?!)

Yes. The elite QMJHL scoring leaders....

 

[MXD]

Hesitated between Jiricek and Bourque only to realize it was ADAM and not DAVID, since David is very obviously not eligible.

So yeah I should've voted Bourque.

 

[KevSkillz4]

People sleep on Daniil But.

He have really huge upside. Looks like a very very special player for Utah!

 

[KevSkillz4]

I hesitate between Nazar or But, but I pick But, just because of his unique package! (But my vote was been on Snuggerud, because it's only a mistake, I see But and that's clicked on him).

 

[thefutures]

Bourque
Luneau
But

 

[strattonius]

Bourque will be playing in the NHL this year after having a very good first year in the A. I think he's due here

 

[stl76]

I thought Bourque’s size might hold him back in the pros, but it’s impossible to ignore the season he just had in the AHL.

 

[biturbo19]

insane that Bourque (AHL MVP) is still on the board

recency bias is strong with this one

I can see the argument for Bourque here, but wouldn't that be...recency bias to actually vote him, based on the season he just had in the AHL? That most recent season is really the only compelling argument for him. And it's a solid one. But still very much about recency bias, over some others who are earlier in their development curves and/or far more projection based because they simply haven't had as much time to put Post-draft years on the board yet.

 

[Satan]

I can see the argument for Bourque here, but wouldn't that be...recency bias to actually vote him, based on the season he just had in the AHL? That most recent season is really the only compelling argument for him. And it's a solid one. But still very much about recency bias, over some others who are earlier in their development curves and/or far more projection based because they simply haven't had as much time to put Post-draft years on the board yet.

The recency bias I'm talking about is related to the recently drafted shiny new toys that always dominate these rankings.

Bourque's already outperformed a lot of these kids in terms at the junior level - he led his team to a QMJHL championship, was top 5 in U-21 scoring in his 1st AHL season and followed that up as #1 player in the league in his second pro year.

 

[dgibb10]

Eiserman

Add Joshua Roy because he's getting picked soon (at least, he should be, unless someone wants to argue that one of the best scorer for two years in the Q + top 3 best player on Team Canada Junior in 2023 shouldn't be picked?!)

QMJHL production from a 20 year old does not move the needle

 

[dgibb10]

The recency bias I'm talking about is related to the recently drafted shiny new toys that always dominate these rankings.

Bourque's already outperformed a lot of these kids in terms at the junior level - he led his team to a QMJHL championship, was top 5 in U-21 scoring in his 1st AHL season and followed that up as #1 player in the league in his second pro year.

Objectively the shiny new toy syndrome is probably right.

Where does bourque go in a redraft? I doubt it's top 20.

All of these guys from his draft class have made NHL contributions.

Even you like at a guy considered a "bust" in Alex Holtz from that same draft class

Go back to his AHL production from 2021-2022 (this is 2 years ago), and it matches up to what bourque did in the AHL in 2023-2024.

Unless your claim is that the 2020 class is leaps and bounds above all the other draft classes.

He probably falls in the 20-25 range in your average draft class.

Or:

Behind 20-25 or so guys from this past year
Behind 15-20 or so guys that haven't graduated from 2023
Behind 10-15 or so guys that haven't graduated from 2022
Behind 5-10 or so guys that haven't graduated from 2021
Behind a weird case like Nikishin.

Every single top guy from 2024 is in the rankings. It checks out.

All of the top guys from Bourque's draft class are already very valuable NHLers like Byfield, Sanderson, Mercer, Peterka, Faber, Laffy, Stutzle, Jarvis, Raymond, Guhle, Neighbours, Perfetti, Zary, Lundell, Schneider, etc