HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects Ranking #46

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TOP 50 PROSPECTS


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

1. Trevor Zegras - C		2. Moritz Seider - D		3. Quinton Byfield - C
4. Cole Caufield - RW		5. Owen Power - D		6. Jamie Drysdale - D
7. Bowen Byram - D		8. Anton Lundell - C		9. Matty Beniers - C
10. Jake Sanderson - D		11. Lucas Raymond - LW		12. Matthew Boldy - LW
13. Alex Newhook - C		14. William Eklund - LW		15. Nils Lundkvist - D
16. Cole Perfetti - C/LW		17. Marco Rossi - C		18. Peyton Krebs - C
19. Alex Turcotte - C		20. Luke Hughes - D		21. Evan Bouchard - D
22. Mason McTavish - C		23. Brandt Clarke - D		24. Dylan Holloway - C
25. Connor McMichael - C		26. Simon Edvinsson - D		27. Kent Johnson - C
28. Dylan Guenther - RW	:coyotes2	29. Vitali Kravtsov - RW		30. Alexander Holtz - RW
31. Seth Jarvis - C		32. Philip Tomasino - C/RW		33. Ville Heinola - D
34. Vasili Podkolzin - RW		35. Shane Pinto - C		36. Philip Broberg - D
37. Nick Robertson - LW		38. Arthur Kaliyev - LW		39. Thomas Bordeleau - C
40. Cole Sillinger - C		41. Jonatan Berggren - W		42. Dawson Mercer - C
43. Jack Quinn - W		44. Thomas Harley - D		45. Lukas Reichel - LW
49.		50.

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to add:

M.Bourque - DAL
S.Poulin - PIT
I.Morozov - VGK
Bernard-Docker - OTT
R.Kupari - LAK
PO Joseph - PIT
T.Foerster - PHI
A.Alexeyev - WSH
JJ Peterka - BUF
J.Jenik - ARI
J.Pelletier - CGY


past lists:
HFBoards TOP 75 Prospects Ranking #75 (FINAL) (2020)
HFBoards TOP 50 Prospects (2019)

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[The Moose is Loose]

Barron, Marchenko, or Soderstrom

 

[LaMasquerade]

The NYI 2nd rounder..

 

[Bounces R Way]

Zary or I'll scream

 

[majormajor]

Someone explain to me why Amirov is a better prospect than Marchenko.

Otherwise I'm just going to assume it's a Leafs thing.

 

[ted2019]

Guhle

 

[notbias]

Someone explain to me why Amirov is a better prospect than Marchenko.

Otherwise I'm just going to assume it's a Leafs thing.

He put up much better numbers in his D+1?

I personally think Amirov is much better than Robertson and should be the higher-ranked prospect

 

[Llamamoto]

Zary/Soderstrom/York/Schneider

 

[Minty Cowboy]

Amirov and Zary next 2

 

[GermanSpitfire]

Marchenko here. he’s leagues ahead of Amirov at this point.

 

[JohnLennon]

Denisenko, Marchenko, then Guhle imo

 

[majormajor]

He put up much better numbers in his D+1?

They did not play in the same league in their technical D+1 seasons. In any case, their 19 year olds seasons (Marchenko's D+2), Marchenko outscored Amirov. And then Marchenko took a huge leap in his 20 year old season to lead all U-22 players in the KHL. Amirov would need an unexpected leap to match that production. Marchenko currently has 4 pts in 3 games while Amirov is out long term with a busted shoulder.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

The 2021 Top 20 Leafs Prospects: #3 Rodion Amirov

Good write up on Amirov.
I like Marchenko but people seem to be forgetting he was also drafted 2 years before Rodion. They both are super promising prospects, I wouldnt fault anyone for choosing either.

 

[MardyBum]

Guy who went through this in his draft year and was still GPG + PPG + and rated* a top 15 pick.

Chaz Lucius got the answer he needed and dreaded last summer, when doctors finally determined why he was struggling with pain in his left knee.
The forward with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program Under-18 team had a bone lesion, caused by an injury to the growth plate in his knee when he was hit there by a puck two years earlier.
"Just a fluke thing," the 18-year-old said.
The solution was arthroscopic surgery to remove the lesion. But the recovery would be daunting, and it would be months before he could even think about lacing up his skates.
Entering his NHL Draft season, the news couldn't have been much worse.
Despite that, Lucius was able to stay positive and see the light before he even entered the tunnel.
"When I got the news I was really devastated," he said. "You never want to be injured as a player or as an athlete. But from that moment on I promised myself I wasn't going to get sad, I wasn't going to get disappointed and that I was going to come out better from this. And ever since, that is what I've been trying to live up to."
Lucius accomplished that, returning six months after his surgery, scoring 20 points (13 goals, seven assists) in 13 games and is No. 12 in NHL Central Scouting's final ranking for the 2021 NHL Draft.

The road Lucius has taken to preparing to hear his name called was far from easy.
Lucius had surgery Aug. 21, which involved scraping away dead bone in his leg and taking bone marrow from his back and injecting it into the affected area to stimulate new bone growth.
"With that being bone, you can't really walk on that or do anything until the bone's actually there," he said.
That meant six weeks in a wheelchair, with his leg locked in a straight brace, and attending physical therapy sessions Monday through Friday. His work included two hours per day in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.

Lucius compared those grueling sessions to the pressure someone feels in their ears when climbing or descending in an airplane, at the same time lying in a tiny metal tube.
"You just sit in there for two hours at a time," he said. "There's not really a lot of moving around so you just kind of lay in there and just wait."
Lucius went through 44 of those two-hour sessions, and did his best to focus on the positives he was gaining.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Wait, where the hell is Ottawa's Tyler Boucher?

Guy who went through this in his draft year and was still GPG + PPG + and a top 15 pick.

But he was drafted 18th, 17th if you take the Arizona forfeit into consideration.

 

[MardyBum]

Wait, where the hell is Ottawa's Tyler Boucher?

But he was drafted 18th, 17th if you take the Arizona forfeit into consideration.

Loool yeah, sorry, meant rated as a top 15 pick. Thank you.

 

[majormajor]

The 2021 Top 20 Leafs Prospects: #3 Rodion Amirov

Good write up on Amirov.
I like Marchenko but people seem to be forgetting he was also drafted 2 years before Rodion. They both are super promising prospects, I wouldnt fault anyone for choosing either.

Marchenko is 14 months older.

Leafs fans would be (justifiably) thrilled if Amirov reaches Marchenko's level 14 months from now.

 

[Longtime Local]

Marchenko for me. He has improved dramatically every year since being drafted and was the highest scoring U-22 player in the KHL, ahead of guys like Podkolzin and Kravtsov, who have gone much higher. I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that he could match the same scoring pace this year that Kaprizov had at the same age, and yet he may not even make the list.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Marchenko is 14 months older.

Leafs fans would be (justifiably) thrilled if Amirov reaches Marchenko's level 14 months from now.

He is 14 months older and drafted 2 years earlier, 2 more seasons to develop. He has 2 seasons to catch up to where Marchenko is now, which I imagine in 2 seasons he will be at that level or surpassed.

Loool yeah, sorry, meant rated as a top 15 pick. Thank you.

Ohh, okay. Yah that makes more sense! haha.

 

[majormajor]

He is 14 months older and drafted 2 years earlier, 2 more seasons to develop. He has 2 seasons to catch up to where Marchenko is now, which I imagine in 2 seasons he will be at that level or surpassed.

The amount of runway a player has left to improve is based on their physical and mental maturity. Age is always the best guess into that, not draft year.

And no, expecting Amirov to reach Marchenko's level in 14 months from now is not a median guess, that's a very optimistic take.

Marchenko for me. He has improved dramatically every year since being drafted and was the highest scoring U-22 player in the KHL, ahead of guys like Podkolzin and Kravtsov, who have gone much higher. I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that he could match the same scoring pace this year that Kaprizov had at the same age, and yet he may not even make the list.

Marchenko happened to be overlooked as a teenager and was drafted by a team with a smaller HF fanbase. So he's not going to go ahead of the other Russian prospects no matter how much better he is. He can have three times as many points in the KHL and it won't matter.

 

[Longtime Local]

He is 14 months older and drafted 2 years earlier, 2 more seasons to develop. He has 2 seasons to catch up to where Marchenko is now, which I imagine in 2 seasons he will be at that level or surpassed.

Keep in mind that for most leagues, the cutoff for entry is just year of birth, including the MHL I believe. Not many of them use the September 15th date that the NHL uses. Marchenko played in the Russia U16 league during the 2015-2016 season, and Amirov played there in the 2016-2017 season. So Marchenko only has one more year of junior and pro experience, even if he was drafted two years earlier.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Keep in mind that for most leagues, the cutoff for entry is just year of birth, including the MHL I believe. Not many of them use the September 15th date that the NHL uses. Marchenko played in the Russia U16 league during the 2015-2016 season, and Amirov played there in the 2016-2017 season. So Marchenko only has one more year of junior and pro experience, even if he was drafted two years earlier.

That's good information, thank you.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Guhle

 

[Eegs]

Zary then Guhle.

 

[elitepete]

Lysell is a gem