NHL Entry Draft: Jabba11's rankings

[Jabba11]

This is not a mock draft; it is really my rankings of the best 30 prospects for this years draft.

1. Jonathan Huberdeau
2. Gabriel Landeskog
3. Sean Couturier
4. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
5. Adam Larsson
6. Ryan Murphy
7. Ryan Strome
8. Nikita Kucherov
9. Mika Zibanejad
10. Dougie Hamilton
11. Nathan Beaulieu
12. Duncan Siemens
13. Joel Armia
14. Matt Puempel
15. Jamie Oleksiak
16. Zack Phillips
17. Mark Scheifele
18. Brandon Saad
19. Phillip Danault
20. Jonas Brodin
21. Nicklas Jensen
22. Sven Bartschi
23. J.T. Miller
24. Rocco Grimaldi
25. Tomas Jurco
26. Vladislav Namestnikov
27. Alexander Khokhlachev
28. Brett Ritchie
29. Boone Jenner
30. Tyler Biggs

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[Leafssss]

 

[Confound]

Nugent-Hopkins needs to be lower.

 

[Zip15]

No Mark McNeill in the top-30?

 

[Sabres9]

Rocco Grimaldi > JT Miller

 

[17Kurri]

Very interesting perspective, you went all out it seems.

 

[CodeE]

Does your name happen to be Nikita Kucherov?

 

[TheNudge]

Does your name happen to be Nikita Kucherov?

I bet it was is mom!!!

 

[Jabba11]

Does your name happen to be Nikita Kucherov?

I bet it was is mom!!!

Bump. My mom was right


In all seriousness, very proud to have predicted Kucherov that high. Of course, nobody is perfect but I stumbled over this rankings that I forgot I made. Ouff this is sick!

 

[Garbageyuk]

Bump. My mom was right


In all seriousness, very proud to have predicted Kucherov that high. Of course, nobody is perfect but I stumbled over this rankings that I forgot I made. Ouff this is sick!

You had Ryan Murphy ahead of him, so it isn’t really some great prediction. More like random variance. There were people who thought he could become the best player of the draft, even back then. You weren’t one of them, apparently.

 

[SwedishFire]

You had Ryan Murphy ahead of him, so it isn’t really some great prediction. More like random variance. There were people who thought he could become the best player of the draft, even back then. You weren’t one of them, apparently.

Give the man cred. You saw that Kucherov was holding the u16 pointrecord for all time, it is a mystery why he easnt higher at rankings at the time, even KHL factor considered. It was a weak year for talents for sure, so they may have thaught that pointrecord was nothing? I know hockeyknowledged people in sweden said that Kucherov in a normal case would had been the actual No.1, but becasue the rusdian factor and the scouts are NA heavyfavoured, Kuch was not considered as he should had been.

Funny stuff in here otherwise, grimaldi >>> JT miller. Where is McNeil in your ranking, and all hyoe for aryan Murphy.. lol.

 

[Jabba11]

Give the man cred. You saw that Kucherov was holding the u16 pointrecord for all time, it is a mystery why he easnt higher at rankings at the time, even KHL factor considered. It was a weak year for talents for sure, so they may have thaught that pointrecord was nothing? I know hockeyknowledged people in sweden said that Kucherov in a normal case would had been the actual No.1, but becasue the rusdian factor and the scouts are NA heavyfavoured, Kuch was not considered as he should had been.

Funny stuff in here otherwise, grimaldi >>> JT miller. Where is McNeil in your ranking, and all hyoe for aryan Murphy.. lol.

Thank you!

Nobody's perfect with mocks and rankings but interesting to see this was 13 years ago..actually crazy it's been 13 years already!

I remembered not liking Mark McNeill too much, didn't see his upside and sadly he never panned out either for Chicago.

Ryan Murphy's hype was definitely there, I got caught in it. Reminded me of a better version of Ryan Ellis hahaha or similar.

Huberdeau was great in juniors and had a tremendous draft season, definitely a riser and I just like how he was more dynamic than RNH and Landeskog back then.

Overall, crazy draft to think about it!

 

[ManByng]

Very interesting perspective, you went all out it seems.

Good call on Kucherov being a high 1st rounder though!

 

[Killswitch]

Great call on Kucherov. Every single year people pretend to have a clue on drafts and every single year it looks ridiculous in hindsight. Grimaldi? lmao. No worries. There'll be plenty of laughs on this years draft comments as well

 

[Dan Kelly]

There's already been a big laugh at the draft as Anaheim took Sennecke #3 overall !!

 

[Sinbad]

Does your name happen to be Nikita Kucherov?

Looks like someone knew a lot more than you!

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Overall not bad, there were a couple you got wrong like Ryan Strome over Nikita Kucherov that one is........no. But overall pretty good.

Wild to see Matt Puempel.

Tyler Biggs, Tyler Biggs

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

There's already been a big laugh at the draft as Anaheim took Sennecke #3 overall !!

he will be a top 5 talent in this draft class

 

[jackp0t]

You had Ryan Murphy ahead of him, so it isn’t really some great prediction. More like random variance. There were people who thought he could become the best player of the draft, even back then. You weren’t one of them, apparently.

Give the guy some credits. Seriously, random variance ?

 

[OSA]

Hindsight is always 20/20

Matt Puempel was a CHL rookie of the year iirc and was a late birthday that probably would have gone higher the previous year I suspect and Ryan Murphy was a revelation for Kitchener in his rookie year. I remember Don Cherry had a feature on him on Caoch’s Corner.

 

[SwedishFire]

Hindsight is always 20/20

Matt Puempel was a CHL rookie of the year iirc and was a late birthday that probably would have gone higher the previous year I suspect and Ryan Murphy was a revelation for Kitchener in his rookie year. I remember Don Cherry had a feature on him on Caoch’s Corner.

... and then came Erik Karlsson.

Even if Murphy hadnt got injured, he was a junior star. Probably needed to be covered a lot.

He had a great intensity who fooled you by eyetest, ok skating.
I have to say that was much on Don Cherry hyping up someone who shouldnt been.

There's already been a big laugh at the draft as Anaheim took Sennecke #3 overall !!

That he was a righty probably had a lot to do with it. Qucik decisionmaking and anticipation is also highly valued by scouts - its hard to achive - cause it senses related.

I wpuld say Sennecke is a ticket for being the 2nd -3rd best player of the draft, but is quite a sure shot to become a great player.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Looks like someone knew a lot more than you!

and a lot of others

 

[Dan Kelly]

... and then came Erik Karlsson.

Even if Murphy hadnt got injured, he was a junior star. Probably needed to be covered a lot.

He had a great intensity who fooled you by eyetest, ok skating.
I have to say that was much on Don Cherry hyping up someone who shouldnt been.



That he was a righty probably had a lot to do with it. Qucik decisionmaking and anticipation is also highly valued by scouts - its hard to achive - cause it senses related.

I wpuld say Sennecke is a ticket for being the 2nd -3rd best player of the draft, but is quite a sure shot to become a great player.

I'm not sold that he could be the "2nd or 3rd best player in the draft" just because one team decided to take Senneke abnormally high. Most scouts had him rated much lower !