McKeen's Hockey Top Prospect Rankings & Organizational Rankings

[Brock]

McKeen's Hockey's 2022/23 NHL Yearbook has been released and in it you will find many prospect goodies (top 300 prospects rankings, organizational rankings, team by team top 20's with reports, etc). Thought I'd pop on here to share a few tidbits and possibly answer some questions.

Organizational Prospect Rankings:

1. Buffalo Sabres
2. Anaheim Ducks
3. New Jersey Devils
4. Columbus Blue Jackets
5. Minnesota Wild
6. Montreal Canadiens
7. Dallas Stars
8. Los Angeles Kings
9. Chicago Blackhawks
10. Arizona Coyotes

Top 50 Prospect Rankings:

1. Owen Power
2. Luke Hughes
3. Bowen Byram
4. Matthew Beniers
5. Jake Sanderson
6. Mason McTavish
7. Shane Wright
8. Logan Cooley
9. Juraj Slafkovsky
10. Simon Nemec
11. Jack Quinn
12. Simon Edvinsson
13. Kent Johnson
14. Marco Rossi
15. Alexander Holtz
16. Wyatt Johnston
17. Brandt Clarke
18. David Jiricek
19. Matthew Savoie
20. Pavel Mintyukov
21. Lukas Reichel
22. John-Jason Peterka
23. Yaroslav Askarov
24. Dylan Guenther
25. Jesper Wallstedt
26. William Eklund
27. Xavier Bourgault
28. Olen Zellweger
29. Cole Perfetti
30. Logan Stankoven
31. Mavrik Bourque
32. Vitali Kravtsov
33. Brennan Othmann
34. Devon Levi
35. Frank Nazar
36. Denton Mateychuk
37. Kirill Marchenko
38. Thomas Bordeleau
39. Jakob Pelletier
40. Philip Broberg
41. Cutter Gauthier
42. Jonathan Lekkerimaki
43. Scott Perunovich
44. Kevin Korchinski
45. Dustin Wolf
46. Danila Yurov
47. Noah Ostlund
48. Cam York
49. Fabian Lysell
50. Jiri Kulich

For more info on some rankings and biggest risers and fallers, check out this piece:

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[Xirik]

Overall nice list, I think lots of people are going to be questioning Edvinsson being 12th especially when Nemec is placed 10th.

its a pretty conseravtive list. At least in the top 50, All of the prospects are all 1st round and early 2nd round picks. Makes me wonder which player from the later rounds in recent drafts made the biggest jump up the list.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I always used to buy it at the store, so I could pick it up as a quick reference. Haven’t bought it since it went to PDF only.

 

[majormajor]

I can't complain with my Jackets being ranked around 4th, seems about right with just the great number of high end prospects they have. But I will grumble with Kent Johnson getting ranked 13th. He just keeps getting better and better and has more elite upside than most of the guys ahead of him.

 

[bsu]

Nice.

 

[Dominance]

Comparing this to the list put together on HF Polls makes me appreciate why there are professionals who do this.

Great list. I would have Byram first, personally, given the way he dominated the playoffs when handed greater responsibility.

 

[Evgeny Oliker]

I’m a little confused as to how Holloway is not in top 50?

Or he is and the thread starter forgot to add him?


Also: I do like that goalies are in top 50…

 

[Weltschmerz]

Overall nice list, I think lots of people are going to be questioning Edvinsson being 12th especially when Nemec is placed 10th.

its a pretty conseravtive list. At least in the top 50, All of the prospects are all 1st round and early 2nd round picks. Makes me wonder which player from the later rounds in recent drafts made the biggest jump up the list.

Levi at 34?

 

[bobbythebrain]

I’m a little confused as to how Holloway is not in top 50?

Or he is and the thread starter forgot to add him?


Also: I do like that goalies are in top 50…

Ya not sure when the OP finalized this list, but after this week, Holloway looks to be ahead of alot of those names, and he will get to play w/ Drai or McD soon enough too

 

[Evgeny Oliker]

@Brock are you able to share top 100 or more?

Curious where they did put guys like Holloway…

 

[Team Cozens]

7 Sabres in the Top 50. Nice.

 

[jfhabs]

Byram played a full year in the nhl but is still considered a prospect, why?
In general he has a lot of smaller guys a bit too high for me at forward, defense and goalie.

 

[Lavar Ball]

Nice list. What is the criteria for being included?

 

[snipes]

Hilarious that Holloway isn‘t on there.

He was utterly dominant and looked head and shoulders better than everyone at the Young Stars Classic played by the Western Canadian NHL teams.

Watching him at that, he is a sure fire 100% NHL caliber player. By far the best player for any team at the YSC.

Glaring omission.

 

[lakai17]

No Kaiden Guhle?

 

[ZDH]

No Kasper?

 

[Goon42]

Hilarious that Holloway isn‘t on there.

He was utterly dominant and looked head and shoulders better than everyone at the Young Stars Classic played by the Western Canadian NHL teams.

Watching him at that, he is a sure fire 100% NHL caliber player. By far the best player for any team at the YSC.

Glaring omission.

Ahh yes the mighty young star classic, definately a sure fire way to tell if a prospect is "100% NHL caliber" or not.

 

[Waterbuf]

Eklund is low for sure.

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Would take Guhle and Holloway over several of those guys for sure

 

[snipes]

Ahh yes the mighty young star classic, definately a sure fire way to tell if a prospect is "100% NHL caliber" or not.

I mean, he did tear up the NCAA in his D+1 and finished the year strong in the AHL coming off wrist surgery.

You could completely hate the Oilers and still see how dominant he was. Head and shoulders the best player out there. Looked like a cleercut NHLer. He’s a strong two way player with high end speed and tenacity all over the ice.

 

[wetcoast]

I mean, he did tear up the NCAA in his D+1 and finished the year strong in the AHL coming off wrist surgery.

You could completely hate the Oilers and still see how dominant he was. Head and shoulders the best player out there. Looked like a cleercut NHLer. He’s a strong two way player with high end speed and tenacity all over the ice.

I like Dylan Holloway a lot as a prospect and player but every list is going to have some guy I like not on it, it's not really that big of a deal and certainly not glaring by any means.

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

Wow, you guys don't seem to like Detroit's prospect pool much at all. Out of the top 10 teams and one player in the top 50.

 

[lidstromiscool]

Yikes, the future will not be kind to this list

 

[Pavels Dog]

You guys really don't like Marco Kasper I guess.

 

[Team Cozens]

You guys really don't like Marco Kasper I guess.

Kasper the prospect ghost.