MrB1P's top 50 affiliated prospects. Volume 6.

[Mrb1p]

Welcome tough crowd.

I ranked the 50 best under-23, under 25 games affiliated prospects for the year of 2024.

As usual, I do not rank goaltenders because it is just too much work to analyze goaltenders, especially because they play a lot, there's a lot of them and they're often hidden in random leagues. I'd be happy to provide a list for anyone who cares but yeah, thats it.

Here's a post I made in 2019 that still describes my views on prospects:

Mostly a complete offense and a willingness to be the man on the offense. I'm also a fan of physicality and aggressiveness in a player. NHL readiness isn't really something I value too highly, but it is certainly a factor in this ranking as the first five should all be in the NHL this year. Another thing I value highly is intelligence. If a player showcases a good level of on-ice IQ, he's most likely a favorite of mine. I tend to overlook defensive problems as these usually are either overblown or they sort themselves out.

What could bring a player down ?
Perimeter play. This is the biggest culprit.
Lack of a shot.
Lack of speed, or a tendency to float.

This is my list, and my list only, it has not been influenced by any other media list around, which is why it might look a bit different than most. I will also add that I am trying to rank players as to who will have the best career when it is all said and done, meaning, in a perfect world, I would've ranked Patrice Bergeron higher than I would've ranked Eric Staal in the summer of 2003. This could explain why some players are seemingly way lower than they should relatively be, as per example for this year, Alex Nikishin.

Rank	Name	Draft team	Draft year	2023 ranking	2022 ranking
1	Macklin Celebrini	San Jose	2024	ND	ND
2	Matvei Michkov	Philadelphia	2023	2	ND
3	Ivan Demidov	Montréal	2024	ND	ND
4	Zeev Buium	Minnesota	2024	ND	ND
5	Tij Iginla	Utah	2024	ND	ND
6	Berkley Catton	Seattle	2024	ND	ND
7	Cayden Lindstrom	Colombus	2024	ND	ND
8	David Reinbacher	Montréal	2023	9	ND
9	Jagger Firkus	Seattle	2022	19	24
10	Shane Wright	Seattle	2022	30	2
11	Artyom Levshunov	Chicago	2024	ND	ND
12	Ryan Leonard	Washington	2023	18	ND
13	Will Smith	San Jose	2023	12	ND
14	Cutter Gauthier	Philadelphia (Anaheim)	2022	14	15
15	Lane Hutson	Montreal	2022	32	NR
16	Sam Dickinson	San Jose	2024	ND	ND
17	Denton Mateychuk	Columbus	2022	34	31
18	Joshua Roy	Montreal	2021	43	45
19	Tristan Luneau	Anaheim	2022	44	NR
20	Zayne Parekh	Calgary	2024	ND	ND
21	Jiri Kulich	Buffalo	2022	16	HM
22	Matthew Savoie	Buffalo	2022	18	23
23	Quentin Musty	San Jose	2023	41	ND
24	Matthew Wood	Nashville	2023	11	ND
25	Calum Ritchie	Colorado	2023	NR	ND
26	Connor Geekie	Tampa Bay (Utah)	2022	HM	41
27	Frank Nazar III	Chicago	2022	26	9
28	Ivan Miroshnichenko	Washington	2022	45	HM
29	Danila Yurov	Minnesota	2022	NR	NR
30	Logan Stankoven	Dallas	2021	37	HM
31	Alexander Nikishin	Carolina	2020	23	NR
32	Joakim Kemmel	Nashville	2022	20	30
33	Stian Solberg	Anaheim	2024	ND	ND
34	Mavrik Bourque	Dallas	2020	36	26
35	Jonathan Lekkerimaki	Vancouver	2022	30	22
36	Anton Silayev	New Jersey	2024	ND	ND
37	Beckett Sennecke	Anaheim	2024	ND	ND
38	Nate Danielson	Detroit	2023	31	ND
39	Braden Yager	Pittsburgh	2023	27	ND
40	Gleb Trikozov	Carolina	2022	50	47
41	Seamus Casey	New Jersey	2022	HM	NR
42	Lian Bichsel	Dallas	2022	NR	NR
43	Brad Lambert	Winnipeg	2022	42	HM
44	Carter Yakemchuk	Ottawa	2024	ND	ND
45	Konsta Helenius	Buffalo	2024	ND	ND
46	Dalibor Dvorsky	Saint-Louis	2023	23	ND
47	Andrew Cristall	Washington	2023	24	ND
48	Gabe Perrault	New York Rangers	2023	NR	ND
49	Brennan Othmann	New York Rangers	2021	HM	28
50	Tom Willander	Vancouver	2023	NR	ND

Previous lists: I skipped 2021 for... REASONS.
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[Tanknation]

Nice. But I have Demidov over Michkov. Demidov is more of a complete player.

 

[Mrb1p]

Nice. But I have Demidov over Michkov. Demidov is more of a complete player.

He's a more complete player in the same sense that Kucherov is a more complete player than Kane.

That means he's not really.

 

[Static]

Very aggressive on firkus. I have my doubts that he can translate at that size.

Thank you for the list!

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Welcome tough crowd.

I ranked the 50 best under-23, under 25 games affiliated prospects for the year of 2024.

As usual, I do not rank goaltenders because it is just too much work to analyze goaltenders, especially because they play a lot, there's a lot of them and they're often hidden in random leagues. I'd be happy to provide a list for anyone who cares but yeah, thats it.

Here's a post I made in 2019 that still describes my views on prospects:

Rank	Name	Draft team	Draft year	2023 ranking	2022 ranking
1	Macklin Celebrini	San Jose	2024	ND	ND
2	Matvei Michkov	Philadelphia	2023	2	ND
3	Ivan Demidov	Montréal	2024	ND	ND
4	Zeev Buium	Minnesota	2024	ND	ND
5	Tij Iginla	Utah	2024	ND	ND
6	Berkley Catton	Seattle	2024	ND	ND
7	Cayden Lindstrom	Colombus	2024	ND	ND
8	David Reinbacher	Montréal	2023	9	ND
9	Jagger Firkus	Seattle	2022	19	24
10	Shane Wright	Seattle	2022	30	2
11	Artyom Levshunov	Chicago	2024	ND	ND
12	Ryan Leonard	Washington	2023	18	ND
13	Will Smith	San Jose	2023	12	ND
14	Cutter Gauthier	Philadelphia (Anaheim)	2022	14	15
15	Lane Hutson	Montreal	2022	32	NR
16	Sam Dickinson	San Jose	2024	ND	ND
17	Denton Mateychuk	Columbus	2022	34	31
18	Joshua Roy	Montreal	2021	43	45
19	Tristan Luneau	Anaheim	2022	44	NR
20	Zayne Parekh	Calgary	2024	ND	ND
21	Jiri Kulich	Buffalo	2022	16	HM
22	Matthew Savoie	Buffalo	2022	18	23
23	Quentin Musty	San Jose	2023	41	ND
24	Matthew Wood	Nashville	2023	11	ND
25	Calum Ritchie	Colorado	2023	NR	ND
26	Connor Geekie	Tampa Bay (Utah)	2022	HM	41
27	Frank Nazar III	Chicago	2022	26	9
28	Ivan Miroshnichenko	Washington	2022	45	HM
29	Danila Yurov	Minnesota	2022	NR	NR
30	Logan Stankoven	Dallas	2021	37	HM
31	Alexander Nikishin	Carolina	2020	23	NR
32	Joakim Kemmel	Nashville	2022	20	30
33	Stian Solberg	Anaheim	2024	ND	ND
34	Mavrik Bourque	Dallas	2020	36	26
35	Jonathan Lekkerimaki	Vancouver	2022	30	22
36	Anton Silayev	New Jersey	2024	ND	ND
37	Beckett Sennecke	Anaheim	2024	ND	ND
38	Nate Danielson	Detroit	2023	31	ND
39	Braden Yager	Pittsburgh	2023	27	ND
40	Gleb Trikozov	Carolina	2022	50	47
41	Seamus Casey	New Jersey	2022	HM	NR
42	Lian Bichsel	Dallas	2022	NR	NR
43	Brad Lambert	Winnipeg	2022	42	HM
44	Carter Yakemchuk	Ottawa	2024	ND	ND
45	Konsta Helenius	Buffalo	2024	ND	ND
46	Dalibor Dvorsky	Saint-Louis	2023	23	ND
47	Andrew Cristall	Washington	2023	24	ND
48	Gabe Perrault	New York Rangers	2023	NR	ND
49	Brennan Othmann	New York Rangers	2021	HM	28
50	Tom Willander	Vancouver	2023	NR	ND

Previous lists: I skipped 2021 for... REASONS.
2023 5th edition

MrB1P's top 50 affiliated prospects. 5th edition.

Welcome buddies. I ranked the 50 best under-23 (Non-inclusive.), under 25 games affiliated prospects for another year. As usual, I do no goaltenders because it is just too much work to analyze goaltenders, especially because they play a lot, there's a lot of them and they're often hidden in...

forums.hfboards.com

2022 4th edition
MrB1Ps top 50 drafted prospects
2020 3rd edition
MrB1Ps annual affiliated prospect list 2020 Covid edition
2019 2nd edition
https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/mrb1ps-top-50-affiliated-prospects-edition-2019-2020.2669037/
2018 First edition
MrB1P's top 50 NHL affiliated prospects

I know he played a game or 2 many, but where would you have slotted Zellweger? Brandt Clarke also if you dont mind?

 

[Habsfann]

Solid list. Thanks for posting.
I few I think should be much higher though are Stankoven at 30, and Nikishin at 31.

 

[Mrb1p]

Very aggressive on firkus. I have my doubts that he can translate at that size.

Thank you for the list!

Thank you. I am, and have been for some years now. He's always gonna be small and he's always gonna be one of the most skilled players in the world, it's a tough conundrum. I chose to gamble on the talent myself, it has been done before.

I know he played a game or 2 many, but where would you have slotted Zellweger? Brandt Clarke also if you dont mind?

Both after Parekh, after then it gets very hard to see where they land... I mostly look at where Nikishin is ranked and Im unsure if I'd rank either ahead again. I would rank Clarke ahead of Zellwegger again.

 

[LeProspector]

Unsurprisingly Montreal prospects are overrated, but that’s because this dude is a Montreal fan.

NEXT..

 

[Soundgarden]

Strictly speaking from a Nashville POV, there's a few guys I think we'd have over Wood.

He had a good, not great year on a bad team, I'd probably put Molendyk, Kemell and Svechkov over him atm.

 

[Fantomas]

Unsurprisingly Montreal prospects are overrated, but that’s because this dude is a Montreal fan.

NEXT..

Lane Hutson apparently only a notch worse than Will Smith.

But ok, not gonna be a hater. People will have their opinions. Nice to see Matthew Wood on the radar. He'll have a big year.

 

[jiboy]

Stankoven seems extremly low on the list

Joshua Roy and Reinbacher quite high

 

[Zapp]

Stankoven seems extremly low on the list

Joshua Roy and Reinbacher quite high

Yeah Stankoven at 30 is laughable

 

[TheBeastCoast]

There does seem to be some Montreal helium going on here, but not going to hate to much on it. Appreciate the effort.

 

[Pavels Dog]

No Edvinsson & Sandin-Pellikka, kinda crazy ngl.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

No Edvinsson & Sandin-Pellikka, kinda crazy ngl.

Edvinsson is past the game mark, under 25 games was the requirement so zellweger 26, edvinsson 25, and Clarke 25 arnt options

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Lane Hutson apparently only a notch worse than Will Smith.

But ok, not gonna be a hater. People will have their opinions. Nice to see Matthew Wood on the radar. He'll have a big year.

Honestly as someone who in their draft years had Hutson at 10 and Smith at 6, I get where he's coming from on that

 

[viceroy]

Wright above Leonard and Smith? Okie dokie.

 

[majormajor]

Joshua Roy ahead of Nikishin and Stankoven?

C'mon.

 

[Shroud of Orrin]

Stank should launch two highly explosive torpedoes at this list…

 

[Haatley]

Pretty bad overall. Lots of Homer in this one. Joshua Roy ahead of guys like Parekh and pretty much everyone under him is pretty hilarious and stands out to me. Hutson also way too high. Reinbacher the same. Can't take this seriously

 

[CapSpace]

I still can't believe Montreal passed over Kulich, Firkus and Lambert for Mesar.

Slafkovsky
Kulich or Firkus
Beck
Hutson

Would be one hell of a draft.

Still, Slaf/Beck/Hutson are great picks, Mesar still has potential.

Pretty bad overall. Lots of Homer in this one. Joshua Roy ahead of guys like Parekh and pretty much everyone under him is pretty hilarious and stands out to me. Hutson also way too high. Reinbacher the same. Can't take this seriously

Yes, the usual 'but Habs prospects suck' whining.

 

[Zine]

Nikishin too low. Trikozov too high.

 

[stokes84]

Helenius clears Savoie. That’s why Savoie was the trade chip.

 

[Mitch nylander]

It's missing Josh Brook for me

 

[Mitch nylander]

The lack of the OHL Regular Season and Playoff MVP in his draft +1.
The lack of Gavin Brindley, Sandin-Pelikka and Simashev is certainly a choice...

But always appreciate the list -