Did this for my own amusement but compiled the 4 recent user posts from the mid-season into an aggregate list, with a few modifiers for outliers / common names.
This is not at all scientific but halfway through the first season most have been really able to lay eyes on some of these guys, here is what we have as kind of an initial "shape" of the draft names. "------" denotes a statistical "break" between groupings:
1. G. McKenna (#1 on each list)
2. K. Verhoeff (#2 on each list)
3. M. Preston (between #3-6 on each list)
4. R. Roobroeck (between #3-8 on each list)
5. E. Belchetz (high #3, low #12)
6. I. Stenberg (high #3, low #10)
7. V. Bjorck (between #5-7 on three lists)
8. S. Katolicky (#4 on two lists)
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9. C. Reid (high #5, low #22)
10. A. Novotny (between #11-17 on each list)
11. V. Fyodorov (top 10 on 2 lists but low of #31)
12. X. Villeneuve (high #8, low #25)
13. R. Lin (top 10 on 2 lists but outside R1 on one list)
14. M. Berchild (high #9, low #31)
15. M. Gustafsson (high #9 but outside R1 on one list)
16. T. Lawrence (between #11-22 on each list)
17. B. Wassilyn (high #8 but outside R1 on one list)
18. J. Hextall (between #12-33 on each list)
19. O. Murnieks (between #12-33 on each list)
20. C. Carels (between #10-15 on 3 lists, outside R1 on one list)
21. B. Edwards (high #13 but outside R1 on one list)
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22. L. Steiner (top 25 on 3 lists, outside R1 on one list)
23. Y. Shilov (top 25 on 3 lists, outside R1 on one list)
24. L. Schairer (high #14, outside R1 on one list)
25. A. Valentini (high #14, outside R1 on one list)
26. M. Dagenais (high #17, outside R1 on one list)
27. J. Hurlbut (between #27-36 on each list)
28. C. Fitzgerald (#22 on two lists, outside R1 on one list)
29. A. Di Iorio (top 32 on 3 lists, outside R1 on one list)
30. N. Aaram-Olsen (top 32 on 3 lists, outside R1 on one list)
31. C. Harrington (between #27-53 on each list)
32. M. Nordmark (high #16, outside R1 on two lists)
33. B. Cossette-Ayotte (high #14, outside R1 on two lists)
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34. O. Holmertz
35. D. Beuker
36. D. Randolph (dominating at the moment, this will rise IMO)
37. T. Chrenko
38. I. Morozov
39. L. Nycz
40. A. Vlasov
41. N. Ocharov
42. C. Croskery
43. C. Williams
44. J. Lemeiux
45. J. Iginla
46. E. Hermansson
47. B. Smith
48. S. Alalauri
49. J. Kemps
50. R. Brown
51. Z. Nyman
52. C. Mutryn (another guy that will rise quickly IMO)
53. V. Dravecky (quite a fall here from the early hype)
54. L. Ruck
55. L. Kolarik
Honorable Mentions Below
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HM. F. Novak
HM. L. Zajic
HM. C. Hicks
HM. M. Kotkov
HM. A. Nemec
HM. A. Ivanov
HM. B. Olson
HM. A. McLean
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HM. A. Elofsson
HM. V. Plante
HM. J. Larys (G)
HM K. Varga
HM L. Hafele
HM C. Malhotra
HM C. Pavao
HM O. Wahlroos
HM G. Pugachyov
HM W. Bent
HM H. Boettiger (G)
HM C. Chartrand
