Rangers Prospect Poll - Summer 2022 - #7

[Kendo]

I went Cuylle here, even though I was pumping Robbie's tires in the tie-breaker. I voted Cuylle before the tie anyway, but as I keep saying, "you can't go wrong here."

The top four are our first rounders that are holding their value as first rounders. I think we can all agree on those four, even if the order differs person to person.

The next clump is made up of first rounders that have dropped in value (of which we have none), second rounders that have maintained value/progress, and later picks that have gained ground.

I would go Cuylle, Robertson, Jones, Berard, Garand, Sykora, BMB, personally. I wouldn't want to exclude any of those from the top 10, but it's such a tight grouping there and someone's going to have to be 11th. I wouldn't begrudge anyone else's list that has the same 7 in any order.

12 onward is going to get spicy, tho! It's a great problem to have. We went from having a top heavy prospect pool to having great depth after graduating so many guys. Gauthier and Barron were in our top ten two years ago, LOL! We're on the right path here.

 

[Savant]

How is Garand still here?

People don’t like voting for goalies. But even if it’s not the right pick , Robertson isn’t exactly a bad pick either. The next four guys that go, and Berard, are all in the same tier

 

[McRanger92]

I went Cuylle here, even though I was pumping Robbie's tires in the tie-breaker. I voted Cuylle before the tie anyway, but as I keep saying, "you can't go wrong here."

The top four are our first rounders that are holding their value as first rounders. I think we can all agree on those four, even if the order differs person to person.

The next clump is made up of first rounders that have dropped in value (of which we have none), second rounders that have maintained value/progress, and later picks that have gained ground.

I would go Cuylle, Robertson, Jones, Berard, Garand, Sykora, BMB, personally. I wouldn't want to exclude any of those from the top 10, but it's such a tight grouping there and someone's going to have to be 11th. I wouldn't begrudge anyone else's list that has the same 7 in any order.

12 onward is going to get spicy, tho! It's a great problem to have. We went from having a top heavy prospect pool to having great depth after graduating so many guys. Gauthier and Barron were in our top ten two years ago, LOL! We're on the right path here.

But I thought Drury was selling the farm to win now

 

[Ruggs225]

Having red as those moving higher and blue as those moving down spots really throws me off. I just associate red with bad or negative.

Oh yeah. Robertson add Paju

 

[GAGLine]

Thats not true...he was a pretty big thing in junior this year. The difference between Berard and Cuylle is that one is a man already and the other may never be big enough to play his game to its potential at the nhl level. Berard has a higher ceiling, Cuylle is more of a sure thing to be a regular.

That argument goes both ways. It could be that Cuylle is doing so well because he is already man-sized and playing against younger players, while Berard is excelling despite his size against an older age group.

Smaller players have a good history of doing well in the NCAA, but many of those players have gone on to do well in the NHL. Gaudreau, Atkinson and Caufield, among others.

Berard's WJC success, combined with his skating and work ethic, are reasons I put him ahead of Cuylle.

 

[GAGLine]

How is Garand still here?

I like Garand, but I need to see him in the AHL before I get too hyped up about him. Both Huska and Wall were highly regarded at one point, then failed to take the next step.

 

[cwede]

How is Garand still here?

Cuz there is a strong top 9

Garand, Cuylle, Robertson have all earned their status

 

[pblawr]

I think Berard really gets underrated here. Statistically, his season was as impressive as any of our prospects.

The only U20 players who scored more in the NCAA were Beniers, Johnson, and Sanderson, who were all top 5 picks, and Savoie who played on a line with Bobby Brink.

Like Othmann, Berard did it while leading his team in scoring by a significant margin. His PPG was more than 10% higher than Providence's 2nd highest scorer and 50% higher than Providence's 3rd highest scorer.

He was also 6 days away from being a Freshman.

And he's not a guy who just scores. He's PK'ed and played well on checking lines too. He led Providence's team in penalty minutes.

He also recently stood out at our prospect camp that included Othmann, Cuylle, Robertson, etc.







I think he is closer to being in our top 5, which is where I would have him, than being lower on the list than he already is.

 

[n8]

I'm definitely not yet convinced he has legit starting goalie potential, and I don't think most here are or he would have been ranked much higher. He's had a great Junior career but I want to see how he does in the AHL. A lot of goalies put up good numbers in Juniors and don't amount to anything. I'm still excited to see what happens though with him.

there's no guarantee but his upside is gonna be like a Kuemper/Carter Hart. And we have Benny ****ing Allaire. If we had Toronto's coaching staff, I'd be less optimistic.