Rangers Prospect Ranking: (Winter 2019) - #3

[UAGoalieGuy]

Rykov.

 

[nyr2k2]

This about how I have it besides having Lias and Shest swapped

Same.

EDIT: Actually I think I voted Chytil over Kravtsov, but I can go either way on that.

 

[Machinehead]

Shestoryarkin for the third time.

Add Keane. I would vote for Keane before I vote for Hajek. And especially before Rykov.

 

[Don Chytil]

Same.

EDIT: Actually I think I voted Chytil over Kravtsov, but I can go either way on that.

If we did tiers, I think I'd have:

Tier 1: Chytil/Kravtsov
Tier 2: Lias/Shesty
Tier 3: Miller/Howden
Tier 4: Hajek/Lundkvist/Rykov/Keane

Too difficult for me to choose between the the guys in each tier, but I guess that's what the rankings are good for. A solid top 10 though either way

 

[darko]

Czar, add Rykov

 

[The Crypto Guy]

If we did tiers, I think I'd have:

Tier 1: Chytil/Kravtsov
Tier 2: Lias/Shesty
Tier 3: Miller/Howden
Tier 4: Hajek/Lundkvist/Rykov/Keane

Too difficult for me to choose between the the guys in each tier, but I guess that's what the rankings are good for. A solid top 10 though either way

Think the tiers look more like IMO:

Tier 1: Chytil/Kravtsov/Shesty
Tier 2: Lias/Miller/Howden
Tier 3: Hajek/Lundkvist/Rykov
Tier 4: Keane/Giorgeiov/Lindgren

 

[nyr2k2]

Shestoryarkin for the third time.

Add Keane. I would vote for Keane before I vote for Hajek. And especially before Rykov.

Man, IDK about that. Hajek has always been a well-regarded prospect dating back to his days in the ELH at age 16/17 and his play pretty much always supported that. He was very highly ranked forever before he turned pro and he's having a good rookie campaign. He seems like a damn solid bet for a good NHL career, maybe a really good career.

Keane is a nice prospect but I feel like he's a "helium watch" guy, to steal a phrase from Baseball America. Everyone is getting excited about him based on not really a whole lot. I read a lot of mixed reviews on his play in Barrie this year. He just kind of reminds me of a Graves or Zborovskiy or Kundratek or Baranka, where people get hyped over upside that's maybe not really there. Hope I'm wrong.

I have no opinion on him vs Rykov as Rykov is a prospect I still know next to nothing about. I've seen more Simon Kjellberg this year than Yegor Rykov, to put it that way.

 

[Joey Bones]

Chytil is vastly overrated. He's probably shown little in 75 to 80% of this games this season.

19 years old....

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

Wonder where Morgan Barron ends up, we do have people here who watch Cornell so I'll defer to them but he looks good on the, uh, eliteprospects website.

Shesty, add George

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

Wonder where Morgan Barron ends up, we do have people here who watch Cornell so I'll defer to them but he looks good on the, uh, eliteprospects website.

Shesty, add George

I’ve been breaking my brain to justify him being in the top 10 but I don’t think I can do it yet (testament to our prospect pool)

 

[Machinehead]

Man, IDK about that. Hajek has always been a well-regarded prospect dating back to his days in the ELH at age 16/17 and his play pretty much always supported that. He was very highly ranked forever before he turned pro and he's having a good rookie campaign. He seems like a damn solid bet for a good NHL career, maybe a really good career.

Keane is a nice prospect but I feel like he's a "helium watch" guy, to steal a phrase from Baseball America. Everyone is getting excited about him based on not really a whole lot. I read a lot of mixed reviews on his play in Barrie this year. He just kind of reminds me of a Graves or Zborovskiy or Kundratek or Baranka, where people get hyped over upside that's maybe not really there. Hope I'm wrong.

I have no opinion on him vs Rykov as Rykov is a prospect I still know next to nothing about. I've seen more Simon Kjellberg this year than Yegor Rykov, to put it that way.

It has less to do with Keane, and more to do with that if points were water, Hajek and Rykov couldn't score if you threw them into the ocean.

Hajek, in particular, has alarming offense at every level.

I think he's a safe bet to be an NHL D but I've never thought of him as more than a #4.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Shesty, add Georgiev.

I narrowly take Reunanen over Rykov. A more explosive skillset, a full year younger, and now that his health isn't an issue he's made a big development leap this year.

 

[nyr2k2]

Shesty, add Georgiev.

I narrowly take Reunanen over Rykov. A more explosive skillset, a full year younger, and now that his health isn't an issue he's made a big development leap this year.

He was healthy last year, and I believe the year before as well. He just couldn't break into the lineup with TPS (or Lukko at the time). He did this year, which is great.

I like his skills and the big leap he's taken, but it also has to be kept in context: he's playing in Liiga and Rykov in the KHL. The latter is a good bit better than the former, although Liiga is a fine league itself.

It's tough for me to rank Tarmo as, like Rykov, I've seen so little of him.

 

[Harbour Dog]

He was healthy last year, and I believe the year before as well. He just couldn't break into the lineup with TPS (or Lukko at the time). He did this year, which is great.

I like his skills and the big leap he's taken, but it also has to be kept in context: he's playing in Liiga and Rykov in the KHL. The latter is a good bit better than the former, although Liiga is a fine league itself.

It's tough for me to rank Tarmo as, like Rykov, I've seen so little of him.

It was only last summer that he got back to full health, but yeah, this would be his second healthy season (and first earning the coach's trust).

The KHL is way ahead of Liiga, no doubt. Reunanen is playing like 30 seconds to a minute more though (too lazy to check again), and has 11 months of development to catch up to Rykov; and it wouldn't seem unrealistic for him to do that, given that he lost a huge chunk of prime developmental years and has still managed to work his way onto a top pairing in Liiga.

I have only seen highlight videos of him, which are generally flattering, so I admit that I'm basing my opinion on numerous scouting reports and his description of his own game. The skillset was always there though; if it wasn't for the freak spine injury in his draft year, he could very well of maintained a spot in the first/early second.

 

[pblawr]

I'm surprised there wasn't more skepticism about a goalie prospect for a franchise that burned top 10 picks on Dan Blackburn and Al Montoya after watching their biggest rival burn the #1 overall pick on Rick DiPietro. I get that Shesterkin is closer to the NHL and more developed than those guys, etc, but it's just tough for me to rationalize taking a goalie prospect over skaters with the potential of K'Andre, Lias, Howden, Lundkvist, etc.