Prospect Breakdown:
Juniors - 3 (assuming Skinner)
NCAA - 8 (assuming Ciccolini)
Europe - 9 (assuming Henriksson)
North America - 25 (assuming no EAC guys go home)
We continue our trend of not having many prospects playing NA junior hockey. We have a lot of NCAA guys, more than any time I can remember going back to the early-2000's. We also have a lot of European prospects, and they're not throwaway guys like Juris Stals, Zdenek Bahensky, Lukas Zeliska, etc. And 25 prospects playing professionally in North America is crazy. Plus, 45 prospects total--I can't remember having 45 prospects in the system at one time, honestly. And this is by the HF criteria; if you include guys like Howden, it's more.