Rank most recent top 3 forwards (2021 - 2025)

jcarbone

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How would you rank these 15 forwards?
Or which tiers would you have each in?
Based strictly on points upside in the NHL.

Matty Beniers
Mason McTavish
Kent Johnson
Juraj Slafkovsky
Logan Cooley
Shane Wright
Connor Bedard
Leo Carlsson
Adam Fantilli
Macklin Celebrini
Beckett Sennecke
Cayden Lindstrom
James Hagens
Porter Martone
Michael Misa


Bonus points for labeling each tier. Example 100+ guys, 80-99 pt players, etc. however you see them.
 

Mathieukferland

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How would you rank these 15 forwards?
Or which tiers would you have each in?
Based strictly on points upside in the NHL.

Matty Beniers
Mason McTavish
Kent Johnson
Juraj Slafkovsky
Logan Cooley
Shane Wright
Connor Bedard
Leo Carlsson
Adam Fantilli
Macklin Celebrini
Beckett Sennecke
Cayden Lindstrom
James Hagens
Porter Martone
Michael Misa


Bonus points for labeling each tier. Example 100+ guys, 80-99 pt players, etc. however you see them.

Best player of his generation

Connor Bedard


Franchise players

Celebrini (Michkov and Demidov weren’t included on your list, but I would have them in this tier)


First line elite

Misa
Cooley
Martone
Hagens

First line

Johnson
Fantilli
Sennecke
Carlsson

Top 6

Slafkovsky
Lindstrom
McTavish

Mid 6

Beniers
Wright
 
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Castle8130

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Purely as prospects, this is where I had them, although I wasn't all that focused on the 2022 draft class, so I put them where the public would probably have them

Connor Bedard
Macklin Celebrini
Leo Carlsson
Porter Martone
Adam Fantilli
James Hagens
Michael Misa
Matty Beniers
Mason Mctavish
Juraj Slafkovsky
Kent Johnson
Cayden Lindstrom
Logan Cooley
Shane Wright
Beckett Sennecke
 

JiricekSaveUs

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Best player of his generation

Connor Bédard



Franchise players

Celebrini (Michkov and Demidov weren’t included on your list, but I would have them in this tier)


First line elite

Misa
Cooley
Martone
Hagens

First line

Johnson
Fantilli
Sennecke
Carlsson

Top 6

Slafkovsky
Lindstrom
McTavish

Mid 6

Beniers
Wright
We’re still doing this?
 

JiricekSaveUs

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To start a franchise with (redraft), would be

1. Celebrini
2. Bedard
———-
3. Hagens
4. Fantilli
5. Carlsson
6. Michkov
———
Everyone else


Rank guys in their tiers however you want, they’re all close enough that nobody can say definitively one way or the other.
 

JotAlan

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How would you rank these 15 forwards?
Or which tiers would you have each in?
Based strictly on points upside in the NHL.

Matty Beniers
Mason McTavish
Kent Johnson
Juraj Slafkovsky
Logan Cooley
Shane Wright
Connor Bedard
Leo Carlsson
Adam Fantilli
Macklin Celebrini
Beckett Sennecke
Cayden Lindstrom
James Hagens
Porter Martone
Michael Misa


Bonus points for labeling each tier. Example 100+ guys, 80-99 pt players, etc. however you see them.

Franchise players


Celebrini 100+ (50+ goals, Selke)
Bedard 120+ (50+ goals)
Michkov 110+ (50+goals)
Hagens 100+
Demidov 100+


First line elite

Misa 90+ (40+ goals)
Cooley 90+
Martone 90+

First line

Carlsson 85+
Sennecke 85+
Fantilli 80+
Johnson 80+

Top 6

Slafkovsky 75+
Wright 65+
McTavish 65+

Mid 6

Beniers 60+
Lindstrom 60+
 
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HeadLiceHatty

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To start a franchise with (redraft), would be

1. Celebrini
2. Bedard
———-
3. Hagens
4. Fantilli
5. Carlsson
6. Michkov
———
Everyone else


Rank guys in their tiers however you want, they’re all close enough that nobody can say definitively one way or the other.

I'd love to hear why Michkov is 6th here, everything else is fine, but that alone makes your list putrid. Completely fine with Celebrini being in the same tier overall, but it's very clearly Bedard/Michkov/Celebrini in that upper tier of franchise types. Also think Hagens can get there, but he's not proved enough yet, all 3 of the before mentioned have proved they belong.
 

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Best player of his generation

Connor Bédard


Franchise players

Celebrini (Michkov and Demidov weren’t included on your list, but I would have them in this tier)


First line elite

Misa
Cooley
Martone
Hagens

First line

Johnson
Fantilli
Sennecke
Carlsson

Top 6

Slafkovsky
Lindstrom
McTavish

Mid 6

Beniers
Wright

Bedard does not have an accent over the E in his name...oh and he's not the "best player of his generation."
 
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Bonin21

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A pretty clear question that quickly goes off the rails to get Michkov in the discussion. We know he's good, but that wasn't the question. :rolleyes:
 
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Mathieukferland

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Bedard does not have an accent over the E in his name...oh and he's not the "best player of his generation."
Sorry my phone does it automatically and most times I remember to remove it but not this time evidently. It’s one of the most common names in Quebec.



Of all the 2020s draftees I would say he still has the highest ceiling, his pure brilliance and creativity on the puck is one of the best I’ve seen. Truth be told his cousin might end up being the generational player and not him, but of all the players on the list I still believe he has the highest offensive ceiling
 
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HeadLiceHatty

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Sorry my phone does it automatically and most times I remember to remove it but not this time evidently. It’s one of the most common names in Quebec.



Of all the 2020s draftees I would say he still has the highest ceiling, his pure brilliance and creativity on the puck is one of the best I’ve seen. Truth be told his cousin might end up being the generational player and not him, but of all the players on the list I still believe he has the highest offensive ceiling

McKenna is going to be an absolute stud, no doubt, whoever wins that lottery is going to flourish.
 

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To start a franchise with (redraft), would be

1. Celebrini
2. Bedard
———-
3. Hagens
4. Fantilli
5. Carlsson
6. Michkov
———
Everyone else


Rank guys in their tiers however you want, they’re all close enough that nobody can say definitively one way or the other.

Michkov in his first 27 games has already matched Fantilli's production from last season, and will very shortly eclipse Carlsson's production from last season, he was the 2nd best player in that draft and everything he's shown since the draft just further reinforces that idea, if anything he is in the top tier with Celebrini and Bedard
 

HeadLiceHatty

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Lmao you do not seem to understand that it was not you that took it off the rails of the 15 forwards mentioned but rather the person you were responding to.

You don't think Michkov should be in this thread though given what was stated in the title? Head and shoulders above everyone outside Bedard and Celebrini, I don't see the big deal, unless OP has an agenda.
 

Bonin21

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You don't think Michkov should be in this thread though given what was stated in the title? Head and shoulders above everyone outside Bedard and Celebrini, I don't see the big deal.
Yes he should not be in this thread because that is not what the OP wanted to get opinions on.
 
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Sorry my phone does it automatically and most times I remember to remove it but not this time evidently. It’s one of the most common names in Quebec.



Of all the 2020s draftees I would say he still has the highest ceiling, his pure brilliance and creativity on the puck is one of the best I’ve seen. Truth be told his cousin might end up being the generational player and not him, but of all the players on the list I still believe he has the highest offensive ceiling

I don't disagree that he could have the highest ceiling, I just don't think he is in a tier of his own. I would put Michkov and Celebrini in his tier for sure.
 
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