Speculation: Roster Building Thread: Part LXVIII

[Synergy27]

Pronman put out his rankings of the top U23 players leaguewide. Our guys are at the following:

4. Lafreniere
9. Kakko
28. Fox
44. Chytil
77. Lundkvist
90. Kravtsov
93. Howden (still don't get what Pronman sees here)
106. Gauthier
138. Schneider

Argue with the ordering however you want, but fast forward a few years, if the Rangers are icing 4-5 top 50 players in the league, they should be in great shape. A lot of folks here probably think Lundkvist should be higher as well, hopefully they are right.

 

[Thirty One]

All our prospects are ranked beautifully and I won't hear another word of dissent.

 

[JT Kreider]

this is not the first person I've seen call Auston Matthews generational/on the border and I just really, really want an explanation as to why.

You'll see this season if he can stay fully healthy and scores 60 goals in an 82 game season while dominating puck possession and averaging 3.5 shots per game (which is going to rise even more now that he doesnt have the Babcock shackles on him). Oh and being in an offense that has to support a 2nd PPG center as well. He hasnt come close to hitting his ceiling.

He is the 3rd best player in the league behind McDavid and MacKinnon. I think the generational term is thrown around too much but he is the next best thing.

 

[SA16]

Does Pronman really expect Howden to take over for Mika?

 

[Thirty One]

Does Pronman really expect Howden to take over for Mika?

Yes, as soon as this year he says.

 

[FireGerardGallant]

....Laf is way too high, Kakko is laughably too high, Jack Hughes being that high makes me not take this list seriously and that it was made by a Rangers fan that pumped him up just to not seem biased.

Hughes and Kakko would both be in that top 15 atleast

 

[True Blue]

Even for as far as we've come, this is still a very young team that is going to spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.

This board will loose its collective mind when the team is a bubble team and not some sort of unstoppable force.

 

[LaffyTaffy]

Sign the Petition

if anyone wants to help get accents and special characters on jerseys

 

[Thirty One]

Sign the Petition

if anyone wants to help get accents and special characters on jerseys

Special characters? Like $kinner?

 

[LaffyTaffy]

Special characters? Like $kinner?

And nicknames like $kinz. Jokes aside i mean like Shestërkin and Tarnström etc.

 

[rangers1314]

And nicknames like $kinz. Jokes aside i mean like Shestërkin and Tarnström etc.

Haven't some teams done this before for players?

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

Pronman put out his rankings of the top U23 players leaguewide. Our guys are at the following:

4. Lafreniere
9. Kakko
28. Fox
44. Chytil
77. Lundkvist
90. Kravtsov
93. Howden (still don't get what Pronman sees here)
106. Gauthier
138. Schneider

2 in the top 10.
3 in the top 31 (teams should have 1 on avg).
4 in the top 62 (teams should have 2 on avg).
7 in the top 93 (teams should have 3 on avg).

What a time to be an NYR fan. Miller, Shesty not even on the list.

 

[IDvsEGO]

2 in the top 10.
3 in the top 31 (teams should have 1 on avg).
4 in the top 62 (teams should have 2 on avg).
7 in the top 93 (teams should have 3 on avg).

What a time to be an NYR fan. Miller, Shesty not even on the list.

Shesty is too old i believe. Miller I absolutely think should've been on that list.

 

[mas0764]

Pronman put out his rankings of the top U23 players leaguewide. Our guys are at the following:

4. Lafreniere
9. Kakko
28. Fox
44. Chytil
77. Lundkvist
90. Kravtsov
93. Howden (still don't get what Pronman sees here)
106. Gauthier
138. Schneider

No Miller is jarring.

 

[mas0764]

Why would the Rangers want or need Nolan Patrick?

Buy-low possible future top 6 C.

 

[mas0764]

....Laf is way too high, Kakko is laughably too high, Jack Hughes being that high makes me not take this list seriously and that it was made by a Rangers fan that pumped him up just to not seem biased.

Why the heck is Laf too high?

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

this is not the first person I've seen call Auston Matthews generational/on the border and I just really, really want an explanation as to why.

He plays in Toronto

To me he is generational.... Generational in assaulting women in the middle of the night and getting away with it

 

[Leetch3]

 

[Thirty One]

He plays in Toronto

To me he is generational.... Generational in assaulting women in the middle of the night and getting away with it

Not even close. That's a competitive field.

 

[bbny]

I'm really loving this trend where PPG forwards in this era are labeled generational.

 

[TominNC]

And nicknames like $kinz. Jokes aside i mean like Shestërkin and Tarnström etc.

Do Russian names use umlauts?

 

[TominNC]

The Pronman list was based on potential, not current value. So this means he believes Laf will end up the 4th best of this list of players.

 

[JT Kreider]

Why the heck is Laf too high?

I still take a number of guys like Q. Hughes, Makar, Heiskanen, McAvoy, PLD, Svechnikov, both Tkachuks ahead of him RIGHT NOW.

If these are just his projections then it's practically a useless list. And even then based on that he still easily falls out of the top 5.

 

[The New Russian Five]

Not even close. That's a competitive field.

Brock Turner leads the pack

 

[TominNC]

I still take a number of guys like Q. Hughes, Makar, Heiskanen, McAvoy, PLD, Svechnikov, both Tkachuks ahead of him RIGHT NOW.

If these are just his projections then it's practically a useless list. And even then based on that he still easily falls out of the top 5.

They are projections. If you're talking young players and prospects then projections are the only thing relevant.