your team's top 10 prospects

[SannywithoutCompy]

I have nothing against Cagnoni, he is very good for his abilities. But it seems to me that he will not be able to compete at a serious level. I can hardly believe in his prospects. He reminds me of Eric Brannstrom

The guy playing full time in the NHL?

 

[Forlan]

The guy playing full time in the NHL?

A guy who was always expected to do more in attacking skills and a stable place in the top 4

 

[qc14]

Pre-WJC I'd go:

#1 Ryan Leonard* - W - BC Eagles

#2 Ivan Miroshnichenko - W - Hershey Bears/Washington Capitals
#3 Andrew Cristall - W - Kelowna Rockets (and Team Canada snub)
#4 Terik Parascak - W - PG Cougars

#5 Vincent Iorio - D - Hershey Bears
#6 Cole Hutson* - D - BU Terriers
#7 Ilya Protas - W/C - Windsor Spitfires
#8 Leon Muggli* - D - EV Zug

#9 Ryan Chesley - D - Minnesota Gophers
#10 Henrik Rybynski - W/C- Hershey Bears

HM: Eriks Mateiko* - W/C - Saint John Sea Dogs, Cam Allen - D - London Knights, Bogdan Trineyev - W - Hershey Bears

Starred players will be at the WJC. Definition of prospect is kind of "I know it when I see it" but in general I think for skaters you have to be 23 or younger and have less than 82 games of NHL experience. Hendrix Lapierre is left off my list for that reason but if he was on here I'd slot him in at #4 ahead of Parascak.

Some guys that might be on other Caps fans' lists but I don't really see an NHL future for: Alexander Suzdalev - W - SC Stingrays, Zac Funk - W - Hershey Bears, Pierrick Dube - W - Hershey Bears, Clay Stevenson - G - Hershey Bears.

Biggest risers this year:
Cristall, Protas, Parascak

Biggest fallers:
Suzdalev, Stevenson, Chesley, Lapierre

A surprisingly deep pool, Caps have done a great job in the second and third rounds recently and while none of their first rounders have been home-run successes there really aren't any misses there since Lucas Johansen in 2015. The Caps scouts really love the WHL, hate Finland, and I think more than any other team in the league don't care at all about skating as it's something they think is fixable. The group has a nice mix of potential scorers and grinders up front, and the lack of center depth is softened by having Strome, PLD, McMichael, and Lapierre all in the NHL aged 27 and younger. The big missing link is the lack of a defenseman projected to be a true 1st pair, PP1 type guy although if Hutson takes off in the way his brother did there may be a chance for that. There's also a lack of a "goalie of the future" but I think that's more a change in organizational philosophy than anything else and somewhat overrated by most prospect pool rankers.

 

[TatteredTornNFrayed]

During the summer, the HF-Avs poll top 10 was:

1. Cal Ritchie (C)
2. Mikhail Gulyayev (D)
3. Sean Behrens (D)
4. Ilya Nabokov (G)
5. J.L. Foudy (F)
6. Oscar Olausson (W)
7. Ivan Ivan (F)
8. William Zellers (W)
9. Max Curran (F)
10. Tory Pitner (D)

Kovalenko would have easily made the top-5, but was deemed ineligible for the vote due to age. (I think Malinski was considered graduated to a regular already.) At the time of the voting, I personally was little higher on Christian Humphreys and Max Curran, and lower on Olausson, Foudy, and Zellers.

As of today, my own list would probably look something like

1. Ritchie
2. Gulyayev
3. Nabokov
4. Ivan
5. Behrens
6. Prischepov
7. Jedlicka
8. Foudy
9. Curran
10.+ ?

 

[Just Linda]

Pre-WJC I'd go:

#1 Ryan Leonard* - W - BC Eagles

#2 Ivan Miroshnichenko - W - Hershey Bears/Washington Capitals
#3 Andrew Cristall - W - Kelowna Rockets (and Team Canada snub)
#4 Terik Parascak - W - PG Cougars

#5 Vincent Iorio - D - Hershey Bears
#6 Cole Hutson* - D - BU Terriers
#7 Ilya Protas - W/C - Windsor Spitfires
#8 Leon Muggli* - D - EV Zug

#9 Ryan Chesley - D - Minnesota Gophers
#10 Henrik Rybynski - W/C- Hershey Bears

HM: Eriks Mateiko* - W/C - Saint John Sea Dogs, Cam Allen - D - London Knights, Bogdan Trineyev - W - Hershey Bears

Starred players will be at the WJC. Definition of prospect is kind of "I know it when I see it" but in general I think for skaters you have to be 23 or younger and have less than 82 games of NHL experience. Hendrix Lapierre is left off my list for that reason but if he was on here I'd slot him in at #4 ahead of Parascak.

Some guys that might be on other Caps fans' lists but I don't really see an NHL future for: Alexander Suzdalev - W - SC Stingrays, Zac Funk - W - Hershey Bears, Pierrick Dube - W - Hershey Bears, Clay Stevenson - G - Hershey Bears.

Biggest risers this year:
Cristall, Protas, Parascak

Biggest fallers:
Suzdalev, Stevenson, Chesley, Lapierre

A surprisingly deep pool, Caps have done a great job in the second and third rounds recently and while none of their first rounders have been home-run successes there really aren't any misses there since Lucas Johansen in 2015. The Caps scouts really love the WHL, hate Finland, and I think more than any other team in the league don't care at all about skating as it's something they think is fixable. The group has a nice mix of potential scorers and grinders up front, and the lack of center depth is softened by having Strome, PLD, McMichael, and Lapierre all in the NHL aged 27 and younger. The big missing link is the lack of a defenseman projected to be a true 1st pair, PP1 type guy although if Hutson takes off in the way his brother did there may be a chance for that. There's also a lack of a "goalie of the future" but I think that's more a change in organizational philosophy than anything else and somewhat overrated by most prospect pool rankers.

I haven't been paying attention to the Caps pool lately, it got sneakily good.