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Today we’re using Byron Bader’s model to talk about the top 5 NHL prospect pools.
This video is taking place after the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The 2023 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:
1st) Chicago Blackhawks, Connor Bedard
2nd) Anaheim Ducks, Leo Carlsson
3rd) Columbus Blue Jackets, Adam Fantilli
4th) San Jose Sharks, Will Smith
5th) Montreal Canadiens, David Reinbacher
6th) Arizona Coyotes, Dmitri Simashev
7th) Philadelphia Flyers, Matvei Michkov
8th) Washington Capitals, Ryan Leonard
9th) Detroit Red Wings, Nate Danielson
10th) St. Louis Blues, Dalibor Dvorsky
11th) Vancouver Canucks, Tom Willander
12th) Arizona Coyotes (from Ottawa Senators), Daniil But
13th) Buffalo Sabres, Zach Benson
14th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Brayden Yager
15th) Nashville Predators, Matthew Wood
16th) Calgary Flames, Samuel Honzek
17th) Detroit Red Wings (from New York Islanders via Vancouver Canucks), Axel Sandin Pellikka
18th) Winnipeg Jets, Colby Barlow
19th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Oliver Moore
20th) Seattle Kraken, Eduard Sale
21st) Minnesota Wild, Charlie Stramel
22nd) Philadelphia Flyers (from Los Angeles Kings via Columbus Blue Jackets), Oliver Bonk
23rd) New York Rangers, Gabe Perreault
24th) Nashville Predators (from Edmonton Oilers), Tanner Molendyk
25th) St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Otto Stenberg
26th) San Jose Sharks (from New Jersey Devils), Quentin Musty
27th) Colorado Avalanche, Calum Ritchie
28th) Toronto Maple Leafs (from Boston Bruins via Washington Capitals), Easton Cowan
29th) St. Louis Blues (from Dallas Stars via New York Rangers), Theo Lindstein
30th) Carolina Hurricanes, Bradley Nadeau
31st) Colorado Avalanche (from Florida Panthers via Montreal Canadiens), Mikhail Gulyayev
32nd) Vegas Golden Knights, David Edstrom
This video is also taking place after 2023 NHL Season, and after the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Vegas Golden Knights defeated the Florida Panthers in the Finals.
Lane Hutson was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.
The 2022 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:
1st) Montreal Canadiens, Juraj Slafkovsky
2nd) New Jersey Devils, Simon Nemec
3rd) Arizona Coyotes, Logan Cooley
4th) Seattle Kraken, Shane Wright
5th) Philadelphia Flyers, Cutter Gauthier
6th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Chicago Blackhawks), David Jiricek
7th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Ottawa Senators), Kevin Korchinski
8th) Detroit Red Wings, Marco Kasper
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Matthew Savoie
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Pavel Mintyukov
11th) Arizona Coyotes (from San Jose Sharks), Conor Geekie
12th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Denton Mateychuk
13th) Chicago Blackhawks (from New York Islanders), Frank Nazar
14th) Winnipeg Jets, Rutger McGroarty
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Jonathan Lekkerimaki
16th) Buffalo Sabres (Vegas Golden Knights), Noah Ostlund
17th) Nashville Predators, Joakim Kemell
18th) Dallas Stars, Lian Bichsel
19th) Minnesota Wild (from LA Kings), Liam Ohgren
20th) Washington Capitals, Ivan Miroshnichenko
21st) Pittsburgh Penguins, Owen Pickering
22nd) Anaheim Ducks (from Boston Bruins), Nathan Gaucher
23rd) St. Louis Blues, Jimmy Snuggerud
24th) Minnesota Wild, Danila Yurov
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Rinzel
26th) Montreal Canadiens (from Calgary Flames), Filip Mesar
27th) San Jose Sharks (from Carolina Hurricanes via Arizona Coyotes and Montreal Canadiens), Filip Bystedt
28th) Buffalo Sabres (from Florida Panthers), Jiri Kulich
29th) Arizona Coyotes (from Edmonton Oilers), Maveric Lamoureux
30th) Winnipeg Jets (from New York Rangers), Brad Lambert
31st) Tampa Bay Lightning, Isaac Howard
32nd) Edmonton Oilers (from Colorado Avalanche via Arizona Coyotes), Reid Schaefer
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16 Comments
Hutson gonna be a beast
I think sabres are gonna make the 1st wild card spot this year. Sabresšš
Detroit should be on this list.
Whereās Chicago. I thought Bedard and Moore would really make there prospect pool amazing. They also have Lukas Reichel, and Kevin Korchinski.
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sabres pool>>>>
The Blue Jackets have been very shrewd when it Comes to drafting. The club got off on the wrong foot when Doug MacLean was allowed to mismanage the team its first ten years. MacLean blames ownership, but he should look in the mirror. His record, especially whe it came to the draft was abysmal. Every club made out in 2003 draft- except Columbus. Look up the first round for proof Mac Lean did himself one better a year later when he wasted an entire draft (11 picks). Only 4 ever played in the NHL. One played in 3 games, another played in 4 games, another played in 86 games and the final one, Grant Clitsome, his 11th and final pick played in 200 games. In 2007 Maclean was mercifully fired. Enter Scott Howson.
Howson was an improvement over MacLean. He tried building a team while cleaning up MacLean's mess. He finally got the team in the playoffs in 2009, but his undoing was two bad trades. First he traded Jakub Voracek to Philadelphia along with three high draft picks for Jeff Carter. carter did everything he could to get traded. He bad mouthed the city, the team and the fans. When he was finally traded to Los Angeles, the Jackets couldn't get full value for him because the situation had become so desperate. Then when Howson traded Rick Nash in an attempt to improve the team, he didn't get full value. Exit Howson, enter Kekalainen.
Jarmo Kekalainen began by building a team from what Howson had left behind, while putting his own mark on the team, Because the team was relatively competitive, they didn't draft very high, qualifying for the playoffs the first year but losing to the eventual Cup champions in the first round. The Jackets would also return to the Playoffs 4 more consecutive years (2017 through 2020). The Jackets lost to the eventual Cup champions in 3 of those 4 years, the other year, they lost to Boston who lost in the finals. So Kekalainen began a teardown of the Jackets. With one exception (Boone Jenner) every player on the current roster is a player Kekalainen either drafted, signed or traded for. The Jackets have never had anything close to this much talent in their pipeline.
In closing, consider these moves as examples. In 2019, with only two picks in the draft, Jarmo swapped a higher pick for two lower picks and was able to draft Dimitry Voronkov. Voronkov will make his CBJ debut this year after an outstanding career in the KHL. Then in this year's draft, the Jackets traded their 7th round pick in the 2024 draft to Vegas for the final pick in the draft. The CBJ realized that Tyler Peddle, the 76th ranked North American skater had not been taken. If he went undrafted, he would go back into next year's draft, where he was projected to go anywhere from a low 2nd round pick to a high 4th. Columbus used the final pick in the draft acquired from Vegas to select Peddle. Not bad trading a 7th round pick for a guy who go several rounds higher.
As a Red Wings fan I was fully not expecting us on this list for top 5. The Athletic has us ranked #4 but I do not see it as Detroit has a glaring lack of top flite scoring forward(s). I think SY has drafted well with getting taller guys with larger projectable frame, also need more dynamic skaters even though adding ASP helps a lot.
We seem stockpiled at defense prospects, but are adding more? and seem to have enough young goalies that were mostly absent 3 years ago.
Hmm, Sabres list omits 2023 1st round pick Juri Kulich who scored 24 goals in the AHL as an 18 year old, then 11 points in 12 playoff games. No 18 year old has done anything like that in 40 years. He should be ranked ahead of Savoie.
Sabres have 3 more 1st rounders NOT on this list: Ryan Johnson, Izak Rosen, and Noah Ostlund. They also have several Russian high picks signed for the AHL next year. 5th may not be high enough.
CBJ CBJ CBJ!!!
Unfortunately for the Sabres and fans. Quinn will unfortunately miss half the season with a ruptured Achilles Tendon
feel like arizona is to low. Guenther, Cooley,Geekie,Maccelli, Sƶderstrƶm.
Bader says "…before they start to become a winning team and their best prospects become full-time NHLers." But Quinn, Peterka and Power were FULL-TIME players, playing 75-79 games last season. He says Drysdale has 'aged out' at 21 but York is 22. wth? His definition of 'prospects' is dubious.
In your screenshot, the Sabres are 3, 6, 0, and -2 spots better than the Ducks in those columns, respectively. So why are they ranked lower?
Funny the athletic has Minnesota first
Sabres seem to get penalized for having 3 prospects in the NHL, but swap out Power, Peterka, and Quinn with Kulich, Rosen, Richard, Strbak, Wahlburg, Ostland, Nadeau, R. Johnson, Kisakov, or Novikov and their top 5 is just as strong. Sabres are better than 5th in the league