Now that we're past the draft and free agency it's time for the yearly /r/DetroitRedWings prospect ranking thread! As for how you vote it's completely up to you: some may weigh ceiling or upside the highest, others may weigh NHL readiness higher – there's no wrong answer on how to vote.
A new poll will be posted every 2-3 days depending on how close the voting is until we finish the top 15 prospects. I'll include 10~ prospects every poll and will add one new prospect after each poll so discuss in the comments and whoever is mentioned most will be added next.
Check out the subreddit's previous rankings here (starting from 2018!): LINK HERE
NOTES:
– Prospect criteria will be defined using the NHL Guidelines.
– After last season's rankings there was a poll to determine whether or not to display poll results. Continuing to hide the results between polls received the most votes.
#1. Nate Danielson (C – 2023 #9) – 61% of 731 votes [Results]
#2. Axel Sandin-Pellikka (RD – 2023 #17) – 58% of 658 votes [Results]
#3. Sebastian Cossa (G – 2021 #15) – 52% of 635 votes [Results]
#4. Marco Kasper (C – 2022 #8) – 65% of 589 votes [Results]
by SimplySolace
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9 Comments
ASP has showed more thus far in my opinion. But Danielson fills a bigger need in the lineup.
Hard to pick between Mazur, Augustine, MBN, and Johansson. Ceiling or readiness? Hmmm
Tricky Tricky. I went Augustine bc he was so impressive in his maiden season at MSU and goalies are so so so valuable to an organization.
MBN next for me.
I keep seeing people with a misconception about the quality of the HockeyAllsvenskan. It’s not like going from the NHL to AHL. It’s more like if you took the NHL and split it into one league with the top 16 teams, and one with the bottom 16 with relegation and promotion occurring between them.
It’s not a huge drop-off, and MBN was a bit more productive in HA at an age six months younger than Kasper was when he was in his DY+1 in the SHL. Overall I think they have a similar offensive ceiling with Kasper being a better skater, and MBN being a better shooter.
I kinda feel like a lot of people are sleeping on Buchelnikov.
MBN vs Augustine is a debate for me, but those two are my picks for 5 and 6. After that you really get into the bottom-of-the-lineup types where there’s a bunch of close calls.
I voted MBN at #3, so he’s still my pick
Now it is getting interesting. Time to vote for the new guy- MBN
I love how difficult this is getting that means we have some good ones to choose from. I went Trey here and very excited to have two solid goalie prospects