Buds Board Keepers League

It's that time again!

Rank your best prospects.
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Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
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Who are you 5 Favourite prospects (on other people's teams)?
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Go more in depth if you'd like...top 10?



2020 (Feb): http://bbkl.ca/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1590 ... ut#p308530

2019 (May): http://bbkl.ca/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15516

2017 (Dec): http://bbkl.ca/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14725

My 2021 list:

Rank your best 5 Prospects:
1. Vitali Kravtsov
2. Yegor Chinakhov
3. Francesco Pinelli
4. Brayden Tracey
5. Justin/Morgan Barron

Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Klim Kostin
2. Angus Crookshank
3. Ben McCartney

Who are your 5 favourite prospects (on other people's team)?
1. Simon Edvinsson
2. Dylan Holloway
3. Seth Jarvis
4. Jake Sanderson
5. Adam Beckman

Drysdale and Swayman made the jump before they had a chance to make this list.
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My 2020 list:

Matthew wroteCOLON
Rank your best 5 prospects:
1. Connor McMichael (over 2 pt/gm in draft+1 OHL season)
2. Moritz Seider (Could set 18 year old AHL scoring record)
3. Ty Smith (2019 WHL Dman of the year)
4. Vitali Kravtsov (2018 KHL rookie of the year)
5. Brayden Tracey

Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Brogan Rafferty (Leads all AHL dmen in scoring as rookie)
2. Michael Teply
3. Lawrence Pilut

Who are your 5 Favorite Prospects (on other people's teams)?
1. Bowen Byram
2. Vasili Podkolzin
3. Cole Caufield
4. Ville Heinola
5. Adam Beckman
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- Seider immediately a stud
- McMichael and Smith have graduated.

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Matthew wroteCOLON My 2019 list:

Rank your best 5 prospects:
1. Cale Makar (2019 Hobey Baker Award)
2. Drake Batherson
3. Ty Smith (2019 WHL Dman of the year)
4. Vitali Kravtsov (2018 KHL rookie of the year)
5. Olli Juolevi

Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Sami Niku (2018 AHL Top Rookie and Top dman)
2. Joel L'esperance
3. Grigori Dronov

Who are your 5 Favorite Prospects (on other people's teams)?
1. Quinn Hughes
2. eric brannstrom
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- Makar graduates as a star, Batherson graduates and I like what I've seen so far.

- Juolevi traded for Benn, Niku traded for Sergachev.

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My 2017 list:

Matthew wroteCOLON

Rank your best 5 prospects:
1. Cale Makar
2. Vlad Kamenev
3. Jordan Greenway
4. Nikita Scherbak
5. Rasmus Asplund




Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Andreas Johnsson
2. Maxim Mamin
3. Jayce Hawryluk

Bolded hasn't worked out too well from 2017...

- 2 of 3 "under-rated" prospects are now full time NHLers.

- 2 of 5 top prospects are almost certain to have good careers (greenway/makar) while kamenev and Asplund are still question marks...kamenev due to injury.

Mamin and scherbak have both headed back to russia.

So February 2020 I had:

KapG wroteCOLON
Owen Tippett
Matthew Boldy
Ryan Merkley
Shane Pinto
Jacob Pelletier
Vladislav Firstov
Simon Holmstrom
Cale Fleury
Josh Brooks
Pierre Olivier Joseph
Logan Stanley

Now we have:

Top 10 (skaters)

Quinten Byfield
Owen Power
Matthew Boldy
Brandt Clarke
Shane Pinto
Jakob Pelletier
Ryan Merkley
Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Fyodor Svechkov
Helge Grans

3 under the radar prospects (skaters)

Jean-Luc Foudy
Pavel Novak
Ian Moore

Some prospects I like:

Luke Hughes
William Eklund
Simon Edvidsson
Lucas Raymond

Edit: I guess Raymond isn’t a prospect anymore?

Top 5 Prospects:
Matthew Beniers
Adam Beckman
Kale Clague
Stanislav Svozil
Jack Peart

3 under the radar prospects:
Tyler Tucker
Ivan Prosvetov
Eetu Liukas

Vegas Top Five Prospects:

1. William Eklund
2. Olen Zellweger
3. Brendan Brisson
4. Zachary L'Heureux
5. Scott Perunovich

I'm graduating Evan Bouchard on my list, so I didn't include him here.

Underated Prospects:

1. Logan Hutsko: I truly believe this kid is an NHL player. Quick to the puck, has worked himself into a good shot, smart, and works hard in the tight spaces on the ice. He has a pro game, and is putting up 19 points in his first 27 AHL games.

2. Dmitri Bulchelnikov: He was a born a week too early for the 2022 draft (9/6/2003), so he was one of the youngest players in his draft class last year. This season, he's second overall in the MHL among U19 players in ppg, and he's a bit bigger than last year (now listed in EP at 5'10, 163). Plays a physical game with speed, and has a quality, hard wrist shot.

3. Adam Ruzicka: Getting a taste of NHL action with four games in December. Big at 6'4, 203 and skates well. He's a possession player who can score (he is above a ppg in the AHL this season) and is poised to earn a full-time gig in the NHL.


Some prospects I like who probably aren't on anyone's top 10 lists:

1. Jonaton Berggren
2. Carson Lambos
3. Tristen Robins
4. Ryan O'Rourke

McTavish
Afanasyev
Ponomaryov
Rosen
Olausson
Wiesblatt
Tuomaala
Hunt
Mysak
Meehan

My most underrated prospects:
Drew Helleson
Juuso Parssinen
Ilya Safonov
Ilya Ivantsov
Nikolai Makarov
Christoffer Sedoff

Rank your best prospects.
1. Wyatt Johnston
2. Kevin Bahl
3. Mason Lohrei
4. Tyler Kleven
5. William Dufour

Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Nick Abruzzese
2. Peter Diliberatore
3. Rory Kerins

Who are you 5 Favourite prospects (on other people's teams)?
1. Nick Robertson
2. Topi Niemela
3. Rodion Amirov
4. Matthew Knies
5. Roni Hirvonen

PAST

Bruyns wroteCOLON

Bruyns wroteCOLON2017

Bruyns wroteCOLON Top 5
Dylan Sikura
Josh Norris
Joey Anderson
Ryan Lindgren
Anthony Cirelli

Underrated
Rem Pitlick
Brett Lernout
Nicholas Caamano

2019

Top 5
Jordan Kyrou
Ryan Poehling
Ryan Lindgren
William Borgen
Jeremy Lauzon

Underrated
Mason Marchment
Dennis Gilbert
Riley Stillman

Anderson and Sikura both just miss with 33/34GP and 19 year old Svech is still going to get a lot better.

Lol at Cirelli 5th and Sikura 1st in 2017. Most impressed that all 6 prospects I mentioned as underrated have managed to play in the NHL at some point.

Top 5
Kevin Bahl
Nikita Alexandrov
Nicholas Caamano
Dennis Gilbert
William Borgen

Underrated
Jordan Spence
Dimitri Voronkov
Tyler Tucker

Looking pretty thin, but traded my top 2 from last year and graduated Lindgren, Stillman, Lauzon. Need to get some talent with my two 3rds and two 4ths this year.

Rank your best prospects.
1. Dylan Guenther
2. Jonathan Bergreen
3. Thomas Harley
4. Drew Comesso
5. Joshua Roy

Graduated: Jacob Bryson, Bo Byram, Kristian Vesalainen

Reinforcements coming in the 2022 draft.

Who are your 3 most underrated prospects?
1. Matej Pekar (could be a great bbkl pest)
2. Brandon Coe - overager but tearing up the OHL. Big boy - can he develop that power streak?
3. Calle Clang - never discount a Swedish goalie.

Who are you 5 Favourite prospects (on other people's teams)?
1. Jack Quinn - think he`s going to be a very smart player, maybe a Blake Wheeler type of impact
2. Martin Chromiak - the next great Slovak!
3. Kristain Reichel - great smarts, will be a valuable BBKL'er
4. Liam Kirk - who doesn`t want to cheer for him?
5. Axel Jonsson-Fjallby - just has a sweet name is all...