Prospect Ramblings – Top 17 Fantasy Hockey Prospects
Pat Quinn
2018-12-13
Top 17 fantasy hockey prospects
Why 17? Well because I do things differently!
I too will not add Pettersson and not add goalies, but I will do a list of players with NHL games played vs players with none. Also YES I know I put Svechnikov ahead of Pettersson to start the year in an earlier ramblings. I was WRONG ok. Let’s keep moving
Top 17 Prospects – NHL Games Played (long term upside of course)
- Andrei Svechnikov
- Rasmus Dahlin
- Henrik Borgstrom
- Brady Tkachuk
- Eeli Tolvanen
- Sam Steel
- Miro Heiskanen
- Martin Necas
- Troy Terry
- Filip Chytil
- Jesperi Kotkaniemi
- Drake Batherson
- Kristian Vesalainen
- Jordan Kyrou
- Owen Tippett
- Robert Thomas
- Alexander Nylander
Kailer Yamamoto is literally just off the cusp by a minuscule amount as I like Mittelstadt (who was #18) a little more to produce on his own.
EDIT: By the way I took Mittelstadt off because I deleted Martin Necas from my list as I added him twice and decided to delete both
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Top 17 Prospects +1 – No NHL Games Played (One extra because I could not eliminate Heponiemi)
- Nikita Gusev (Note here: Straight up, any of these prospects play in the NHL tomorrow Gusev will have the most points for the first year to five years. Making him the best to own for immediate help for fantasy purposes, IF he comes over)
- Kirill Kaprizov
- Vitali Kravtsov
- Quinn Hughes
- Cody Glass
- Erik Brannstrom
- Cale Makar
- Filip Zadina
- Barrett Hayton
- Grigori Denisenko
- Nick Suzuki
- Vitali Abramov
- Ryan Merkley
- Morgan Frost
- Ty Smith
- Timothy Liljegren
- Adam Fox
- Aleksi Heponiemi
Why no Oliver Wahlstrom: The couple views of him I have had this year I have been pretty unimpressed. Seems like the jump to the NCAA has been overly difficult for him.
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Combine the above lists and choose a top 17 prospects I would own right now from that (combining opportunity with upside)? Sure.
By the way this is more preference of what I would own in fantasy versus combining my rankings from above:
- Andrei Svechnikov
- Kirill Kaprizov
- Rasmus Dahlin
- Henrik Borgstrom
- Vitali Kravtsov
- Brady Tkachuk
- Nikita Gusev (As good as he can be, in a keeper league I would rather own the above players)
- Miro Heiskanen
- Sam Steel
- Quinn Hughes
- Erik Brannstrom
- Cody Glass
- Filip Zadina
- Grigori Denisenko
- Nick Suzuki
- Barrett Hayton
- Sam Steel
Why no [insert my favorite player here]: Either I completely forgot about them or I do not rank them as highly as you might, so complain to my twitter below!
Thanks for reading. Here is my Twitter @FHPQuinn
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