Welcome to DobberProspects’ first ever NHL Draft Ranking of European prospects. This ranking was put together before the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup to provide a list of the most interesting European prospects to follow in that tournament that starts on August 5th.

 

Players eligible for this ranking were those who are potential top 100 picks for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft and who played (mostly) in Europe during the 2018-2019 season. Because of that second part, some prospects like Ruben Rafkin were excluded even though they otherwise would qualify. Some of the prospects on this ranking will move to play in North America this season, so they will be excluded from this ranking when that happens.

 

As the Head of European Scouting at DobberProspects, it is my honor and privilege to put together this ranking. But this is not just my personal ranking as I received contributions from the following people:

• Lassi Alanen (@lassialanen)
• Czech Prospects (@CZprospects)
• Russian Prospects (@RUSProspects)
• Sergei Kuzin (@S__Kuzin)

 

In our next edition, which will be released later this year, we will provide quick scouting reports of the ranked players but unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to do that for the preliminary ranking. But we did manage to put together projected draft range for all of them.

 

Without further ado, here is DobberProspects’ preliminary ranking of European prospects for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.

 

Rank	Draft Range	Player	POS	DoB	NAT	2018-2019 league
1	1-4	Lucas Raymond	W	2002-03-28	SWE	SuperElit
2	3-6	Anton Lundell	C	2001-10-03	FIN	Liiga
3	3-6	Alexander Holtz	W	2002-01-23	SWE	SuperElit
4	5-15	Noel Gunler	W	2001-10-07	SWE	SuperElit
5	5-15	Tim Stützle	C	2002-01-15	GER	DNL U20
6	5-15	Yaroslav Askarov	G	2002-06-16	RUS	MHL
7	10-25	Kasper Simontaival	W	2002-01-11	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
8	10-25	Zion Nybeck	W	2002-05-12	SWE	SuperElit
9	10-25	Jan Mysak	C	2002-06-24	CZE	Czech Extraliga
10	20-35	Jaromir Pytlik	W	2001-09-25	CZE	Czech Extraliga
11	20-35	Helge Grans	D	2002-05-10	SWE	SuperElit
12	25-45	Rodion Amirov	W	2001-10-02	RUS	MHL
13	25-45	Vasili Ponomaryov	W	2002-03-13	RUS	MHL
14	25-45	Roni Hirvonen	C	2002-01-10	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
15	30-50	Emil Andrae	D	2002-02-23	SWE	SuperElit
16	30-50	Veeti Miettinen	W	2001-09-20	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
17	35-55	Marat Khusnutdinov	C	2002-07-17	RUS	Russia U17
18	40-60	Harijs Brants	D	2002-05-03	LAT	MHL
19	40-60	Anton Johannesson	D	2002-03-26	SWE	SuperElit
20	50-70	Roby Järventie	W	2002-08-08	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
21	50-70	Kasper Puutio	D	2002-06-03	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
22	50-70	Topi Niemelä	D	2002-03-25	FIN	Jr. A SM-liiga
23	60-80	Alexander Pashin	W	2002-07-28	RUS	MHL
24	60-80	Alexander Nikishin	D	2001-10-02	RUS	MHL
25	60-80	Nick Malik	G	2002-04-26	CZE	Czech2
26	60-80	Jan Bednar	G	2002-08-26	CZE	Czech U19
27	60-80	Simon Knak	W	2002-01-27	SUI	U20-Elit
28	70-90	Joel Blomqvist	G	2002-01-10	FIN	Jr. B SM-sarja
29	70-90	Oliver Suni	W	2002-02-13	FIN	Jr. B SM-sarja
30	70-90	Maxim Groshev	W	2001-12-14	RUS	MHL
31	80-110	Maxim Beryozkin	W	2001-10-12	RUS	MHL
32	80-110	Noah Delémont	D	2002-02-07	SUI	U20-Elit
33	80-110	Adam Raska	W	2001-09-25	CZE	Czech2
34	90-120	Samuel Knazko	D	2002-08-07	SVK	Jr. A SM-liiga
35	90-120	John-Jason Peterka	W	2002-01-14	GER	Czech U19
36	90-120	Daniil Khristanov	W	2002-02-01	RUS	Russia U18

 

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And that’s all for now, thanks for reading. Feel free to add comments below. Remember to follow me on Twitter @JokkeNevalainen.