4. Minnesota Wild - Score: 86.3 Top 15 Prospects Rank Player Position Score 1 Brock Faber D 8.4 1 Marco Rossi C 8.4 1 Jesper Wallstedt G 8.4 4 Danila Yurov RW 7.7 5 Riley Heidt C/LW 7.3 6 Liam Ohgren LW 6.7 7 Marat Khusnutdinov C 5.9 8 Hunter Haight C/RW 4.9 9 [...]
5. Columbus Blue Jackets - 86.2 Overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: We have arrived at the top five and the Columbus Blue Jackets occupy this spot. They pretty much have it all, a top line forward (Fantilli), top pairing defender (Jiricek), and starting goaltender (Tarasov). What’s not to like? I suppose you could [...]
6. San Jose Sharks - 85.9 overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The San Jose Sharks clock in as the 6th best prospect pools. While they currently lack that elite talent, that may change in 2024 or 2025 as they are just entering the rebuild after trading away Tomas Hertl, previously Erik Karlsson and [...]
7. Buffalo Sabres - 85.5 Overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The Sabres come in at number seven in our ranks and that is led by Zach Benson, who surprisingly stayed in the NHL all season after being just drafted in 2023. Don’t let his meager 35 point pace fool you, this kid has [...]
8 - Philadelphia - Score: 83.9 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Matvei Michkov9.52Tyson Foerster7.33Bobby Brink6.74Oliver Bonk6.65Emil Andrae6.16Egor Zamula5.47Samuel Ersson5.28Massimo Rizzo5.19Ronnie Attard4.710Samu Tuomaala4.611Aleksei Kolosov4.112Denver Barkey3.913Olle Lycksell2.614Carson Bjarnason2.415Helge Grans2.0 Individual Breakdown Forward: Philly’s top-ranked Forward prospect, Matvei Michkov scored an average of 9.5 from our staff, which ranked second in the entire exercise (age 23 and under with fewer [...]
9 - Utah - Score: 82.8 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Logan Cooley9.02Dylan Guenther8.03Dmitriy Simashev7.44Conor Geekie7.25Danil But7.06Michael Hrabal5.47Maveric Lamoureux5.38Josh Doan5.09Jan Jenik4.210Victor Soderstrom4.111Artem Duda3.912Sam Lipkin3.213Michael Kesselring3.114Aku Raty2.115Miko Matikka2.0 Individual Breakdown Forwards: The newest NHL franchise has a solid spread of prospects at forward, including a couple surefire stars (Dylan Guenther, Logan Cooley), two top-six talents (Conor Geekie, Daniil But), [...]
10 - Detroit Red Wings - Score: 82.7 Top 15 Prospects RankPlayerPositionScore1Axel Sandin PellikkaD7.82Simon EdvinssonD7.73Nate DanielsonC6.94Marco KasperC6.85Jonatan BerggrenW6.66Sebastian CossaG6.57Dmitri BuchelnikovLW5.48Trey AugustineG5.09Carter MazurLW4.610William WallinderD4.611Elmer SoderblomLW/RW4.212Shai BuiumD3.713Albert JohanssonD2.714Amadeus LombardiC2.515Redmond SavageC1.9 Individual Breakdown Forwards: Detroit has repeatedly perplexed pundits at the draft over the past 5+ years, passing on higher-octane players again and again in favour of prospects [...]
11 – Nashville Predators – Score: 81.8 Top 15 Prospects Team Player Position Score Fantrax Roster % 1 Yaroslav Askarov G 8.7 41% 2 Joakim Kemell RW 7.1 27% 3 Luke Evangelista RW 6.9 39% 4 Matthew Wood C/LW 6.7 23% 5 Tanner Molendyk D 6.3 13% 6 Zachary L'Heureux C/LW 6 11% 7 Fedor [...]
14. New Jersey Devils – Score 82.2 Top 15 Prospects 1 Luke Hughes 8.8 2 Simon Nemec 8.7 3 Alexander Holtz 7.4 4 Seamus Casey 7.0 5 Nico Daws 6.2 6 Arseni Gritsyuk 6.1 7 Akira Schmid 5.6 8 Lenni Hameenaho 5.4 9 Graeme Clarke 4.2 10 Nolan Foote 3.5 11 Kevin Bahl 3.3 [...]
12. Calgary Flames – Score 81.9 Top 15 Prospects TeamPlayerPositionScoreFantrax Roster %1Dustin WolfG8.445%2Matt CoronatoRW/LW7.934%3Connor ZaryC7.936%4Jakob PelletierC/LW7.133%5Samuel HonzekC/LW6.819%6Hunter BrzustewiczD5.914%7Jeremie PoirierD5.712%8Etienne MorinD5.29%9Martin PospisilC4.824%10Aydar SunievLW4.53%11Rory KerinsC/LW2.42%12Yan KuznetsovD2.42%13Cole SchwindtC/RW2.12%14Topi RonniCG22%15Ilya SolovyovD1.82% Individual Breakdown Forwards: Connor Zary made a good impression on Calgary this year with his performance, posting 21 goals and 37 assists over the course of 72 games. [...]
