7/14/2023 0 Comments Maxim real time clock![]() ![]() There are once again issues with evaluating the Russian prospects, though, due to the difficulties teams have faced getting live viewings of players. 9 ranking from Pronman - a reflection of his rare athletic tools. 21 on the consensus board, but earned a No. The two most intriguing, though, are the ones higher on the board, Russian winger Daniil But and WHL winger Andrew Cristall.īut checks in in at No. This class hasn’t been thought to have the star power of past years in goal, but that’s two fringe first-round rankings on netminders from the former GM. Many of them, naturally, are down the board, where the variance increases sharply, with Button notably high on a pair of goaltenders, Carson Bjarnason and Trey Augustine. This list of outliers displays prospects whose highest ranking was more than 10 spots above any other ranker surveyed. He was the very next name, though, and headlines the blue line class for 2023. That all being said, even as good as this forward class may be, it was still a surprise not to see a defender in the top 10, mainly because four of the five lists had at least one in that range, with Pronman and Button each having two.īut David Reinbacher - the defender Pronman, Wheeler, McKenzie and Peters all ranked first, and the favorite to be first off the board in Nashville - didn’t clock in on Button’s list until 20, which brought down the average just enough to knock him out of the elite group. But ultimately, the three were a cluster within decimals of each other on the final average. At 6-foot-3, Wood is much larger than Benson or Perreault, and his near-point-per-game season in the NCAA came against older players than the smaller Benson (who played in the WHL) and Perreault (U.S. The top 10 is rounded out by three highly skilled wingers, Matthew Wood - who rose from 15th in the March top 40, finishing top 11 on four of the five lists - Zach Benson (who dropped from sixth in March, to ninth) and Gabe Perreault, who rose from 16th. ![]() 11 or 12 on three of the five lists, but bringing himself up by finishing sixth for Peters and the McKenzie survey. 7 from a different route - finishing at No. Slovak center Dalibor Dvorsky, for example, clocked in at sixth overall despite not finishing that high on any of the five lists - a function of everyone having him in their top nine. Dazzling Russian winger Matvei Michkov got the lone other second-place ranking, but finishing fifth on the McKenzie poll, and going fourth behind Leo Carlsson for both Peters and Button was enough to drop him to fourth on the aggregate.īut the real intrigue starts after number five - where Will Smith clocks in - because that’s where the variance really starts. That’s clearest at the top, of course, with Connor Bedard a unanimous number one, and Adam Fantilli getting four of the five nods at No. New post Seven round 2023 NHL mock draft “Very talented group of forwards this year, and things change - each draft class can be a little bit different - this year, it looks like there’s really a strong group of forwards.” “There are a lot of good forwards, for sure,” Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman said earlier this week. It would be stunning to see something like that play out on draft day, but this is where the averages left us - and it does point toward a forward class that is considered quite strong. ![]() The first thing that stands out here is that, when averaging these five rankings, there are no defensemen in the top 10. The group starts, of course, with The Athletic’s prospect analysts Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler, TSN Insider Bob McKenzie - whose rankings are themselves an average of 10 NHL scouts - and this time, we’ve expanded them to also include The Athletic Hockey Show co-host Chris Peters, of Flo Hockey, as well as former NHL GM and TSN’s director of scouting Craig Button. Today, we take our best shot at finding that consensus, with an aggregate big board of some of the top public rankings available. Ranking the best players available for Day 2.It’s true of the teams that will be on the floor next Wednesday night in Nashville, and it’s certainly true of the public rankings that prepare fans for one of the most anticipated days on the hockey calendar.īut when taken all together, accounting for the highs, lows, and outliers, those lists combine to form a consensus - cutting through the noise and, hopefully, giving us the best idea of how the year’s top prospects stack up against one another. The Athletic has live coverage of NHL Draft 2023 ![]()
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