NHL Insider ranks every teams prospect pipeline ahead of next season
The Athletic has come out with the rankings of this year's NHL prospect pools, all 32 teams included. Corey Pronman of The Athletic ranked the Buffalo Sabres prospect pool as #1, here's why:
Next up is the Detroit Red Wings, who since Steve Yzerman took over, look so much better since he took over.
Pronman ranks the Los Angeles Kings organization at number 10th, which as one of the deeper prospect pools in the NHL, may be a stretch.
Quinton Byfield made the jump in 2021-2022 to the NHL, after spending the last 2 years primarily in the AHL.
Pronman ranked them 5th which is in line with what I'd expect, as a team who will become a threat in the next few years.
The Carolina Hurricanes have had trouble making it past the 2nd round the last few years, but their drafting has been value picks left and right.
If you don't know
Andrei Svechnikov for the Michigan goal, you've missed out on the storm surges post-game and I'm assuming you also missed David Ayres.
The Montreal Canadiens had a great first pick in 2022, landing
Juraj Slafkovsky.
Cole Caulfield,
Kirby Dach, and
Kaiden Guhle are all worthy mentions of players who are already in the lineup or will have the chance to in the future. Caulfield recently showed his potential in the 2021 SCF and under Martin St. Louis' coaching. Notables include
Justin Barron,
Lane Hutson, and
Riley Kidney.
Pronman has criminally underrated the Minnesota Wild's pool at 8 on the list.
Matthew Boldy,
Connor Dewar, and
Marco Rossi have taken huge steps to make it onto the team, or have the possibility to, as Boldy experienced the majority of his season called up from Iowa.
Next up are the New York Rangers, with prospects like
K'Andre Miller making noise in the NHL last season, with some amazing goals, and Alexis Lafrenière who took strides in his play last season as well.
Kaapo Kakko, Vitali Kravtsov,
Brennan Othmann and
Braden Schneider are notables.
Kakko and Kravtsov still need time to develop until they reach their full potential, which begs the question is the front office the right one to develop Kakko who still hasn't shown his potential yet? The kid line was unceremoniously broken up by Gerard Gallant last season.
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