Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2024 - Round 14 (Run Off)

[Bingo]

Welcome to the annual Calgarypuck Prospect Poll!

As per usual ...

1. Rank the prospects as you like. Upside, chances, or trade value
2. I will try and do one a day which should get us to mid to late August
3. Graduates and/or runoffs will be determined in each case
4. Please don't complain that the polls are going to deep. We go until all the prospects are ranked, so don't vote if you don't want to.

Previous Prospect Rankings
2013 - 2013 Rankings
2014 - 2014 Rankings
2015 - 2015 Rankings
2016 - 2016 Rankings
2017 - 2017 Rankings
2018 - 2018 Rankings
2019 - 2019 Rankings
2020 - 2020 Rankings
2021 - 2021 Rankings
2022 - 2022 Rankings
2023 - 2023 Rankings

1. Parekh, Zayne 81% NA
2. Wolf, Dustin 84% -1
3. Coronato, Matt 74% -1
4. Brzustewicz, Hunter 51% NA
5. Honzek, Sam 45% -2
6. Pelletier, Jakob 33% -3
7. Gridin, Matvei 45% NA
8. Basha, Andrew 30% NA
9. Morin, Étienne 43% -1
10. Strömgren, William 43% 0
11. Poirier, Jeremie 40% -5
12. Grushnikov, Artem 39% NA
13. Mews, Henry 49% NA

[Bingo]

Within a handful of votes so went with the run off.

I get a break from voting Solyvov round after round!

[Enoch Root]

Suniev for me, but I have Battaglia next anyway

[agulati]

I voted for Suniev in the run-off. Will be back to Solovyov once the run-off is complete

[SutterBrother]

Looking forward to the annual “keep it tied” roumd!

[Flamescuprun2018]

Mews off the board.

Battaglia ranked higher than Mews by scouting staff and drafted earlier.

So going with Battaglia.

[FBI]

Can you guys tell me a bit more about Suniev?

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by FBI

Can you guys tell me a bit more about Suniev?

He dominated the BCHL a year ago, putting up close to 2PPG, always making something happen and scoring at will, weaponizing his wrist and snap shots. He did it while showing good habbits defensively. The main knack against him has been his skating. We drafted him because he had great hands, and could stick handle and make plays in tight. All that, plus he's a pretty big guy.

He had a much more modest first season in the NCAA last year, putting up 12G, 25P in 36GP. I think the Flames see him as a defensively responsible 3rd liner/middle 6 option, that can pitch in with some offense. I didn't watch any NCAA games, so I don't have any deeper insight unfortunately.

[Enoch Root]

and those numbers aren't bad for a first year player in the NCAA. By all accounts, he was very impressive for his full, 200 ft game.

[Nelson]

Suniev (November birthday, so old for his draft year)
NHLe of 19 in his draft year
NHLe of 22 in his draft + 1 year

Battaglia (March birthday, so neither old nor young for his draft year)
NHLe of 25 in his draft year

Conclusion: Battaglia!

[ForeverFlameFan]

Very similar, went with Suniev.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Just voted. 53 to 53!

[cral12]

I was away and missed a couple of rounds...

Jacob "Battlestar Gallactica" Battaglia

(admitted fabricated nickname, of course, as just noticed his name is like a shortform of Battlestar Gallactica...probably.)

"Sunny Days Ahead" Suniev & "Cool Hand Luke Don't Call Me Mike" Misa comin' up

As adapted from Cali Panthers Fan - update fwiw...

Flames Prospect Tiers
italics = already selected

Blue Chip (No doubt NHLer with high likelihood of being a star player)
Parekh

A level (High likelihood of NHL career, possibility of being a star player)

• Wolf
• Coronato
• Gridin
• Honzek
• Brzustewicz

A- Level (high likelihood of NHL career and slightly lower possibility of being a star player)

• Basha
• Morin
• Stromgren

B+ level (high likelihood of NHL career but low possibility of being a star player)

• Pelletier
• Grushnikov
• Battaglia
• Mews
• Poirier
• Suniev
• Misa

B- level (possibility of NHL career but low possibility of being a star player)

• Jurmo
• Hurtig
• Zarubin
• Kuznetsov
• Solovyov
• Sergeev
• Yegorov
• Bell
• Klapka
• Lipinski
• Schwindt

C level (intriguing, but need to see more to pass judgement)

• Hoskin
• Jamieson
• Laing
• Morton
• Ignatjew

[PaperBagger'14]

Hell this could almost be called a tie. I’ll probably abstain from voting from here on out as I know almost nothing of the rest of the prospects.

[TheIronMaiden]

Both seems like good prospects, though both scouting reports mention skating as a weakness.

[Enoch Root]

first one to 100 wins it, then shut 'er down

[Bingo Jr.]

Someone already touched on it, but it's still pretty crazy that a recent 2nd round pick is battling for 14th in our prospect pool.

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by Bingo Jr.

Someone already touched on it, but it's still pretty crazy that a recent 2nd round pick is battling for 14th in our prospect pool.

My guess is next year we are looking back at this list and wondering how he fell so far.

[Enoch Root]

There was a runoff at 14 last year as well - it included Ciona and Schwindt

#you'vecomealongwaybaby

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Bingo Jr.

Someone already touched on it, but it's still pretty crazy that a recent 2nd round pick is battling for 14th in our prospect pool.

Hopefully better sign than when Smith and Macdonald went 18/19 after going in 2nd round in 2014