http://www.thehockeynews.com/article...NHL-draft.html
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In establishing our top 50 list of NHL-affiliated prospects in our recently released Future Watch 2013, we canvassed scouts from every NHL team and asked them to project five to 10 years out on the best players in the system league-wide. St. Louis right winger Vladimir Tarasenko finished No. 1 on the list, while Future Watch 2012 winner Evgeny Kuznetsov slipped to No. 3.
Based on the feedback from scouts, we re-ranked the order of the 2011 first round in Future Watch 2013. Had it been held today, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Gabriel Landeskog would still be at the top of the list (don’t let RNH’s recent struggles cloud the big picture on him). I won’t give away all the results because it’s in the issue, but interesting evaluations to cull from it are: Dougie Hamilton would have moved way up from being selected ninth overall to inside the top five; and Duncan Siemens (11th overall) and Jamie Oleksiak (14th) would have slipped outside the top 20.
Of course, this exercise doesn’t take into consideration individual team preferences. Though we’ll never know for sure publicly, maybe the Colorado Avalanche would still take Siemens 11th overall even though the scouting community at large wouldn’t touch him until at least the 20th pick.
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Jankowski only dropped 4 spots, so he isn't quite the reach that was proclaimed at the draft