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Originally Posted by looooob
2019 is a really interesting year to look at- it's probably the 'nadir' in recent years of prospect rankings (the team had a fairly young graduated core of Gaudreau, Monahan, Bennett, Tkachuk, Andersson, Mang amongst others) and Vali is certainly a meh #1, but looking at the guys from 2019 that became NHLers of some degree (including yes tweeners) you have
1. Valimaki
2. Dube
3. Kylington
4. Pelletier
7. Phillips (marginal)
9. Pospisil
14 Rucizka
18 Wolf
24 Lomberg
32 Kirkland
so still 10 names even in what was a bad prospect pool overall. 2,3 and 14 got derailed for 3 totally different reasons which is probably atypical. the best prospect of course is # 18
the 4 guys with (can't really say still) as some left and came back are 9,18, 24, 32 and that's basically next years 4th line and our starting goalie!
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I totally missed that and it is pretty cool. Have to give credit to both the drafting and development of the later round picks in this case. Not a lot of players become regular NHL'ers in any role picked in the later rounds. I think this year will be interesting to look at in the future. It does feel really deep and there's bound to be a surprise or two ranked below the top 15.