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Originally Posted by Sandman
Here's Future Watch 2011:
1)Brayden Schenn 2)Ryan Johansen 3)Evgeny Kuznetsov 4)Erik Gudbranson 5)Vlad Tarasenko 6)Nino Niederreiter 7)Ryan Ellis 8)Jacob Markstrom 9)Mikkel Boedker 10)Jack Campbell 11)Charlie Coyle 12)Brandon Gormley 13)Nazem Kadri 14)Zack Kassian 15)Tim Erixon 16)Cody Hodgson 17)Brendan Smith 18)Chris Kreider 19)Luke Adam 20)Mikael Granlund 21)Nick Leddy 22)David Rundblad 23)Jaden Schwartz 24)Zac Dalpe 25)Jordan Caron 26)Nick Bjugstad 27)Louis Leblanc 28)Jeremy Morin 29)Nikita Filatov 30)Patrice Cormier 31)Brett Connolly 32)Jacob Josefson 33)Justin Faulk 34)Kyle Palmieri 35)John Moore 36)Jeff Petry 37)Jake Allen 38)Tomas Tatar 39)Andrei Loktionov 40)Jared Cowen 41)Calle Jarnkrok 42)Joey Hishon 43)Calvin deHaan 44)Robin Lehner 45)Joe Colborne 46)Beau Bennett 47)Jon Merrill 48)Cody Eakin 49)Derek Forbort 50)Dylan McIlrath
A few misses, and the order is off, but it's mostly a pretty sane list.
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I believe it is much easier and more straightforward to predict success and to project individual players than it is to rank each team's collection of prospects as a whole.