Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2023 - Round 23

[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 rookie camp range
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 Ranking

1. Wolf 65.3%
2. Coronato 73.5%
3. Honzek (run off, tied)
3. Pelletier (run off, tied)
5. Zary 50.4%
6. Poirier 49.1%
7. Morin 83.1%
8. Suniev 50.2%
9. Kuznetsov 32.0%
10. Stromgren 41.3%
11. Solovyov 47.7%
12. Sergeev 27.9%
13. Ronni 27.8%
14. Ciona (run off, tied)
14. Schwindt (run off, tied)
16. Kerins 32.1%
17. Klapka 50.0%
18. Bell (run off)
19. Pettersen (run off loser)
20. Lipinski 34.3%
21. Pospisil 38.0%
22. Yegorov 33.6%

[Flamesfan05]

Picked the last guy drafted

[cral12]

I went Cade Littler.

Long shot and longterm project still, but some upside there.

USHL next yr, then off to NCAA - changed schools to Univ of North Dakota

https://flamesnation.ca/news/calgary...ge-commitments

https://www.therinklive.com/mens-col...commits-to-und

[Reggie Dunlop]

Went BIG with Littler.

[Reggie Dunlop]

I'd like to see what Nikolaev can do in the AHL. Like Kerins, he ran into a bunch of injuries down in Rapid City. He and Kerins were the two youngest on that team, so still plenty of runway.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Seriously, how is Hurtig not getting more votes here. He's still very young and has NHL size and some tools. Most of the others on the list are pretty old for prospects, and they are what they are at this point.

[TheIronMaiden]

18
Hurtig, Axel


19
Littler, Cade

21
Boltmann, Jake
Chechelev, Daniil

22
Nikolaev, Ilya
Nodler, Josh

23
Koumontzis, Demetrios

24
Jones, Ben
Lyle, Brady

[looooob]

at this point there is one- maybe two- people I can't make a case for at all, otherwise at least it's interesting to mull over some names- I get the argument for picking young with the longest runway, but I went the other direction with Jones. for sure unlikely to have more untapped upside, but I suppose on the other hand conceivable a decade from now he's put in 400+ games like Derek Grant, and we are saying, not bad for our number 23-25 prospect in 2023

[D as in David]

It may just be me but the bottom 10 seem to have more potential than the Flames have had in the past.

[cral12]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Seriously, how is Hurtig not getting more votes here. He's still very young and has NHL size and some tools. Most of the others on the list are pretty old for prospects, and they are what they are at this point.

I'm going Axel "F" Hurtig after Littler off the board

[IceBergYYC]

Anyone left over Jonesy is crazy to me, decent size, scoring upside. Certainly not willing to write him off yet.

[The Fonz]

Random comment here, but thought it was interesting. Over the 2013 to 2019 period of these rankings, 9 players ranked outside of the top 20 have gone on to make the NHL:

Lance Bouma
Brett Kulak
Michael Ferland
Joni Ortio
Josh Jooris
Andrew Mangiapane
Garnet Hathaway
David Rittich
Ryan Lomberg

Makes you wonder what NHLers exist outside of the top 20 in the 2020 to 2023 rankings.