Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2025 - Round 24

[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
2024 - 2024 Rankings

2025 Rankings:
1. Parekh - 99.2% (0)
2. Reschny - 57.1% n/a
3. Brzustewicz - 46.7% (+1)
4. Gridin - 45.3% (+3)
5. Potter - 54.5% n/a
6. Honzek - 39.9% (-1)
7. Basha - 34.8% (+1)
8. Mews - Run Off (+8)
9. Morin - Run Off (0)
10. Battaglia - 47.9% (+5)
11. Suniev - 67.9% (+3)
12. Misa - 35.6% (+4)
13. Stockselius - Run Off n/a
14. Kerins - 37.8% (+11)
15. Stromgren - 40.4% (-6)
16. Sergeev - 27.9% (+6)
17. Kuznetsov - 36.4% (+3)
18. Solovyov - 39.1% (-1)
19. King - 27.6% n/a
20. Poirier - 32.9% (-9)
21. Wyttenbach - 38.0% n/a
22. Morton 29.0% (+2)
23. Zarubin 37.3% n/a

[Fan69]

Have to Hoskin.

Over Jamieson only because of position.

[keenan87]

Grushnikov - it might be his time finally.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Jamieson, then Hoskin. Both have legitimate NHL potential, Maybe more so with Jamieson as a leader and gritty physical defender. He's not completely without puck skills either, so he has a decent shot of making it.

[Bingo]

I went Jamieson ...

Had Phillips in mind as well. Grushnikov needs to take a step to get ahead of a recent third round pick and a guy that has popped since being drafted profiling to the same role.

[Willi Plett]

Hoskin gets my vote.

Grushnikov stood out in camp last year but didn’t have the same look for the Wranglers all season. He needs to take a step this year.

[ICRed]

Between Jamieson and Phillips for me. Grush was king of disappointing for me last year on the Wranglers. Feel like the kids have a higher ceiling at this point. Grush hasn’t really done much in a few years of pro now.

[RyZ]

Hoskin, Jamieson, Lane and then I have no idea where to go from there.

I have liked Bell in the past but his rookie season on the Wranglers last season was a big disappointment offensively. He needs to show something this year like Grushnikov does or he will start plummeting down the Wranglers depth chart with all the new bodies coming in this year.

[Calgary Highlander]

I watched one single Wranglers game, so I have no idea whether Grushnikov took any steps last year. Progression with him was never going to be about more points, so does anyone who followed the Wranglers have insight into his game?

How's his decision-making under pressure? Does he have an effective first pass? Does he get in front of shots? Is he first over the boards for a PK?

The Flames targeted him in the Tanev deal (and Craig made it seem like Dallas didn't want to include him) - he wasn't a throw-in like Miromanov.

[Enoch Root]

Grushnikov is already too low

[Reggie Dunlop]

Phillips, because of recency bias.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Went with Aidan Lane. Good size, great in high school hockey, but with the NCAA rule changes, went into the OHL towards the end of the season and put up a PPG. Will be at college next season. I think there is something good there, and for me, he should be ahead of Hoskin.


Grushnikov I just don't see as a player. It isn't his lack of production last season - it is his lack of production in every AHL season. Statistically, he hasn't taken a step forward (one could say he is regressing slightly). He is 22, so there is time, but I don't see progression, so he really takes a tumble. Last season I didn't write him off, but without any progression after his 3rd full pro season, he goes down my list unfortunately. I am really biased with these hard-nosed, defensive defencemen too - I usually really love them. I would put my money on Phillips having a higher chance at becoming a player than Grushnikov at this point. Jamieson for sure is ahead. Stats aren't everything, but it is hard to see something in a player here:
GP 61 1G 4A 5PTS 24PIM -10
For a hard-nosed throwback, that's not much in the way of PIM either. After 3 full seasons, he accumulated 2 goals, 9 assists and 11 points. I will argue that the NHL doesn't really have room for defensive defencemen that can't move the puck. You would just assume that if he was even half-decent on the transition, that he would have at least accumulated more than 9 assists in total over 3 seasons.


Hoskin is just a whisker away from Lane in my ranking.



Laing I think should be going in the next couple of picks. When you watch some of his highlights, he has some really good hands, and he has some moves out there. He handles the puck much better than you would assume, decent shot, and he can even dangle, and I don't think he is a terrible skater at all - looks average to me. All of this in a 6'6" package? I bet he is still a bit like bambi with his coordination - these super-tall athletes often are.



I think that's the ledge for me, with perhaps Matveiko straddling here. I have no idea where to really rank this kid as so little is known about him, and I searched but couldn't find even a single highlight video. I guess over the weekend I will try and find something using Yandex search. I even used google translate and searched in Russian, but no luck. I am going out on a limb here and putting my reputation on the line with this statement: Matveiko is the next Pavel! Just not sure if it is Datsyuk, or Karnaukhov!


The next batch I think becomes really difficult to sort. I think I will lead off with Parker Bell. 6'5". Didn't have the best start to his pro career on the Wranglers, but I remember him being a fairly impressive skater. He is a guy that I think could explode next season with a really good pro-training off-season under his belt.

[Kipper_3434]

Grush again, looking like -13 or worse....wow

[Bingo]

To me Grushnikov isn't about counting stats and he never will be.

It's deployment.

The AHL doesn't keep ice time stats public, but it seemed to me that Grushnikov wasn't moving up when it came to assignments, time shares and being dressed. He was moving down.

[PepsiFree]

It’s crazy to me how few stats are publicly available for the AHL.

[RyZ]

Originally Posted by Bingo

To me Grushnikov isn't about counting stats and he never will be.

It's deployment.

The AHL doesn't keep ice time stats public, but it seemed to me that Grushnikov wasn't moving up when it came to assignments, time shares and being dressed. He was moving down.

I go to about 8-10 Wranglers games per season with my son and I would second this. I am no scout, but when we go he is usually the least effective Dman in red most games we go to and appears, to my eyes, to get bottom pairing minutes for the team. He seems to be pretty good down low in the corners and defending the rush but he doesnt do much else at a noticeably high level out there. If guys like Hurtig and Jamieson are going to play any time soon it will likely be Gru moving out/down to make more room.

[Jiri Hrdina]

I voted Grush but comments in this thread have me thinking that wasn't the right choice.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I voted Grush but comments in this thread have me thinking that wasn't the right choice.

I don't get too caught up in how young guys perform in the A, because it is a developmental league, and they may be being told to work on this or that, as opposed to just playing their game.

For me, what matters is tools, potential, and progression.

And Grushnikov has the tools and the potential.

[looooob]

my current mini tier is Hoskin, Jamieson and maybe Lane, voting Hoskin due to some sort of sense he might be easiest to advance


I recognize he has a weird pedigree, but just a year ago the team took him over Misa, and I would argue he answered as many or not more questions about his trajectory than Misa did- not saying I would rank him ahead, but there is a chance the organization might see them as closer than we think

[looooob]

oh and minor edit going forward


I think Zairubin is a 0 not a N/A