Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2024 - Round 11

[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

1. Parekh, Zayne 81% NA
2. Wolf, Dustin 84% -1
3. Coronato, Matt 74% -1
4. Brzustewicz, Hunter 51% NA
5. Honzek, Sam 45% -2
6. Pelletier, Jakob 33% -3
7. Gridin, Matvei 45% NA
8. Basha, Andrew 30% NA
9. Morin, Étienne 43% -1
10. Strömgren, William 0

[Bingo]

Launched tonight as I'm not around a pc tomorrow unti 1130. Didn't want people waiting.

[TheScorpion]

What fun! Prospect Rankings After Dark!

This is Poirier.

[Enoch Root]

The midnight poll! Feels sinful.

[Enoch Root]

Also, that top 10 is <in soccer announcer voice> quality!

[PepsiFree]

I’m ready to gush for Grush.

[sch19lks]

Close for me between Grushnikov, Poirier and Mews. Went with Poirier. Big fan of all three though

[jg13]

Looking at the early results and seeing Mews as a potential #13 is shocking to see compared to where we were just even a year ago.

Edit: Just saw Rasmus Andersson also went #13 in CalgaryPuck rankings in his draft year and they BOTH had a 0.94 PPG in the OHL. Pretty crazy!

[TheScorpion]

Kinda bonkers (in a good way!) that a guy who the Flames JUST picked in the second round hasn't gotten any traction in these votes yet.

[sch19lks]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Kinda bonkers (in a good way!) that a guy who the Flames JUST picked in the second round hasn't gotten any traction in these votes yet.

I agree. Good times. Guys like Greg Nemisz feel like a life time ago

[Jay Random]

I'm sticking with Gru. We need more despicable players.

Besides, I want to see minions at the Saddledome.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Poirier then Gru. This is where I select a lot of the D.

And the fact we haven’t even talked about Misa yet is insane. Gonna be quite the top 15.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Blue Chip (No doubt NHLer with high likelihood of being a star player)
Parekh

A level (High likelihood of NHL career, possibility of being a star player)
Wolf
Coronato
Brzustewicz
Morin

A- Level (possibility of NHL career and possibility of being a star player)
Poirier
Honzek
Basha
Gridin
Suniev
Stromgren
Mews
Misa
Sergeev

B+ level (high likelihood of NHL career but low possibility of being a star player)
Pelletier
Grushnikov
Kuznetsov
Solovyov
Lipinski
Yegorov

Current pick in bold.

[keenan87]

Grushnikov for me.

[D as in David]

Battaglia is my dark horse here.

[DuckSauce]

Gotta go with Poirier here. Would love to see a big bounce back year.

I think next will be Gru and then it starts to get interesting for me with Battaglia, Mews, and Suniev all exciting prospects. Misa just outside of that group based on current size. I love D+1 and D+2 years when you get to see some of these prospects take the next step, address areas the big club tells them to focus on, and hopefully put on size.

The difference between how the 2024 and 2025 polls shake out will be fun to see. My guess is Battaglia goes much higher next year.

[Fan69]

Poirier again. I think with this year’s exceptions he is the only one to me beside morin that has middle pairing potential. Just not sold on any if other non traded just picked prospects having that potential or being more than a bottom pair ( dont get me wrong still valuable commodity) in the nhl.

Great if im wrong, but as i have mentioned the guys in higher tiers of play lead my prospect rankings and poirier becoming a bottom pair or better defender is found money at this point.

Stromgren is next for me.

[SuperMatt18]

Grushnikov getting so much love already, and ahead of Poirier is surprising to me.

He looked good a propsect camp but also didn't have a great season after the trade to the Wranglers.

I'd have Poirier, Battaglia, Mews, and Suniev all ahead of him at this point...then some order of Klapka, Solovoyov, Grushnikov and Kuznetsov after that.

Feels nice to be having these types of discussions for our 11-18 ranked prospects though, and really with Misa and some others the list is quite strong 20 players deep.

[cral12]

Went Jacob "Battlestar Gallactica" Battaglia as a longterm upside projection (vs NHL readiness) here...
(admitted fabricated nickname, of course, as just noticed his name is like a shortform of Battlestar Gallactica...probably.)

Strongly considered here: Crushnikov (shutdown D) & Poirier (offenseman), with Mews, and then Suniev & Misa also garnering some consideration.

As adapted from Cali Panthers Fan - update fwiw...

Flames Prospect Tiers
italics = already selected

Blue Chip (No doubt NHLer with high likelihood of being a star player)
Parekh

A level (High likelihood of NHL career, possibility of being a star player)

• Wolf
• Coronato
• Gridin
• Honzek
• Brzustewicz

A- Level (high likelihood of NHL career and slightly lower possibility of being a star player)

• Basha
• Morin
• Stromgren

B+ level (high likelihood of NHL career but low possibility of being a star player)

• Pelletier
• Grushnikov
• Battaglia
• Mews
• Poirier
• Suniev
• Misa

B- level (possibility of NHL career but low possibility of being a star player)

• Jurmo
• Hurtig
• Kuznetsov
• Solovyov
• Zarubin
• Sergeev
• Yegorov
• Bell
• Klapka
• Lipinski
• Schwindt

C level (intriguing, but need to see more to pass judgement)

• Hoskin
• Jamieson
• Laing
• Morton
• Ignatjew

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Updated category:
suggested by a tweet reply:
@aiden_gabel
·
Jul 14
Good list - would’ve been nice to see...an unlikely NHLer category but if they get there they have the tools to be stars, like Misa, Mews, etc.
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Thus,
E level (low-medium likelihood of NHL career but chance of being a star player)
E-exceptionally intriguing upside
(note: prospects in this category may also be in a category above; maybe a contradiction, but hoping to highlight the possibilities within the prospect pool)

- Misa
- Mews

^is last category needed - if so, how would you go about it?

[TheIronMaiden]

Solovyov and Lipinski are my two favorites remaining on the board.
Not the flashiest guys, but I really like the way they approach their game.