Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2025 - Round 7

[VilleN]

Originally Posted by D as in David

Rimful of Basha.

That's Brimful of Basha - I will not stand idly by while the iconic Cornershop song is desecrated!

[ForeverFlameFan]

Guess I’ll be Battaglia for a while

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Bingo

We finally have a race ...

Basha / Mews and to a lesser degree Morin

Never mind ... Basha running the show now.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by icarus

I saw Scott Wheeler just posted his top 100 prospects...
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...2025-schaefer/
Three Flames in the top 100, and seems he favours Potter higher than Calgarypuck does. No Brz nor Gridin on his list.

And actually 3 in the top 60 when you dig into it.

Very good sign.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Bingo

And actually 3 in the top 60 when you dig into it.

Very good sign.

Still early days, but at this moment, for many Parekh goes top 3 or 4 in a re-draft. That's tremendous for a team that seems to struggle to get into those draft slots.

I think that draft still has Celebrini #1 and now Demidov #2.

And then I think you Parekh/Buium being a coin flop for #3 - both jumping ahead of Levshunov, Sennecke, Lindstrom, Iginla, Yakemchuk and Catton.

A year from now, things could be very different again, but for the time being it looks like the Flames were both good and lucky to get Zayne where they did.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Oof...the fact that Honzek went in the polling ahead of guys like Basha, Battaglia, Mews, and even Morin is going to be a bad look a year or two from now.

I'm going Battaglia for the third round in a row. He's grown on me over the last year, especially with his playoff performance. It was either him or Basha for me.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Oof...the fact that Honzek went in the polling ahead of guys like Basha, Battaglia, Mews, and even Morin is going to be a bad look a year or two from now.

I'm going Battaglia for the third round in a row. He's grown on me over the last year, especially with his playoff performance. It was either him or Basha for me.

Are you losing sleep over any of the voting from past years?

[dammage79]

It's Basha and then it's gonna be Misa. I like Bats a lot but Misa should be after Basha.

[Bingo]

I had Honzek slipping a touch because of missed time in development ... Probably would have had him in the 8-9 range.

But I'm far from writing the kid off.

He has such a unique skill kit, and looked so good in the preseason last year. If the work is there I see him as a player that surprises in the next year or two.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Oof...the fact that Honzek went in the polling ahead of guys like Basha, Battaglia, Mews, and even Morin is going to be a bad look a year or two from now.

I'm going Battaglia for the third round in a row. He's grown on me over the last year, especially with his playoff performance. It was either him or Basha for me.

All of them have questions and risks.
I don't know why Honzek specifically is a bad look. I voted Morin but I think they are all valid choices.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by VilleN

That's Brimful of Basha - I will not stand idly by while the iconic Cornershop song is desecrated!

You added an extra character to yours; I just moved my characters around.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Are you losing sleep over any of the voting from past years?

Not at all, I'm just suggesting people have over-valued him quite a lot. Perhaps it's because he was a 1st round pick, creating some bias because of where he was drafted. I don't know.

We have to be blunt about what he's produced at each level, and since his draft year. I know he was a project, but it seems as though he's not progressing to where they imagined he would be by now. It's not going in the right direction for him to be a top 6 player, and so I think the best case scenario is a solid and smart 3rd line player. But I also have real concerns that he won't make the league at all on a full time basis.

...and hey, I could be wrong. He did look pretty good in training camp last year, but so do lots of other borderline players (remember Ty Rattie was going to be the next big thing in Edmonton?). Then the real season hit and he looked pretty mediocre to terrible.

I think what I'm actually saying is there are about 9-10 prospects that look a lot better in our system, which is a good thing, and why I don't worry too much about whiffing on that pick (if that even happens). I have Honzek around 10-11, but it's mostly because there's lots of legitimate talent in the system.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by icarus

I saw Scott Wheeler just posted his top 100 prospects...
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...2025-schaefer/
Three Flames in the top 100, and seems he favours Potter higher than Calgarypuck does. No Brz nor Gridin on his list.

Wheeler suffers from shiny, new toy syndrome from the overall look of that list.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Not at all, I'm just suggesting people have over-valued him quite a lot. Perhaps it's because he was a 1st round pick, creating some bias because of where he was drafted. I don't know.

We have to be blunt about what he's produced at each level, and since his draft year. I know he was a project, but it seems as though he's not progressing to where they imagined he would be by now. It's not going in the right direction for him to be a top 6 player, and so I think the best case scenario is a solid and smart 3rd line player. But I also have real concerns that he won't make the league at all on a full time basis.

...and hey, I could be wrong. He did look pretty good in training camp last year, but so do lots of other borderline players (remember Ty Rattie was going to be the next big thing in Edmonton?). Then the real season hit and he looked pretty mediocre to terrible.

I think what I'm actually saying is there are about 9-10 prospects that look a lot better in our system, which is a good thing, and why I don't worry too much about whiffing on that pick (if that even happens). I have Honzek around 10-11, but it's mostly because there's lots of legitimate talent in the system.

I don't think it's bias at all. At least no more than votes for any other player.
What Honzek has going for him is all the right physical attributes, which frankly is what the rest of the pipeline lacks.
And he's playing higher level hockey.

Guys like Battaglia, Mews, etc all have big questions marks that won't be answered until we see them in pro.

I voted Morin because I think he actually answered some of his biggest risk items this year, with some real progression. But he's still only in junior.

I don't think people voting for him are voting for him because he was a first rounder. There are very good and valid reasons to place him here.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

Battaglia for me - but dead heat with Morin, Mews and Basha.


I think Morin has top pairing upside - the #2 guy on a top pair, or an anchor for the 2nd pairing. He reminds me of Giordano.


Mews has the higher offensive ceiling over Morin. I am interested to see what college does to his game.



Basha will be an NHL player, and probably in the middle-six I think. It is hard not to like this kid. He has that 'it' factor like Tkachuk had in my opinion. The "I am an NHLer already" vibe to him.


Went with Battaglia simply because I believe he has top line winger potential who can also be physical and hard to play against. I think he will be hard to contain at the NHL level as he develops, not only for his physicality, but his soft hands and IQ too.

Battaglia took a pretty massive step forward this year after taking a big step forward in his draft year. Likely showed the most progressions of any of the Flames' prospects two seasons in a row.

I haven't see a lot of his play, but his scouting reports have a number of similarities to those of Jason Robertson (great shot; good decision making/play making skills; bigger body; skating issues the biggest weakness), and he's been drafted out of the same program.

I like the Mews/Morin/Basha too, but I feel Battaglia has the greatest chance to develop into a top line goal scorer. I'd even put him ahead of Gridin at this point.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by D as in David

Wheeler suffers from shiny, new toy syndrome from the overall look of that list.

What makes you say that? 5 of the top 7 (tier1) are not even from this years draft.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Not at all, I'm just suggesting people have over-valued him quite a lot. Perhaps it's because he was a 1st round pick, creating some bias because of where he was drafted. I don't know.

We have to be blunt about what he's produced at each level, and since his draft year. I know he was a project, but it seems as though he's not progressing to where they imagined he would be by now. It's not going in the right direction for him to be a top 6 player, and so I think the best case scenario is a solid and smart 3rd line player. But I also have real concerns that he won't make the league at all on a full time basis.

...and hey, I could be wrong. He did look pretty good in training camp last year, but so do lots of other borderline players (remember Ty Rattie was going to be the next big thing in Edmonton?). Then the real season hit and he looked pretty mediocre to terrible.

I think what I'm actually saying is there are about 9-10 prospects that look a lot better in our system, which is a good thing, and why I don't worry too much about whiffing on that pick (if that even happens). I have Honzek around 10-11, but it's mostly because there's lots of legitimate talent in the system.

We're rating prospects.

Having different opinions on different players is to be expected. Suggesting one will be a bad look, and claiming a bias, simply because you don't agree with those posters, is just weird and pointless.

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by D as in David

Wheeler suffers from shiny, new toy syndrome from the overall look of that list.

It might look that way a little because he graduates prospects pretty quickly once they've made the NHL, and a lot of other lists use an age cutoff.

He's got a pretty equal mix of players going back to the last four drafts, though, so I think it's pretty balanced:

This edition of my top 100 drafted prospects ranking includes 24 players from the 2025 draft, 26 from 2024, 25 from 2023, 21 from 2022 and four from 2021.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by YyjFlames

It might look that way a little because he graduates prospects pretty quickly once they've made the NHL, and a lot of other lists use an age cutoff.

He's got a pretty equal mix of players going back to the last four drafts, though, so I think it's pretty balanced:

that is interesting. I assume from 2023 that 3-6 guys are considered graduated. I'm not sure I can convince myself at the moment that there are 25 guys plus any grads from 2023 that are currently better than Brz- I mean he'd go by the end of the first in a redraft wouldn't he?

[YyjFlames]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

We're rating prospects.

Having different opinions on different players is to be expected. Suggesting one will be a bad look, and claiming a bias, simply because you don't agree with those posters, is just weird and pointless.

I'm a big Honzek fan -- voted him since 3 -- but I kind of agree with Cali and don't mind the criticism.

Honzek is the prospect in the top 10 that has the highest risk at this point and could be the biggest "what were we thinking" in five years. But his skillset is massive if he turns out, and I don't see his production or development to date as a surprise or a concern.

That's often how a skinny power forward with an NHL frame develops as teams teach these guys to use their bodies against larger men before their bodies are really built for it.

Makes this ranking interesting.