Calgarypuck Prospect Ranking 2025 - Round 10

[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)

[RyZ]

n/a

[Funkhouser]

Battaglia, followed by Suniev.


The next tier for me begins after these two:
-Misa, Sergeev, Stockselius, Kerrins!, Jamieson (Honzek should be in this tier IMO)

Not sure the order yet. Awaiting some good arguments to sway me.

[Fan69]

I! Dar! Suniev!

[Cali Panthers Fan]

If it ends up being Battaglia here, our 10th best prospect just came off a 40 goal and 90 point season in just 68 games, and then went on to put up 16 points in 11 playoff games. Leading his team in both categories.

Already 6'1" and over 200 pounds at 19. A little power skating drills with Danielle Fujita and we have ourselves a top 6 power forward.

And after him, we still have lots of interesting talent in the system, at all positions. If even just 2 or 3 of those guys pop, there's plenty coming down the pipeline. I fully expect everyone in our top 10 to become NHLers (maybe 1 or 2 don't make it full time), and I expect at least a couple others outside our top 10 to make it as well.

We still need a big star forward, preferably a top line center, but that's a tomorrow problem.

[Scroopy Noopers]

^ with Suniev next, I think our top 11 become NHL’ers

[D as in David]

Aydar love time.

[gvitaly]

I voted for Suniev. Both Suniev and Battaglia are somewhat similar in that they have a lot of great tools, but both need to work on their skating. Kerins is the other guy to complete this group of 3 very similar yet different players in various stages of their development. Likely my next 3 picks.

Hopefully at least 1 of them pans out to be a top 6 player in the NHL.

[Iniggywetrust]

The lack of love for Kerins is a little surprising. He’s probably closest to the NHL of all of the remaining players, and has proven to be an offensively capable player, including a good showing during his time in the NHL.

A lot of players show well in junior and then do much worse than Kerins has in the pro ranks.

[ICRed]

I’ve been voting Aydar the last 3 rounds. Although now in retrospect I’d put Morin ahead of him only if I could do over.
I’d put Aydar ahead of all our other juniors right now

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Iniggywetrust

The lack of love for Kerins is a little surprising. He’s probably closest to the NHL of all of the remaining players, and has proven to be an offensively capable player, including a good showing during his time in the NHL.

A lot of players show well in junior and then do much worse than Kerins has in the pro ranks.

He's in the next group to me.
For me - he seems like a tweener. A guy who will put up big AHL numbers, and be OK as a call-up, but not a full time NHLer.
But I could be entirely wrong on him.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Originally Posted by Iniggywetrust

The lack of love for Kerins is a little surprising. He’s probably closest to the NHL of all of the remaining players, and has proven to be an offensively capable player, including a good showing during his time in the NHL.

A lot of players show well in junior and then do much worse than Kerins has in the pro ranks.

I have Kerins at 12. You have to keep in mind he’s D+5 now. I would hope he’s where he’s at. He’s made some great progress but the guys above him have higher ceilings. Of course, he can come out of nowhere and become our franchise player. He’s an interesting guy, didn’t look out of place when he was called up. I hope we get a bigger sample size next season.

[Iniggywetrust]

Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan

I have Kerins at 12. You have to keep in mind he’s D+5 now. I would hope he’s where he’s at. He’s made some great progress but the guys above him have higher ceilings. Of course, he can come out of nowhere and become our franchise player. He’s an interesting guy, didn’t look out of place when he was called up. I hope we get a bigger sample size next season.

Yea this will be the big year for him. If he can take a spot and run with it, that’d be great. If not, he’ll probably be a tweener. Technically yes this is his draft+5 year but he also missed an entire year of development due to Covid. Then came back and put up also 2ppg pace the following year. He has the offensive chops.

[TheIronMaiden]

Suniev because I think he has the highest floor. I also think that his big with the big club down the stretch sets him ahead of others remaining on the list in terms of development.

[FBI]

We should probably start thinking about Solo at some point here too lol
He's already played lots of NHL games for us and looked decent in the process..
That said I voted Battaglia this round

[Jiri Hrdina]

For me this tier ends at Suniev/Battaglia.

The next tier still has some interesting names, but it's a combo of higher potential guys, with a lot of risk factors/questions and higher floor guys, with limited upside.

That group, for me, is probably Kerins, Kuznetzov, Misa, Poirier, Solovyov, Stockselius, Stromgren. Maybe Grush but probably not.

And then I have no idea when to start considering any of the goalies. I feel I'm least informed on some of those.

[Kipper_3434]

Kerins! If he works on his skating and pace we have one heck of a player. If he stays where he's at I still think he's 13th forward quality at worst.

[TheIronMaiden]

2nd Round
Theo Stockselius
Jacob Battaglia
William Stromgren
(DAL) Artyom Grushnikov

3rd Round
Mace'o Phillips
Kirill Zarubin
Aydar Suniev
Jeremie Poirier

4th Round
Trevor Hoskin
Jaden Lipinski
Daniil Chechelev

5th Round
Ethan Wyttenbach
Luke Misa
Parker Bell

6th Round
Aidan Lane
Hunter Laing
Eric Jamieson
Yegor Yegorov
Lucas Ciona
Rory Kerins

7th Round
Jakob Leander
Yan Matveiko
Axel Hurtig
Cade Littler
Arseni Sergeev
Ilya Solovyov

Undrafted
Carter King
Owen Say
Jakob Leander
Nick Cicek
Sam Morton

[SuperMatt18]

To me Misa, Suniev, Battaglia, Kerins, and Stromgren feels like this tier.

Feel like Misa maybe isn't getting enough love since him and Battaglia have pretty similar junior numbers.

Personally I think I like Battaglia best just due to the combination of skill and grit he brings, but I think there is probably an argument for any of the five of them.

[Robbob]

I may be wrong, but I just don't see it in Kerins. I pretty much also have the next grouping with Battagila, Misa, and Suniev. There is also something about Stockselius and Phillips that I find intriguing.