Summer Prospect Ranking Poll Round 14

[Mango]

Originally Posted by Fire

Time to give Cundari some support. He should be a 50/50 chance to start the season in Calgary this year. I like his physical play, heart and offensive skills. I would rank him higher than Butler, Russell, Breen and Smith.

I do too. Cundari's a really exciting player.

Although he's smaller in stature, he doesn't let it hinder his physical style of play. He reminds me a lot of Andrew Ference.

[Enoch Root]

Reinhart.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

This next group is where it gets murky. Arnold, Cundari, Reinhart, Hanowski, Ramage, Brossoit all have upside, but it's less certain they will be NHLers.

I like Arnold's steady progression and two-way game, so I picked him.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by Mango

I do too. Cundari's a really exciting player.

Although he's smaller in stature, he doesn't let it hinder his physical style of play. He reminds me a lot of Andrew Ference.

That is a perfect comparison.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Fire

Time to give Cundari some support. He should be a 50/50 chance to start the season in Calgary this year. I like his physical play, heart and offensive skills. I would rank him higher than Butler, Russell, Breen and Smith.

Ranking him ahead of NHL regular players above is a bit of a reach IMO considering the small sample size of Cundari's work in the NHL.

[kermitology]

Reinhart, but I thought long and hard about voting for Arnold.

[tempz]

Anyone else feel like there are 2-5 right answers for this one?

I ended up going with Reinhart though.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Shouldn't have voted as soon as I woke up. Was voting Reinhart the past 3 times, went with Bouma today.

[AC]

Went with Bill Arnold, I think he may be a darkhorse prospect for us.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Reinhart for me - though it feels like splitting hairs between Reinhart, Ramage, Culkin. Kulak and Arnold at this point.

[Flames Draft Watcher]

Voted Reinhart. Breen and Berra up soon for me.

I'd be fine with dropping Ramo from the poll

[SuperMatt18]

Think Ramo should be dropped if only because the majority are not voting for him because they don't see him as a prospect and not because he doesn't fit somewhere on the list.

Would be an artificially low ranking due to that aspect.

[StrykerSteve]

Bill Arnold.

[djsFlames]

Noooo, when did Agostino pull ahead?

At least I can vote for someone else now. It's pretty funny that we're only casting votes for Reinhart now at 14, when NHL.com had him ranked 5 or 6 on their Flames feature. Not to mention pulling old bio stats from guys like Johnny. Pretty sad that the league doesn't bother to keep up with the current Flames, where Max is clearly no longer a top 10 prospect. This list will be an interesting reference when looking back at the end of the season and how each have performed. My money says Granlund looks like a 6-7 ranked guy by next summer.

[cral12]

I'm finally breaking out my dark horse pick - the only vote so far and I understand why, but love the potential of Brett Kulak.

Here's my 2012 pre-draft profile on him and he's done nothing to thwart my high opinion on him, although I admit I've been higher than most on him from anywhere in the hockey world.

On this list he might not even make the Top 20, but should be a riser as time goes by.

[Super-Rye]

Went with Reinhart this round. Love his jam and the way he plays. I think he has an under-rated skill set. Could start the year on the Flames energy line.

The Flames have a quartet of defensemen in Kulak, Culkin, Cundari and Ramage who I think will take over 4 of the next 6 rounds.

[Red Menace]

I voted Max, I think he's been a bit underrated, 9th on my list ahead of the likes of Wotherspoon, Sieloff, Agostino and Granlund.
I think Bouma should be getting some respect soon too

[1991 Canadian]

Originally Posted by cral12

I'm finally breaking out my dark horse pick - the only vote so far and I understand why, but love the potential of Brett Kulak.

Here's my 2012 pre-draft profile on him and he's done nothing to thwart my high opinion on him, although I admit I've been higher than most on him from anywhere in the hockey world.

On this list he might not even make the Top 20, but should be a riser as time goes by.

I don't know. He was a -34 last year, the worst on his team (albeit on a very bad Vancouver Giants team). This said, he'd easily be in the top 10 a few years ago and he seems to put good numbers. Who knows though. He's still relatively young so I might be writing him off too early.

[cral12]

Originally Posted by 1991 Canadian

I don't know. He was a -34 last year, the worst on his team (albeit on a very bad Vancouver Giants team). This said, he'd easily be in the top 10 a few years ago and he seems to put good numbers. Who knows though. He's still relatively young so I might be writing him off too early.

re: Kulak

I'm selecting him on longterm potential.

re: plus/minus - not the best stat to use to evaluate him in this case. The previous year (his draft year) he had one of the best on his team and by a long shot.

This will be a very interesting year to see how he does.

There are many worthy prospects at this point and already mentioned - Arnold, Reinhart, Kanzig as well as Ramo (although like other I don't consider him a prospect).

[cral12]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I picked Ramo, but I wouldn't disagree with pulling him either. It's a fine line whether or not he is a prosepct or not. If he is a prosepct, he is probably more proven than any of the prospects we have that have yet to turn pro.

To simplify things, and although it has limitations, maybe easiest way to determine eligibility for the list would be if the player is Calder eligible or not.