NHL Draft: Top 100 Prospects

By Eddy Jones

With the Ducks season over I’ve shifted my focus to the draft. In the first of two articles, I created a list of my Top 100 draft eligible prospects. Goalies were excluded from the rankings as I believe a lot of teams will pick goalies based of needs and their positioning is difficult to judge. The Top 100 Prospects list was compiled using data from seven different sources(Corey Pronman’s Top 100, Jeff Marek’s Top 100, Draftsite, The Draft Analyst, HF Boards, The Hockey News, and Future Considerations). An average ranking was calculated based on each player ranking from each source. This data was the basis in fairly ranking each prospect. From there, some personal judgement was made in reorganizing some prospects and out came my Top 100!

The list does not project which team will draft which player and doesn’t account for team needs and roster depth, it is simply a ranking of draft eligible prospects. I am by no means an expert but I had some fun compiling this list so enjoy! Feel free to comment on the players I choose or roast me on Twitter for forgetting someone obvious.

Players who just missed out: Tyler Inamoto, Yaroslav Alexeyev, Jonathan Smart, Jacob Paquette, Jack Rathbone, Kirill Slepets, Lane Zablocki, Adam Thilander, D’Artagnan Joly, Logan Cockerill, Macauley Carson

My Top 100

1	Nolan Patrick
2	Nico Hischier
3	Gabe Vilardi
4	Casey Mittlestadt
5	Owen Tippet
6	Miro Heiskanen
7	Cody Glass
8	Cale Makar
9	Timothy Liljegren
10	Elias Pettersson
11	Eeli Tolvanen
12	Martin Necas
13	Michael Rasmussen
14	Nick Suzuki
15	Lias Andersson
16	Juuso Valimaki
17	Klim Kostin
18	Kristian Vesalainen
19	Erik Brannstrom
20	Callan Foote
21	Kailer Yamamoto
22	Ryan Poehling
23	Nicholas Hague
24	Robert Thomas
25	Maxime Comtois
26	Urho Vaakanainen
27	Pierre-Oliver Joseph
28	Jason Robertson
29	Kole Lind
30	Isaac Ratcliffe
31	Shane Bowers
32	Henri Jokiharu
33	Conor Timmins
34	Nikita Popugaev
35	Grant Mismash
36	Ivan Lodina
37	Jaret Anderson-Dolan
38	Matthew Strome
39	Marcus Davidsson
40	Josh Norris
41	Antoine Morand
42	Filip Chytil
43	Alexei Lipanov
44	Stelio Mattheos
45	Jesper Boqvist
46	Aleksi Heponiemi
47	Joni Ikonen
48	Morgan Frost
49	Alex Formenton
50	Robin Salo
51	Alexander Chmelevski
52	Mackenzie Entwistle
53	Mason Shaw
54	Scott Reedy
55	Jake Leschyshyn
56	David Farrance
57	Ostap Safin
58	Max Gildon
59	Artyom Minulin
60	Luke Martin
61	Markus Phillips
62	Jarret Tyszka
63	Jonah Gadjovich
64	Josh Brook
65	Ian Mitchell
66	Adam Ruzicka
67	Mikey Anderson
68	Dylan Samberg
69	Jack Studnicka
70	Lukas Elvenes
71	Nick Henry
72	Morgan Geekie
73	Ivan Chekovich
74	Nate Schnarr
75	Filip Westerlund
76	Noel Hoefenmayer
77	Evan Barratt
78	Eemeli Rasanen
79	Dimitri Samorukov
80	Joel Teasdale
81	Zach Gallant
82	Cale Fleury
83	Rickard Hugg
84	Mario Ferraro
85	Fabian Zetterlund
86	Jonas Rondbjerg
87	Cameron Crotty
88	Kyle Olson
89	Aleksey Toropchenko
90	Austin Keating
91	Emil Bemstrom
92	Alexandre Texier
93	Maxime Fortier
94	Reilly Walsh
95	Tyler Steenbergen
96	Kasper Kotkansalo
97	Clayton Phillips
98	Greg Meireles
99	Linus Nyman
100	Pavel Koltygin

 

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June 1st, 2017

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