2007 Draft Preview

Sabres · Guru

2007 Draft Preview

Islanders GM · Senior Member

nice to see

Eric_Isles · BRHL2 Co-Commish

A good read. insightful too. Something that takes a lot of work is researching prospects.

FYI. 20-11 will be released on Sunday, and 10-1 will be released on Wednesday.

Sabres · Guru

I think we'll see some more discussion in the next grouping. There are 4-5 teams that obviously are in the bottom of the rankings so theres not much to debate.

Sabres · Guru

Eric_Calgary wrote:

A good read. insightful too. Something that takes a lot of work is researching prospects.

FYI. 20-11 will be released on Sunday, and 10-1 will be released on Wednesday.

Alright, 20-11 is now released- you just need to scroll below 30-21.

No one has anything to say about these rankings? I already have one error I can see, but its not that big of a deal.

-- Edited by Sabres at 14:03, 2007-07-23

-- Edited by Sabres at 14:21, 2007-07-23

CAPS · Member

Hmm so did you write this just so you could put Buffalo 1st?

Because personally I would rather have either NYI's combination of depth and skill players or Colorado's trio of high risk high reward forwards with Schwarz in goal.

Philippe27 · Guru

Dude that was uncalled for. It doesn't matter if he has the best prospects or not, he spent a ton of time writing that and he should get a little more respect and thank you notes for it.

Sabres · Guru

Yeah... we wrote it so we'd be number 1... lol

Are you mad we ranked you 26th?

Hawks_G · Guru

CAPS wrote:

Hmm so did you write this just so you could put Buffalo 1st?

Because personally I would rather have either NYI's combination of depth and skill players or Colorado's trio of high risk high reward forwards with Schwarz in goal.

Let's nip this in the bud right away. Childish responses aren't funny, so if you have something to add to a discussion throw it in. If not, then don't.

Sabes, I really appreciate the work....a great read that took lots of work.

Cheers.

-- Edited by Hawks_G at 00:52, 2007-07-24

Islanders GM · Senior Member

CAPS wrote:

NYI's combination of depth and skill players or Colorado's trio of high risk high reward forwards with Schwarz in goal.

Thank you for the mention. it's nice when some of us engage in something other than navel gazing. I believe in spending 80% of one's time talking about OTHER teams rather than just about one's own team over and over.

I have also been impressed by Colorado's prospects, even without Malkin, who isn't a prospect anymore.

I like the Canucks Fehr, Tukonen, Vlasic, Zagrapan, in fact all have been on my radar. Most of Carolina's prospects, in contrast, just make me go whaa? or hmmm. There are ten teams with better prospects than these two? Will be interesting...

I am surprised that San Jose will be in the top-10. The Jack Johnson factor I guess.

I'm glad that Detroit will be there. There are several prospects I'd be eager than hell to get from that franchise.

Sabres · Guru

Anyone wanna take a stab at the top 10? Here are the teams in alphabetical order that remain:

Buffalo
Chicago
Colorado
Detroit
New Jersey
New York Islanders
New York Rangers
Ottawa
San Jose
Toronto

it is interesting to think there are 10 teams with better prospects I.O.O. than Vancouver.

Who wants to take a shot at the order?

Predsgm · Guru

my prediction

10. San Jose
9.    Ottawa
8.    New Jersey
7.    Toronto
6.    Colorado
5.    Chicago
4.    New York Islanders
3.    Buffalo
2.    Detroit
1.    New York Rangers

will be good to see how close i was. or how way off lol

David Barbosa
GM Preds

Eric_Isles · BRHL2 Co-Commish

10-1 has been released.

Again, good job Aaron and Luke.

Islanders GM · Senior Member

Hanzal as the Isles top forward prospect?? He's barely top 5. How you could not mention Carl Soderberg is almost criminal, especially since a team like San Jose is rated so high based on a couple of touted prospects while NYI gets a 3.5/10 for forwards?? *shrug* massive differences in judgement. How the hell the harks forwards can get 6/10, almost DOUBLE what the Isles get as assessment of their forward prospects is mind-boggling.

Fortunately, with patience, time will tell.

In the meantime, congratulations Luke and Aaron in choosing your team Buffalo first overall. We never knew you had it in you!

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 17:06, 2007-07-25

-- Edited by Islanders GM at 17:32, 2007-07-25

Sabres · Guru

Islanders GM wrote:

Hanzal as the Isles top forward prospect?? He's barely top 5. How you could not mention Carl Soderberg is almost criminal, especially since a team like.

Vanny buddy, I dont know if you're going senile but in case you forget, You ranked your top prospects- we sent you an email because there were so many and didnt want to miss any- so you wrote your top 6 D.

Also, we judged on 2 main categories depth and top end potential. We dont see any #1 future dmen or top line forwards, just a bunch of good players.

Also this rating isn't based on forwards 10-20 just 1-9. okay?