Nice report bud. Why do I care exactly?

Dude is a good prospect, but you guys have lost it acting like he’s the 2nd coming of matthews

Also where would you rank knies in terms of NHL prospects I am actually curious.

The Athletic doesn't even have him as a top 50 prospect

Don’t act like a 2nd round rookie is the key to Toronto getting by the 1st round

Craig Button who is TSN Director of Scouting had him ranked at 27 on his list of Top 50 NHL Affiliated Prospects in April 2022 but he is younger than some of the players on the list and has been rising at an incredible rate.

He has the potential to be a huge difference maker for the Leafs next spring.

He’ll be a solid player eventually but this isn’t makar joining the avs for the playoffs

He is going to use the next 8 months to work with the Leafs player development team on working on his skills set, play in the World Juniors in August and play for the University of Minnesota in the regular season and then help them win a NCAA Championship in the spring so I think his game could be at a higher level next spring.

Which is fine but he’ll likely step in as a solid third line winger. I mean it something they need but they better not pin their hopes on him
Playing top six

Those rankings also have yaroslav askarov at 38. You gotta take that with a grain of salt man. Those may be some of his highest rankings. You always preach in to how people are listening too much to the Toronto media but TSN has a clear bias for Canadian teams. Knies being the 5th ranked Canadian team associated prospect is something I cannot see excluding this past draft. Sanderson guhle and niemela I agree with being over knies but with players he ranked under him who I disagree with. Pelletier, Holloway, perfetti (who he didn’t even have ranked and I have in my top 11), coronato, Amirov(who I am personally still high on despite his medical issues), Lucius, and broberg I think are all better prospects than knies. Tbh you really have to take those rankings with a grain of salt. Eklund is 22nd. I have him 6th post draft and 4th pre draft. I’m not in the minority either. I am asking for your personal ranking. I have him 75th post draft behind all of the previously mentioned players, not because I am a knies hater or a leafs hater, but because I just think other prospects are better. I am going to revise my rankings soon based on the feedback I got. Here is my list if you want to see but as I said previously, take it with a grain of salt, it’s a first ranking and I have to put in some prospects and take out others. Please list to me who you think knies is better than who I have and I’ll consider your words for my next ranking.

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/623010?post_id=3470425

You need to start listening to the Toronto media…

Any tips on the rankings tho. For the revision I am likely putting Sanderson higher and tweaking some of it. What would you suggest?

I think nemec may surprise and grab a norris so I’d put him in tier one, Sanderson I think a bit higher for sure, another one to pop in the top tier may be Cooley if coyotes can actually surround him with talent

I was reading the Hockey News the other day and they had a section looking back at NHL Top 50 Prospect Lists from like 10 and 5 years and it was actually amazing how accurate they were in the players actually making the NHL and playing significant games........As you mentioned difference in opinions........ they were off in the ranking of the actual players in order looking back but were actually quite accurate in the prospect players as a group.

No one is going to know for sure for years on the accuracy of current NHL prospect lists but I am confident that Niemela and Knies will become NHL players and really hoping Amirov gets over his health issue and makes the NHL as well.

I think you have a bit of a mix up here. The article in question is regarding the hockey news’s rankings from those respective years. Button is not associated with the hockey news. I can’t find his 2012 rankings as I don’t think he did those 10 years ago, if you can find otherwise please let me know. I believe they delete those rankings from TSN after a certain period of time as the only thing I can find is on forums. 2016s rankings had nylander as one strome as two and dvorak as three. As a group the hockey news is generally 50/50 on their picks. If you know THNs current ranking on knies or buttons older rankings LMK but as of now it’s apples and oranges.