Modifié 19 juin à 12 h 17
Pre-NHL draft public rankings for the top prospects seem to have coalesced on:
1) M. Celebrini
2) I. Demidov
3) A. Levshunov
4) Z. Buium
5-7) split: B. Catton, S. Dickinson, C. Lindstrom
8) Z. Parekh
9) A. Silayev
10) T. Iginla
11) C. Eiserman
12) K. Helenius
13) C. Yakemchuk
14) M. Brandsegg-Nygård
15) L. Greentree
16) B. Sennecke
17) I. Chernyshov (oddly enough he is the most consistent ranked prospect in all the published reports besides Celebrini; always ranked within a few spots of #17)
18) A. Jiricek
There are a few public analysts that have guys like T. Connelly, M. Hage, N. Artamonov, and A. Freij in their top ten but the combined rankings don't pan out for those guys.
J. Luchanko, S. Stolberg, T. Stiga, EJ Emery, C. Beaudoin, Y. Surin, and T. Parascak all have their "favorite" analysts but overall their range is skewed between mid 1st all the way to late 2nd round on some.
S. Boisvert, A. Basha, E. Hemming, and R. Ritchie usually round out the mid to late 1st round in nearly all of the rankings.
Anton Silayev continues to be the most interesting and his range from 2nd (Bob McKenzie) all the way to 22nd (Byron Bader) shows the "old school hockey eye test" vs "analytics" conversation inside each team's front office could swing where he goes way more than any other player.
For Mock Draft purposes having Anaheim and Columbus pick #3 and #4 with already deep blueline prospect pools could really make this interesting. Montreal might have 1 or 2 of their top 4 guys fall to them quite easily.