We're ranked # 1
Feb 6, 2004 15:08:03 GMT -5
Post by Polarice on Feb 6, 2004 15:08:03 GMT -5
Here's an article that ranked all the teams prospects and we're ranked #1. Pretty cool eh!
The Hockey's Future Mid-Season Organizational Rankings are an assessment of the overall state of each NHL team’s system of prospects. An overall ranking is given, and strengths and weaknesses are identified. The ranking is being posted in installments every few days. Teams ranked 21-30 are here, teams 11-20 are here, and teams ranked 1-10 are below, with previous rank in parentheses.
The rankings were compiled by a committee of staff members using the prospect criteria normally used by this site. Since this is a mid-season ranking, players who were projected to appear in 41 or more NHL games in 2003-04 during the production of this list were excluded from the final draft of the rankings. Some of the excluded players may still be listed as prospects on some of the team pages, however, but moving them to "Graduated" status is a project for another day.
For information on individual prospects for each of the NHL teams, follow the link to the various team, league, or country pages here at Hockey's Future.
1. Montreal Canadiens (4)
Strengths: Montreal has an abundance of prospects who can put the puck in the opposition’s net, and plenty who can keep the puck out of their own, making them extremely formidable at both ends. Leading the well-rounded crop of forwards are steady two-way Chris Higgins, offensive dynamo Andrei Kastsitsyn, and the recently recalled Jozef Balej, a speedy winger and leading scorer in Hamilton. Alex Perezhogin, Tomas Plekanec, the raw but talented Cory Urquhart and the enigma that is Marcel Hossa complete an extremely talented group of forwards. On the blueline Montreal has the offensive minded Ron Hainsey, as well as the often over-looked Konstantin Korneev to create a potentially solid bottom pair. Andrew Archer, a big stay at home defenseman could also be a NHL regular.
Weaknesses: The Canadiens, with this season’s promotion of Mathieu Garon, are now missing a blue chip goalie prospect in the system. Jaroslav Halak, Oliver Michaud and Joni Puurula all seem to have the ceiling of NHL backup at best. Montreal’s forward prospects aren’t very big by NHL standards, and that could be a concern in the future.
Top Prospects: (C) Chris Higgins, (F) Andrei Kastsitsyn, (D) Ron Hainsey, (F) Jozef Balej, (C) Tomas Plekanec, (F) Andrei Perezhogin, (F) Marcel Hossa, (D) Konstantin Korneev, (C) Cory Urquhart.
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The Hockey's Future Mid-Season Organizational Rankings are an assessment of the overall state of each NHL team’s system of prospects. An overall ranking is given, and strengths and weaknesses are identified. The ranking is being posted in installments every few days. Teams ranked 21-30 are here, teams 11-20 are here, and teams ranked 1-10 are below, with previous rank in parentheses.
The rankings were compiled by a committee of staff members using the prospect criteria normally used by this site. Since this is a mid-season ranking, players who were projected to appear in 41 or more NHL games in 2003-04 during the production of this list were excluded from the final draft of the rankings. Some of the excluded players may still be listed as prospects on some of the team pages, however, but moving them to "Graduated" status is a project for another day.
For information on individual prospects for each of the NHL teams, follow the link to the various team, league, or country pages here at Hockey's Future.
1. Montreal Canadiens (4)
Strengths: Montreal has an abundance of prospects who can put the puck in the opposition’s net, and plenty who can keep the puck out of their own, making them extremely formidable at both ends. Leading the well-rounded crop of forwards are steady two-way Chris Higgins, offensive dynamo Andrei Kastsitsyn, and the recently recalled Jozef Balej, a speedy winger and leading scorer in Hamilton. Alex Perezhogin, Tomas Plekanec, the raw but talented Cory Urquhart and the enigma that is Marcel Hossa complete an extremely talented group of forwards. On the blueline Montreal has the offensive minded Ron Hainsey, as well as the often over-looked Konstantin Korneev to create a potentially solid bottom pair. Andrew Archer, a big stay at home defenseman could also be a NHL regular.
Weaknesses: The Canadiens, with this season’s promotion of Mathieu Garon, are now missing a blue chip goalie prospect in the system. Jaroslav Halak, Oliver Michaud and Joni Puurula all seem to have the ceiling of NHL backup at best. Montreal’s forward prospects aren’t very big by NHL standards, and that could be a concern in the future.
Top Prospects: (C) Chris Higgins, (F) Andrei Kastsitsyn, (D) Ron Hainsey, (F) Jozef Balej, (C) Tomas Plekanec, (F) Andrei Perezhogin, (F) Marcel Hossa, (D) Konstantin Korneev, (C) Cory Urquhart.
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