What would the hockey world do if Bedard committed to Michigan 😂 that would be some team. Fantilli and Bedard on the same team! Bedard is the next Crosby, I don't think he's going to be as fast as McDavid, his hands might be but I think he's going to be just better than everyone like Crosby. Similar size as well...

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SevenLeg
A_Habs_fan

I am just really excited for the future with these guys in the NHL (Zegras, Johnson, Cooley, Nazar, Bedard, Michkov) the skill and creativity they bring to the game is just amazing. SOOOOO much fun to watch.

crazy how two of those players will be drafted by the coyotes lol

Nothing scares me more than that happening 😢

I have a feeling MTL will get the 1st pick this year. So realistically Arizona can come away with Cooley + Trikozov/Casey/Ohgren/Mateychuk with their other two 1sts + 2nd round picks - or Armstrong can use a few 2nds and one of his late 1sts to move up to take Nazar lol.

Then the following year theyre pretty much guaranteed to get one of Bedard/Mitchov,Fantilli. Hopefully the Coyotes situation gets figured out sooner than later, they are going to have a ton of high end players soon.

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SevenLeg
A_Habs_fan

So the team will find a way to get Cooley, Nazar, Bedard, and somehow Michkov, then move right before the team gets good, as is tradition with the NHL.

I am just really excited for the future with these guys in the NHL (Zegras, Johnson, Cooley, Nazar, Bedard, Michkov) the skill and creativity they bring to the game is just amazing. SOOOOO much fun to watch.

Houston's future top 6:
Keller-Bedard-Nazar
Hayton-Cooley-Guenther

Nazar doesn't quite belong with those names imo, he's a tad below them but he does look amazing

Nazar doesn't quite belong with those names imo, he's a tad below them but he does look amazing

Edit: He's pretty well rounded and show great offensive prowess, only thing that makes him a tad below for me is I don't quite see that elite potential, I can see him becoming a 1st liner but not an elite player like Wright, Yurov, Kemell, Cooley, Johnson, etc

I get that, I’m just really high on him. And if he does pop I PROMISE not be a “told you so guy”

I'm not sure if you saw my edit.

Also it's CF, most of us probably would say i told you so lol

My rough predictions for Wheeler's team prospect rankings. He does this based on U23 and non-NHL only. I'll also post some of their top prospects in brackets, completely at my own discretion and in no particular order, but it should hopefully be pretty much everyone even somewhat relevant lol
1. Buffalo Sabres (Power, Rosen, Peterka, Samuelsson, Ryan Johnson, Poltapov, Kisakov, Quinn, Portillo, UPL, Laaksonen, Krebs)
2. Minnesota Wild (Wallstedt, Rossi, Boldy, Khusnutdinov, Addison, O'Rourke, Hunt, Novak, Hunter Jones, Beckman, Peart, Lambos, Khovanov, Firstov, McBain)
3. New Jersey Devils (Holtz, Luke Hughes, Mukhamadullin, Daws, Pytlik, Chase Stillman, Okhotyuk, Graeme Clarke, Tyce Thompson, Walsh, Schmid, Bahl, Schnarr)
4. Los Angeles Kings (Turcotte, Byfield, Clarke, Pinelli, Helenius, Kirsanov, Grans, Faber, Simontaival, Laferriere, Chromiak, ****emo, Spence, Kupari, Akil Thomas, JAD, Vilardi, Madden)
5. Ottawa Senators (Sanderson, Greig, Jarventie, Kleven, Sokolov, Merilainen, Boucher, Roger, Ostapchuk, Oliver Johansson, Latimer, Reinhardt, Lassi Thomson, Guenette, Sogaard, Kastelic, JBD, Tychonick, Crookshank, Mandolese, Lodin, Parker Kelly)
6. Anaheim Ducks (McTavish, Zellweger, Pastujov, Hinds, Jacob Perreault, Colangelo, Nickl, Tracey, LaCombe, Thrun, Dostal, Axel Andersson, Elvenes)
7. Carolina Hurricanes (Heimosalmi, Scott Morrow, Koivunen, Hamrla, Quapp, Justin Robidas, Jackson Blake, Gunler, Ponomarev, Nikishin, Nybeck, Pashin, Seeley, Ryan Suzuki, Kochetkov, Rees, Puistola, Anttoni Honka, Jack Drury, Makiniemi, Keane, Bokk)
8. New York Rangers (Schneider, Zac Jones, Othmann, Ryder Korczak, Cuylle, Boyko, Garand, Brett Berard, Matthew Robertson, Henriksson, Kravtsov, Pajuniemi, Lindbom)
9. Calgary Flames (Coronato, Pelletier, Zary, Wolf, Ruzicka, Stromgren, Huckins, Whynot, Heineman, Poirier, Yan Kuznetsov, Boltmann, Ryan Francis, Pospisil, Zavgorodniy, MEP)
10. Columbus Blue Jackets (Ceulemans, Johnson, Svozil, Knazko, L. Foudy, Marchenko, Berni, Tarasov, TFW, Angle)
11. Detroit Red Wings (Edvinsson, Cossa, Viro, Sebrango, Albert Johansson, McIsaac, Berggren, Bednar, Buium, Mastrosimone, Mazur, Niederbach, Savage, Soderblom, Wallinder, Hanas, Tuomisto, Kienan Draper)
12. Nashville Predators (Askarov, Tomasino, Svechkov, L'Heureux, Glass, Olsson, Ufko, Evangelista, Prokop, Afanasyev, Farrance, Knak, Parssinen)
13. Winnipeg Jets (Heinola, Lucius, Chibrikov, Perfetti, Kuzmin, Torgersson, Lundmark, Gustafsson, Chisholm, Nathan Smith, Samberg)
14. Edmonton Oilers (Broberg, Bourgault, Holloway, Petrov, Munzenberger, Tullio, Lavoie, Savoie, Rodrigue, Samorukov)
15. Toronto Maple Leafs (Niemela, Knies, Hirvonen, Robertson, Amirov, Kokkonen, Abramov, Abruzzese, SDA, Hollowell, Holmberg)
16. San Jose Sharks (Eklund, Wiesblatt, Bordeleau, Benjamin Gaudreau, Robins, Gushchin, Coe, Kniazev, Raska, Ryan Merkley, Chmelevski, Hatakka)
17.Dallas Stars (Johnston, Bourque, Harley, Stankoven, Grushnikov, Martino, Bar, Arcuri, Stranges, Dellandrea, Damiani)
18. Arizona Coyotes (Guenther, Soderstrom, Maccelli, Kirk, Jenik, Prosvetov, Moser, Josh Doan, Farinacci, Aku Raty, Kolyachonok)
19. Montreal Canadiens (Guhle, Mailloux??, Kidney, Kapanen, Vrbetic, Roy, Luke Tuch, Farrell, Mysak, Struble, Norlinder, Ylonen, Harris, Brook, Primeau, Fairbrother)
20. Colorado Avalanche (Olausson, Behrens, Annunen, Barron, Ranta, Bowers, JL Foudy, Kaut, Helleson, Stienburg, Taylor Makar)
21. Vegas Golden Knights (Dean, Chayka, Brisson, Cormier, Kaedan Korczak, Dorofeyev, Morozov)
22. St. Louis Blues (Bolduc, Neighbours, Robertsson, Peterson, Hofer)
23. Florida Panthers (Samoskevich, Smilanic, Sourdif, Michael Benning, Nause, Denisenko, Noel)
24. Philadelphia Flyers (York, Tuomalaa, Frost, Foerster, Andrae, Wisdom, Desnoyers, Brink)
25. Chicago Blackhawks (Allan, Colton Dach, Reichel, Commesso, Vlasic, Slaggert, Teply, Beaudin, Mitchell, Demin)
26. Boston Bruins (Lysell, Studnicka, Beecher, Lauko, Vaakanainen
27. Washington Capitals (Lapierre, Alexeyev, Iorio, Leason, Brent Johnson)
28. Pittsburgh Penguins (Poulin, POJ, Blomqvist, Clang, Legare, Hallander, Broz, Gruden)
29. Vancouver Canucks (Klimovich, Jurmo, DiPietro, Rathbone, Woo)
30. Tampa Bay Lightning (Alnefelt, Duke, Finley, Goncalves, Schmidt, Thompson, Cajkovic, posted today, had them here when I was drafting this)
31. New York Islanders (Raty, Dufour, Bolduc, Iskhakov, Holmstrom, Lennox, already posted by him, woulda had them here with a minute's research into the age of Salo/Koivula/Bellows)
32. Seattle Kraken (Beniers, Evans, Winterton, Henman, the guys they picked in rounds 4-7 are the only other prospects they have lol, already posted by him, was obvious)

Kinda off-topic, but it just now occurred to me just how common the last name "Nemec" is in Czechia. There are 130+ hockey players with the last name "Nemec" registered on Elite Prospects. One of those is Future Blue Jacket Simon.

Buffalo, LA, Minnesota and NYR are left...

1. Buffalo
2. Los Angeles
3. Minnesota
4. New York Rangers

NYR was 18th I believe. The Devils are 4th which leaves LA, Minnesota and Buffalo.

Whoops, lol I was confused on how they where top 4... Remains same order...

NYR was 18th I believe. The Devils are 4th which leaves LA, Minnesota and Buffalo.