Quoting: yikes
Wheelers Top Prospect Pools
32. Seattle - Basement
New York Isles - Limbo
Tampa - Cup Contender
Pittsburgh - Playoff Contender
— these 4 I firmly agree with. The Isles have Raty, Seattle has Beniers, Tampa has Hugo, Pitt has Poulin. Some names but barebones after that.
Vancouver - Limbo
Boston - Playoff Contender
Washington - Playoff Contender
Chicago - Basement (not a good look to be here)
St Louis - Playoff Contender
Florida - Cup Contender
Vegas - Cup Contender
Colorado - Cup Contender
— I agree with most of these. All have some good names and kids but slim pickings. The standout teams at this point are the Isles, Chicago, and Vancouver. Chicago is just a dumpster, but VAN isn’t good or “bad” (they’re bad tho but you get what I mean lol) and their pool is weak, the Isles are the same. Not great situations but manageable. Every other team are contenders (or previous cup contenders like Pitt) or basement dwellers. Chicago I highlight the most here - this is a poverty franchise.
20. Arizona - Actually Tanking
Edmonton - Playoff Hopefuls (lmao)
New York Rags - Playoff Contender
Ottawa - Basement
16. Calgary - Playoff Contenders
— Arizona, flat out tanking is going heavy on this draft so they will shoot you (if they make good selections), but Ottawa didn’t make good selections last draft and fell hard. Maybe it’s a bit aggressive of Wheeler but I slightly (only slightly) agree with it. Calgary has some great pieces (Coronato 🔥) and they’re a contender who needs to right their ship and get back into a form position. Meanwhile the Rags are riding Igor and their PP to death (but into a firm playoff spot) but they have some good pieces outside to be happy with. Meanwhile Edmonton despite having a strong prospect pool, has said they won’t be willing to trade their top prospects… which is idiotic imo with how expendable their prospects are (and they have plenty of decent guys).
Will be updating this later as he goes along.
WHOS LEFT?
San Jose
LA
Anaheim
Toronto
Detroit
Buffalo
Montreal
Carolina
Columbus
Devils
Philadelphia
Nashville
Minnesota
Dallas
Winnipeg
15. Toronto.. okay I guess.
14. San Jose..? now this is odd imo.
I mean I find those odd..
Buffalo, LA, ANA, MIN, CAR, DET, Devils, CBJ def have the top spots down but.
HOW IS PHILLY STILL ON THE BOARD HELLO?
@Alfie11 cant wait for philly to be in the top 10.
Edit: Oh wait
Philly is #13.
Wheeler has to be droolling over Brink and York my god.