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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 29, 2019 at 1:23 p.m.
Thread: NHL Prospect Rankings Anaheim Ducks 131
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>OldNYIfan</b></div><div>I think Comtois, Tracey, Zegras, Steel, Groulx, Terry and Sprong will all turn out to be quality NHL players. Jones and Sherwood are on the bubble. The three defensemen will all be top-4, too.</div></div>

Zegras is a given. I think he'll end up a consistent 70-90 pt 1C. His vision and passing looks set to be elite at the NHL level, but his ability to harass and poke-check has also impressed me greatly. My only question is whether he has the leadership skills necessary to take this team deep in the playoffs. Only time and more experience will tell. However, for me, Comtois is the prototypical modern-day powerforward. I think he's going to be one of the best players in the league at his position. A winger that can post 30+ goals while doing it all. He has the mobility to harass (something Ritchie sucks at), but the size and skill to battle hard in the corner. His hands are great, especially around the net and his excellent balance means he's difficult to move once he's positioned himself. Don't get me wrong, he has his weaknesses, but the areas he excels at are exactly the ones you need to be a top NHLer.

My only concern about our prospect pool is that 3 of the top 4 are playmakers. We need more players with a scoring touch. Hence, I don't understand those who put up these trades where Sprong is moved for like 4th round pick. The kid is the definition of a finisher and could end up becoming a 30-40 goal scorer IMO. He has to bring up the other parts of his game if he's to play the minutes necessary to achieve such a feat. In that sense, it is all contingent on him continuing to progress. However, it is really hard to argue with his goal production last year.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AFOX10900</b></div><div>With those rules for who is a prospect, how is this team 15th, Terry Steel Comtois Lundestrom Mahura Larsson Guhle Zegras and Tracey would all be debated to be the pens best spec then they have Dostal Jones BOG, the two LD's (bc they needed more apparently) were decent picks on the second and fourth iirc, I'd say this team is top 10 easily, though I haven't went over every single teams prospects and it does depend on whether you look at prospects ceilings or NHL readiness, also I might have to look at his GP again, but Kase ik is under 25, and I think (due to injury) has only played like 80-90 games... He's definitely not a prospect, but by those limitations i think he might be ?? and he's already considered a top 20-30 RW by some (I'm not going to make that argument here, but he's fantastic)</div></div>

Our prospect pool is deep, but doesn't have as much high-end talent as others i.e. COL, NYR, NJ, BUF (I believe Dahlin is still a prospect according to the rules). If these rankings were weighted for positions in the draft, we'd be #1 and by a considerable margin.