Player Power Rankings: Prospects Edition – March 20th, 2018
By Vanessa Jang
6 years agoIt’s hard to rank players when they had a terrible week of games, so I’m switching it up and going in a more positive direction. Everyone knows we love our prospects – they’re one of our only reasons for to be optimistic about the team, quite frankly.
1. Adam Gaudette
Arguably the favourite to win the Hobey Baker Award, Gaudette had no shortage of accomplishments this week:
- Top 10 Hobey Baker finalist
- Hockey East Player of the Year
- Walter Brown Award (best American-born player in New England)
2. Jonathan Dahlen
He has 7 points (4 goals, 3 assists) in 3 playoff games for Timra.
3. Elias Pettersson.
He thinks that the Pettersson-Dahlen comparisons to the Sedins are “Totally sick”
4. Jonah Gadjovich
He scored a sick between-the-legs goal last week:
5. Kole Lind
He led the Kelowna Rockets in points this regular season:
6. Michael DiPietro
He carried his rebuilding Windsor Spitfires team this season.
7. Matt Brassard
Become familiar with him, Canucks fans. He might just be a dark horse prospect:
8. Petrus Palmu
He had a really good rookie season in the SM Liiga:
9. Zack MacEwen
He’s also had a really good rookie season, except with Utica in the AHL. He has 32 points (10 goals, 22 assists) in 59 games in his first professional season.
10. Jalen Chatfield and Guillaume Brisebois
Jim Benning thinks very highly of them.
11. Will Lockwood
Considering he’s missed significant time over the past two seasons due to his shoulder injury, this isn’t terrible news:
12. Jakob Stukel
That’s unfortunate news for Stukel:
12. Olli Juolevi
Sami Salo has spent more time with Olli Juolevi than Canucks fans have, so he knows what he’s talking about. He’s not exactly singing the praises for him…
13. Kristoffer Gunnarsson
That’s not good:
14. Cole Candella, Rodrigo Abols, Brett McKenzie
Meh.
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