Hockey Prophets

Caleb Desnoyers $264.10 ▲ 1.6% Roger McQueen $186.85 ▲ 1% Michael Hage $86.19 ▲ 1.9% Yegor Surin $75.00 — 0% Matias Vanhanen $80.00 — 0% Theo Stockselius $50.00 — 0% Sasha Pastujov $4.85 ▼ 1.4% Andrew Basha $43.24 ▼ 1.1% Maxmillian Curran $10.00 — 0% Vincent Desjardins $1.00 — 0% Lucas Pettersson $50.00 — 0% Dean Letourneau $69.32 ▼ 2% Clarke Caswell $15.11 ▲ 1.8% Jesse Kiiskinen $19.98 ▼ 1.6% Gabe Smith $20.00 — 0% Andrei Loshko $9.86 ▼ 1.4% Julius Sumpf $14.82 ▼ 1.2% Oscar Fisker Molgaard $19.66 ▼ 2% Emmanuel Vermette $1.00 — 0% Jere Lassila $1.00 — 0% Jake O'Brien $200.00 — 0% Roman Kantserov $21.34 ▲ 1.9% Ilya Protas $33.39 ▲ 1.7% Philippe Veilleux $1.00 — 0% Marco Mignosa $2.00 — 0% Bradley Nadeau $41.62 ▲ 1.3% Juraj Pekarcik $19.69 ▼ 1.5% Miroslav Holinka $10.00 — 0% Joshua Roy $2.00 — 0% Luke Mistelbacher $1.00 — 0% Isaac Howard $25.62 ▲ 1.1% Cullen Potter $88.61 ▼ 1.5% Yegor Vinogradov $1.00 — 0% Ethan Miedema $14.74 ▼ 1.7% Ilya Ivantsov $0.81 ▼ 1.2% Patrick Thomas $24.56 ▼ 1.8% Kalan Lind $24.54 ▼ 1.8% Matthew Gard $50.00 — 0% Jackson Smith $155.00 — 0% Oliver Bonk $55.13 ▼ 1.7% Stian Solberg $74.23 ▼ 1% Ben Danford $58.27 ▼ 1.3% Mikhail Gulyayev $39.60 ▼ 1% Tristan Luneau $10.39 ▲ 1.6% Caden Price $15.00 — 0% Jakub Fibigr $5.00 — 0% Carter Amico $73.54 ▼ 1.9% Marcus Kearsey $1.00 — 0% Victor Eklund $152.17 ▲ 1.4% Cole Reschny $135.00 — 0% Alexander Zharovsky $96.90 ▲ 2% Cole Beaudoin $71.31 ▲ 1.9% Nate Danielson $85.00 — 0% Felix Nilsson $30.00 — 0% Cole McKinney $50.00 — 0% Jagger Firkus $20.00 — 0% Mason West $98.37 ▼ 1.6% Gracyn Sawchyn $19.76 ▼ 1.2% Adam Jecho $19.77 ▼ 1.2% David Lewandowski $25.00 — 0% Owen Martin $29.57 ▼ 1.4% Ethan Procyszyn $30.00 — 0% Matvei Korotky $3.00 — 0% Alexander Weiermair $4.00 — 0% Eduard Sale $52.72 ▼ 1.5% Aydar Suniev $19.71 ▼ 1.5% Dalyn Wakely $2.00 — 0% Philip Hemmyr $24.66 ▼ 1.4% Theodor Knights $30.00 ▲ 20% Bruno Osmanis $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Amrhein $0.01 ▼ 100% Jacob Xu $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Nycz $40.00 ▲ 60% Rian Chudzinski $40.00 ▲ 60% Adam Nemec $60.00 ▲ 137.1% Max Isaksson $0.01 ▼ 100% Viktor Fyodorov $40.00 ▲ 60% Jack Hextall $119.00 ▲ 8.2% Liam Greentree $95.00 — 0% Axel Brongel-Larsson $0.01 ▼ 100% Gavin McKenna $515.05 ▲ 1.5% Juho Piiparinen $123.00 ▲ 11.8% Alexander Command $210.00 ▲ 90.9% Nikita Klepov $186.92 ▼ 1.6% Caleb Malhotra $332.72 ▼ 1.9% Ilia Morozov $160.00 ▲ 45.5% William Hakansson $66.00 ▼ 40% Egor Shilov $83.00 ▼ 25.8% Liam Ruck $150.00 ▲ 36.4% Simas Ignatacivius $91.00 ▼ 17.3% Niklas Aaram-Olsen $88.00 ▼ 20% Colin Fitzgerald $10.00 ▼ 80% Adam Valentini $40.00 ▼ 21.2% Tobias Trejbal $86.00 ▲ 72% Allessandro Di Iorio $40.00 ▼ 20% Tomas Chrenko $40.00 ▼ 21.1% Mikey Berchild $40.00 ▼ 20% Lavr Gashilov $30.00 ▼ 40% JP Hurlbert $143.22 ▼ 1.2% Malte Gustafsson $194.86 ▼ 1.3% Marcus Nordmark $125.00 ▼ 16.7% Keaton Verhoeff $242.56 ▲ 1.1% Ivar Stenberg $410.04 ▲ 1.1% Tynan Lawrence $216.81 ▼ 1.5% Ethan Belchetz $180.00 ▼ 10% Alberts Smits $294.27 ▼ 1.9% Ryan Lin $155.00 ▼ 22.5% Chase Reid $265.30 ▲ 1.8% Ryan Roobroeck $104.00 ▼ 48% Viggo Bjork $252.99 ▲ 1.2% Daxon Rudolph $314.02 ▼ 1.6% Simon Katolicky $30.00 ▼ 80% Carson Carels $280.00 ▲ 81% Xavier Villeneuve $101.49 ▼ 1.2% Mathis Preston $68.00 ▼ 54.7% Adam Novotny $140.00 ▼ 6.7% Elton Hermansson $165.00 ▲ 10% Oliver Suvanto $170.00 ▲ 13.3% Jakub Vanecek $60.00 ▲ 20% Braidy Wassilyn $0.01 ▼ 100% Tomas Galvas $60.00 ▲ 135.4% Landon Hafele $20.00 ▼ 60% Thomas Vandenberg $40.00 ▼ 20% Luke Schairer $60.00 ▲ 140% Markus Ruck $93.00 ▲ 264.8% Ben MacBeath $60.00 ▲ 140% Ryder Cali $70.27 ▼ 1.4% Samu Alalauri $60.00 ▲ 132.6% Yaroslav Fedoseyev $20.00 ▼ 20% Aleksei Vlasov $0.01 ▼ 100% Vladimir Dravecky $30.00 ▲ 20% Victor Plante $72.98 ▼ 1.4% Zach Jovanovski $20.00 ▼ 20% Frantisek Poletin $0.01 ▼ 100% Jasper Kuhta $10.00 ▼ 60% Charlie Morrison $60.00 ▲ 140% Joe Iginla $57.81 ▼ 1.8% Chase Harrington $101.00 ▲ 298.6% Oscar Holmertz $40.00 ▼ 20% Olivers Murniecks $30.00 ▼ 40% Vilho Vanhatalo $20.00 ▼ 60% Maddox Dagenais $182.07 ▼ 1.6% Pierce Mbuyi $40.00 ▼ 20% Brooks Rogowski $106.93 ▼ 1.9% Giorgios Pantelas $20.00 ▼ 60% Casey Mutryn $96.00 ▲ 92% Wyatt Cullen $223.98 ▼ 1.3% Lars Steiner $20.22 ▲ 1.1% Axel Elofsson $30.00 ▼ 40% Tobias Tomik $0.01 ▼ 100% Nikita Shcherbakov $81.00 ▲ 62% Gleb Pugachyov $132.71 ▼ 1.7% Vertti Svensk $20.00 ▼ 60% Cooper Williams $20.00 ▼ 60% Jaxon Cover $110.86 ▼ 1.9% Brady Knowling $30.00 ▼ 40% Blake Zielinski $60.00 ▲ 20% Adam Goljer $70.00 ▲ 40% Filip Novak $10.00 ▼ 80% Blake Fiddler $78.80 ▼ 1.5% Zayne Parekh $128.41 ▲ 1.7% Cole Brown $6.89 ▼ 1.6% Wilson Bjork $15.00 — 0% Tommy Lafreniere $30.00 — 0% Artyom Kashtanov $1.00 — 0% Logan Hensler $111.49 ▼ 1.9% Kurban Limatov $49.04 ▼ 1.9% Tanner Molendyk $49.11 ▼ 1.8% Tarin Smith $30.00 — 0% Colin Ralph $34.30 ▼ 2% Etienne Morin $24.72 ▼ 1.1% Noel Fransen $30.00 — 0% Theo Lindstein $45.67 ▲ 1.5% Kocha Delic $1.00 — 0% Thomas Desruisseaux $1.00 — 0% Anton Frondell $292.84 ▲ 1.8% Justin Carbonneau $130.00 — 0% Konsta Helenius $102.48 ▲ 1.2% Benjamin Rautiainen $15.72 ▲ 1.7% Eddie Genborg $65.00 — 0% Rutger McGroarty $40.00 — 0% Sam O'Reilly $58.07 ▲ 1.7% Milton Gastrin $80.00 — 0% Aiden Fink $2.00 — 0% Charlie Stramel $55.19 ▲ 1.6% Nathan Quinn $15.00 — 0% Brodie Ziemer $30.00 — 0% Austin Burnevik $5.00 — 0% Filip Bystedt $25.00 — 0% David Reinbacher $103.68 ▼ 1.3% Carter Yakemchuk $130.00 — 0% Kaden Pitre $5.00 — 0% Dylan Hryckowian $1.00 — 0% Cameron Lund $20.00 — 0% Mathieu Cataford $19.64 ▼ 1.8% Cole Hutson $43.62 ▲ 1.2% Spencer Gill $30.00 — 0% Harrison Brunicke $40.00 — 0% Jacob Rombach $84.11 ▼ 1% Bryce Pickford $20.24 ▲ 1.2% Seamus Casey $14.67 ▼ 1.9% Beau Akey $20.00 — 0% Artyom Duda $19.34 ▼ 1.5% Kieren Dervin $48.47 ▼ 1.7% Ryan Conmy $5.00 — 0% Porter Martone $240.59 ▲ 1.3% Quentin Musty $45.00 — 0% Cole Eiserman $78.54 ▼ 1.8% Marek Vanacker $65.00 — 0% Julius Miettinen $45.74 ▲ 1.6% Dmitri Buchelnikov $4.65 ▼ 1.7% Ethan Czata $49.02 ▼ 2% Jordan Dumais $10.16 ▼ 1.6% Tyler Hopkins $29.66 ▼ 1.1% Nathan Aspinall $10.15 ▲ 1.5% Nathan Villeneuve $29.60 ▼ 1.3% Justin Robidas $2.00 — 0% Jacob Battaglia $30.00 — 0% Ethan Wyttenbach $25.00 — 0% Dmitri Simashev $101.41 ▲ 1.4% Kashawn Aitcheson $146.76 ▲ 1.2% Carson Wetsch $19.96 ▲ 1.6% Ben Wilmott $20.00 — 0% Mason Moe $30.00 — 0% Jonathan Lekkerimaki $40.00 — 0% Henry Mews $30.00 — 0% Alfons Freij $50.00 — 0% Haoxi Wang $88.32 ▼ 1.9% Adam Kleber $45.00 — 0% Hunter Brzustewicz $20.00 — 0% Christian Kyrou $15.00 — 0% Lasse Boelius $50.00 — 0% Ty Nelson $10.00 — 0% Hayden Paupenekis $50.00 — 0% Max Westergard $25.00 — 0% Braeden Cootes $150.00 — 0% Trevor Connelly $80.00 — 0% Mateo Nobert $30.48 ▲ 1.6% Maxim Masse $30.37 ▲ 1.2% Anthony Romani $5.00 — 0% Ivan Ryabkin $50.00 — 0% Vadim Moroz $10.00 — 0% Kieron Walton $5.00 — 0% Alex Kostov $5.00 — 0% Egor Barabanov $20.00 — 0% David Edstrom $40.00 — 0% John Mustard $30.00 — 0% Prokhor Poltapov $10.00 — 0% Cayden Lindstrom $156.88 ▼ 2% Caleb Desnoyers $264.10 ▲ 1.6% Roger McQueen $186.85 ▲ 1% Michael Hage $86.19 ▲ 1.9% Yegor Surin $75.00 — 0% Matias Vanhanen $80.00 — 0% Theo Stockselius $50.00 — 0% Sasha Pastujov $4.85 ▼ 1.4% Andrew Basha $43.24 ▼ 1.1% Maxmillian Curran $10.00 — 0% Vincent Desjardins $1.00 — 0% Lucas Pettersson $50.00 — 0% Dean Letourneau $69.32 ▼ 2% Clarke Caswell $15.11 ▲ 1.8% Jesse Kiiskinen $19.98 ▼ 1.6% Gabe Smith $20.00 — 0% Andrei Loshko $9.86 ▼ 1.4% Julius Sumpf $14.82 ▼ 1.2% Oscar Fisker Molgaard $19.66 ▼ 2% Emmanuel Vermette $1.00 — 0% Jere Lassila $1.00 — 0% Jake O'Brien $200.00 — 0% Roman Kantserov $21.34 ▲ 1.9% Ilya Protas $33.39 ▲ 1.7% Philippe Veilleux $1.00 — 0% Marco Mignosa $2.00 — 0% Bradley Nadeau $41.62 ▲ 1.3% Juraj Pekarcik $19.69 ▼ 1.5% Miroslav Holinka $10.00 — 0% Joshua Roy $2.00 — 0% Luke Mistelbacher $1.00 — 0% Isaac Howard $25.62 ▲ 1.1% Cullen Potter $88.61 ▼ 1.5% Yegor Vinogradov $1.00 — 0% Ethan Miedema $14.74 ▼ 1.7% Ilya Ivantsov $0.81 ▼ 1.2% Patrick Thomas $24.56 ▼ 1.8% Kalan Lind $24.54 ▼ 1.8% Matthew Gard $50.00 — 0% Jackson Smith $155.00 — 0% Oliver Bonk $55.13 ▼ 1.7% Stian Solberg $74.23 ▼ 1% Ben Danford $58.27 ▼ 1.3% Mikhail Gulyayev $39.60 ▼ 1% Tristan Luneau $10.39 ▲ 1.6% Caden Price $15.00 — 0% Jakub Fibigr $5.00 — 0% Carter Amico $73.54 ▼ 1.9% Marcus Kearsey $1.00 — 0% Victor Eklund $152.17 ▲ 1.4% Cole Reschny $135.00 — 0% Alexander Zharovsky $96.90 ▲ 2% Cole Beaudoin $71.31 ▲ 1.9% Nate Danielson $85.00 — 0% Felix Nilsson $30.00 — 0% Cole McKinney $50.00 — 0% Jagger Firkus $20.00 — 0% Mason West $98.37 ▼ 1.6% Gracyn Sawchyn $19.76 ▼ 1.2% Adam Jecho $19.77 ▼ 1.2% David Lewandowski $25.00 — 0% Owen Martin $29.57 ▼ 1.4% Ethan Procyszyn $30.00 — 0% Matvei Korotky $3.00 — 0% Alexander Weiermair $4.00 — 0% Eduard Sale $52.72 ▼ 1.5% Aydar Suniev $19.71 ▼ 1.5% Dalyn Wakely $2.00 — 0% Philip Hemmyr $24.66 ▼ 1.4% Theodor Knights $30.00 ▲ 20% Bruno Osmanis $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Amrhein $0.01 ▼ 100% Jacob Xu $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Nycz $40.00 ▲ 60% Rian Chudzinski $40.00 ▲ 60% Adam Nemec $60.00 ▲ 137.1% Max Isaksson $0.01 ▼ 100% Viktor Fyodorov $40.00 ▲ 60% Jack Hextall $119.00 ▲ 8.2% Liam Greentree $95.00 — 0% Axel Brongel-Larsson $0.01 ▼ 100% Gavin McKenna $515.05 ▲ 1.5% Juho Piiparinen $123.00 ▲ 11.8% Alexander Command $210.00 ▲ 90.9% Nikita Klepov $186.92 ▼ 1.6% Caleb Malhotra $332.72 ▼ 1.9% Ilia Morozov $160.00 ▲ 45.5% William Hakansson $66.00 ▼ 40% Egor Shilov $83.00 ▼ 25.8% Liam Ruck $150.00 ▲ 36.4% Simas Ignatacivius $91.00 ▼ 17.3% Niklas Aaram-Olsen $88.00 ▼ 20% Colin Fitzgerald $10.00 ▼ 80% Adam Valentini $40.00 ▼ 21.2% Tobias Trejbal $86.00 ▲ 72% Allessandro Di Iorio $40.00 ▼ 20% Tomas Chrenko $40.00 ▼ 21.1% Mikey Berchild $40.00 ▼ 20% Lavr Gashilov $30.00 ▼ 40% JP Hurlbert $143.22 ▼ 1.2% Malte Gustafsson $194.86 ▼ 1.3% Marcus Nordmark $125.00 ▼ 16.7% Keaton Verhoeff $242.56 ▲ 1.1% Ivar Stenberg $410.04 ▲ 1.1% Tynan Lawrence $216.81 ▼ 1.5% Ethan Belchetz $180.00 ▼ 10% Alberts Smits $294.27 ▼ 1.9% Ryan Lin $155.00 ▼ 22.5% Chase Reid $265.30 ▲ 1.8% Ryan Roobroeck $104.00 ▼ 48% Viggo Bjork $252.99 ▲ 1.2% Daxon Rudolph $314.02 ▼ 1.6% Simon Katolicky $30.00 ▼ 80% Carson Carels $280.00 ▲ 81% Xavier Villeneuve $101.49 ▼ 1.2% Mathis Preston $68.00 ▼ 54.7% Adam Novotny $140.00 ▼ 6.7% Elton Hermansson $165.00 ▲ 10% Oliver Suvanto $170.00 ▲ 13.3% Jakub Vanecek $60.00 ▲ 20% Braidy Wassilyn $0.01 ▼ 100% Tomas Galvas $60.00 ▲ 135.4% Landon Hafele $20.00 ▼ 60% Thomas Vandenberg $40.00 ▼ 20% Luke Schairer $60.00 ▲ 140% Markus Ruck $93.00 ▲ 264.8% Ben MacBeath $60.00 ▲ 140% Ryder Cali $70.27 ▼ 1.4% Samu Alalauri $60.00 ▲ 132.6% Yaroslav Fedoseyev $20.00 ▼ 20% Aleksei Vlasov $0.01 ▼ 100% Vladimir Dravecky $30.00 ▲ 20% Victor Plante $72.98 ▼ 1.4% Zach Jovanovski $20.00 ▼ 20% Frantisek Poletin $0.01 ▼ 100% Jasper Kuhta $10.00 ▼ 60% Charlie Morrison $60.00 ▲ 140% Joe Iginla $57.81 ▼ 1.8% Chase Harrington $101.00 ▲ 298.6% Oscar Holmertz $40.00 ▼ 20% Olivers Murniecks $30.00 ▼ 40% Vilho Vanhatalo $20.00 ▼ 60% Maddox Dagenais $182.07 ▼ 1.6% Pierce Mbuyi $40.00 ▼ 20% Brooks Rogowski $106.93 ▼ 1.9% Giorgios Pantelas $20.00 ▼ 60% Casey Mutryn $96.00 ▲ 92% Wyatt Cullen $223.98 ▼ 1.3% Lars Steiner $20.22 ▲ 1.1% Axel Elofsson $30.00 ▼ 40% Tobias Tomik $0.01 ▼ 100% Nikita Shcherbakov $81.00 ▲ 62% Gleb Pugachyov $132.71 ▼ 1.7% Vertti Svensk $20.00 ▼ 60% Cooper Williams $20.00 ▼ 60% Jaxon Cover $110.86 ▼ 1.9% Brady Knowling $30.00 ▼ 40% Blake Zielinski $60.00 ▲ 20% Adam Goljer $70.00 ▲ 40% Filip Novak $10.00 ▼ 80% Blake Fiddler $78.80 ▼ 1.5% Zayne Parekh $128.41 ▲ 1.7% Cole Brown $6.89 ▼ 1.6% Wilson Bjork $15.00 — 0% Tommy Lafreniere $30.00 — 0% Artyom Kashtanov $1.00 — 0% Logan Hensler $111.49 ▼ 1.9% Kurban Limatov $49.04 ▼ 1.9% Tanner Molendyk $49.11 ▼ 1.8% Tarin Smith $30.00 — 0% Colin Ralph $34.30 ▼ 2% Etienne Morin $24.72 ▼ 1.1% Noel Fransen $30.00 — 0% Theo Lindstein $45.67 ▲ 1.5% Kocha Delic $1.00 — 0% Thomas Desruisseaux $1.00 — 0% Anton Frondell $292.84 ▲ 1.8% Justin Carbonneau $130.00 — 0% Konsta Helenius $102.48 ▲ 1.2% Benjamin Rautiainen $15.72 ▲ 1.7% Eddie Genborg $65.00 — 0% Rutger McGroarty $40.00 — 0% Sam O'Reilly $58.07 ▲ 1.7% Milton Gastrin $80.00 — 0% Aiden Fink $2.00 — 0% Charlie Stramel $55.19 ▲ 1.6% Nathan Quinn $15.00 — 0% Brodie Ziemer $30.00 — 0% Austin Burnevik $5.00 — 0% Filip Bystedt $25.00 — 0% David Reinbacher $103.68 ▼ 1.3% Carter Yakemchuk $130.00 — 0% Kaden Pitre $5.00 — 0% Dylan Hryckowian $1.00 — 0% Cameron Lund $20.00 — 0% Mathieu Cataford $19.64 ▼ 1.8% Cole Hutson $43.62 ▲ 1.2% Spencer Gill $30.00 — 0% Harrison Brunicke $40.00 — 0% Jacob Rombach $84.11 ▼ 1% Bryce Pickford $20.24 ▲ 1.2% Seamus Casey $14.67 ▼ 1.9% Beau Akey $20.00 — 0% Artyom Duda $19.34 ▼ 1.5% Kieren Dervin $48.47 ▼ 1.7% Ryan Conmy $5.00 — 0% Porter Martone $240.59 ▲ 1.3% Quentin Musty $45.00 — 0% Cole Eiserman $78.54 ▼ 1.8% Marek Vanacker $65.00 — 0% Julius Miettinen $45.74 ▲ 1.6% Dmitri Buchelnikov $4.65 ▼ 1.7% Ethan Czata $49.02 ▼ 2% Jordan Dumais $10.16 ▼ 1.6% Tyler Hopkins $29.66 ▼ 1.1% Nathan Aspinall $10.15 ▲ 1.5% Nathan Villeneuve $29.60 ▼ 1.3% Justin Robidas $2.00 — 0% Jacob Battaglia $30.00 — 0% Ethan Wyttenbach $25.00 — 0% Dmitri Simashev $101.41 ▲ 1.4% Kashawn Aitcheson $146.76 ▲ 1.2% Carson Wetsch $19.96 ▲ 1.6% Ben Wilmott $20.00 — 0% Mason Moe $30.00 — 0% Jonathan Lekkerimaki $40.00 — 0% Henry Mews $30.00 — 0% Alfons Freij $50.00 — 0% Haoxi Wang $88.32 ▼ 1.9% Adam Kleber $45.00 — 0% Hunter Brzustewicz $20.00 — 0% Christian Kyrou $15.00 — 0% Lasse Boelius $50.00 — 0% Ty Nelson $10.00 — 0% Hayden Paupenekis $50.00 — 0% Max Westergard $25.00 — 0% Braeden Cootes $150.00 — 0% Trevor Connelly $80.00 — 0% Mateo Nobert $30.48 ▲ 1.6% Maxim Masse $30.37 ▲ 1.2% Anthony Romani $5.00 — 0% Ivan Ryabkin $50.00 — 0% Vadim Moroz $10.00 — 0% Kieron Walton $5.00 — 0% Alex Kostov $5.00 — 0% Egor Barabanov $20.00 — 0% David Edstrom $40.00 — 0% John Mustard $30.00 — 0% Prokhor Poltapov $10.00 — 0% Cayden Lindstrom $156.88 ▼ 2%
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Top Prospects: The NHL System Rankings

#3: Detroit Red Wings

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Number of Ranked Prospects: 47

Number of Forwards in the Top 50: 2

Number of Defensemen in the Top 50: 4

Average Rank of Top 10 Prospects in Pool: 60th

Top Forward Prospect in The System: Michael Brandsegg-Nygard (13th)

Top Defenseman Prospect in The System: Axel Sandin Pellikka (5th)

System Score: 4.75

 

Steve Yzerman took over the Detroit general manager role in the spring of 2019. Tasked with rebuilding one of the most storied teams in NHL history, the Hall of Fame player began mining for diamonds and gold in the draft, looking deep into European leagues to build a highly skilled, smart prospect pool. In the 2019 draft, Yzerman selected German defenseman Moritz Seider sixth overall, despite major pundits having the player ranked much lower than that (Hockey Prophets had him ranked 19th). Seider would go on to win the NHL's Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie in the 2021-2022 season, and at this point has played in 300 NHL games, with 167 points. The following draft, the Red Wings selected left winger Lucas Raymond out of the top Swedish league at fourth overall (ranked 7th by Hockey Prophets). Raymond is currently leading the Red Wings in scoring with 58 points in 54 games this year. Detroit took Austrian center Marco Kasper eighth overall in 2022, and he, too, has become a starting member of the Red Wings lineup.

 

The Top of The Pool:

The Red Wings have two of the most talented blueliner prospects in all of hockey in 2023 17th-overall draft pick Axel Sandin Pellikka (Hockey Prophets ranked him 14th) and 2021 6th-overall pick Simon Edvinsson (ranked 11th). Sandin Pellikka has everything that a team wants in an offensive defenseman. He is a shifty, smooth skater with elite-level balance and body control. When he carries in transition, he has the puck control and speed that makes opponents back off and give him space up ice, which means that he excels in creating easy offensive zone entries whether it is via carrying the puck in or driving the defenders back and passing off to a player with speed and open space. Sandin Pellikka also has a nice, hard shot and the game intelligence to know the proper times to go deeper into the offensive zone or to be more conservative as required by play on the ice. He rarely rushes himself into mistakes, and despite being slightly below average size at 5'11 and 185 pounds, he holds his own against larger players in his own end. Pellikka currently has 25 points in 34 SHL games for Skelleftea, the best point-per-game production of any U20 defender in the history of the league. He is a legitimate top-pair offensive defenseman prospect.

Right behind Sandin Pellikka on the prospect ranking is Simon Edvinsson, the 6'6, 216-pound blueliner who this year has already become an NHL regular. He will be graduated from the prospects ranking in the upcoming spring edition. Everything looks effortless for Edvinsson, including skating which looks so easy and graceful that it can be easy to forget that he is as big as he is. 

The best forward in the Red Wings system is Norwegian-born player Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, a 6'1, 207-pound winger who, like Sandin Pellikka, also plays for Skelleftea in the Swedish league. The 15th-overall pick in the 2024 NHL draft has 11 points in 30 games (5 goals, 6 assists). Brandsegg-Nygard, at 6'1 and 207 pounds, has the prototypical power-forward frame and he plays that role incredibly well. He is an excellent skater who goes hard on every shift regardless of the zone he is in. He top attribute other than he ultrahigh competitiveness is a blistering wrist shot. 

Nate Danielson might be one of the top two-way forward prospects in hockey. A player that excels at being one of the most difficult opponents on the ice, Danielson can not only drive possession and set up plays, but he also will outhustle anyone on the back check and make games into waking nightmares for opposing forwards. He has excellent hockey intelligence and always seems to be in the right spot on the ice. He works so hard and gets into the dirtiest spots on the ice, winning battles on the boards or at the top of the crease, he just epitomizes that kind of hard-charging, hard-edged player that a championship team needs. 

Detroit has yet another quality Swedish defenseman in William Wallinder, their 32nd-overall pick in the 2020 who is currently polishing his game in the AHL with Grand Rapids. A player who may be just about ready to get his chance at the NHL level, the 6'4, 190-pound stay-at-home defender will have to fight for a spot on the incredibly deep and talented young Red Wings defense.

Beyond the most-known names at the top of the pool are more quality players that create a deep pipeline of young players that solidifies Detroit's spot near the top of the system rankings. Dmitri Buchelnikov is a smaller (5'10, 170 pounds), but blazingly fast winger who currently leads his KHL squad Vityaz Moscow in scoring. In fact, Buchelnikov's 13 goals and 27 assists has him among the top production seasons for a U21 player in the KHL among names like Tarasenko, Kaprizov, Michkov, Kuznetsov and Demidov. He is under contract until the end of the 2025-2026 season. Ondrej Becher is a Czech forward playing his first season of professional hockey in Grand Rapids. Becher plays a smart, solid game in all situations, and can be an integral role player on a top team. He will likely top out in the middle six, but he should be a high-quality member of the Red Wings squad in a year or two. Jesse Kiiskinen is a Finnish scorer that the Wings drafted 68th overall in 2023. Kiiskinen was a standout, point-per-game player for Finland's World Junior Championship squad this year and is the top scorer for HPK in the Finnish Liiga. His point-per-game pace places him at the top if U20 Liiga scoring over the past quarter century, tied with Sebastian Aho and behind only Mikhail Granlund. 

 

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Below is the full list of the Detroit Red Wings' ranked prospects.

Top Forwards 

Top Forward Prospects By Team
Team RankRankNamePositionAgeHeightWeightDraft SelectionPre-Draft RankingA/P Score
113Bear, CarterCenter196'01761310-1.92
225Hurlbert, JPLeft Wing185'111832324-2.07
367Genborg, EddieCenter196'12054438-0.69
469Danielson, NateCenter216'2187922-0.96
572Plante, MaxLeft Wing205'111764756-1.07
688Brandsegg-Nygard, MichaelRight Wing206'12071515-1.44
7176Dower Nilsson, NoahCenter215'111857330-1.23
8181Kiiskinen, JesseRight Wing206'01906839-1.27
9286Edwards, BeckhamCenter186'0187143810.13
10289Becher, OndrejCenter226'118780293-1.42
11327Levac, AdamCenter186'0176108300-0.24
12394James, DylanLeft Wing226'01904098-0.29
13403Plante, VictorLeft Wing185'91634772-0.07
14439Solomon, BrentRight Wing196'01731092820.68
15502Kilfoil, LiamCenter195'11176250217-0.10
16542Arkko, LukaCenter186'32092501170.82
17593Svrcek, MichalCenter195'1017119140-0.08
18649Dower Nilsson, LiamCenter236'019013493-0.34
19674Forslund, CharlieLeft Wing206'32121762920.66
20730Stillman, ChaseRight Wing236'11852950-0.54
21758Kilpinen, MaximilianCenter226'11871293000.06
22769Bicker, KevinCenter216'11761473000.75
23799Robertson-Palmer, GraydenCenter185'111962042940.79
24834Baker, AustinLeft Wing206'01922032620.60
25837Mehlenbacher, OwenCenter226'21902012140.19
26857Ali, BrennanCenter226'01932122371.16

 

Top Defensemen

Top DefensemenProspects By Team
Team RankRankNamePositionAgeHeightWeightDraft SelectionPre-Draft RankingA/P Score
1122Keenan, LarryDefenseman216'31861171610.79
2147Johansson, AntonDefenseman226'41792503000.01
3194Scott, FisherDefenseman226'21792503000.46
4204Cleveland, BradyDefenseman216'4210471541.04
5238Buium, ShaiDefenseman236'32203661-0.37
6249Brosnan, MylesDefenseman196'11941961100.09
7383Tyurin, NikitaDefenseman196'01741402290.14
8413Whipple, JohnDefenseman216'11941442020.63
9462Murphy, WillDefenseman196'42091721880.98
10506Phelan, JackDefenseman226'21852503001.77