The Athletic’s Max Bultman offers the second part of a two-part mailbag feature today, and Max lists his top 10 (well, 11) Red Wings prospects as part of a superb set of answers to reader questions:
What is your personal top 10 ranking of our prospect pool? — Luke Y.
Corey Pronman will have his full Red Wings under-23 rankings out sometime this summer, but my personal ranking of the prospects would go:
1. Simon Edvinsson
2. Marco Kasper
3. Nate Danielson
4. Carter Mazur
5. Axel Sandin Pellikka
6. William Wallinder
7. Sebastian Cossa
8. Amadeus Lombardi
9. Elmer Söderblom
10. Albert Johansson
11. Trey AugustineI threw Augustine in there as a bonus at 11, because I feel he belongs in that same tier, before a bit of a drop-off.
The ranking isn’t a pure upside ranking, it blends that factor with the likelihood (as I perceive it) of reaching that ceiling. That’s why Mazur ranks higher than the much higher-drafted Sandin Pellikka, for example: He has the potential to be a top-six NHL forward and is already getting close to the NHL.
Max’s rationale continues (paywall), and I said yesterday that I’d cut some of the paywall-peeking short after yesterday’s gob of text, so you’ll have to subscribe to read it.
Anyway, yes, my list is different, but I’ll have to think about where players rank as to who fits where among the 33 players who EliteProspects consider to be Red Wings prospects at this time.
