Are These DMen Keepers?

[Shooter Lim]

Fellow Hockey Gurus,

Are these guys potential D-Studs?(Offensively)

Can you recommend any others I could pickup?

J. Blum
S. Elliott
D. Orlov

[loco man]

Sure are.

Your scoring categories would help, but if you are a young or rebuilding team, I would grab both Blum and Elliot and maybe even Orlov. All three could start producing as early as this season, but are likely a couple years away from being impact players.

All three have that ceiling, though.

[STONE.]

All three are good ones. Check out Dobber's prospect list (he's got D at the bottom) for some more.

That'll be a good start.

[subcrazy]

here is the top 9 from that list.


1 David Rundblad OTT
2 Jonathan Blum NSH
3 Brendan Smith DET
4 Marc Andre Gragnani BUF
5 Ryan Ellis NSH
6 Stefan Elliott COL
7 Dmitri Orlov WAS
8 Travis Hamonic NYI
9 Jakub Kindl DET

[Shooter Lim]

Thank you again STONE, LOCOMAN and SUBCRAZY!!!

I value your knowledge!

Shooter

[TwoPuckCanuck]

Shooter,

looks like I may be a little late to the party, but these three have good potential. I especially like where Elliot is in his developement. He could be effective as of next year.

Subcrazy posted a list of the top 9, just to add to that, I really like Rundblad, Ellis and Gragnani. I think of those three, Gragnani will have an impact sooner than the others, depending if Rundblad makes the Sens (which he should). I am very excited to see Rundblad play with Karlsson.

[dyzfunctioned]

Those are 3 of the best d-man prospects out there right now. I like Orlov the least of them.