Tiering propsects available in my draft that are from prior draft classes

[stevegamer]

I'm trying to get a jump on this early, so that I can fix my thinking that a prospect not in the NHL is a waste of a roster spot. Last year I drafted Elias Pettersson in the first round, but cut him post draft. Since he was ineligble to be picked up due to not playing in the NHL, he's in this years draft again. Some GMs held on to their drafted prospects like Mittelstadt. I've gone through the top prospects ranking, and added in some younger guys from the top skaters list as well that are available in my league.

Prospects are alphabetical within tiers. Do these look like reasonable tiers for points-only?

Tier 1
Henrik Borgstrom
Elias Pettersson
Jack Roslovic
Eeli Tolvanen

Tier 2
Jake Debrusk
Mark Jankowski
Kasperi Kapanen
Martin Necas
Kailer Yamamoto

Tier 3
Lias Andersson
Andreas Athanasiou
Logan Brown
Anthony Cirelli
J.T. Compher
Ryan Donato
Christian Fischer
Morgan Frost
Jordan Greenway
Kirill Kaprizov
Luke Kunin
Sam Steel
Troy Terry
Robert Thomas
Colin White


Thanks in advance for feedback, will rep where I can.

[havanablast21]

I personally like your break down for the most part. I would, however expand tier 2 from tier 3 slightly to give a little extra credit to some prospects that have impressed me.

Tier 1
Henrik Borgstrom
Elias Pettersson
Jack Roslovic
Eeli Tolvanen

Kailer Yamamoto (Tier 1b)

Tier 2
Jake Debrusk
Mark Jankowski
Kasperi Kapanen
Martin Necas
Sam Steel
Ryan Donato
Robert Thomas
Anthony Cirelli (Great opportunity in Tampa)

Kirill Kaprizov (Tier 2b Just because I’m not confident in his NHL date but if he does he climbs this list)

Tier 3
Lias Andersson
Andreas Athanasiou
Logan Brown
J.T. Compher
Christian Fischer
Morgan Frost
Jordan Greenway
Luke Kunin
Troy Terry
Colin White

[roenick27]

I'm assuming your looking at like an ultimate upside ranking and not a mixture of upside and likely hood of hitting it/timeline to the NHL etc.

I'd go
Tier 1
Pettersson
Necas
Kaprisov

Tier 2
Robert Thomas
Ryan donato
Debrusk
Yama
Tolvanen
Borgstrom
Steel

Tier 3
Andersson
Fischer
Frost
Roslo


The rest tier 4 etc

Obviously there would be some tweeners here too but I think this is a rough outline of how I'd rank them

[lucafen4]

What time frame of return are you looking for? As that significantly impacts the value of a player like Kaprizov

[vandalay]

By looking at your team and especially your bench players it seems you have a really good team and a deep one at that. For that reason I wouldn't worry about a prospect's impact in the next 2 years. Swing for the home run and be prepared to have them on your roster for 1-2 years without any pay-off. Seems you can afford it. My top 6:

Pettersen (highest upside and arriving soon)
Tolvanen (high upside and arriving soon)
Kaprizov (high upside but not arriving for a while)
Necas (high upside and arriving soon)
Borgstrom (reasonably high upside and arriving soon)
DeBrusk (decent upside and has already arrived)

[PittsburghHustlers]

I'd go:

Tier 1
Kirill Kaprizov
Elias Pettersson
Eeli Tolvanen

Tier 2
Henrik Borgstrom
Jake Debrusk
Robert Thomas
Martin Necas
Kailer Yamamoto

Tier 3
Logan Brown
Jack Roslovic
Ryan Donato
Morgan Frost
Luke Kunin
Sam Steel
Troy Terry
Colin White
Lias Andersson

Tier 4
Andreas Athanasiou
Anthony Cirelli
J.T. Compher
Christian Fischer
Mark Jankowski
Kasperi Kapanen
Jordan Greenway

[als_revenge]

I quite like the list posted by Mr. Pittsburgh; rep given

[Nolip]

Where would you guys put Vilardi in there? He's got good potential idealy he spend a year in AHL or minor his he still illedgible. The king's got nothing coming up the pipeline I'm sure he will get a good look at.

[stevegamer]

Where would you guys put Vilardi in there? He's got good potential idealy he spend a year in AHL or minor his he still illedgible. The king's got nothing coming up the pipeline I'm sure he will get a good look at.

Vilardi is gone in my league, but he's probably Tier 3 in my original post. I'm realizing I may need to further separate the tiers, though, so that may change.

As further feedback to everyone, I do have a good team, and have not shown enough patience with drafted prospects (looks at Petterssen and groans) and have drafted poorly at times as well. I make up for it by being excellent on the wire. My desired goal is a 60+ point forward within 3 years, I guess. Ideally more upside, but there's a lot of luck in my league.

I'm figuring Nyquist & somebody will be my drops for whomever I draft.

[PittsburghHustlers]

I quite like the list posted by Mr. Pittsburgh; rep given

Thank you sir