Cut a Prospect: Pelletier, Tomasino, Poulin, Perunovich, Kaliyev

[ste.anne]

Got to trim my prospect roster by one and am wondering who you would be most inclined to keep or cut from my prospect pool: Pelletier, Tomasino, Poulin, Perunovich or Kaliyev. Feel free to rank if that is easier.

My league is a full keeper, 10 teams, with 43 roster spots per team (31 are rosterable while 12 are minors with 100 games or less). H2H weekly with the following equally rated cats: G, A, PPPTS, Shots, Hits, Blocks, FOW, TOI, W, Saves, SV%, GAA. roster 12 forwards, 6 defense, 2 skaters, 2 goalies each night. Note that FOW is my dump stat so not super relevant. I won my league last year and am contending again this year. My roster does not have any glaring needs, so I can afford to keep the best prospects available.

My quick thoughts on these guys:

I like Pelletier and think he is a Suter type player. Will bring some hits and could score a bit, but is small so may be more of a wait.

I think Tomasino has the highest upside, but is his potential enough to offset a potential lack of peripheral stats? How high is his potential in NSH?

I was hoping Poulin was going to make the roster this year, but could not crack it. Is he destined to be a 3rd line player at this rate? He is also likely PIT's best prospect though.

Perunovich could be behind krug for a while, and may not bring much in the way of hits. Can I afford to wait on him?

Kailyev looks like he is next guy up in LA, but there are a lot of prospects jockeying for position with LA over the next few years. Is he enough of a sure thing?

Thanks!

[senryu]

From best to worst

Kaliyev
Tomasino
Perunovich
Poulin
Pelletier

I'd cut Pelletier. I think he's the least likely to make an impact. And he might be the farthest away from hitting the NHL.

[rataylor22]

I agree it is between Poulin and Pelletier, but I would cut Poulin. Pelletier has outperformed Poulin at pretty much every opportunity (higher YoY NHLe, WJC, etc.)

[jshed2]

Imo you have a clear bottom 2 from that list in Poulin and Perunovich.

Poulin - PIT likes to be able to spread out their offense so even once he makes the team I think it will be a few years until he gets meaningful minutes. I'd be shocked if he cracks 40 points in the next two years, but he has decent upside and there is always a chance that PIT throws him in the top 6 with Crosby/Malkin and he clicks.

Perunovich - Lost last year's development due to injury, but so did many other prospects due to leagues simply not running with covid. I don't love his path to prime minutes in STL either but he should have an easier time getting an opportunity than Poulin.

As Perunovich is your only D prospect I may lean in his direction if you could see yourself needing a replacement in the next year or two. Otherwise I think I'd keep Poulin for the upside.

[Belexus75]

Poulin for me

[YzermansLegacy]

Unless HITS happened to be a current/future cat of need for you... I'm cutting Poulin from this crew too.

[toddycat]

Kail is top here

[bbfl1987]

Pelletier would be my cut.

[ste.anne]

Thanks for the feedback folks. I decided to cut Poulin.