Re: Forward Prospect Speculation
In a two year window only Drury and Raddysh are likely to see NHL playing time IMO. Drury is by far your best prospect, 24 pts in 18 AHL playoff games for the Wolves this year. He's forcing the Canes hand. He's certainly not elite, but if he continues to develop middle six deployment is not out of the question in a few years. What he is done in the AHL this year (2 pts in 2 games played for the Canes as well) may well indicate that Drury was a steal at 42nd overall. Raddysh may get a fresh start in Chicago but bottom 6 may well be as good as it gets but the fact remains that he is already in the show. What happens with the others, well who knows, but if any of them are actually able to establish an NHL career in the next two years I would be extremely surprised. Protas and Rashevsky, well, the fact that both are currently back in Russia is somewhat less than an ideal situation if you are hoping they play in the NHL anytime soon. Just ask Ivan Fedotov. From todays ramblings: " What does this mean for Russian prospects currently in the KHL moving forward? Winnipeg's Daniel Rashevsky, New Jersey's Arseni Gritsyuk, San Jose's Alexei Kolosov? Does Danila Yurov fall down the draft on Friday? Strange times. If circumstances were different, Protas could be in the NHL in a few years but I'm not betting on that, things are very uncertain with Russian prospects for sure. I like Ville Koivunen but again, he has a ways to go on the development curve before he establishes himself as an NHL player and I don't see anything more than middle six at best if and when he arrives. I'm not overly optimistic that Angle is NHL caliber, a career AHLer seems more likely IMO, but he's very young so time will tell but I'm certainly not holding him to find out. To specifically answer the question, I think your two best options for drops are Angle and Protas.
14 Team Roto; Keep 25; 12 F, 6 D, 2 G; 10 Farm; 5 Bench; 5 IR;
Salary Cap - 102.5 Mil
Scoring Cats: G, A, Pts, PIM, Hits, BS, SOG, F Points, D Points; Win+Ties+SO, GAA, SV%
Keepers
F: Aho, Larkin, DeBrincat, Vrana, Bennett, Scheifele, Kakko,Tolvanen, McBain,
D: Heiskanen, Fox, Toews, Lundqvist
G: Swayman, Andersen, Copley
Drops
F: Gaudreau, Terravainen, Puljujarvi, Kravstov, Zary
D: Brannstrom, Cernak, Alexeyev
G: Korpisalo, Merzlikins
FARM: Rossi, Berggren, Holtz, Savoie, Clarke, Tarasov, Wolf