THN's Future Watch is out

SensGirl11 wrote:The top number of picks for a team in the top 50 is 3. Florida, LA, St. Louis, Ottawa & Detroit all have 3 in the top 50.

Do any teams have zero?

You find most players that have good WJC are way up on the list or were in the tourny. THN isn't exactly the gospel and they have limited resources in terms of how they come up with these lists. They can only see so much.

spader wrote:

SensGirl11 wrote:The top number of picks for a team in the top 50 is 3. Florida, LA, St. Louis, Ottawa & Detroit all have 3 in the top 50.

Do any teams have zero?

I'm pretty sure there are a few, I'll have a look and let you know.

Philly, thats it.

The only team without a prospect in the top 50 is....


Philly.

NEELY wrote:Philly, thats it.

Pretty odd stuff, but they're an awesome team as it is with some youth.

They should probably work on their scouting a bit for the future...

I don't really recognize any of the names in their prospect report area..

How is Rundblad that far down? Doesn't make ANY sense.

I'd have Runbland higher, but you can make an argument for everyone ahead of him (plus it's very heavily favoured towards WJC participants). I have more of an issue with Cowen being as low as he is to be honest.

OMG, guys, look at who played in the WJC and North America and then look at their rankings. They have no scoutes to go over and look at the SEL, KHL, so on. It's 100% based on the "what have you done for me lately" factor.

Are you guys kidding? Rundblad at 22 isn't far down at all.

Big Ev wrote:Are you guys kidding? Rundblad at 22 isn't far down at all.

I don't really care in the grand scheme, but I'm thinking he should be top 10, if not top 5.

SpezDispenser wrote:

Big Ev wrote:Are you guys kidding? Rundblad at 22 isn't far down at all.

I don't really care in the grand scheme, but I'm thinking he should be top 10, if not top 5.

Well that's what most fans say about their team's prospects.

Big Ev wrote:
Well that's what most fans say about their team's prospects.

Yeah man, Rundblad is 2nd all time in D-man scoring in one of the most explosive seasons for a prospect in recent memory. I doubt many other team's prospects can boast that.

Yes I know, but 22 ain't bad for a guy who doesn't get that much hype. You've said before than TH is Dung, so who cares anyway.

Big Ev wrote:Yes I know, but 22 ain't bad for a guy who doesn't get that much hype. You've said before than TH is Dung, so who cares anyway.

Yeah...it's been going downhill for a while now. Mostly because the issue comes to the mailbox and it's immediately outdated because of the internet. Still would have expected him to be top 5, but hey, whatever...

Laughable top 10, Ryan Johansen up there just confirms it's pretty much a WJC recap. Jack Campbell has been awful this year, Erixon who was a the WJC is ahead of Rundblad even if the points, +/- and TOI aren't even close and they play on the same team. Niederreiter is probably the most overated prospect in the league, and Gudbranson is not even close to being the best defenseman prospect out there.
Anyways, don't really care that much.

marakh wrote:Laughable top 10, Ryan Johansen up there just confirms it's pretty much a WJC recap. Jack Campbell has been awful this year, Erixon who was a the WJC is ahead of Rundblad even if the points, +/- and TOI aren't even close and they play on the same team. Niederreiter is probably the most overated prospect in the league, and Gudbranson is not even close to being the best defenseman prospect out there.
Anyways, don't really care that much.

I just read it pretty closely and I thought the exact same thing about Johansen, Erixon and especially Campbell.