05 September, 2008

The Hockey News Team Prospect Rankings

The latest issue of The Hockey News has ranked all 30 NHL team’s prospect systems. They have defined prospects as players under 22 years of age as of January 31, 2007. This ranking does not take into account any movement of players at the trade deadline. Note that three of the Caps’ Southeast Division rivals bring up the bottom-5 rear.

  1. Pittsburgh [Last Year's Ranking - 1]
  2. Washington [7]
  3. Nashville [6]
  4. Los Angeles [10]
  5. Chicago [8]
  6. Boston [12]
  7. Anaheim [2]
  8. St. Louis [28]
  9. Montreal [17]
  10. N.Y. Rangers [19]
  11. Columbus [3]
  12. Phoenix [27]
  13. Florida [14]
  14. San Jose [24]
  15. Colorado [29]
  16. Calgary [21]
  17. N.Y. Islanders [15]
  18. Edmonton [18]
  19. Minnesota [16]
  20. Buffalo [9]
  21. Philadelphia [4]
  22. Detroit [13]
  23. Dallas [26]
  24. Vancouver [22]
  25. Ottawa [11]
  26. Atlanta [23]
  27. New Jersey [20]
  28. Toronto [25]
  29. Carolina [5]
  30. Tampa Bay [30]
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5 Comments

  1. Rage wrote:

    Is there any text to along with this, or was it just a brief mention? And is it available online?

    Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 1:54 pm | Permalink
  2. Unfortunately it is not available on http://www.thn.com — at least not on their non-subscriber (public) site. They keep a good portion of their content “behind the wall” for their paid subscribers.

    Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 3:13 pm | Permalink
  3. usiel wrote:

    Carolina from 5th to 29th…and philly 4th to 21….ouch.

    Friday, March 9, 2007 at 12:50 pm | Permalink
  4. Rage wrote:

    Thanks, OC

    Friday, March 9, 2007 at 1:51 pm | Permalink
  5. Ozayr wrote:

    This is [messed up] toronto has one of the best prospect system

    Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 5:01 pm | Permalink

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