Need some high CK?

1 Kashawn Aitcheson…. It can hurt the other facets of his game, but he will literally cross the entire ice surface to lay a monster hit.  Hopefully, he can keep it clean and not cost his team, because he is a menace out there 

2 Jack Nesbitt

3 Daniil Prohorkov 

4 Brady Martin

5 Vojtech Cihar

Need some high SK? 

1 Cullen Potter…. There are players that are incredibly fast, or super agile, or can pivot on a dime.  Potter is somehow all of them combined.  His skating and sheer lightning speed is apparently absolutely world-class 

2 Michael Misa

3 Matthew Schaefer 

4 James Hagens

5 Radim Mrtka 

Need some high ST? 

1 Daniil Prohorkov…. He is an absolute beast.  A man amongst boys.  A Russian monster.  He can lay out seismic hits, but can also just pick you up and toss you around like a young, forward version of Zdeno Chara 

2 Radim Mrtka

3 Lynden Lakovic

4 Porter Martone

5 Justin Carbonneau

Need some high FO?

1 Roger McQueen…. This one is hard to handicap as you just gotta go off of how animated the scouting reports get about a prospect’s face-off abilities.  He’s long and lanky, so might get even better when he fills out and gets stronger  

2 Cole McKinney

3 Caleb Desnoyers

4 Jack Nesbitt

5 Ben Kindell

Need some high PA outside the top guys?

1 Jake OBrien…. While he might still be considered one of the “top guys” from this draft, his passing game is so incredible that he has to be listed here.  (I’ve included guys ranked much lower for those GMs without high picks)

2 Charlie Cerrato

3 Bill Zonnon

4 Adam Benak

5 Ben Rautiain

Need some high SC outside of the top guys? 

1 Justin Carbonneau.… He’s at the top of the list for CHLers over the past 2-3 seasons in both shots and goals.  The kicker is that he can score goals a million different ways, too, and doesn’t rely on one or two skill sets 

2 Cullen Potter

3 Ryker Lee

4 Will Horcoff

5 Alexander Zharovsky

Need some high DF up front? 

1 Braeden Cootes…. This is one is also hard to handicap.  Partially because almost all top prospects are good defensively before turning pro.  But Cootes is clearly a high end defender that focuses on that part of his game first, and is always on the right side of the puck 

2 Jack Nesbitt 

3 Brady Martin

4 Caleb Desnoyers

5 Cole McKinney

Need some high DF from the back? 

1 Radim Mrtka…. Mrtka will be a fun one to both watch develop and to watch in our draft.  He’s big and strong and also agile.  He is the ultimate specimen, if you had to create one, for shutting down offense

2 Kashawn Aitcheson 

3 Sascha Boumedienne

4 Logan Hensler

5 Blake Fiddler

Need some high PA/SC from the backend?

1 Matthew Schaefer….  Sure-fire Hall of Famer.  Not sure what else to say, other than he’ll probably be head and shoulders ahead of the others on this list in both these rates every single season

2 Jackson Smith

3 Kashawn Aitcheson

4 Bryce Pickford 

5 Alex Huang

Best pure shooters?

1 Justin Carbonneau…. As mentioned above, he’s been terrorizing junior goalies for a few years now.  He does it with ease from anywhere on the ice 

2 Jack Murtagh

3 Porter Martone

4 Anton Frondell

5 Kashawn Aitcheson

Best hockey IQ/vision?

1 Matthew Schaefer…. Schaefer is so interesting to watch.  He doesn’t even appear to be moving very quickly, if at all, most of the time.  He’s so smart and gets to all the right spots at the right time.  He’s like a young D man version of Gretzky out there, and so poised for his age

2 Michael Misa

3 Ben Kindell

4 Adam Benak

5 Cameron Reid

The next Hasek/Roy/Brodeur?

1 Do your own homework you freeloaders