This Just In: McKenzie’s List
By Lowetide
12 years ago
We have breaking news! Bob McKenzie’s top 30–the most accurate list on planet earth–is out.
Ryan Nugent Hopkins was named the top prospect by all but one of the scouts Bob McKenzie spoke to before putting his final list together. Gabriel Landeskog got one vote.
The list is here. Picks 1, 19 and 31 on his list are Nugent-Hopkins, Mark McNeill and Vladislav Namestnikov. All centers. Unlikely, but it does show this draft is all over the place and there appears to be quality deep into round two. It feels just like 2002, the season Edmonton blew their mid-first (Niinimaki) but walked out of the second round with Jarret Stoll, Matt Greene and Jeff Deslauriers.
Elsewhere, our friend Kirk Luedeke posted today that Steve Tambellini is listening to offers for number one; Jason Gregor discussed it earlier this month and gave a guideline about the asking price.
It’s the beginning of Fun Week for draft fans. Hang on.
Big Bang Theory
Here are the NHL equivalencies for the first round picks:
Forwards
- Ryan Strome 12-28-40
- Sean Couturier 14-24-38
- Ryan Nugent Hopkins 11-27-38
- Jonathan Huberdeau 15-21-36
- Zack Phillips 13-20-33
- Sven Bartschi 13-19-32
- Gabriel Landeskog 17-14-31
- Matt Puempel 15-16-31
- Ty Rattie 10-19-29
- Joel Armia 17-11-28
- Mark McNeill 11-17-28
- Mark Scheifele 8-20-28
- Rocco Grimaldi 14-12-26
- Boone Jenner 10-16-26
- Brandon Saad 11-12-23
- Nicklas Jensen 11-12-23
- Mika Zibanejad 12-10-22
- Tomas Jurco 12-9-21
- JT Miller 5-13-18
- Tyler Biggs 7-5-12
Defensemen
- Ryan Murphy 10-21-31
- Dougie Hamilton 4-17-21
- Joe Morrow 4-16-20
- Nathan Beaulieu 4-12-16
- Adam Larsson 2-14-16
- Duncan Siemens 2-13-15
- Connor Murphy 5-4-9
- Oscar Klefbom 3-3-6
- Jonas Brodin 0-6-6
- Jamie Oleksiak 1-4-5
McKenzie said that after the top 10 the draft is wide open. Get ready for a wild Friday night and Saturday all day.
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