Canadiens are No. 1 in TSN's annual team ranking of U-24 players
Canadiens are No. 1 in TSN's annual team ranking of U-24 players
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They may not be the 롤토토사이트 Montreal ‘Canadians’, but they could one day be Les Glorieux, the Montreal Canadiens of years gone by if a deep pool of young talent meets expectations.
Montreal has missed the playoffs three straight seasons and is trending in that direction again, but the team and its fans can take some comfort in knowing better days may be ahead.
The Canadiens are No. 1 in TSN’s annual NHL team ranking of U-24 players.
Bolstered by a group of five players born outside copyright, the all-time Stanley 하는법 Cup leader has a core of young players projected to be as strong as or better than any in the league.
The operative word is: projected.
The top five rated players in the Canadiens’ organization who entered the season 23 or younger are No. 1 American left winger Cole Caufield (23), No. 2 Russian right winger Ivan 사이트 Demidov (18), No. 3 Slovak left winger Juraj Slafkovsky (20) , No. 4 American defenceman Lane Hutson (20) and No. 5 American goalie Jacob Fowler.
“Montreal, the city, and Montreal, the hockey team, have always been international melting pots,” says TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button.
Not that it makes the Canadiens unique now, but they were among the first teams to draft Russians – Slava Fetisov in 1978 and Vladislav Tretiak in 1983 – and they went on a binge in the first decade of the 21st century, selecting seven American first-rounders.
Button and FloSports Senior NHL Draft and Prospects analyst Chris Peters assessed every NHL team’s cupboard of assets 23 or younger (as of season’s start) – blending assessments of current development with projected further development to assign 2024-25 grades.
Players are labeled AAA (superstar), AA (elite), A (No. 1 goalie, top-pair defenceman, first-line forward) or B (tandem goalie, top-four defenceman, top-six forward) or C (backup goalie, depth defenceman, bottom-six 우리카지노 forward).
Canadian left defenceman Kaiden Guhle rounds out a group of six players who earned grades of AA or A. Add in six more B players and Montreal has a league-leading 10 current or projected top-half-of-the-lineup players.
Montreal is the only team with a list of A-level players that could one day fill out a starting lineup: one goalie, two defencemen and three forwards.
The Canadiens have a premier goal-scorer in Caufield, elite playmaker in Demidov, big winger in Slafkovsky, dazzling defenceman in Hutson, consummate defender in Guhle and a goalie who has the potential to join a long line of accomplished netminders in Fowler.
“It’s an embarrassment of riches,” 카지노호텔 button says, “and a reason to be patient with the franchise rebuild.”
Here are the rest of the 2024-25 TSN top five:
- No. 2 San Jose Sharks has a pair of high-skill teenage forwards already in the NHL leading the way: triple-A Macklin Celebrini, 18, and double-A Will Smith, 19.
- No. 3 Detroit possesses 10 players graded AA, A or B, equalling Montreal for most in the survey. Tops among them are defencemen Moritz Seider, 23, and left winger Lucas Raymond, 22.
- No. 4 New Jersey Devils has triple-A centre Jack Hughes, 23, and his double-A brother, defenceman Luke, 21.
- No. 5 Minnesota is the only team with three double-A players – defenceman Brock Faber, 22, defenceman Zeev Buium, 18, and left winger Matt Boldy, 23.
As for Canadian content, Ottawa is next up at No. 8 in our annual ranking. Centre Tim Stutzle and left defenceman Jake Sanderson, both 22, are the best of the Sens’ A Team, which also includes right defenceman Carter Yakemchuk, 19. The Sens have no B players, with its core four filled out by centre Ridly Greig.
No. 16 Calgary and No. 17 Toronto are back to back at the midpoint of rankings in the 32-team NHL.
The Flames have 23-year-old goalie Dustin Wolf and 18-year-old right defenceman Zayne Parekh rated as A players. Wolf, in the midst of a breakout season, was the fourth-last player (214th) selected in the 2015 전략 draft and Parekh was the third defenceman (ninth) chosen in the 2024 draft. Calgary has a total of nine players in the A-B range, tied for second most.
Matthew Knies, 22, and centre/right winger Easton Cowan, 19, are both A players for Toronto, with a pair of Russians, 21-year-old right winger Nikita Grebenkin, and 23-year-old goalie Artur Akhtyamov, completing the core four.
Winnipeg and Vancouver take entirely different routes to No. 22 and No. 23, respectively.
The Jets have no A players and seven B’s – led by 22-year-old left winger Cole Perfetti – while Vancouver has two A’s – 19-year-old right defenceman Tom Willander and 20-year-old right winger Jonathan Lekkerimaki – and a single B (23-year-old goalie Arturs Silovs).
Last among Canadian teams in the rankings for a second straight season is No. 27 Edmonton; 20-year-old right winger Matthew Savoie is tops with a B grade.
It should come as no surprise that the future-is-now Tampa Bay Lightning is at or near the bottom of U-24 list for a third consecutive year. Their rankings: 2022-23: No. 32; 2023-24: No. 31; 베팅 and 2024-25 No. 32.