2024 NHL DRAFT RANKING MEETING | DobberProspects April Top 96 Scouts' Roundtable

In this meeting, our team of scouts debate to construct their April Top 96 rankings for the 2024 NHL Draft class! While the #1 pick may be unanimous, this draft class as a whole is quite open, all the way from the Top 10 to the 3rd-round range, leaving room for discussion. We are so proud of the work the whole team has put in so far in the draft class and cannot wait to see how the class and our rankings continue to evolve in the final months before the draft in June!
To find our Ranking Article resulting from this meeting, head over to dobberprospects dot com.
Our tool projection scale goes from 1 to 10:
1 - Below AHL Caliber Tool
2 - AHL Caliber Tool
3 - Replacement-Level Tool
4 - Average 4th line/#6 Defenceman Tool
5 - Average 3rd line/#4 Defenseman Tool
6 - Standard Top-6/Top-4 Tool
7 - Standard Top Line/Pairing Tool
8 - Clear Elite Tool (Suzuki's hockey sense)
9 - Game-Breaking Tool (Quinn Hughes' playmaking)
10 - Top-of-the-Line Elite-Level Tool (Bedard's shot or McDavid's skating)
(note: we try to balance upside and likelihood of reaching it in our evaluations)
Here’s a quick rundown of our team:
Sebastian High: Head Scout & Director of European Scouting
Hadi Kalakeche: Director of North American Scouting
Jordan Harris: OHL Regional Scout
Sasha Lagarde: QMJHL Regional Scout
Luke Sweeney: WHL Regional Scout
David Saad: USA Regional Scout
Wade Messier: North American Crossover Scout
Colin Hunter: Goaltending Scout
Anni Karvinen: Finnish Regional Scout
Graham Montgomery: Russian Regional Scout
Alexa Potack: European Crossover Scout and Graphic Designer
Charlie Maher: USA Crossover Scout and Data Scientist

[@YoungMatt81]

Hadi really putting his reputation on Parekh and Parascak

[@HadiK_Scouting]

What can I say? I really like them both! Really happy with where they both ended up on our board.

[@TheSchwarzengger]

I like parascak. Looks like a smaller version of Martin Necas.

[@moviestoshare813]

@@TheSchwarzengger Better player comp (imo) would be a lesser version of Teuvo Teravainen & Gabe Perreault

[@perfectdark287]

Id love to see some graphics to who you're talking about and when. In terms of prospects

[@mattgrassi5293]

Hadi has a smirk the entire video what a beast😂

[@jasonprice9823]

Snaaaaake! Nice shirt, David. Thanks for the video.

[@moviestoshare813]

Great content you guys !!! Keep up the good work 👍 Just some of my thoughts real quick : Sebastian said in his opinion, there was a big drop-off after the 10th rank… but yall also said Dickinson had hockey IQ concerns / limitations (which is usually a pretty big red flag) AND Said (rightfully so) that Helenius lacks ELITE traits, and therefore has limited Upside (ALSO… a pretty big red flag imo) So… that leads me to believe there ISN’T a big dropoff after the 10th spot And finally, just for the sake of having a little bit of fun & for future reference I’ll end this with My Personal List (which isn’t a Mock draft at all, but simply the players I love the most personally) : 1. Macklin Celebrini 2. Demidov 3. Parekh 4. Berkly Catton 5. Zeev Buium 6. LIAM GREENTREE 7. HENRY MEWS 8. BECKETT SENNECKE 9. Cayden Lindstrom 10. Tij Iginla 11. Carter Yakemchuk 12. Sam Dickinson 13. Cole Eiserman** 14. Trevor Connelly** 15. YEGOR SURIN 16. STIAN SOLBERG 17. Alfons Freij 18. Michael Hage 19. Igor Chernyshov 20. Terik Parascak 21. Teddy Stiga 22. Andrew Basha 23. Artyom Levshunov** Notes : No, that’s not a mistake, I didn’t forget Helenius, MBN & Silayev. I just don’t like the lack of upside of Helenius & MBN. And Silayev for me is just a big guy who can skate, but lacks dreadfully hockey IQ. People compare him to Hedman. I see more of a Logan Stanley with him. And yes… I have Levshunov at 23. A lack of hockey IQ (issues with the decision making for me means : lack of hockey IQ) usually leads to lack of success in the NHL. (Just think of guys like Phillip Broberg. Big. Could skate really well. But had the hockey IQ of a squirrel. Result ? Never amounted to anything in the NHL)

[@italian1ist]

I think you have your head up your keister on Levshunov and Silayev. Levshunov is nothing like Broberg. You’ve very obviously not been paying attention. But, you know what they say about opinions thou, everyone’s got them.

[@Briserlaglace-podcast]

Thank you guys! Great video, once again!

[@YvonjrPierre-mb9hp]

Blackhawks.will.get.macklin.celebrini.big.deal.

[@Briserlaglace-podcast]

@@YvonjrPierre-mb9hp Tu commentes ça sur absolument toutes les vidéos ? 🤣

[@DobberProspectsDraftTeam]

Thanks!

[@TheRightWillRise]

Sleeping on Beckett Sennecke! He’s far better than Iginla! Bigger stronger just as fast same shot better hands …. Whoever gets this kid wins draft day….

[@Lebowski55]

Is Lindstrom healthy?

[@hockeykid1915]

Hadi, are you recording in a bunker ?

[@tonytitani410]

Sennecke going top 10 folks.

[@steve_frenchcougar1747]

once again its like lhjmq is not existing

[@HadiK_Scouting]

Ça s’en vient l’année prochaine! Just a couple of bad drafts for the Q.

[@moviestoshare813]

Scouts rate the guys as they see them. If the players aren’t That good… they’re not gonna rate them high, regardless of where they’re coming from. I’m a born&raised Quebecer btw. But that sort of comment is asinine imo. Scouts don’t downgrade a guy just because he is from Quebec. And no… they’re not gonna rate them higher Either Just because they’re from Quebec. The Q isn’t producing great players recently… Period. I’m tired of people playing victims

[@theseanie9958]

Awful league, idk what you expect?

[@TheBeatMakersGuild]

david needs to chill

[@galkanftw]

This is one of the oddest drafts I can ever remember. I feel after al is said and done people are going to be surprised. Some of these highly rated will be ho hum average in the NHL and a few will be better than expected. If I could think of a few things to look for it would be how players work in traffic along the boards and around the net. Good skaters can buy themselves time but tend to roam around the perimeter instead of getting the puck to the net more often.Another problem good skaters tend to keep cycling looking for that perfect play that never comes.So in those cases we see a LOT of zone time but then scratch our heads wondering why nothing comes of all that puck possession. Another key is IQ in the two way game because great defensive zone awareness creates great transition hockey.

[@conormulcahy4388]

Bunch of dorks that never played

[@MONTAGESNIPESTV]

😂😂😂

[@moviestoshare813]

That’s not very nice. Nor was it necessary. If you don’t like the content, you can just click off. You don’t have to keep watching, even less to comment something like that