2024 NHL Draft Top 64 Ranking - January 2024 | Elite Prospects

The Elite Prospects team met on January 27th to rank 64 prospects. Here is the edited version of the meeting.
You can find the full ranking here: eprinkside.com...
Time stamps:
00:25 Macklin Celebrini
1:35 Cayden Lindstrom
2:25 Ivan Demidov
4:50 Artyom Levshunov
6:25 Artyom Levshunov vs Sam Dickinson
8:25 Zayne Parekh
9:40 Zayne Parekh vs Sam Dickinson
12:15 Anton Silayev
14:15 Zayne Parekh vs Sam Dickinson
15:25 Cole Eiserman
20:25 Anton Silayev vs Berkly Catton vs Konsta Helenius
21:05 Konsta Helenius
22:00 Anton Silayev vs Berkly Catton vs Konsta Helenius
23:22 Berkly Catton vs Konsta Helenius
25:00 Berkly Catton
27:10 Michael Brandsegg-Nygård
30:15 Michael Brandsegg-Nygård vs players in his range
30:50 Liam Greentree
32:15 Zeev Buium
34:15 Tij Iginla
35:45 Tij Iginla vs Liam Greentree vs Zeev Buium
36:40 Trevor Connelly vs. Michael Brandsegg-Nygård
40:50 Igor Chernyshov
42:15 Miguel Marques
44:00 Miguel Marques vs Ryder Ritchie
45:45 Carter Yakemchuk
46:20 Beckett Sennecke
48:10 Harrisson Brunicke
49:25 Jesse Pulkkinen
50:37 Adam Jiricek
51:20 Adam Jiricek vs Jesse Pulkkinen
52:20 Andrew Basha
53:10 Alfons Freij
54:30 Nikita Artamonov
55:20 Luke Misa
57:10 Dean Letourneau
59:33 Ben Danford
59:30 E.J Emery
1:02:00 Ben Danford
1:04:18 Emil Hemming
1:05:55 Aron Kiviharju
1:07:38 Tanner Howe
1:08:55 Teddy Stiga
1:11:05 Sacha Boisvert
1:12:00 Simon Zether
1:12:40 Dominik Badinka
1:13:10 Leo Sahlin Wallenius
1:14:02 Top-5 Goalies
1:14:50 Ryerson Leenders
1:17:07 Carter George
1:18:25 Ryerson Leenders vs Carter George
1:22:32 Raoul Boilard
1:23:08 Henry Mews
1:25:35 Terik Parascak
1:27:00 Tarin "Makar" Smith
1:28:39 Tomas Galvas
1:30:16 Will Skahan
1:32:09 Dominik Badinka vs Leo Sahlin Wallenius vs Stian Solberg
1:34:08 Stian Solberg vs Leon Muggli
1:36:10 Jett Luchanko
1:36:45 Cole Beaudoin
1:37:30 Michael Hage
1:39:25 Maxim Massé
1:39:55 Michael Hage
1:40:40 John Mustard
1:41:45 Ondrej Kos
1:42:21 Colin Ralph
1:43:11 Colton Roberts
1:44:10 Spencer Gill
1:44:45 Justin Poirier
1:45:55 Matvei Gridin
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[@ОлегФедоров-ш8л]

As a Silayev's hometown guy, im pretty sure that he is so talanted and consistent on his games. With icecold decisions and with great skating. Hope that one of NHL teams will pick him and make him better. Great video btw, with all the best from Nizhniy Novgorod

[@tristanmcguire4820]

Now I know what I’m doing for the next two hours

[@Briserlaglace-podcast]

Same here 😂

[@davidst-louis8315]

Enjoy!

[@tristanmcguire4820]

@@davidst-louis8315 I thoroughly did David. Thanks for all your insight!

[@goldpanner]

Love the long format shows, I'm sure they're a lot of work to edit though. Appreciate them.

[@gordonleenders5783]

Thanks a whole heckuva lot for putting this together, folks. Amazing effort. Also, thank you so very much (especially Greg & Lauren) for your assessment & kind words about my boy, Ryerson Leenders. To have him included in the Elite Prospects Top 64 is truly an honour. You folks rock!! 🥅👍🥅

[@italian1ist]

I think Zeev Buium is going to be a sleeper in this draft and may be one of the best nhl players out of this entire draft

[@darkhorse306]

How far do you think the Frozen Four pushes him up?

[@river8477]

great work guys

[@davidst-louis8315]

Thank you !

[@mikeshane2460]

I agree with Daniel about Catton being deceptive. He does that thing that Marner does where he leads the defender to believe he's turning one way than at the last second turns the other way and beats him.

[@chadwickbarry8371]

Lidstrom at 2 seems intriguing. Great research by your group of scouts. 🏁

[@thomasgagne6638]

Emery and Danford in the first round is crazy to me. Way too low upside to be there imo.

[@omarrezk8605]

great video!

[@davidst-louis8315]

Thank you :)

[@alexanderabelson7777]

This is always so entertaining

[@Zubway]

I must be picking all of the wrong Greentree games. Granted I've only done 3 or 4 close viewings but I see a lot of gliding around and 1-2 noticeable shifts. Looking at his box scores, there are definitely some impressive numbers but I worry a lot about compete and consistency

[@davidst-louis8315]

He's a low pace prospect for sure and the skating is an issue. I also agree that he's not consistently playing at a high level. But, he's not in the best of teams and still scoring a lot and the flashes are amazing. His skill level and sense is comparable to some of the very top prospects in the draft. So we'd rather bet on him developing a better motor and more consistency than others adding these kinds of high-end playmaking skills.

[@jeremiplourde302]

agreed

[@don63]

So do the teams with missing Canadian Junior Team members get any consideration for compensation????

[@Mmm.charmeleon]

Why would they get that

[@don63]

@@Mmm.charmeleon 🥱🥱🥱

[@tylergervais3207]

what is the off ice stuff with Connelly?

[@Dustyy_nhl]

he's suspected of first degree murder, man slaughter, and public indecency

[@ren2871]

Him and a friend built a swastika from Lego cubes and he posted the picture to snapchat and he was accused of using a racial slur against a player and suspended but the suspension was ultimately lifted when it was deemed it could not be determined whether it was said. Connelly denied ever using the slur.

[@T-LEH]

Still feel like this draft is a lot of people really stretching to project some guys that aren't there. Having to project this much in the Top 5, I just don't get it. Catton has dynamisms in his game but has a way better floor. I'm taking him over Levshunov, Lindstrom, Parekh. I don't view Helenius as safer? In fact I also think Catton is definitely a center.

[@RiseFromTheAshZ]

Yesssssssssss

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

Great discussion about prospects! What do you think about Veeti Väisänen? I´m surprised that you´re not ranking him as a Top 64 player. In most of the other rankings he´s a late first rounder or an early second rounder. Finnish goalies are greatly represented, but I´ve thought that Noa Vali and Petteri Rimpinen are better goalie prospects than Kim Saarinen and Veeti Louhivaara.

[@davidst-louis8315]

He's in that mix. Issue is that he projects mostly as an average size defensive D. We want to see a bit more special in his game.

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

@@davidst-louis8315 Fair enough!

[@davidjakubik707]

Silayev has the biggest ceiling in the whole draft... Prove me wrong ....

[@Dustyy_nhl]

highest ceiling is celebrini, 2nd is Silayev

[@Jmulk96]

Absolutely not, his offence is pretty limited

[@davidjakubik707]

watch him a bit more and then come back, trust me@@Jmulk96

[@davidjakubik707]

Nope, his skating is too good for that@LETZGONHLdraft

[@davidjakubik707]

His combination of size, reach, skating, physicality is just unbelievably good

[@micahhagen4773]

Marek Vanacker remains underrated

[@davidst-louis8315]

He might be much higher on our next board. He's a player currently under review for us. The team is split on him.

[@micahhagen4773]

I’ve seen 30 Brantford games, maybe 10 live and talked to some nhl scouts around the arena. They always seem to mention how underrated Vanacker is and they keep trying to get as many viewings as they can of him. I think he’s the type of player to keep rising in the draft, like an Iginla (not to that extent). I could honestly see him going in the first round, maybe a bit of an Easton Cowan surprise?

[@davidst-louis8315]

I can absolutely see that happening.

[@HUMBLEFRYZ]

I’ve only seen 4 games this year but he was by far the best player on the ice for 3 of them. Impressive kid from my snapshot.

[@micahhagen4773]

Did I call it or…

[@shomerfuckingshabbos]

Hearing a lot of size concerns about Catton. Just for some context, Joe Sakic was 5'10" and 160lbs when he was drafted. Not saying Catton will be the reincarnation of Joe, but the size concerns seems quite over-stated. I think he'll end up a top player 3 from this draft and will have teams regretting passing him over (much like Benson last year).

[@davidst-louis8315]

It may very well happen!

[@TheDraftReport]

Agreed. I’m a huge Catton fan. He’s been the best player on the ice every single time I’ve watched him (besides the U18s last year, but he was young and in a supporting role). He’s too smart, too slick and too skilled not to carve out an excellent NHL career

[@bringmebedard]

Couldnt believe they mentioned Helenius with him

[@baibamennika4480]

Seneka , noticed

[@steve_frenchcougar1747]

i hope habs draft Massé with jets pick

[@tonytitani410]

Yakemchuk, Buium, Iggy gonna go higher....

[@baibamennika4480]

Marquez i have no same feeling

[@nadaduo1765]

I would draft Lauren 1st overall 😍

[@baibamennika4480]

Fake drive ? Sorry nothing New)

[@jean-michelfournier8114]

Zayne Parekh defensive game is terrible. His compete in his defensive zone is terrible. Great hockey IQ, great vision and playmaking ability, NHL shot already. His edgework is really interesting but he doesnt have blasting speed. Taking the production out of the equation (mostly PP points) i don't see the hype to put him in a Top5. For me he's closer to 10-15 spot and needs a lot of work for his game to translate to the NHL as a 2nd pair and PP specialist.

[@tomslick2058]

Would not draft a Russian in the 1st round. They all have long KHL contracts.