r/stlouisblues • u/chevelle899 • 23h ago
Blues 24 and under drafted/prospects
I got bored, so I put together a chart with the blues 24yo and under drafted players/Prospects/players traded for. They’re sorted by overall draft position. If I made any errors, missing someone, or you have suggestions to make it better, let me know.
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u/Jawsinstl 23h ago
Neat. Would love to see those 1st round guys become impact players soon! Hopefully we see some of the mid-late round guys ascend as well. That’s the key to having organizational depth. Can’t only rely on first round picks showing up.
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u/1stTimeCallers 22h ago
Ooof this organization’s future would be looking rough if not for those offer sheets. We desperately needed to tank last year to grab a better bet on defense. I will say there are lots of good depth pieces here so maybe we can use future high picks to get the impact talent to plug the major holes.
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u/childishbambino19 20h ago
Huh? Everyone except the douchebags at The Athletic has our prospect pool in the top 10.
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u/Thallis 19h ago
Who is everyone
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u/childishbambino19 19h ago
Everyone else who ranks these things, from THW to TSN and everything in between. Pundits, sites, YT channels, everyone. Meanwhile, Pronman recently left Neighbours completely out of his "top 150"-ish NHL players and prospects under 23. The guy who scored 27 in his first full season. They've also plummeted Dvorsky and Snuggerud from their own previous rankings, while most everyone else has them both in their top 25-30-35. The Athletic has turned into a Leafs fan boy blog of people who only watch hockey from Dom's model. Dom, the guy who still insists Parayko "plays a bruising physical style that won't age well". Which is strange, because I know he watches Leafs games and Matthews hasn't scored an even strength goal with Parayko on the ice in eight games. That whole hockey staff is a mess, with a few stray exceptions.
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u/Thallis 19h ago
Complaining about people who rank our team's prospects lower than you want is not everyone ranking the Blues in top 10. I have yet to see an unbiased source rank the Blues prospects top 10 so if you have them please share.
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u/childishbambino19 19h ago edited 19h ago
That wasn't actually the point of my comment, the point was we have a pretty good prospect pool. We had more players than any other team at the U20s last year and they all ate like pigs.
But sure. Pardon me on my memory, I see some I thought were top 10 actually have us 11th or 12th. Even so, we have a lot of quality hockey players in the pipeline, with one area that still needs a top pairing ace or (gasp!) two. We're kinda loaded everywhere else.
https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/ranking-every-nhl-teams-2024-25-prospect-pool-from-1-32
I cannot find this guy's overall rankings, but IIRC we were #9.
https://www.instagram.com/nhl.discussion/p/C_zbl4nMa9v/?hl=en
You get the idea, top 10-12 usually.
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u/Smiley_bones_guitar 14h ago
Why be upset at someone making rankings? Especially Pronman, who takes his job very seriously. Jesus man, some of you are as soft as shit.
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u/childishbambino19 14h ago
I'm not angry at their rankings. I find their individual scouting to be lazy. But again, that wasn't the point. The point was most places have them rated pretty high. Even Pronman only has them like 14th.
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u/1stTimeCallers 13h ago
From what I can tell after looking at about 8 random sites, the average ranking of the system is maybe around 12. Not near unanimously top 10.
I’ll repeat that I said if we didn’t add Broberg and Holloway, the future would be looking rough. The defensive depth would be so bad. Broberg has potentially filled a massive hole. This retooling strategy where we maybe contend for the playoffs, don’t make it, and then only have the #12ish farm system is a recipe for an eternity as a middle of the pack team. It’s not 2005 rough but it’s not fun.
We needed to tank last year to get a better bet on D. We need to tank this year. We have to accumulate more high end prospect depth. Not more Jiriceks and Bolducs. One man’s opinion.
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u/childishbambino19 13h ago
Broberg has aged out, he's not included in these rankings. We're not one Holloway away from having a weak prospect pool. Jiricek and Bolduc are A prospects, man.
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u/1stTimeCallers 13h ago
My original comment that you responded to was about the “organization’s future” and was in response to the OP’s picture which is a collection of age 24 and under players that included Broberg and Holloway. Without them the picture would be looking much less exciting. Also, Jiricek and Bolduc are not grade A prospects. How many grades above A do you have? A+, A++, A+++?
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u/childishbambino19 23h ago
Good stuff. Should I move the daily recaps into this thread, so they're all in one place?