I belive Chicago and Buffalo have a lot of prospect depth---farm team and juniors. Does anyone else have other teams that they belive will have a fair number of there picks pan out ??

Not sure if Los Angeles can be a mention considering alot of their top prospects are NHLer\'s already but if you take a quick look in the past 4 years they\'ve had one heck of a good rookie class.

-ALEXANDER FROLOV
-ANZE KOPITAR
-PATRICK O\'SULLIVAN
-JACK JOHNSON
-LAURI TUKONEN
-MICHAEL CAMMALIERI
-JONATHAN BERNIER

I may be missing some players but thats one heck of a good rookie list, not to mention having a took pick this year and a guy like Karl Alzner will be added.

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F-Backstrom,Getzlaf,E.Staal,St-Louis,B.Richards,Burrows,Semin
Whitney,Giroux,Hartnell,Ju.Williams,Ruutu,Malone,D ubinsky,Hudler,Jagr
D-Edler,Boyle,Byfuglien,Daley,Foster
G-Luongo,Brodeur,Vokoun,Rask,Hedberg

F- Crosby,Malkin,Marleau,Krejci,Neal,Tavares,Fillipul a,Stafford.Stepan
Giroux,Fleischmann,Versteeg,Burrows,Ruutu,Jagr,Ber geron,Berglund
D- Keith,Lidstrom,Goligoski,Letang,Phaneuf,Carlson,Ty tuin
G- Luongo,Crawford,Backstrom,Lehtonen

Hey Sakic you forgot Dustin Brown aswell. Whats the deal with Tukonen? Do you know much on this guy? Is he going to be a star??

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Angus is my best friend at dobberhockey..
Bruins believer since BIRTH..
Fav player: Cam Neely..

Ah good point...it was late and that who I forgot, Dustin Brown.

And well with Tukonen he was a top prospect and were not sure yet how he will turn out. Hes in a well surrounded team and that will help his stats obviously. Give him good ice time and we\'ll see what he can become. Time will tell. Hopefully he becomes good.

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12 Team Keeper Pts Only
F-Backstrom,Getzlaf,E.Staal,St-Louis,B.Richards,Burrows,Semin
Whitney,Giroux,Hartnell,Ju.Williams,Ruutu,Malone,D ubinsky,Hudler,Jagr
D-Edler,Boyle,Byfuglien,Daley,Foster
G-Luongo,Brodeur,Vokoun,Rask,Hedberg

F- Crosby,Malkin,Marleau,Krejci,Neal,Tavares,Fillipul a,Stafford.Stepan
Giroux,Fleischmann,Versteeg,Burrows,Ruutu,Jagr,Ber geron,Berglund
D- Keith,Lidstrom,Goligoski,Letang,Phaneuf,Carlson,Ty tuin
G- Luongo,Crawford,Backstrom,Lehtonen

Tukonen still has not completely recovered from the season-ending shoulder injury he sustained during the 2005-2006 season, and it showed with a near-complete lack of progress this season. It\'s not the first major injury he\'s sustained either - he\'s got great hands but sometimes fails to keep his head up while handling the puck. Though in his defense I think he was only about 15 years old the first time he got hurt, and already playing in SM-Liiga. He still does his best work in the corners, but I think that\'s partly because (being so young compared to his peers in each league, from SM-Liiga on up) he keeps getting played on checking lines by his coaches. On the other hand, those skills in the corner could be very valuable to a team with as many skilled prospects a the Kings. Before this season I thought his upside might be 75, but now I\'m somewhat more skeptical. I think he\'ll put up somewhere in the 60-65 range annually once he develops, though his future linemates in Los Angeles could easily help him to surpass that.

Post edited by: Thieving Giraffe, at: 2007/04/20 12:28

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I like L.A\'s depth(which kinda spells doom for my sharks, but oh well).

And Tukonen, Thieving Giraffe said pretty much what was on my mind. He\'ll be a second liner who will be great in both ends, with a scoring touch. Depending on his linemates, he could get to 75, or maybe over. I kind of doubt it though.
He\'ll be one of those players you really want on your hockey team, though.

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Ovechkin-Couture-Kovalchuk
Benn-Ott-Eriksson
Halischuk-Berglund-S.Thornton
Bowman-Legwand-Mitchell
Faulk-Orlov
Martin-Y.Weber
Wilson-Smid
Niemi

Butler,Horak,Nodl,Omark,Bartulis, Carson,Demers,Staios,Garon,Schneider

PROSPECTS
Nyquist,Bennett,Guptill,Haula,Knight, Kristo,Ranford,Rieder,Sundher,Barberio
Dumoulin,Deslauriers,Janosik,Klefbom
Ness,Sproul,Vatanen,Poulin

You know who Tukonen reminds me a lot of? Marty Gelinas. Big, solid, defensively strong winger who puts it together every so often to become a threat. Gelinas broke 30+ goals twice and 50+ points four times over his long career. I could see the same thing happening for Tukonen.