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Prospects Unlimited 2022-23
Our annual Prospects Unlimited issue returns, with full listings of every NHL team’s system, grades, and a profile on an intriguing youngster. Also, we count down the top 100 21-and-under players in the world.
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS
ENTERING LAST season, the Halifax Mooseheads knew Jordan Dumais was special. As a rookie in 2020-21, he’d produced 29 points in 40 games, all against divisional foes as the QMJHL navigated the pandemic. It actually turns out the unusual schedule may have helped. Halifax coach Sylvain Favreau says playing a tough, veteran-laden team like the Charlottetown Islanders so much aided the right winger’s development. Dumais spent much of the first half of 2021-22 among the league’s top 10 scorers. But that wasn’t enough to earn him an invitation to the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. “When the prospects game roster came out, he was certainly disappointed and had a bit of a slump for a few games after that,” Favreau said. “Then it clicked in his head that he was going to…
SAN JOSE SHARKS
IT WAS obvious that high-school blueliner Michael Fisher was a project with incredible potential when the Sharks selected the 6-foot-2, right-shot defender in the third round (76th overall) of the 2022 NHL draft. Fisher is slated to play in the USHL this season with the Youngstown Phantoms, and his new coach, Ryan Ward, immediately saw the same high ceiling. “He is a modern-day, 200-foot defenseman that has a ton of NHL upside,” Ward said. Unfortunately for Fisher, he won’t be able to prove his mettle until the new year after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus, an injury he sustained early in the 2022-23 USHL pre-season. His path from high school to junior to, eventually, Northeastern University has been delayed – but not derailed. When he returns to health, Fisher hopes to…
WELCOME BACK TO THE PARTY
ONE OF THE FIRST times I went to Buffalo for a Sabres game, the end result was not pretty. It was during the 2007 playoffs, and the Sabres were hosting the Ottawa Senators in the Eastern Conference final after clinching the Presidents’ Trophy at the end of the regular season for the first time. Now-managing editor Edward Fraser and I drove down from Toronto to watch the likes of Daniel Briere, Thomas Vanek and Ryan Miller attempt to push the Sabres back to the final, and to do so as the favorites in the series. Prior to the game, I specifically remember walking down from the arena to the Washington Square Bar and Grill, where the place was packed with fans in Sabres gear, and everything I ordered was deep-fried. A few…
TOP 100 21 AND UNDER: 16-21
16. JAMIE DRYSDALE POS: D | AGE: 20 Anaheim Ducks (NHL) | Draft: 6th, 2020 (ANA) Drysdale took his lumps in his first full NHL campaign, and he’ll be better for it. The step to top-pairing duty is on hold after an early-season shoulder injury knocked him out for the foreseeable future, but there is little sense in rushing Drysdale before Anaheim is ready to seriously contend. 17. SIMON EDVINSSON POS: D | AGE: 19 Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) | Draft: 6th, 2021 (DET) It’s not hard to see the appeal in the 6-foot-6, 209-pound Edvinsson, especially when you marry his hulking size with his skating ability and two-way play. Coming over to North America as a teen hasn’t fazed him, either, as the Red Wings pick averaged a point per game from the blueline early on. 18.…