Mid-season Nashville prospects ranking

Normally around this time, you would be reading my December Predators prospects report. But instead, I thought I’d provide a mid-season ranking of the organization’s pipeline. Some of you may know that I typically find rankings like this to be less than insightful; it’s hard to compare prospects of different ages from different leagues. But I do think it’s helpful to take a more robust look at the prospect pool from time to time to help determine who to be excited about and who to be concerned about.

Let’s lay down some ground rules before getting started:

Players’ rights must be held by Nashville, whether by contract or draft rights, excluding players on AHL contracts.

Players must be under…