The Athletic hates the Islanders’ prospect pipeline

Andy Marlin-USA TODAY SportsThere isn’t much talent coming to help the New York Islanders — or for them to use in a trade.

Scott Wheeler at The Athletic is breaking down his rankings of all 32 NHL organizations’ prospect depth.

He isn’t very high on the Islanders’ collection of young players. In fact, he ranked them 31st out of the 32 franchises. And he considers only one Islanders’ prospect to be an “A” prospect.

Here’s Wheeler’s top ten Islanders’ prospects:

Aatu Räty, C

William Dufour, RW

Simon Holmstrom, LW/RW

Ruslan Ishakov, C/W

Samuel Bolduc, LHD

Eetu Liukas, LW

Aleksi Malinen, LHD

Bode Wilde, RHD

Matias Rajaniemi, LHD

Reece Newkirk, C

From Wheeler’s comments, “There’s Räty, alone at the top…