Drake Batherson’s Breakout Season is Coming

Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images The Why

There are two reasons we’re here today.

Call it intrigue, call it interest, call it having way too much time between Ottawa Senators hockey games, but I wanted to take a deep dive into Drake Batherson’s production at the AHL level and see how it might compare to some of today’s best AHL graduated NHL wingers. This is the first reason.

The second reason, and the primary driver behind this mini project, is that Corey Pronman released his latest rankings for NHL systems and their young players (22 and under) last week (paywall). In his ranking, Pronman has the Ottawa Senators sitting pretty with a bronze medal. This shouldn’t…