Pension Plan Puppets · Jan 24, 2019
Bob McKenzie’s draft rankings are out for 2019
Photo by Kevin Light/Getty ImagesProspect season got going in earnest last night with the CHL top prospects game, but now we have a list of prospects to look over, and it just got better. The NHL Central Scouting lists were released this week, but they are, of course, separated out into four lists of North American and European skaters and goalies. The fun of McKenzie’s list is that it’s consolidated, not just with all players ranked together, but in the source of the prospect opinions that go into it are drawn from a variety of scouts.
The unsurprising part of the list is the top:
Each of the 10 NHL scouts surveyed by TSN this week had Hughes at No. 1 on their list. Ten for 10.