Wings prospects' reviews in The Hockey News

[Bluedevils_13 0]

I haven't seen this posted yet, so I guess I will. This months Hockey News Magazine is their annual release of their ratings of the prospects for this year's draft, and ratings for all of the current prospects of NHL teams 1-75. They do a write up of each team, so I try to grab it every year as it's a decent read. Anyways I thought it made us look our prosprects look pretty decent as well are the only team with five prospects in the top 75. Although the Blue Jackets do have four players in the top 20 in: Voracek(4), Brassard(6), Mason (13), and Brule(14). The Wings kids were rated as follows...

1. Jakub Kindl (36)

2.Jonathan Ericsson (46)

3. Jimmy Howard (55)

4. Brendan Smith (71)

5. Darren Helm (73)

6.Corey Emmerton

7. Justin Abdelkader

8. Jan Mursak

9. Kyle Quincey

10. Joakim Andersson

Brendan Smith is being touted as a "...tremendous skater and a creative player who likes to carry the puck.", and is likened to Niklas Kronwall at the same age.I think it's pretty cool that we have prospects as good as Emmerton, and Abdelkader that low on our depth charts, as they seem pretty good too me I actually thought Emmerton was actually better than Helm. Also, what ever happened to goalie Henrik Larsson (sp?) I heard he could even come to NA in a couple years. ...and for those who care Carey Price was touted as the top NHL prospect.

[WingMachine91 0]

how old is this, because i thought that when players are already playing consistently in the nhl, there no longer prospects, such as price

[Booster313 138]

6.Corey Emmerton

7. Justin Abdelkader

8. Jan Mursak

9. Kyle Quincey

10. Joakim Andersson

What were they're overall rankings?

[Bluedevils_13 0]

I think it came out in sometime March, but Price only really recently became the bona-fide starter in Montreal, basically around the trade deadline. Brule is probably on there because he was sent down a couple times this year too.

[Bluedevils_13 0]

6.Corey Emmerton

7. Justin Abdelkader

8. Jan Mursak

9. Kyle Quincey

10. Joakim Andersson

What were they're overall rankings?

They only had rankings for the prospects in the top75 so, they were somewhere under that. I think it would be sweet if they just just gave everyone a rating like they do in video games.