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FlamesNation Prospect Profile Round-Up: #10-1
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Ryan Pike
Sep 5, 2015, 15:30 EDTUpdated:
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Well, the 2015 edition of the FlamesNation prospect rankings is in the books! Thanks to everyone that participated and everyone that read the series. It was fun to write about, which is good in the summer-time, as we quietly wait for hockey to return.
Of course, you’re all probably curious how contentious the process was. I’ll post the voting breakdown after the jump and you can check it out.

THE VOTING

The panel was asked to rank the Flames prospects from 1 to 20. Points were assigned to each ranking in reverse order (20 points for 1st, 1 point for 20th, and so on.) Ballots were secret, so nobody knew who anyone else chose – and strangely, a lot of the players were ranked the same regardless.
Here’s how the rankings shook down.
Points
Ryan
Christian
Mike
Arii
Byron
Kent
Neil
Beloch
Taylor
Sam Bennett
180
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Jon Gillies
160
2
3
5
3
3
2
4
4
3
Emile Poirier
156
7
4
2
2
2
4
5
5
2
Oliver Kylington
144
5
2
11
5
4
8
3
2
5
Morgan Klimchuk
140
3
5
8
4
6
6
6
7
4
Rasmus Andersson
122
8
8
10
9
9
7
2
3
11
Brandon Hickey
121
4
7
4
8
7
5
7
19
7
Tyler Wotherspoon
113
6
6
3
6
11
9
11
18
6
Bill Arnold
107
9
9
6
8
3
8
9
9
Mark Jankowski
82
11
11
7
11
12
12
13
13
17
Kenney Morrison
74
10
10
12
7
10
16
15
14
Andrew Mangiapane
73
19
17
17
10
5
15
9
6
18
Ryan Culkin
68
12
14
9
14
15
11
17
16
13
Kenny Agostino
66
18
12
15
13
13
10
11
10
Hunter Smith
56
14
16
18
17
17
17
12
8
14
Mason McDonald
54
13
13
19
12
14
14
19
10
Brett Kulak
48
15
15
16
18
16
13
18
15
15
Austin Carroll
39
17
13
20
18
18
10
12
Garnet Hathaway
23
16
14
15
16
Rushan Rafikov
11
20
20
17
16
Patrick Sieloff
8
20
18
19
19
Pavel Karnaukhov
6
16
20
Keegan Kanzig
4
19
19
Turner Elson
3
19
20
Adam Ollas Mattsson
3
20
20
20
Some Notes:
  • Everybody ranked Jon Gillies ahead of Mason McDonald, often by 10 spots or so.
  • Only a few panelists ranked Rasmus Andersson ahead of Oliver Kylington.
  • The panel was predictably split on Mark Jankowski; the 2012 first rounder was ranked as high as 7th and as low as 17th.
  • Outside of a few outliers – Mike loving Ryan Culkin, me loving Morgan Klimchuk, Beloch loving Hunter Smith – most of the rest of the rankings showed a fairly good amount of consensus.
  • 17 of the 20 top players ranked by our panel were Calgary Flames draft picks.

THE RUNDOWN

Click here for the prospects ranked 20th through 11th

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Big thanks to the individuals that chatted with us about the Top 20 prospects so we could add their insights. So a big stick-tap to head coach Ryan Huska of the Stockton Heat (and to Stockton’s PR guru for setting it up), Brock Otten of the OHL Prospects Blog and Mike McMahon of College Hockey News.

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