At the end of each individual team piece in the farm rankings, I posted a top 10 ranking of the team’s players age 23 and under (with Sept. 15, 2019 as the cutoff) that incorporated both prospects and NHL players. The farm rankings were not based on that type of evaluation, this list is.



Every year when defining who a prospect is one or two teams tend to get unfairly penalized by the process. For example, Calgary, No. 31 in this year’s farm rankings, didn’t have two of its top young players qualify by a matter of an NHL game or so.



The biggest difference between this and the farm rankings is we’re dealing with a lot of established NHL players, many of whom are important players for their teams, and that changes the analysis significantly. Being able to make the jump from top prospect to top NHLer is a massive one and a leap a significant number of prospects are unable to make, so that risk is accounted for relative to their more proven...