{"id":182372,"date":"2013-07-26T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2013\/07\/26\/pronman-talks-senators-prospects\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T19:21:09","slug":"pronman-talks-senators-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/pronman-talks-senators-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Falls In HP Organizational Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tTotally missed this from a few weeks ago, but in seeing Hockey Prospectus<\/em>’ Corey Pronman update each NHL team’s top ten prospects, I looked back and noticed this organizational ranking<\/a> for all 30 NHL teams had already been posted.<\/p>\n \n\tWhenever some third party evaluator grades and ranks the teams within the NHL, it creates a hotbed of discussion that usually culminates with a sect of each team’s fan base asking the question, “Why do you hate the (insert your favorite team name here)?”<\/p>\n \n\tSo brace yourselves Ottawa because your beloved Senators and their much ballyhooed farm system has dropped from being the 5th<\/sup> ranked system at this time last year to the 18th<\/sup> best in the NHL.<\/p>\n \n\tPronman explains:<\/p>\n \n\tThe Senators lost Mika Zibanejad and Patrick Wiercioch to graduation, along with Jakob Silfverberg and Stefan Noesen to trade, but Ottawa still has good depth and a number of players to like. They have quality prospects at all positions, including an elite goalie prospect in Robin Lehner. Defenseman Mikael Wikstrand was a great riser this year, but first round pick Cody Ceci was up and down.<\/p>\n \n\tLooking back at Pronman’s assessment<\/a> of Ottawa’s top ten prospects from August 2012, the loss or graduation of Zibanejad (1st<\/sup>), Silfverberg (3rd<\/sup>), Noesen (7th<\/sup>) and Wiercioch (8th<\/sup>) justifies a falling ranking, and that’s without even mentioning that once highly regarded prospects like Stephane Da Costa (6th<\/sup>) or Andre Petersson (10th<\/sup>) have been surpassed in the organizational depth charts and no longer look like candidates to crack the Senators’ lineup anytime soon.<\/p>\n