Last week, I took a deep dive into the New York Rangers’ prospects playing in Europe. The Rangers have even more prospects playing in North America. In the first half of this series, I will be grading the forwards in the Rangers’ system.
The New York Rangers have a very… decent talent pool. Their European prospects grade well overall, but the Rangers also have plenty of youth in North America. This article will be my grading of the forward group. In my next article, I will look at defensemen and goaltenders playing in North America.
Here is the criteria for making the grade. I evaluated players under the age of 25 and only those not in the NHL. I chose these two limits to weed out players who are still young, but have firmly cemented their place in the lineup, like Filip Chytil and Brett Howden, or simply don’t seem to have much ahead of them, like Steven Fogarty.
Prospecting is never an exact science, so these players may turn out as top-six forwards or never make it to the league. I graded these prospects based on my opinion of both their current skill and their ceiling.
*All of these stats are from EliteProspects.com and are to date as of Jan. 31st, 2019*