Albert Johansson is a raw talent who has emerged over the course of the second half of this season. Earlier, the potential was there but he didn’t take charge of games, playing more on the safe side. He still plays safe but now he plays to his potential and takes over games with his great […]
McKeen’s 2023-24 Yearbook – A strong skating defender who is a former second round selection of the Wings. While his performance as an AHL rookie last year was not poor, Detroit will be looking for him to step up his game as a sophomore, improving his confidence at both ends. McKeen’s 2023 Prospect Report – […]
Top 20 Detroit Red Wing Prospects 1. Simon Edvinsson One of the most promising prospects in the league, the Detroit Red Wings bet big on Edvinsson in the 2021 NHL Draft, calling his name sixth overall. He had a solid draft year bouncing between the SHL, HockeyAllsvenskan, and J20 Nationell but popped in his DY+1 […]
Prospect System Ranking – 5th (11th last year) The Yzerplan now enters its fifth year, with yet another high draft pick to show for their efforts following a seventh year out of the playoffs. Steve Yzerman took over in April 2019 and has overseen four drafts to date. He has had four top ten picks […]
Simon Edvinsson D Edvinsson was selected with the 6th overall pick by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2021 NHL draft. Detroit has recently invested heavily in Swedish prospects drafting at least seven Swedish players combined over the last four drafts. Edvinsson has a unique set of traits that makes him a high-upside prospect. He […]
The 21-22 season has been underway for over eight weeks now, with the KHL having kicked off the fun already at the end of the summer. This past weekend marked a basically European-wide break in regular season action so that just about everybody’s national team can participate at a number of tournaments across the continent. […]
Detroit Red Wings #1 Detroit – Now the deepest system in the game, there are four teams that don’t have two prospects that would get into Detroit’s top ten. Mortiz Seider The sixth overall draft pick in the 2019 draft, Seider spent the 2020-21 season cementing his spot as one of the world’s top U23 […]
Between my own reviews of the draft classes of each team, division-by-division, as well as Brock’s blow-by-blow of the draft by rounds, the micro-view of the draft has been pretty well covered at McKeens Hockey. As long-time reader might know, I like to end my review of every given draft with a more macro-view approach, […]
Can Sweden overcome the hurdles? Team Sweden or “juniorkronorna” as they are called in Sweden are always a competitive team at World Juniors, and this year is no exception. Usually the pre-tournament talk is on their remarkable round robin winning streak and how stacked they are at defense. This is, as you all know, a […]
These are our final prospect ranking prior to the start of the season. As a subscriber you can download the list in an excel chart and can link to the player pages in the chart found here. As always, the rankings you see below are based on our 20-80 scouting system looking at five categories […]
