Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – September 2016

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2016-09-10

The Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – September edition. Late-summer adjustments…

Not a lot of changes this month, but what adjustments you do see are based on observations done by our DobberProspects scouting staff in this summer's '30 Teams in 30 Days' feature, in which they review the pipeline of each team, rank the prospects, and give a list of 'risers' and 'fallers'. You can access those 30 feature articles by visiting here. The below list is for points-only keeper leagues. It factors in the three key things that are important in these types of leagues – upside, wait time, and NHL certainty.

I plan to put the list of Top 50 prospect defensemen up on Monday, so keep an eye out for that.

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Sep 10	Prospect	Team	type	Prospect Rating	Aug 10	Jul 10
1	Auston Matthews	TOR	o	112.8	1	1
2	Patrik Laine	WPG	p	112.2	2	2
3	Jesse Puljujarvi	EDM	t	98.5	3	3
4	Mitch Marner	TOR	o	91.9	4	7
5	Dylan Strome	ARI	o	88.2	5	5
6	William Nylander	TOR	o	87.7	6	6
7	Pierre-Luc Dubois	CBJ	o	81.6	7	4
8	Christian Dvorak	ARI	o	80.8	8	9
9	Sebastian Aho	CAR	o	76.4	9	14
10	Mikko Rantanen	COL	p	76.2	10	8
11	Kyle Connor	WPG	o	75.3	11	10
12	Jimmy Vesey	NYR	o	75.0	12	13
13	Pavel Zacha	NJD	p	74.4	13	22
14	Oliver Bjorkstrand	CBJ	o	73.7	14	16
15	Travis Konecny	PHI	o	70.9	15	12
16	Nick Ritchie	ANA	p	69.6	16	11
17	Brayden Point	TBL	os	69.3	17	15
18	Mathew Barzal	NYI	o	69.3	18	18
19	Sonny Milano	CBJ	o	68.0	19	19
20	Jake Virtanen	VAN	p	67.7	20	20
21	Anthony Mantha	DET	o	67.7	21	21
22	Matthew Tkachuk	CGY	p	67.6	25	25
23	Colin White	OTT	o	67.2	23	24
24	Clayton Keller	ARI	o	67.2	22	23
25	Andreas Athanasiou	DET	o	65.8	26	28
26	Jakub Vrana	WAS	o	65.3	27	26
27	Kevin Fiala	NSH	o	65.2	28	27
28	Kerby Rychel	TOR	p	64.7	24	17
29	Adrian Kempe	LAK	o	64.2	29	31
30	Brett Ritchie	DAL	p	64.1	30	32
31	Michael Dal Colle	NYI	o	63.8	31	29
32	Nick Schmaltz	CHI	o	63.8	51	54
33	Teemu Pulkkinen	DET	o	63.7	32	30
34	Ty Rattie	STL	o	63.3	33	35
35	Michael McCarron	MON	p	62.9	34	34
36	Timo Meier	SJS	o	62.7	36	37
37	Pavel Buchnevich	NYR	o	62.6	37	36
38	Nick Paul	OTT	p	62.6	38	38
39	Daniel Sprong	PIT	o	62.5	39	39
40	Tyson Jost	COL	o	62.4	40	40
41	Alexander Nylander	BUF	o	62.2	41	41
42	Ivan Barbashev	STL	t	62.1	42	42
43	Brock Boeser	VAN	p	61.9	43	44
44	Frank Vatrano	BOS	o	61.8	57	79
45	Lawson Crouse	ARI	p	61.7	44	48
46	Connor Brown	TOR	o	61.6	45	43
47	Nicolas Petan	WPG	os	61.5	46	33
48	Sven Andrighetto	MON	os	61.3	47	45
49	Tyler Motte	CHI	os	61.1	58	132
50	Jonathan Marchessault	FLA	os	61.1	48	66
51	Jayce Hawryluk	FLA	o	60.9	49	51
52	Alex Tuch	MIN	p	60.8	50	53
53	Kevin Labanc	SJS	o	60.7	52	47
54	Jason Dickinson	DAL	t	60.4	53	46
55	Devin Shore	DAL	t	60.3	54	49
56	Ryan Dzingel	OTT	o	60.1	55	50
57	Nick Cousins	PHI	o	59.9	56	95
58	Tobias Lindberg	TOR	o	59.4	59	56
59	Martin Reway	MON	o	59.4	35	89
60	Vladislav Kamenev	NSH	t	59.4	60	58
61	J.T. Compher	COL	t	59.4	61	93
62	Seth Griffith	BOS	o	59.2	62	59
63	Hudson Fasching	BUF	p	59.2	63	60
64	Charles Hudon	MON	o	59.1	64	61
65	Nikita Scherbak	MON	o	58.9	65	55
66	Nikolay Goldobin	SJS	o	58.7	66	62
67	Rocco Grimaldi	COL	os	58.6	67	57
68	Evgeny Svechnikov	DET	p	58.5	68	64
69	Joseph Blandisi	NJD	o	58.3	69	52
70	Marko Dano	WPG	o	58.2	70	63
71	Andrew Copp	WPG	o	58.1	71	65
72	Logan Brown	OTT	o	57.6	72	68
73	Joel Armia	WPG	o	57.5	73	69
74	Reid Boucher	NJD	o	57.3	74	67
75	Kasperi Kapanen	TOR	o	56.8	76	72
76	Emile Poirier	CGY	o	56.6	77	73
77	Zach Hyman	TOR	o	56.5	78	74
78	Joel Eriksson Ek	MIN	o	56.4	79	70
79	Josh Ho-Sang	NYI	o	56.1	81	76
80	Riley Barber	WAS	t	56.1	82	77
81	Drake Caggiula	EDM	os	56.1	83	116
82	Conor Sheary	PIT	o	56.0	84	82
83	Nick Merkley	ARI	o	55.9	75	71
84	Brendan Leipsic	TOR	o	55.8	85	78
85	Artturi Lehkonen	MON	o	55.7	90	85
86	Alan Quine	NYI	o	55.4	86	129
87	Brendan Perlini	ARI	o	55.3	80	75
88	Daniel Carr	MON	o	54.8	88	81
89	Cole Cassels	VAN	o	54.8	89	83
90	Anton Rodin	VAN	o	54.8	87	135
91	Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson	BOS	o	54.5	91	86
92	Hunter Shinkaruk	CGY	o	54.4	92	90
93	Sergey Tolchinsky	CAR	os	53.9	93	87
94	Matt Puempel	OTT	o	53.6	94	88
95	Julius Nattinen	ANA	o	53.0	96	92
96	Bryan Rust	PIT	o	52.5	98	84
97	Francis Perron	OTT	o	52.4	99	166
98	Brendan Gaunce	VAN	o	52.4	100	97
99	Anton Slepyshev	EDM	o	52.3	101	80
100	Jordan Weal	PHI	os	52.2	102	100
101	Michael McLeod	NJD	t	52.2	103	96
102	Riley Tufte	DAL	p	51.9	104	99
103	Anthony Beauvillier	NYI	o	51.8	105	150
104	Jean-Christophe Beaudin	COL	o	51.8	106	149
105	Maxim Letunov	SJS	o	51.5	107	101
106	Tyler Bertuzzi	DET	p	51.2	108	111
107	Ryan Hartman	CHI	t	51.2	109	103
108	Dmytro Timashov	TOR	o	51.0	110	105
109	Nicolas Roy	CAR	p	50.9	126	120
110	Deven Sideroff	ANA	o	50.9	144	142
111	Dennis Rasmussen	CHI	o	50.8	95	91
112	Anthony Richard	NSH	o	50.8	111	106
113	Markus Granlund	VAN	o	50.8	112	102
114	Brock McGinn	CAR	p	50.7	113	104
115	Stanislav Galiev	WAS	o	50.5	114	94
116	Andreas Johnson	TOR	o	50.5	115	107
117	Henrik Samuelsson	ARI	t	50.5	97	98
118	Nikita Soshnikov	TOR	o	50.4	116	109
119	Kevin Roy	ANA	o	50.2	117	110
120	Adam Erne	TBL	p	50.2	118	112
121	German Rubtsov	PHI	t	50.2	119	113
122	Kalle Kossila	ANA	os	50.1	120	108
123	Dominik Simon	PIT	o	50.1	121	114
124	Ryan MacInnis	ARI	t	49.5	122	115
125	Jake Guentzel	PIT	o	49.4	123	117
126	Tyler Graovac	MIN	o	49.1	124	118
127	Nick Sorensen	ANA	o	49.1	136	134
128	Josh Leivo	TOR	p	49.1	125	119
129	Vaclav Karabacek	BUF	t	49.0	157	155
130	Denis Gurianov	DAL	o	48.9	127	121
131	Mark Jankowski	CGY	p	48.9	128	123
132	Brendan Lemieux	WPG	p	48.8	129	124
133	Phillip Di Giuseppe	CAR	o	48.6	130	126
134	Nicolas Aube-Kubel	PHI	o	48.4	131	127
135	Alexander Khokhlachev	BOS	o	48.2	132	128
136	Luke Kunin	MIN	o	48.1	133	130
137	Jens Looke	ARI	o	48.1	134	131
138	Jacob De La Rose	MON	t	47.9	135	133
139	Christian Fischer	ARI	t	47.6	137	136
140	Rourke Chartier	SJS	o	47.5	138	137
141	John Quenneville	NJD	t	47.4	139	138
142	Radel Fazleyev	PHI	o	47.3	140	139
143	Jack Roslovic	WPG	p	47.3	141	140
144	Nikita Gusev	TBL	os	47.3	142	141
145	Josh Anderson	CBJ	t	47.2	143	170
146	Rasmus Asplund	BUF	o	46.9	145	143
147	Zach Sanford	WAS	o	46.8	146	144
148	J.C. Lipon	WPG	t	46.7	147	145
149	Daniel O'Regan	SJS	o	46.6	148	146
150	Laurent Dauphin	ARI	o	46.6	149	147
151	Brett Pollock	CGY	t	46.6	150	148
152	Nicklas Jensen	NYR	p	46.4	151	122
153	Ryan Gropp	NYR	p	46.4	159	157
154	Austin Czarnik	BOS	os	46.3	152	151
155	Martins Dzierkals	TOR	o	46.3	153	152
156	Tom Kuhnhackl	PIT	o	46.1	154	125
157	Danton Heinen	BOS	o	46.0	166	164
158	Alex DeBrincat	CHI	os	46.0	200	274
159	Oskar Lindblom	PHI	t	46.0	155	153
160	Vince Hinostroza	CHI	os	45.9	156	154
161	Cole Ully	DAL	o	45.9	158	156
162	Justin Bailey	BUF	o	45.8	160	158
163	Nicholas Baptiste	BUF	o	45.8	161	159
164	Axel Holmstrom	DET	o	45.6	162	160
165	Giorgio Estephan	BUF	o	45.5	163	161
166	Derek Grant	BUF	o	45.4	164	162
167	Scott Wilson	PIT	o	45.2	165	163
168	Thomas Novak	NSH	o	45.0	218	220
169	Kyle Rau	FLA	os	45.0	167	165
170	Aleksi Saarela	CAR	o	45.0	168	167
171	Valentin Zykov	CAR	o	45.0	169	194
172	Adam Tambellini	NYR	o	44.9	170	169
173	Jeremy Bracco	TOR	o	44.8	171	171
174	Tanner Kero	CHI	o	44.8	172	172
175	Daniel Zaar	CBJ	o	44.6	173	173
176	Andrew Mangiapane	CGY	o	44.5	174	174
177	Remi Elie	DAL	p	44.4	175	175
178	Ryan Fitzgerald	BOS	o	44.4	176	176
179	Andrew Poturalski	CAR	o	44.1	177	178
180	Colton Sissons	NSH	t	44.1	178	179
181	Samuel Blais	STL	o	44.1	179	180
182	Paul Bittner	CBJ	p	44.1	180	181
183	Travis Boyd	WAS	o	44.1	181	182
184	Mario Lucia	MIN	o	44.0	182	185
185	Noah Rod	SJS	t	44.0	183	168
186	Conor Garland	ARI	os	44.0	184	186
187	Mitchell Stephens	TBL	o	43.7	185	187
188	Cristoval Nieves	NYR	o	43.6	246	247
189	Jake DeBrusk	BOS	o	43.5	186	188
190	T.J. Tynan	CBJ	os	43.5	187	189
191	Scott Kosmachuk	WPG	t	43.4	189	191
192	Adam Helewka	SJS	o	43.4	190	192
193	Dylan Sadowy	DET	o	43.4	191	193
194	Bogdan Yakimov	EDM	p	43.3	192	195
195	Teddy Blueger	PIT	o	43.1	194	196
196	Kieffer Bellows	NYI	p	43.1	195	197
197	Oskar Sundqvist	PIT	p	43.1	196	250
198	Thomas Di Pauli	PIT	o	43.0	197	198
199	Zach Senyshyn	BOS	o	43.0	198	199
200	Mark McNeill	CHI	p	42.8	199	203

Tyler 2016-09-11 at 13:34Log in to Reply

I’m in a 24 team keeper league. I have a big UND Fighting Sioux bias, and just had our 6-round draft this morning that includes all 1st round picks in the draft plus any players from previous years (not drafted in the 1st round) that played their 1st NHL game the year prior. With the 14th overall pick, I somehow ended up with a choice between Clayton Keller and Tyson Jost. I didn’t think Keller would fall that much, so was caught off-guard, and ended up selecting him over Jost; even though I had the Sioux bias. Did I select the right player? I like his skill a lot, and he seems to be rated higher based on your rankings. Thanks, man!
- Dobber 2016-09-11 at 20:02Log in to Reply
  
  I would have taken Keller for sure
Happyspleen 2016-09-12 at 11:48Log in to Reply

These are great. Only thing I could possibly ask: could you add a “Change” column like you do for the top 300 rankings? It’s informative to see big risers or fallers so we can flag those players for additional research. For example, I see big drops from Rasmussen and Samuelsson this month, and a big rise from DeBrincat and Schmaltz. Well, those have my attention because it indicates that there’s new information about them that I will want to know.

Mind you, it’s not like I don’t copy and paste these into a spreadsheet and do it for myself. But still.
Chris S 2016-10-01 at 07:58Log in to Reply

How is it max jones doesn’t make the list?
- Dobber 2016-10-01 at 10:20Log in to Reply
  
  Limited upside (low 60s) and at least four years away puts his ranking at 216
Brandon Decker 2016-10-07 at 10:16Log in to Reply

i can protect 3 rookies in my keeper league.
who would you keep?

Barzal
Rantanen
Dal colle
Sam bennett
Bjorkstrand
- R McGinnis 2016-10-07 at 12:05Log in to Reply
  
  This seems easy: Bennett, Barzal and Rantanen
- Brandon Decker 2016-10-07 at 13:32Log in to Reply
  
  You don’t think bjorkstrabd is better then rantanen?

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