With amateur hockey seasons and the NHL Combine completed, ISS Hockey has released its final pre-draft rankings in the 2014 ISS NHL Draft Guide. Bigger and better than ever, the industry-leading guide provides the most comprehensive analysis and preview of the upcoming NHL Draft.
June 3, 2014 [Guelph, ON] ISS Hockey announces the release of its final player rankings for the upcoming NHL Draft to be held on June 27-28, 2014 in Philadelphia. The rankings are featured in the newly released 2014 ISS NHL Draft Guide.
The industry leading ISS NHL Draft Guide provides the most comprehensive analysis and preview of the NHL Draft. Bigger and Better than ever with over 150 pages, the guide features:
▪ Rankings of the top 220 NHL draft eligible prospects, as determined by ISS Hockey’s worldwide scouting staff, including rankings by positions
▪ Detailed Scouting Reports for all ranked prospects, including grading of skills, analysis of strengths & weaknesses, NHL potential, NHL player comparisons, scout comments, and more
▪ Historical Draft and System Analysis for each NHL team, analyzing past drafts and free agency outlooks
▪ Picks of the top Wildcards & Sleepers in the draft, those players who are not highly rated, but ISS feels are likely to develop into impact players in the future
▪ Top 5 players in 14 categories – Skating, Puck Handling, Scoring, Playmaking, Toughness, Offensive Defenseman, Defensive Defenseman, Faceoffs, Best Little Guy, Defensive Forward, Puck Protection, Hardest Shot, Under Rated, and Over Rated
▪ ISS Mock Draft, as picked by the consensus of ISS Hockey’s scouts
▪ An outlook on the next two NHL Drafts, with rankings of the Top 50 prospects for 2015 and Top 30 prospects for 2016
ISS Hockey’s scouting information and the technology tools provided by ISS parent company HockeyTech are vital tools used by NHL teams in their day-to-day evaluations of prospects and players. For hockey fans and fantasy players, the ISS NHL Draft Guide has become the “bible” for providing the vital information needed to truly understand the NHL Draft from the eyes of professional scouts and NHL GMs. ISS scouts have been tracking the prospects eligible for the NHL Draft for years (typically from the age of fourteen), so they have unique knowledge of the strengths, weaknesses and probabilities for success at the NHL level for these young men.
The hockey media also relies upon the ISS Hockey rankings in their coverage of draft prospects. The Hockey News features ISS information in their just released annual Draft Preview edition. TSN publishes ISS rankings monthly and includes ISS rankings in their on TV coverage of draft prospects. HockeyNow publishes ISS rankings monthly and uses ISS scouts to sit on their selection teams for HockeyNow’s Minor Hockey Player of the Year awards program.
While ISS Hockey scouting information is exclusively available to professional and elite amateur teams all season, the ISS NHL Draft Guide is the only annual opportunity for fans to “Get What the Pros Use!” To order or get more info, go to: http://ISShockey.com/nhldraftguide
Below is the Final ISS Top 30, highlighting the final rankings of the top 30 prospects for the NHL Draft.
ISS Hockey Final Ranked Prospects For 2014 NHL Draft
Published June 3, 2014
Rank Player Position Birth Shot Height Weight Team League
1 Reinhart, Sam C 11/6/1995 R 6.00.75 185 Kootenay WHL
2 Ekblad, Aaron D 2/7/1996 R 6.03.5 216 Barrie OHL
3 Dal Colle, Michael C 6/20/1996 L 6.01.5 182 Oshawa OHL
4 Bennett, Sam C 6/20/1996 L 6.00.25 178 Kingston OHL
5 Nylander, William RW 5/1/1996 R 5.11 176 Modo SweE
6 Draisaitl, Leon C 10/27/1995 L 6.01.5 204 Prince Albert WHL
7 Virtanen, Jake RW 8/17/1996 R 6.00.75 208 Calgary WHL
8 Fabbri, Robby C 1/22/1996 L 5.10.25 170 Guelph OHL
9 Perlini, Brendan LW 4/27/1996 L 6.02.75 205 Niagara OHL
10 Ritchie, Nicholas LW 12/5/1995 L 6.02.25 226 Peterborough OHL
11 Ehlers, Nikolaj LW 2/14/1996 L 5.11 162 Halifax QMJHL
12 Fleury, Haydn LD 7/8/1996 L 6.02.5 203 Red Deer WHL
13 Kapanen, Kasperi RW 7/23/1996 R 6.00 181 Kuopio FinE
14 Tuch, Alex RW 5/10/1996 R 6.03.5 213 USA Under-18 NTDP
15 Larkin, Dylan C 7/30/1996 L 6.00.75 190 USA Under-18 NTDP
16 Milano, Sonny LW 5/12/1996 L 5.11.5 183 USA Under-18 NTDP
17 McCann, Jared C 5/31/1996 L 6.00.25 179 S.S. Marie OHL
18 Ho-Sang, Joshua RW 1/22/1996 R 5.11 175 Windsor OHL
19 Barbashev, Ivan C 12/14/1995 L 6.00 180 Moncton QMJHL
20 Fiala, Kevin RW 7/22/1996 L 5.10 180 HV71 SweJE
21 Vrana, Jakub RW 2/28/1996 L 6.00 187 Linkoping SweE
22 Kempe, Adrian LW 9/13/1996 L 6.01.5 187 Modo SweE
23 McKeown, Roland D 1/20/1996 R 6.00.75 195 Kingston OHL
24 Schmaltz, Nick RW 2/23/1996 R 5.11.5 172 Green Bay USHL
25 MacInnis, Ryan C 2/14/1996 L 6.03.25 183 Kitchener OHL
26 Bleackley, Conner C/RW 2/7/1996 R 6.00.25 192 Red Deer WHL
27 Scherbak, Nikita RW 12/30/1995 L 6.01 175 Saskatoon WHL
28 Goldobin, Nikolay RW 10/7/1995 L 5.11.75 178 Sarnia OHL
29 Kamenev, Vladislav C 8/12/1996 L 6.02 185 Magnitogorsk RusJr
30 Sanheim, Travis D 3/29/1996 L 6.03 181 Calgary WHL
About ISS Hockey
ISS Hockey (International Scouting Services), a service of HockeyTech, is the world’s leading independent scouting and information provider on hockey prospects. Founded in 2002, ISS scouts, evaluates, analyzes and ranks players internationally on behalf of its many clients. All ISS products are widely utilized in the hockey world, building an industry leading reputation for the best and most comprehensive scouting information. The key to the success of ISS is the incredible worldwide network of ISS Hockey scouts. ISS scouts are within reach of every young hockey player in the world, and attend every major hockey tournament, in addition to thousands of league games. Game and player reports are input into ISS’s sister company RinkNet’s state-of-the-art systems and evaluated to assure reliability and consistency. All players that we rank will have been seen and evaluated many times by several ISS scouts.
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