

1 on TSN’s Pre-Season 2022 NHL Draft Rankings. Let’s make one thing clear from the get-go: The 2022 NHL Draft is the Shane Wright Draft.The Kingston Frontenacs’ centre is the unanimous No. Play Top Eleven for 3 years. Play Top Eleven for 2.Launched in 2010, the football manager title has accumulated 27 billion matches from the touchline, 262 billion minutes of gameplay and 75 million League trophies won.Nordeus also confirmed that Indonesia claimed the highest number of registrations worldwide for Top Eleven at 26,474,124. Turkey followed in second at 22,850,854, before Brazil rounded out the top three with 15,479,554.“When I was a kid, everyone wanted to be a football player, not a manager," said Mourinho."Now I find lots of people dream to be a manager, and games such as Top Eleven have the responsibility to give kids a chance to be a manager every day. They learn by playing and enjoying the game, and they can learn the job of being a football manager without having to be a player… just like me."Nordeus CEO Branko Milutinović added: "From the beginning we always envisaged growth, but even I could not have predicted such significant strides in just 10 years.
”This should come as no surprise for a prospect who was awarded “exceptional” status by Hockey Canada in 2019, which allowed him to enter the Ontario Hockey League as a 15-year-old, a year earlier than usual, and who was Canadian Hockey League rookie of the year in 2020 after his first OHL season in Kingston.In fact, not only is it highly likely he’ll be No. “It would take him having an unusually poor year and someone else having a surprisingly good season for him to not be No. 1 this year is his to lose,” said an NHL team head scout.
Power will play for the Wolverines this season. 1 overall to the Buffalo Sabres last July. 1 overall in last summer’s 2021 NHL draft had he been eligible.Blue-chip prospect University of Michigan defenceman Owen Power went No.
That is to say, there are those in the scouting community who will tell you right now that one of the projected top prospects for 2023, Regina Pats centre Connor Bedard, could go No. 1 prospect on Bob McKenzie's pre-season draft rankings list, what he feels is his greatest asset as a player, how Patrice Bergeron and Sidney Crosby have influenced his game, and much more.And the old hypothetical saw can always cut both ways. Of course, given the benefit of hindsight, a lot of those same scouts might now prefer the big defenceman over the centre.Wright shares his greatest asset as a player, tries to model game after Bergeron, CrosbyShane Wright joins James Duthie to discuss what it means to him to be the unanimous No. 1 NHL centres over top-pair defencemen, not unlike 2009 when John Tavares went first ahead of Victor Hedman at No. 1 to start this season said, in a hypothetical world, he would have been ahead of Power last year.“No doubt about that,” said another NHL team head scout.Scouts tend to favour potential No.

His shot is excellent but so his vision. If he’s playing with a high-end playmaking winger, I could see him being more of an elite goal-scoring centre like (Steven) Stamkos or (Auston) Matthews. “If he’s playing with an elite goal scorer, I could see him being the elite playmaker. Outstanding work ethic and character is viewed as A+.“I think he can adjust his game accordingly,” another scout said.
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He scored nine goals and 14 points in only five games while captaining Team Canada to a gold medal at the Under-18 World Championship last April in Texas.All that despite suffering a cracked bone in his foot in the first game, experiencing a rash all over his body after the second game, and missing a couple of games while battling through strep throat the rest of the tournament.So, Wright is teed up as the clear top prospect for 2022, but now he must play the games and prove he’s worthy of the mantle.Wright the clear-cut No.1 in Bob McKenzie's Pre-Season Draft RankingShane Wright has a chance to be the first OHL player taken first overall since Connor McDavid in 2015, and is a unanimous selection to be the first overall pick. Not necessarily elite or the absolute best in any one area, but excellent in all areas.”Because the OHL didn’t play any games last season due to the pandemic, Wright barely played any games in 2020-21, but he made the most of his limited opportunities. “He has a lot of the same qualities as Jonathan Toews. 1 centre,” one scout said.
Six of 10 scouts surveyed by TSN pegged him as a not-too-close No. 2 prospect on TSN’s Pre-Season Rankings. 2 through 10 are, shall we say, much more fluid.That said, Russian winger Ivan Miroshnichenko is the consensus No. 1 to start the season is carved in stone, Nos.
3 on the list, Finnish forward Brad Lambert, got one vote at No. 8 on our Pre-Season Rankings are largely interchangeable, which is to say the 10 scouts on our panel like the six forwards a lot but getting consensus on the order is extremely difficult.No. He projects as a top two-line pro winger and was outstanding at both the U-18 World Championship in Texas and the Hlinka-Gretzky (U-18) Cup this past summer.As 2023-eligible Bedard may sometimes cast some shadow on Wright, 2023 top draft-eligible countryman Matvei Michkov does the same to Miroshnichenko, though the two Russians have excellent chemistry when they play together in international events.The players ranked from No.

Speed isn’t necessarily his best attribute, but, as the scouts say, “he gets there” just fine and his multi-dimensional game allows him to play with skill players high in the lineup or lower in the lineup as match-up/shutdown centre against the other team’s best players.Geekie was the fourth prospect outside of Miroshnichenko to get a No. At 6-foot-3 and 193 pounds, Geekie has the size, strength, smarts and competitiveness to play a hard-driving, physical power game. 5 is Winnipeg Ice centre Conor Geekie. He played as a 16-year-old for the Slovak national junior team at the 2021 World Junior Championship and as a 17-year-old was able to play for the senior men’s national team at the 2021 World Championship and in the recent Olympic qualifier in August.No. 3 and 8.Slafkovsky is precocious. He was one of the four prospects not named Miroshnichenko to get a second-place vote, but his other votes came in between Nos.
He has a good shot and can make plays. U-18 national development team program.Even though he’s not that big, Cooley plays a straight-line game and gets to the inside to create offence. 6 is Logan Cooley, the 5-foot-10, 174-pound American who plays centre for the U.S.
8 is Russian winger Danila Yurov, a late 2003 birthdate who is playing with Magnitogorsk in the KHL.He’s viewed as a prototypical two-way Russian winger, more solid than flashy, though he did perform well at the U-18 World Championship in Texas. The scouts say he has above average hockey sense and skill, and the ability to make things happen offensively, he can also play a hard, edgy and agitating game that keeps opponents off balance.Eight of our 10 scouts ranked him between Nos. 2 selection that year).Savoie isn’t big, at 5-foot-9 and 179 pounds, but don’t let his size fool you. 7 is Winnipeg Ice centre Matt Savoie, who was the first player taken in the 2019 WHL draft (Winnipeg teammate Geekie was the No. Eight of the 10 scouts surveyed ranked him between Nos.
4 on one ballot but mostly fell in the 6-12 range — the scouts wonder if he’ll have as much opportunity to strut his stuff this year.Because of his late birthdate, he wasn’t eligible for the Hlinka Gretzky Cup this past summer.
