VHLSC: S43 Rankings #5 - "Where You From? (PT 2)"

[Kendrick 4,741]

 

Welcome back everyone to the VHLSC's Draft prospects Rankings! Last week we had a fun and insightful look at the origins of our draftees. We specifically looked at prospects hailing from both Canada as well as the United States of America. A trend of American prospects formed and thus this year may have the highest percentage of American born prospects in VHL draft history. That was last week though and this new week brings us a look at prospects from other parts of the world. Some of these prospects come from places completely off the "hockey map" per say. Before we look into the prospects in our world locations, we will give you this weeks draft rankings rundown.

 

This week we gained another new draft eligible prospect, this one however is a little different from the past couple weeks. Casper Solomon joins the draft prospects and immediately climbs the charts to the sixteenth spot on the list. That is quite the feat for someone who just declared and now could be an early second round selection. Theo Matsikas was one of the big earners this week as he almost doubled his entire practice hour total. E'Twaun Delicious also was a big earner, as he gained more practice hours this week than any other prospects who featured on last weeks board. A very sad statistic to report however, nineteen prospects have not even hit the gym once to train or help their VHLM team. Here at the VHLSC we hope to at least change some of that number and this week we will be doing our investigating! Let's get right to the World draft prospect insight and find out where these prospects come from on our maps.

 

 

Europe often times has a ton of prospects and fills our board with a large number of highly touted ones as well. This year is no different as the massive continent feature fifteen of our 37 total prospects. Theo Matsikas hails from the souvlaki loving nation of Greece. Italy features three prospects which might be the most this country has ever produced into one VHL Entry Draft. If you head west you'll find ​E'Twaun Delicious eating bread with his wine in the romantic country of France. North of that you find recently declared Roland Rengels patrolling the crease in his Switzerland arena. Austria gives us Thomas Duddy and Not Active to our draft rankings board. Surprisingly enough the Netherlands turns the aforementioned Casper Solomon in with a spot. England and Scotland combine to gives Kewl Runnins, Hans Wingate and MC Hammer. Sweden always turns out a few prospects, this time Erik Hedman and Golden Jedtsson hail from the IKEA nation. Finland shows up with the inclusion of Jorma Ruutu. The entire continent has given us gems over the years and we expect one or more of these to be lottery selections.

 

The rest of the world only features three other prospects to tell you about. When you think of Jamaica you think of Usain Bolt, bobsled teams and tourists never leaving the common trails. Now you may end up thinking about hockey with Kawhk Blawka joining the VHL ranks. Head east and you'll find Thor Weinstein patrolling the blueline from Israel. Last but not least we have Souryuu Kaminogi who is our only Asian prospect in the pool this year from Japan.

 

There you have it folks, those are the locations that these prospects all hail from. Next week we take a look at the prospects and their VHLM teams. We get to find out if their team is as welcoming as Buffalo Sabres goalies are of the puck in their net. Cheers!

[CowboyinAmerica 2,911]

Hans Wingate voted for secession, FWIW.

Edited March 10, 2015 by CowboyinAmerica

[STZ 5,389]

Nice work, Kendrick.

Edited March 10, 2015 by STZ

[eaglesfan036 4,605]

Nice work Kendrick! 

 

Initially I didn't have high hopes for this draft due to not many recreates but we have a lot of new players who are going to make this draft deeper than I thought

[Andybj 59]

Hammer for first round

[Individual 102]

This is really cool, good stuff!