The Hockey Spy’s 2009 Entry Draft Dark Horses

Christopher Ralph is a hockey writer with a focus on prospects and the entry draft, as well as the Leafs’ correspondent here at THW.

The following prospects did not make The Hockey Spy’s Top 60 ranking of this year’s crop of draft eligible prospects, so not all are true “dark horses” as we often associate with the phrase.  They are a round up of the obvious guys who could easily slip into the second round come draft day, the sleepers who are not so obvious, and simply some of my favorites who I think are underrated and have a good shot at rising their stock immensely in the not so distant future.

This document accompanies my Draft Preview article.

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* An asterisk “*” denotes a player I think will be probably be drafted in the mid to late rounds, but I feel has 2^nd or 3^rd round level talent.  These would be who I really feel are Dark Horses.

I have not provided links to profiles for these players, nor expanded on them within the article.  If you wish to find out more on a specific player or players, feel free to comment below or email me at:   hockeyspy@gmail.com.

You can also do a quick search at the following prospect resource sites:

• Hockeys Future
• Elite Prospects
• Russian Prospects

1. *Igor Bobkov – G

2. Brayden McNabb- D

3. Edward Pasquale – G

4. *Alexander Avtsin – F

5. *Jakob Silfverberg – F

6. Kevin Lynch- F

7. *Kris Foucault – F

8. *Kyle Clifford – F

9.  Mike Lee – G

10. Brian Dumoulin – D

11. Mac Bennett – G

Brandon Kozun: This Little Guy Flies Around The Ice! - {The Core - Flickr}

12. J.F. Berube – G

13. Alex Chiasson – F

14. Josh Birkholz – F

15. Danny Mattson – F

16. Ryan House – F

17. Michael Latta – F

18. Erik Haula – F

19. Ryan Bourque – F

20. *Anton Burdasov – F

21. Seth Helgeson – D

22. Anton Lander – F

23. Jesse Blacker – D

24. Ryan Button – D

25. *Lekvo Koper – F

26. Tomas Vincour – F

27. Simon Bertilsson – D

28. Gabriel Lemieux – D

29. *Andrei Kuchin – F

30. *Alexander Fallstrom – F

31. David Gilbert – F

Edward Pasquale #40 Takes Out Opposing Goalie {A Sundays Drive - Flickr}

32. *Corban Knight – F

33. David Savard – D

34. *Nico Malenius – D

35. *Brandon Kozun – F

36. *Hakan Bjorklund – F

37. Andrej Nestrasil – F

38. Taylor Beck – F

39. *Byron Froese – F

40. *Anders Lee – F

41. Collin Bowman – D

42. *Georgi Berdyukov – D

43. Scott Stajcer – G

44. *Nate Schmidt – D

45. *Tyler Lapic – F

46. Steven Anthony – F

47. Benjamin Conz – G

48. Beau Schmitz – D

49. Alex Vazzono – G

50. Benjamin Casavant – F

51. Brandon Maxwell – G

52. Dan Delisle – F

53. Brandon Pirri – F

54. Jordan Szwarz – F

55. Gabriel Dumont – F

56. Marshall Everson – F

57. Marcus Foligno – F

58. Roman Holak – F

59. *Nick Oliver – F

60. *Adam Polasek – D

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Posted by Christopher Ralph on Jun 25 2009. Filed under Eastern Conference, International Hockey, Junior/College Hockey, Prospects, Toronto Maple Leafs, Western Conference. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.