New Jersey Devils: 2022-23 Prospect Pyramid Is Incredible

Tier Five

Tier Five is one that can help the New Jersey Devils take a step or not help at all.

• Tyler Brennan
• Chase Stillman
• Graeme Clarke
• Patrick Moynihan
• Daniil Misyul
• Nikita Okhotiuk
• Akira Schmid
• Michael Vukojevic
• Samu Salminen

There are a lot of prospects here in Tier Five. This is a tier where guys can make people look foolish if they overlook them. Yegor Sharangovich was in this tier just two years ago and now he is a legit top-six scorer on this team that could be a major part of the future.

Is there a Sharangovich on this list right now? There very well might be. If any of these guys want t be like him, they need to make noise wherever they play as he did the year before he made it to the NHL. There are plenty of kids here that are capable of doing that.

Chase Stillman is someone to single out as he was a late first-round pick in the 2021 NHL Draft. He was taken a bit earlier than projected but he is still a good player. It would be amazing t see him keep up his development and find himself in higher tiers or even the NHL someday soon.

There are also a couple of goalies in this tier. Unless they are superstar goalie prospects like Andrei Vasilevskiy, Carey Price, or Carter Hart at the time, they are usually hard to rank much higher because they take so much longer to develop.

Tyler Brennan and Akira Schmid might turn into fantastic goaltenders but it will be a long time before we see them as full-time NHL starters if they ever get t that level.

Nikita Okhotiuk is someone else to watch out for as well as he made his NHL debut last spring and looked very solid. It is unclear how much he will play in the NHL this year but you can expect to see him in both Utica and New Jersey at different points.

All of these guys could make it but will have to keep making themselves noticeable to the organization. It will be fun to see who can become the next Yegor Sharangovich from tier five if anyone.

Tier Six – Everybody Else!

If there is a New Jersey Devils prospect that hasn’t graduated to the NHL yet or left the system, they are in this tier. It is a tier that doesn’t get any recognition but can produce a player that comes out f nowhere that helps a team win.