Maple Leafs and Coyotes featured prominently on Craig Button’s list of the top 50 NHL-affiliated prospects.
Button, the former Calgary GM whose current title is TSN’s Director of Scouting, has two Leafs forwards -- William Nylander (1st) and Mitch Marner (6th) -- and two Coyotes forwards -- Dylan Strome (2nd) and Christian Dvorak (3rd) -- in his top six.
Flyers defensive prospect Ivan Provorov is fourth, with Jets forward Kyle Connor fifth.
Click here to read the other 44 youngsters that made the cut.
One of them is Jimmy Vesey (8th), the Harvard scoring sensation the Predators need to sign by August, otherwise he can become a free agent.