As we’re looked back on last summer’s Top 20 Prospect Rankings, you might notice a pair of prominent Stockton Heat players that weren’t mentioned. Two of the top scorers in the American Hockey League – Glenn Gawdin and Luke Philp – didn’t crack the list. That was our bad.
Here’s why they weren’t on the list in the summer, and how they’ve defied these expectations this season.
Luke Philp
Philp’s a bit of an easier one: nobody had a good sense of how his transition would be. Appearing on just three of our nine ballots – placing 20th, 19th and 18th – Philp was transitioning to the AHL from U-Sports (Canadian university hockey) and the list of successful recent players making that transition is basically one name: Derek Ryan.