Hockey's list-junkies and the who's-better-on-paper crowd normally have to live in a conceptual world, a place where subjective discussion and opinion are as essential as three squares a day.
Except for this week.
It's an imperfect exercise, but for four days at the Canucks Young Stars Classic in Penticton, B.C., four NHL teams assemble a good portion of their untried futures for some competition on actual ice.
So judge away.
There's no telling what the results will be between the Winnipeg Jets, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks when their prospects start playing Friday at the South Okanagan Events Centre.