2011 draft - European skaters

NHL draft is still months away but it's never to early too check how overwhelming Swedes are compared to rest of us losers...

European skaters top 30

Name	Country	Position	Shoot	Height	Weight
Adam Larsson	SWE	D	R	6’3	200
Joel Armia	FIN	RW	R	6’3	191
Mika Zibanejad	SWE	C	R	6’2	191
Jonas Brodin	SWE	D	L	6’1	165
Dmitri Jaskin	CZH	W	L	6’1	196
Max Friberg	SWE	LW	R	5’11	185
Miikka Salomäki	FIN	C	L	5’11	198
Oscar Klefborn	SWE	D	L	6’4	200
Victor Rask	SWE	C	L	6’2	194
Joachim Nermark	SWE	C	L	6’1	187
Zachar Arzamastsev	RUS	D	L	6’2	205
Karl Johansson	SWE	D	L	5’9	167
Oleg Misyul	RUS	D	L	6’1	196
Jeremy Boyce	SWE	LW	L	6’0	169
Ilya Nekolenko	RUS	D	L	6’3	198
Markus Granlund	FIN	C	L	5’10	169
Johan Sundström	SWE	C	R	6’2	196
Anton Saveliev	RUS	D	L	6’4	196
Gregory Hofmann	SUI	C	L	6’0	170
Maxim Shalunov	RUS	RW	L	6’3	185
Alessio Bertaggia	SUI	C	L	5’8	156
Victor Berglind	SWE	D	R	5’11	180
Nikita Zaytsev	RUS	D	R	6’1	172
Peter Ceresnak	SVK	D	R	6’3	209
Ildar Isangulov	RUS	D	L	6’3	226
Rasmus Bengtsson	SWE	D	L	6’3	189
Fredrik Claesson	SWE	D	L	6’0	198
Jyrki Jokipakka	FIN	D	L	6’3	191
Dean Kukan	SUI	D	L	6’1	187
Albert Yarullin	RUS	D	R	6’0	194

• The Swedish invation will apparently continue as 13 of those 30 players are Swedes. 7 of them are in top 10
• Meanwhile Finland has 4 players in top 30, 2 of whom gets into the top 10
• I don't care what it takes, but Finland needs to steal Sweden's junior system.
• Russia has 8 players in the list which is quite nice if their best wouldn't be ranked as number 11
• Completely stunningly Russia has only 2 forwards on the list. And yes, that means 6 of the ranked Russians are defencemen.
  
• This defencemen oriented thing applies to the whole list as it includes 17 defencemen and 13 forwards
• Only two forwards play righthanded
• 3 players from Switzerland while Czech and Slovakia only have one
• Didn't check this but European players seem bit smaller than North Americans