Follow up to Tyler's Prospects Breakdown

Tyler mentioned something in his post that I wanted to add a little knowledge to (or at least attempt to).

On Alan's website, if you count, you should come up with 48 or 49 player names.  Why is this not 50 names for 50 players.

From what I know, there are actually 4 lists that WHL teams use.

• The active list - 50 slots available, used for all active roster players and prospects
• The college list - number of slots available unconfirmed, used for players that were on the active list, but have committed to a college
• The 20 year old list - this list is used after the season ends, and is where 19 year olds get moved to so that teams have free space on their active list for the draft.  Any 20 year olds playing on the team during the season must appear on the active list.
• The suspended or long term injure list - I have heard of a list like this where you can put players that don't report to camp, leave the team, or otherwise are hurt. (obviously also unconfirmed)

The bottom 3 lists are used so that you can retain the rights to the players, without them actually playing for you.  For example, if you have devoted time and energy into recruiting a player, and they decide to go the college route, another team can not come in a list the player and have them come play.

The 20 year old list is interesting because teams will leave players that are playing in the NHL or it's farm team, just in case they get assigned back to the WHL team.

With the college list, I like the idea that a player has to be on the active list for a certain period of time before they can be moved to the college list.  Otherwise teams would just list every college player out there in case they could get one.

So based on Alan's list, and our roster to end the season, I think this is how it looks

50 man list

Vaughan Ahrens

Trevor Ayre

Colin Baird

Florian Baltram

Hunter Bancroft

Mathew Barzal

Ethan Bear

Wyatt Bear

Ian Briscoe

Latrell Charleson

Ashton Clark

Cam Coutre

Scott Eansor

Kaden Elder

Dante Fabbro

Logan Flodell

Ryan Gilchrist

Tyler Graber

Caleb Griffin

Ryan Gropp

Reece Harsch

Jared Hauf

Nick Holowko

Spencer Hunter

Sahvan Khaira

Keegan Kolesar

Luke LaMaster

Jason Mailhiot

Nick Mantai

Danny Mumaugh

Donovan Neuls

Luke Ormsby

Luke Osterman

Lane Pederson

Reg Pohl

Michael Sauer

Brandon Schuldhaus

Baker Shore

Jerret Smith

Calvin Spencer

Shea Theodore

Colton Thomas

Alexander True

Jarret Tyszka

Nolan Volcan

Matthew Wedman

MacKenzie Wight

Jagger Williamson

Kevin Wolf

20 year old list

Alexander Delnov

Adam Henry

Justin Hickman

Connor Honey

Taran Kozun

Roberts Lipsbergs

Russell Maxwell

Sam McKechnie

Gavin Stoick

Branden Troock

Evan Wardley

Jaimen Yakubowski

College list

Brock Boeser

Michael Brodzinski (He may be on the 50 still, since he was listed this last spring)

Evan Cowley

Ryan Edquist

Dylan Gambrell

Shane Gersich

Alexander Kerfoot

Matt Kiersted

Avery Peterson

Andrew Taverner

Justin Woods