Elite Prospects Releases Top 100

[callitwhatyouwant]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

[STL fan in MN]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

[callitwhatyouwant]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

I'll take your word on it. You definitely have more knowledge and pay attention to that stuff moreso than I. I think the only thing we've ever disagreed on and it might not have been you but was the Snuggy situation. (this was in regards to some minnesota poster saying he was going to hold out until he could play for the mild and army was panicking)

[STL fan in MN]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

I'll take your word on it. You definitely have more knowledge and pay attention to that stuff moreso than I. I think the only thing we've ever disagreed on and it might not have been you but was the Snuggy situation. (this was in regards to some minnesota poster saying he was going to hold out until he could play for the mild and army was panicking)

I don’t recall what your position on that was but mine was that I always expected Snuggy to sign with us, had near zero concerns, and then obviously he eventually did sign. I think it was version or one of the other trolls that was the main pushers of continually saying Snuggy wasn’t going to sign, wanted to play for the Wild, he shouldn’t have gone back for his Jr season, we should trade him, etc.

[DutchBlue]

Prospect lists may be entertaining or even informative but they do not log minutes and score goals in the NHL, players do. The surest bets to log time with the Blues appear to be Snuggerud, Mailloux, and Dvorsky. Maybe Peterson, too. The only ranking that really matters is what they do in the NHL.

They list Ethan Del Mastro as an honorable mention ranked behind players that might not even make it to the NHL. He played 24 games for the Hawks last season and is a lock to make the team this year.

Not to be annoying, but playing 24 games for the hawks team last year or even 82 in the coming year could probably hold for 8 current blues picks given how extremely terrible the hawks are.

[Red7]

So I follow a little bit on drafting, and read about prospects, but I'm far from an expert. Wasn't 2025 supposed to be a weak draft? Yet somehow at 19th overall we landed the best prospect in our system? Obviously different analysts have different ratings, but this math doesn't really add up to me.

Ya think?

At best prospect ratings are fluid. At worst they embody external agendas. So, this source deems Carbonneau to have more upside than Snuggerud, Mailloux, and Dvorsky. At this stage of their development just what does that mean? Think Tage Thompson, he may have had more projected offensive upside than ROR in 2018 but he wasn't going to help the Blues win that Cup. Evan at that he had to DO it in the NHL to make it real. Carbonneau is today what Snuggerud was three years ago, promising.

Carbonneau is well ahead of where Snuggerud was three years ago for one simple reason: he has an NHL body now. His size and strength plays. The knock on Carbonneau is he’s not very fundamentally sound. He’s making mistakes that someone at this stage of his development he shouldn’t be…and that’s at the junior level. IF Carbonneau makes it out of TC, I think he’ll get a nine game trial so he gets an idea of what he needs to do to stick.

[Harry York 37]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

I'll take your word on it. You definitely have more knowledge and pay attention to that stuff moreso than I. I think the only thing we've ever disagreed on and it might not have been you but was the Snuggy situation. (this was in regards to some minnesota poster saying he was going to hold out until he could play for the mild and army was panicking)

I am not as dedicated as the Esteemed Gentleman from Minnesota. I can fantasize that, if I had stayed in the Midwest after school, I might have gotten much more into it. I am certain that if I resided in Minnesota… Ice Hockey would be an even greater passion than it is for me in Southern California. My GF and I are contemplating Ontario Reign tickets as their lovely stadium is 20 minutes away.

That is why I rarely post about prospects. I can decently research their stats and the teams and leagues they are in and make suppositions, but as far as making statements about their chances of making the NHL… I am guessing at best. That is why, I defer Minnesota and some others in this department. I have never seen Zach Dean play a full game. How can I honestly challenge the opinions of those who have seen them play many games over a period of several seasons and who have encyclopedic knowledge of the myriad teams and leagues in the minors, in Major Junior, College and Europe?

Admittedly , once I’ve seen a fellow play in a few games, it’s often diffficult to shut me up.

We are lucky to have Minnesota here. For a fellow who is as smart as he is, he keeps his sense of humor and his humility nearby and in a genuinely friendly manner.

[TAFKAP]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

I'll take your word on it. You definitely have more knowledge and pay attention to that stuff moreso than I. I think the only thing we've ever disagreed on and it might not have been you but was the Snuggy situation. (this was in regards to some minnesota poster saying he was going to hold out until he could play for the mild and army was panicking)

The troll you're referring to, was not from MN, he was an STL guy. Rollin' on the River2 AKA, Trollin'. Garden variety troll, with racist tendencies. He was dead set that Snuggy would never sign with the Blues, and would wait to sign as a FA with Minny who was waiting with open arms. Hey also had NOTHING good to say about Holloway and Broberg, to the point he'd constantly misspell their names. He of course disappeared. STL Fan in MN deals in facts and observations, not a guy who's here for attention by posting [shirt].

[BalotelliMassive]

Organization rankings for prospects

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/ranki ... um=twitter

To be classified as a prospect, players generally need to meet the following criteria: they must have played in 50 or fewer NHL games or spent more time outside of the NHL than in it during the previous season. Players over the age of 23 are excluded from this classification, along with certain prospects who have played fewer than 50 games but held a full-time role for a significant portion of the season — this determination is more subjective.

[DawgDad]

Organization rankings for prospects

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/ranki ... um=twitter

To be classified as a prospect, players generally need to meet the following criteria: they must have played in 50 or fewer NHL games or spent more time outside of the NHL than in it during the previous season. Players over the age of 23 are excluded from this classification, along with certain prospects who have played fewer than 50 games but held a full-time role for a significant portion of the season — this determination is more subjective.

Thanks for the link. Seems like a fair assessment.

[STL fan in MN]

This list goes to show how wildly different and subjective prospect rankings can be. I have my own opinions but at the end of the day, you’re comparing players of varying age in a whole host of different leagues with wildly different strengths and weaknesses and it’s just really hard to compare them all to each other sometimes.

From my perspective though, the Blues have 6-7 really strong prospects: Dvorsky, Snuggerud, Lindstein, Mailloux, Carbonneau, Stenberg and maybe Jiricek if he can stay healthy and get back on track this season.

Jiricek is definitely in the really strong prospect list. He might even be in the "elite" category. Both him and Dvorsky are in the category of, in another year under might be top 5 picks. Dvorsky because his class was LOADED, and Jiricek if he hadn't just gone thru an injury ridden season. I'm excited for the idea of Jiricek, especially because of Broberg, Lindstein, and now Mailloux. The chance to have a boom or bust guy in that group like him is really intriguing. His highlights from last year (tho they are just offensive ones from what I found) show to me he has great presence with the puck and really nice vision. He finds the open guy really well. That was supposed to be his knock along with his weight. If his offensive game was supposed to be his detractor, I don't see it. Granted those are OHL and World Juniors highlights. But he looks plenty the part.

I do not share this rosy of an outlook on Jiricek and he’ll have to way way improve his game for me to ever consider using that word elite with him.

Sounds like you just watched highlights. I watched a handful of his full games. Highlights are exactly that - all the good stuff with none of the bad stuff. The highlights show some good offensive play. I like his offensive hockey sense when his team is already established in the offensive zone. He walks the line well. Where he’s lacking is in his positioning, defensive awareness, defending the rush and his transitions could be better too. Then when you add on the injuries, slight frame and seemingly an issue protecting himself, that’s where he becomes a big question mark for me.

Because of his skills, his height and the fact he’s right handed, I can see why he went 16th overall. But at the end of the day, he’s still very shaky defensively, missed another 41 games to injury this past season, scored a whopping 12 pts in the 27 games he did play and got absolutely rocked a few times against fellow teenagers as well. He’s suffered at least a couple knee injures (one pretty devastating) and at least 2 concussions, causing him to miss a majority of both his age 17 and age 18 seasons, two very critical years for player development usually. It’s more than fair to question his future development IMO.

The skills and size are there (height at least, he seriously needs to add more weight, which hopefully he has this summer) so the ingredients are there for him to be a solid NHL d-man someday but this is a very important year in his development for him. He really really needs to stay healthy and explode in his development this season to get back on track IMO.

I'll take your word on it. You definitely have more knowledge and pay attention to that stuff moreso than I. I think the only thing we've ever disagreed on and it might not have been you but was the Snuggy situation. (this was in regards to some minnesota poster saying he was going to hold out until he could play for the mild and army was panicking)

The troll you're referring to, was not from MN, he was an STL guy. Rollin' on the River2 AKA, Trollin'. Garden variety troll, with racist tendencies. He was dead set that Snuggy would never sign with the Blues, and would wait to sign as a FA with Minny who was waiting with open arms. Hey also had NOTHING good to say about Holloway and Broberg, to the point he'd constantly misspell their names. He of course disappeared. STL Fan in MN deals in facts and observations, not a guy who's here for attention by posting [shirt].

That’s right, it was Rollin. My apologies to Verson, one of the other trolls I don’t miss.

[seattleblue]

I feel like I led the Carbonneau bandwagon and all I’m doing lately is insisting Dvorsky is better

Jiricek above Lardis hahaha

Dont think you did. I think when Jamie rivers and others said he has a solid chance to make the team out of camp after his showcase and afrter prospect camp.

It doesn’t matter what you think. I absolutely led the Carbonneau bandwagon and the search function will prove it. Why don’t you go back to trolling that’s half of what you do here and it marks you

Wow you are so angry buddy. The need for you to be right and the need for you to be first those a narcist qualities. Also i will do what ever the eff i want i have been on this board since johnson was drafted back when i was at ITT tech soooooo blow me.

I said that calmly. You're the one who's angry. All your posts are angry. And you have the maturity of a pea which makes you a loser.

[STL fan in MN]

Organization rankings for prospects

https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/news/ranki ... um=twitter

To be classified as a prospect, players generally need to meet the following criteria: they must have played in 50 or fewer NHL games or spent more time outside of the NHL than in it during the previous season. Players over the age of 23 are excluded from this classification, along with certain prospects who have played fewer than 50 games but held a full-time role for a significant portion of the season — this determination is more subjective.

His assessment of the Blues doesn’t make much sense.

The Blues’ pipeline isn’t deep. But I could see most of this top 10 play at least some NHL games, with a few becoming key components of the future. Jimmy Snuggerud and Dalibor Dvorský and Justin Carbonneau all have futures as top-six forwards, with Snuggerud, in particular, ready to take up the mantle out of training camp. Logan Mailloux, Theo Lindstein, Adam Jiricek and Colin Ralph give the team some serious defensive depth, and I’m still a big Otto Stenberg fan.

He first says the Blues lack depth in their prospects…and then continues to talk about how most of the top 10 should play in the NHL (a rarity) and then lists a depth of players he likes. It doesn’t make a lot of sense.

The notion that the Blues prospect pool lacks depth is flat out wrong. There is perhaps not another org in the league with the depth of prospects the Blues have. Their main strength is depth. Their main weakness is a lack of a true likely elite, superstar caliber prospect. The Blues have 8 former 1st rounders as well as many others that are developing very well as well. Very few teams can match that sort of depth in their pipeline.

[BalotelliMassive]

I think you have to take all of these rankings and then average them out....the truth will be somewhere in the middle.

[Harry S Deals]

It wont matter much 3i/ATLAS will be here sometime around Oct, i hope at least we can get a few Blues games in

[a smell of green grass]

A small percentage of prospects ever make it to the NHL. An even smaller percentage become impact players in the NHL. So when I look at this TOP100, I think "So what. Who cares?" They may be TOP100, but likely only 10 will make any sort of splash in the NHL.

The only thing that anyone should care about is which ones appear to be impact NHL players. That the Blues best prospect is the new guy with few minor-league credentials at #25 is black mark, not a gold star.

Just more confirmation that our prospect pool is considered average by those looking across all teams. Now maybe, the reviewer doesn't know jack, but if you assume that he has studied the prospects, this is not good news.

Carry on, Army.