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Columbus Blue Jackets: Top 5 Performing Prospects

By Lansing Murphy

BRIDGEPORT, CT - MARCH 24: Notre Dame Fighting Irish defenseman Andrew Peeke (22) during a NCAA hockey game between Providence Friars and Notre Dame Fighting Irish on March 24, 2018, at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT. Notre Dame won 2-1 and moves on to the Frozen Four. (Photo by M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
BRIDGEPORT, CT - MARCH 24: Notre Dame Fighting Irish defenseman Andrew Peeke (22) during a NCAA hockey game between Providence Friars and Notre Dame Fighting Irish on March 24, 2018, at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT. Notre Dame won 2-1 and moves on to the Frozen Four. (Photo by M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – OCTOBER 15, 2018: SKA St Petersburg’s Sergei Plotnikov (front) celebrates with his teammates after scoring a goal in a 2018/2019 KHL Regular Season ice hockey match between SKA St Petersburg and Spartak Moscow at Ledovy Dvorets Arena; back left to right: Kirill Marchenko, Alexander Dergachev, Nikita Gusev, Oleg Li, Alexei Kruchinin. Alexander Demianchuk/TASS (Photo by Alexander DemianchukTASS via Getty Images) /

Columbus Blue Jackets prospects have played just over a month. Who in the farm has stood out?

For many of the Columbus Blue Jackets prospects, the hockey season is more than a month old. European prospects have been playing meaningful games since late September. Most of the young corps of Jackets is in Cleveland and their season started just after the Jackets.

But as October comes to an end we have seen a significant chunk of games from the CBJ farm system and there are several bright spots for the organization. A plethora of players are helping the Cleveland Monsters get off to one of their better starts in recent memory. The Monsters are second in their division with a 6-3-1 record in their first ten games.

Gabriel Carlsson, Eric Robinson, Zac Dalpe and Paul Bittner are all putting up big numbers in Cleveland for the Monsters. The move to the Eastern Conference of the AHL has worked out nicely for the Jackets AHL affiliate.

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While the Monsters have had a good start, we are going to focus our top five prospects of the opening month on players at the junior level. Cutting this list down to five was a tough proposition as the Jackets farm system is off to a hot start.

The top three were fairly easy for me at least to rank. There were two other candidates for the top five that I left out and there are very good arguments for them to be in. But at the end of the day decisions had to be made. Let me know at the end if you agree or disagree with my list in the comment section.

Lets get started with a popular prospect that you might see next year.

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