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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
You totall missed my point.
Hockey skill is something that can be objectively quantified.
Iginla scores more goals than Glencross, so he's a better player. When players are young it takes a lot of information and experience to figure out what indicates who will be an objectively better hockey player later in their career. So yeah, a pro scout is going to have a much more valuable opinion than me.
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Not automatically though. Ask any of us who watched the Hitmen when Pavel Brendl was here how good an NHLer he would be. Our opinions proved to be a hell of a lot more reliable than the scout who convinced the Rangers to draft him 4th overall.
