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Originally Posted by moon
Based on what is this the deepest draft since 2003? Who says top 7 this year could go top 3 last year?
The only time I have heard this is on CP since we fell out of top 3 and people have tried to pass it off as no big deal.
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I do my own scouting, and while it is purely amateurish, the top 7 players seem to have more talent based on what I have seen of them than the same guys from the last two years.
I think both Drouin and MacKinnon are slightly better players at the same age than either Nugent Hopkins or Yakupov, and I think both Nichushkin and Barkov are in the same tier as the former #1's. Lindholm and Monahan remind me in terms of skill as guys like Evander Kane, Zibanejad, Schenn. Not quite, as good, but all guys that have 1st line upside