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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I'll remind you that, even a year ago, no one projected Brodie to be any more than a 5/6 defenseman. Anyone who dared suggest he could be a 3/4 guy was called a homer.
You called Murray a #2 guy - it is up to you to back it up, not up to me to disprove it. Same goes for Yakupov - where are the 'he's a 40 goal scorer' reports?
More importantly, even if someone has made both those claims (and this is the point of the first paragraph), they are meaningless. We don't know what any of these players will turn out to be. So you saying that this guy is going to be one thing while that guy is going to be something else is nothing more than hot garbage.
My evaluation of Yakupov, which you didn't quote, focused only on what I see, not on someone else's projections.
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This is only one report... it states clearly that Yak is potentially in the same stratosphere as Hall and Tavares (needless to say, high praise. Maybe not 40 goal potential, but high praise none the less). Ryan Murray - he's not even expected to be the #1 guy. The interviewee also mentions that Ryan Murray is a Kevin Lowe type. I would NEVER spend a high pick for a potential Kevin Lowe.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...9235--nhl.html