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Originally Posted by Johnny Rotten
It was mentioned in the Hockey News last year, for what it's worth, but some unknown scout that this year's draft (2014) is an 8/10, next year's draft (2015) is a 10/10, and that the 2013 draft was average or words to that effect.
My question is somewhat related to that... Is the top of this draft (2014) considered better than the past few drafts?
In other words, how do Reinhart, Ekblad, Nylander, etc. compare with Hall, Yakupov, Hopkins, MacKinnon?
(Can't really find anything that states how the past few years' top pick compare with this year's top picks.)
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Whom ever said that is a bit daft.
Last draft was the best in terms of talent and upper end depth in the last 10 years. This upcoming draft has a few good players at the top all of whom are behind the top 4 from last year. This year's draft reminds me quite a bit of the 11' draft if I was to do a rough comparison. There are some good players but the talent kind of drops off after about the 8-10 mark. Next year you have McDavid and he is the best prospect since Crosby but after him it's not much better if at all than the 2014 draft.
The only two #1's I'd take Reinhart over in the past 4 drafts are RNH and Yakupov and only because Reinhart is bigger phyiscally than RNH, talent wise they are comparable, and Reinhart is not a headcase like Yak seems to be.
This draft is better than the 2012 draft, but that's not surprising as that was the worst draft since the Brendl draft.