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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
Thats pretty much it right, hindsight. If Feaster/Weisbrod could see in their crystal ball we probably would have the best prospect from every draft. Wouldn't that be amazing?
On the guys you point out:
Hertl is playing on Joe Thornton's line a guywho made Cheechoo a 56 goal scorer in the NHL. Of course Hertl is talented but would he be doing as good playing third line minutes with less talented players? Last year Hertl in the Czech league had 30 points in 43 games, looking at the rest of his team, they struggled to scre but Cerevenka put up 13 points in 9 games.
TT is playing in Finland 3 goals in 29 games. What's so amazing about that?
Girgensons, 4 goals and 14 points in 38 games. Getting plenty of time now under Nolan.
Laughton, in the juniors. Plenty of Junior players put up those kinds of numbers.
So the crystal ball still doesn't tell us who will be the best of the bunch.
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Sure.
But my point is in response to above asking which guys were on the board that had higher ceilings that Jankowski.
All of those guys have roughly equal or higher ceilings. The fact that Girgensons and Hertl, regardless of their situations, are scoring points right now in the NHL at an equal or better clip than Jankowski in the NCAA. Tough to argue that Janko has a higher ceiling in light of that. Maata is getting Olympic consideration. Laughton is captaining Team Canada at the WJCs, clearly there's something there as well. If we say that Laughton scoring points in Junior doesn't matter then how can we at the same time say that Janko NOT scoring points doesn't matter?
I mean sure we have all convinced ourselves that Janko's skill set is rare and potentially elite but is it really? Is it really better than any of the other prospects we could have drafted? I don't see it.