I am going to assume that Burke is fairly high on Ritchie. I have only seen him play in parts of a couple of periods. How does he look like to everyone? I was surprised with Savvy's link on the previous page of scouting summaries on some players, and they said Ritchie is comparable to Lucic, but better hands, sense, scoring.
I heard that Ritchie has poor hockey sense from some people. From the people that have watched him play regularly, what do you guys see?
Getting a big powerforward with the way that scout summarized would be great moving forward. He is probably the most physical player in the top 10 by the sounds of it, and fits in with Burke's "surround our skilled players with beef" attitude - and I am assuming Ritchie has plenty of skill to be ranked this high in the draft at the moment.
As long as he has high or at least above-average hockey IQ, I wouldn't be terribly upset (but definitely not in my top 4 or 5 choices - maybe even lower).
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