There seems to be a lot of appetite to not draft one of Ekblad, Reinhart, Bennett or Draisaitl...that just makes no bloody sense to me.
A lot of you seem to falling in love with Nick Ritchie, a power forward at the Jr. level, consistently ranked no higher than 6th to 15th, while poo-pooing Draisaitl, a player consistently ranked 3rd to 5th for the vast majority of this past season.
Some of you are even looking further down the ranks at players like Fleury, who Burke himself said something along the lines of "yeah, he's a top 10 pick now, but not top 5" - so again, are you seriously contending we should draft off the board with our organization's first top 5 pick?
There is a clear consensus top 5, and has been pretty much the entire last year. Aaron Ekblad, Leon Draisaitl, Sam Reinhart, Sam Bennett and Michael Dal Colle. I just find it funny that there seems to be a group nitpicking certain aspects about those players games in favour of other players, seemingly ignoring the fact that those other players have the same imperfections to their game, and more.
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