Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Not really. He's already bigger and stronger than the average NHLer so he'll still have a sizeable size/strength advantage on the majority of forwards. He's already considerably bigger than any of our d-men and also pretty much all of our forwards. Don't understand that argument at all. ISS rates his size/strength as exceptional. It's not going to cause his game to not translate, in fact quite the opposite, his game will more easily translate than smaller defencemen. He already has the size/strength to manhandle most NHL forwards.
|
If he is strong enough to be able to manhandle NHL forwards already then I am even more concerned.
If that's the case then shouldn't he be absolutely tearing up junior players? Don't get me wrong, he had a great year, but lots of players gave him fits at the world juniors and at the prospects game.
Either way, I can't remember a draft with this much uncertainty in it. Can't wait!