[driveway]

You're right that it's very early to be 'putting ceilings' on prospects, however it's just as early to be making pie-in-the-sky projections of what we're going to be getting. There has been a tradition of over-estimating what we have in our draft picks here in Calgary, the success of Monahan hasn't done anything to temper those expectations.

I believe we're going to be getting a good hockey player on Friday, I just really don't think we're going to be getting a great one, and the consistent discussion on here seems to be leading down the road of "Everyone from Reinhart to Virtanen are going to play in an All-star game." I'm as much trying to calm myself down as anyone else.

edit: I should also mention that if Lamoriello and the Jersey scouts think the draft is crap from where they're sitting, then we should really, REALLY lower our expectations for our 2nd and 3rd round picks. I don't think anyone is expecting Datsyuk, but I think some people might be expecting Vlassic or Abdelkader to be waiting for us down there. Let's remember Ladislav Smid was a 9th overall selection. If we find one Ladislav Smid in the 2nd-3rd round of this draft and nothing else, I think we laugh all the way to the bank with that.