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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I do. Ekblad almost certainly would go before Nurse, and probably no later than six. Then the three centres, Reinhart, Bennett, and Draisaitl are right there in the same conversation with Monahan, Lindholm, and possibly Drouin. If you added all of the top-four to last year's draft, then I think there is a lot of movement that would affect almost every pick outside of MacKinnon and Barkov.
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Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. The only thing I can say is that I will be shocked if any of this year's draft class plays in the NHL this season (with the exception of Edmonton of course, because they are no good). Ekblad may be the closest, but I don't think he is ready for NHL forwards and that will be exposed in training camp and any audition games he gets. We can come back to this at the end of October and see how many from this class stick, but I suspect it will be next to none, proving this class was indeed substandard to the last one.