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Mark Edwards - Head Scout hockeyprospect.com
December 20
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C/RW Mitch Marner 5'11'' 163lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=223194

• really creative player - really smart player
• fantastic puck skills
• watched him in minor midget and he was really small, certainly didn't think NHL draft at the time
• really well rounded player
• recently was with a NHL scout who watched Marner for the first time. Scout said that you rarely see a player that good backcheck that hard.
• thinks size will come - Marner's brother was really late growing. Brother is now 6'2''
• he is so good, that he won't need the protoypical size to play in the NHL
• not really worried about his size - have him ranked at 5

C/LW Pavel Zacha 6'3'' 203lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=130786

• in all my viewings he has been great in a Sarnia uniform
• have him at 4
• plays a really physical game
• another smart player, great vision and playmaking skills, and backs it up with size and skating
• NHL scouts earlier in the season just loved him

RW Mikko Ranatanen 6'3'' 194lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=91186

• liked him at the u18s
• our scout in Finland says Rantanen has either been really good or really off
• hanging at the bottom of our 1st round rankings - if he doesn't get more consistency soon he may fall out of the 1st round
• big kid, likes how he goes to the net - busts through traffic
• kind of on and off using his size and sometimes invisible shift to shift
• when he is on, you really like what you see - controlling pucks, winning pucks and battling

C/RW Roope Hintz 6'2'' 183lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=92117

• kind of came out of nowhere, hasn't been in Finland's national program until now
• one of the surprises right now
• good work down low - goes into the dirty areas
• smart player - their Finnish scout raves about his playmaking ability
• have him rated as a 2nd rounder in their last report to teams

G Michael McNiven 6'1'' 185lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=238745

• kind of reminds him of Flames prospect Mason McDonald
• McDonald was raw and poised kid - that is what McNiven reminds him of
• in AAA he was just a big kid that stopped pucks, never had any goaltending training at all
• had a fantastic season in Junior A after his agent got him hanging around pro goalies
• glove is really good
• really good recovery
• anticipates plays well
• lots of talk about him among NHL scouts

D Matthew Spencer 6'2'' 194lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=225188

• wouldn't have taken him 3rd in the OHL draft like Peterborough did
• didn't make smart decisions in his OHL draft year
• was pretty good in Hlinka
• viewing this year have left me wanting more - decision making is still not there
• he is into the 2nd round for us
• has all the tools and can skate
• much like Roland Mckeown, it comes down to decision making. (They had McKeown in the 3rd round last year while others had McKeown in the 1st)

C Dylan Strome 6'3' 187lbs
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=228107

• first time ever watching Dylan Strome - his skating was extremely bad
• no one is going to call him elite skater but it is impressive how far his skating has come since his OHL draft year
• he competes all over the place, pretty smart in his own zone
• excellent playmaker - guys beg to be on his line
• McDavid injury kind of a good thing for Strome, as he continued to produce even though he and McDavid play on different lines even strength