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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You analysis is flawed. The golden rule of scouting is never place too much importance on a single game or tournament.
First off, the picked him with the 60th pick, not the 1st. Of course there's flaws to his game if he's picked the last pick of the second round.
Secondly, do you not think they've seen him play outside one tournament in order to judge the player?
Your laser focus on a single tournament is ridiculous in assessing this player, and your expectations of what a late second rounder should be are worse
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As to seeing him in other games... Last year he played 18 games with the Farstead in the SHL... Everyone was amazed that he was playing with 30 year olds as 17 year old. He wasn't playing so well as they sent him down to SWE-1. (in my mind AHL to ECHL) where he played with Nylander's Dad who was 41 years old.
So in his draft year he played 35 games in Sweden plus the pre-WJC plus the 5 games in u18 against his age group total 41 games. He was not doing well in 6 of them plus was sent down after 18 of them (indication he was not doing well) so he must have been a star in his 17 games with AIK?
The U18 were the most important games of his hockey career and he did not do well.
I wish you would post your golden rule to the prospect thread of our #6 best prospect who had a really good year end tourney after a so so third line regular season.