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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
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For me, it's personal preference. If you're picking in the top 10, high end skill should be priority #1 so that way you won't be stuck picking in the top 10 for a long time. For a comparison to the 2014 draft, I would rather draft a guy like Ehlers instead of Ritchie. Gauthier is a finisher, but the lack of assists is concerning considering his team is very talented. How many of his points come from being physically bigger than his opposition. The only guy that was lopsided with that kind of offense that I can recall off the top of my head is Mantha, but even he only had 11 fewer assists than goals. JG is already -18. If he isn't creative enough to create offense on his own, and scores mainly from parking it in front of the net, then that limits his overall upside and you're talking about a guy that's a 2nd/3rd line guy. That's fine, but for a top 10 pick, that's not as good.
I know it sounds like I'm dogging him. I would easily draft him, but only if the higher end skill guys are gone when we go to pick. Last year, if eligible, I wouldn't have picked him in the top 15, maybe later.