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Originally Posted by The Original FFIV
Good Coles notes read on the upcoming draft from USA today. Courtesy of the red line report.
http://usat.ly/1Q2rY5P |
Interesting quote from this article:
"It can certainly be argued that any of the three members of Red Line’s second tier — Jesse Puljujärvi, Matthew Tkachuk, and Jakob Chychrun — should be included in with that top pair. Each has been impressive enough at times to be considered among the elite.
But we think there’s a clear break after those top five down to the next tier, which runs about a dozen deep — from No. 6 to No. 17. It includes at least one player in our top 10 that has been underrated (Jake Bean), the Mutt-’N-Jeff combo of two of the best pure goal scorers in major junior (Julien Gauthier and Alex DeBrincat — separated by 9 inches, 60 pounds, and one spot in our rankings), and a high school behemoth (Riley Tufte) we’d all like to gauge against better competition."
They suggest the drop from the big 2 (Matthews/Lain) to Puljujarvi, Tkachuk and Chychrun is minor or negligible. I see it as a top 5 as well.