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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I find their rankings somewhat questionable. Bought them in 2013 for the Monahan year. This was their rankings for 2013
1. MacKinnon
2. Jones
3. Drouin
4. Nichushkin
5. Barkov
6. Nurse
7. Lindholm
8. Zadorov
9. Monahan
10 Horvat
11 Ristolainen
Judge for yourselves but Nurse and Zadorov ahead of Monahan? Barkov at 5 behind Nichushkin? Ristolainen at 11? Yikes. I could've made a better list that year
I've bought both Redline and ISS and Redline's rankings are far better IMO. I do like ISS's little report card about player skills but I won't be buying it again.
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Everything stated is absolutely true, though I would argue that some scouts did indeed have Nichsuhkin ahead of Barkov. There were some people that felt that Nichushkin had a higher ceiling than Barkov - perhaps the highest ceiling in the entire draft due to his size, speed and skill-set.
Jury I think will be out on Nichushkin for a while due to his injury-riddled year, but Barkov definitely had the much higher floor and was a relatively safe pick at becoming a franchise center. The majority of scouts did indeed prefer Barkov over Nichushkin, but there was quite a bit of chatter about Nichushkin possibly being the best player in the draft.
ISS is also a little bit different usually - I think they had Bennett first overall last year (or was that someone else? I am vaguely remembering it being ISS). They are hit and miss on a lot of things, but I do think they miss a bit more and seem to really favor certain guys too much, sometimes ignoring glaring warts.