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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I think it's the reverse actually. It's extremely hard to find big, fast, skilled players outside the top 20 picks. NHL scouts and teams put a premium on those players with the total package. It's easy to find purely skilled smaller players outside the 1st (see Gaudreau, Kucherov, Petan, Mangiapane, etc)
Of course we wouldn't pick size over skill at 6, but why settle for one of those? You can get big and skilled players at the top end of a draft with a strong top end. Why take a small, fast, skilled player when we can take a big, fast, skilled player? No one has answered that question yet.
It's highly unlikely Keller is the BPA at #6 in a draft with a strong top end because he isn't big, skilled and fast and there will be big, fast and skilled players with 1st line/1st pairing upside available.
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but therein lies the rub... is Brown "big fast and skilled"....? pretty big variance on what scouts see in him. If he's as talented as what people are saying, that amount of difference should not exist.
i don't see nearly the small skill in Brown that i see in Keller/Nylander.... you are giving up skill for size. IF brown had both, he'd be a top 5 on most boards.