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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
And then there's you talking about him as if he was a 3rd line grinder. Something doesn't add up one bit with your opinion on Tkachuk. It's bizarre frankly. I can't explain it. Maybe you don't overrate small players but you clearly and obviously underrate Tkachuk if you have him at 11.
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Just because I "have him at 11" does not mean I think he's a 3rd line grinder.
I see these players as:
Franchise players
1)Laine
2)Matthews
Top 6/Top Pair Line drivers
3)Puljujarvi
4)Dubois
5)Keller
6)Sergachyev
7)Brown
More Sketchy Top 6/Top Pair Line Drivers
8)Jost
9)Rubtsov
10)Fabbro
Complimentary top 6 forwards/top 3 Defenseman
11)Tkachuk
12)Nylander
13)Chychrun
14)Juolevi
15)Bean
I'm not interested in a complimentary top 6 forward (A Jiri Hudler, Andrew Ladd or Brandon Saad tier player) over a line driver (A Marian Hossa, Tyler Johnson, Ryan Johansen tier player).
If I had to outline the player I'd ideally like to add, it would be Marian Hossa. Size, Skill, Motor, everything. So to accuse me of favoring smaller players is ridiculous. I just have little interest in what I've seen of Tkachuk. Even his highlight reel goals are incredibly ordinary straight line drives, stuff that doesn't work in the NHL unless you've got a monstrous Lucic frame (he doesn't).