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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
When I watch his highlights it doesn't impress me nearly as much as a Drouin or a Kane. I don't see him having the elite, elite upside that they had.
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His "highlights" are limited to what, a single U18 tourny and a spatter of early season games? From what I remember Drouin's draft year highlights were the best of the best from every draft year game he played. We don't have such a video of Keller so it's hardly apples-to-apples. And again, Kane was almost a year older during his draft year. There's a lot of skills development that can still happen.
Even just from the U18 Highlights video, the full stop-up at 0:16, the total misdirection at 0:51, the ridiculous vision and tape-to-tape pass at 1:04, the ability to burst full-speed, fall down, and use his core strength to jump right back up into a power stride at 5:14, and the find from Wayne Gretzky's Office at 7:22 are all
extremely high-end. IMO.
I also think Keller's two-way game and battle don't show in the highlight videos like they did in the U18 games. He's almost as feisty as Jost IMHO and I would think to draft Jost for his feistyness alone.