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Originally Posted by New Era
I think you are overselling them, and grossly overselling them. I think you are also mischaracterizing this draft. There are three top end talents. THREE. Then there is a mess. There is no consensus on this draft at all except to say that the top three are going to be really good players. The players from 4-20 have been jumping all over the place in rankings, and that is before teams even have a chance to filter out players by the combine and by organizational needs. no one can decide which of these guys are the best defenseman in the draft, not because they are all so good, but because no one guy has stepped up to show he is the best in show. These are guys will major holes in their games and need plenty of development time. My God man, you're using "Dim" Jim Benning to support your case. That is all that needs to be said right there. If Benning thinks these guys are good, stay far away.
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Just because the rankings are all over the place doesn't mean the upside of these players isn't large. There are 3 potential franchise players at the top end but I believe guys like Tkachuk, Dubois and a couple of the defensemen would have been competing for 1st overall in drafts like 2011 and 2012.
I think you're massively underrating the potential of the players in the 4-20 range.