Its funny, as I'm reading I kind of make fun of the group think in these prospect threads, where prospects basically fall in and out of favor while not playing any games just based on the ebbs and flows of the discussion - aka everyone naturally gets excited by every high ranked prospect when they hear interviews and see videos.
But I find myself falling into that trap with Nylander at this point. I started off reading the whole "oh he's a Nylander, he'll be soft, he's smaller, etc. But lately I've been really warming up to the idea of him.
The combination of confirming that his size is actually a little bigger than I thought, that he's not butter soft, that he's testing really well at the combine, has elite skill potential and also selfishly as a fan finding out that he has that loophole where the Flames could bring him over to the AHL this season and call him up and down at will with no repercussions/risk, has me excited.
I know the last thing shouldn't be a factor for management in making the pick, but as a fan it if he does get picked it's a really nice bonus to know our guy has the potential to actually be a call up away this season if he starts tearing up the AHL. The usual rules kind of force teams to either decide the guy's good enough to be an NHL'er (not the norm) or send him to junior and then you kind of forget about him until the next season other than stat updates.
I know it's probably not rational and attributed to the same discussion/flavor of the week bias that I make fun of on here, but I'd be happy with Nylander, he's got great skill and a lot of other attributes seem to be strengthening in my previously uneducated opinion of him that I formed from randomly reading CP opinions.
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