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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
I think people should be asking themselves if they would trade anyone on this list for Tkachuk. Once it becomes obvious that you wouldn't, I think it's pretty obvious who the top prospect is.
Would anyone seriously trade Jankowski, Hickey or... Shinkaruk (???) for Tkachuk straight up?
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yeah, i am not sure how it isn't 95% to be honest...not sure if people are just being contrarians, or simply made a mistake by submitting w/o realizing who was on the list...
Hilariously, i got this from a canucks blog prior to the draft (when they thought they'd get PLD or Tkachuk):
Tkachuk had elite level production in his draft season, and that makes analyzing his potential with the pGPS system a little tricky. His era adjusted points per game were the 99th percentile of the 8500 OHL players in the pGPS database. He had only one match using the standard similarity threshold of 95% (Andrew Cassels' 151-point draft+1 OHL season in 1988). Just below that 95% are same very impressive names, including John Tavares, Corey Perry, Jason Allison and Jason Spezza, all with greater than 94% similarity to Tkachuk's 2015-16 season. Other stars such as Steven Stamkos and Eric Lindross (remember that era adjustment is used) were also above 90% similarity.
http://canucksarmy.com/2016/6/17/nation-network-prospect-profile-5-matthew-tkachuk