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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
To summarize, you're rating prospects the way you PROJECT them to be, everyone else is rating them for what they've done.
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And there is the disconnect. Rating prospects is actually all about PROJECTING what they WILL be. Unless you're the Edmonton Oilers, you don't draft a kid because he just scored 60 goals in junior. You draft a kid because you see something in his skillset that makes you believe that will translate to the next level, and the level after that. Once a kid is selected, all that matters is his development from that point on. What they have done in the past is irrelevant and no team is worried about what a guy has done in the past. Teams only care about what a guy can do for them in the future and if they believe there is a NHL career in that player's potential.