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Originally Posted by dino7c
THIS GUY
He argues for two days that Hanifin (ranked 3rd overall behind two generational players and concencus #1 D) wasn't expected to be a top end D man and then says a goalie picked in the SECOND ROUND was supposedly pegged to be a top end NHL goalie.
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I'll keep arguing the Hanifin point if you want. I think he is what he is. A #3 to a #5 defenceman who is the exact same player now that he was when he was drafted and isn't going to get any better!
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
But what you are missing is that it is nothing particularly special. In other words, no one should care today about what was expected from Demko six years ago. It's meaningless It does not make him a special snowflake any different from other snowflakes like Binnington and Murray.
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It certainly doesn't make him a special snow flake, especially when you consider the other two came out of no where to win a cup. But it does change the "No one ever expected him to play this well!" thing, because people did. Hell the Canucks did they entire time, it's why he always had the "goalie of the future" tag.