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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
How did you arrive at this breakdown? Who are your top 3? I assume two of them are Power and Eklund?
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My top 3 would be Eklund, Hughes and Beniers in that order, with Power at #4. I think Hughes has immense upside and if hadn't been injured could have perhaps contended for #1. I get that's counter to all the outlets that have Power but what I see with him is a big, mobile dman - but who isn't that skilled offensively and isn't that physical. I will be surprised if he ends up being the top player from this draft, or even amongst the top 2 or 3.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is a weird take... literally everything I've seen on this draft has basically Power at #1, then eight guys: Matthew Beniers, Dylan Guenther, Simon Edvinsson, Kent Johnson, Luke Hughes, William Eklund, Mason MacTavish and Brandt Clarke. Of those eight, Beniers and Hughes and maybe Guenther are likely to go in the top 5-6 with MacTavish and Johnson more likely to wind up out of the top 5, but there's not a whole lot to choose between them and different scouting staffs like different guys.
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Yes I agree that's the top tier. I didn't outline it that way, as I wasn't summarizing the various tiers I see, was just summarizing the parts of the draft I like and don't. But I agree that seems to be the consensus top 9. And they could really go in any order.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The next tier includes a bunch of guys like Sillinger, Raty, Rosen, Coronato and Lysell who could go anywhere from 10-25.
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For the me next tier (that takes you to 17 which is where I see a dip) are: Sillinger, Lucius, Svechkov, Lysell, Coronato, Othman and the two goalies. I have Raty outside that - he just didn't produce and I see him now going in the late part of the first. I think there's talent to be found after 17, but I think a lot of those players have some pretty big flaws to overcome in their games or physical attributes.
And it's generally a weak draft from a skating point of view.
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Then there are the two goalies in Cossa and Wallstedt who are pretty close to evenly rated, if you're one of the first two teams who needs to draft a goalie. Both would be somewhere in the mix with the "eight guys after Power" in terms of talent but drafting a goalie is a bit of a different thing, so they get their own category.
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Yup but I was including them in my shelf at 17.