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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
I think I am far from a Flames fartcatcher but I think they have a real 1st line prospect in Honzek. Outscored on a PPG basis (with the exception of Bedard and Benson) the other WHL forwards taken ahead of him (Danielson, Yager). So within his own league he was a bigger offensive threat than those guys. He was much better than either of those guys at 5 on 5 scoring. And he did it in his first year of hockey in North America, which I think is also a factor to be considered.
If he is healthy this year I expect him to get 40+ goals and 90+ points in about 63 games (as I am assuming he will be at the World Juniors). In the dub numbers like those will easily place him in the top 10 in the league in both categories.
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But many players taken after him had much better NHLes, including some WHLers. Cristall comes to mind. Barlow, Musty, Perreault, etc. better as well. Perrault in particular was miles ahead in that category.
Even with your projections for Honzek, he'd still have worse production than Perrault and Cristall did this past year.
At the end of the day, I didn't like the Honzek pick because other players had first line potential. Some of them, based on stats, were even probably first line players.
If Hozek is a top 6 or middle 6 player, then that's barely worth a 16th OA pick in a strong draft.