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Originally Posted by Bingo
Right but you have Coronato at 13th in an average draft with a higher upside than the guy taken 16th in the deepest draft since '03.
I don't think either are locks to be elite or stars, but Coronato has his own warts as well (size, maybe skating)
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Coronato put up ridiculous numbers in the USHL though so there was some evidence that this guy is a natural scorer. I just don't see a point in putting these guys on a pedestal immediately after a draft. It's just setting yourself up for disappointment as most of them don't fulfil or exceed their potential and that leads to disappointed posters calling them busts because they anointed them immediately as a blue chipper because Cosentino (the guy rarely has a bad thing to say about any prospect) or someone said he could be a star or something. I think Honzek has potential to be an NHL player based on his size alone but most of these players don't work out and you just have to hope the Flames scouts hit the jackpot and he turns out to be even better than his draft projections. To be fair if they would have picked Barlow for example I would have felt the same way as he is also didn't have a high floor projection and more of a middle 6 guy.