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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Prior to the hype train really hitting the tracks I thought Zayne Parehk was the second best player in the draft. Even when the hype started to build around different players I held firm to that belief and saw more and more to substantiate that call. I think people are going to look back at this draft and will not believe Parehk was not drafted higher and in the top three.
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Chicago could’ve taken him at 2 and it would have been a great pick. The first time I watched his highlight pack, I thought “huh, kid’s gonna tear #### up with Bedard” and moved onto a different prospect since I wasn’t gonna waste time scouting players we weren’t gonna be in position to draft.
When a bunch of outlets had him between 5-8, I thought he was the one player in the top-10 you trade up for if you have to, since I didn’t see him getting by Ottawa, under any circumstances.
But if he did somehow get by Ottawa, I had hoped Seattle would take Catton since they probably saw all his games this year and presumably knew how good he is.
We couldn’t get Iggy, we couldn’t get the centre, but we may have the best player of all of them.