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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
If you get a guy like that at this spot it’s a home run.
As a draft prognosticator I suspect you know that
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That's a pretty unnecessary final zinger of a comment to make.
I see what the prognosticator is talking about though. So many posters online are saying Potter has "high end talent", and I frankly don't see it either. He looks like he will be a very valuable/useful player to the Flames with his speed in certain scenarios like penalty killing and the shootout. He plays like he's always racing away and firing it, and fails to see other possible offensive plays developing. There's a reason he only had 22 assists over his last 70 games. Contrary to the popular opinion, he doesn't have high end puck skills or creativity, which most would think a smallish first rounder would have. He's a straight line buzzsaw, electric skating future third or fourth liner that will give you what prognosticator said, about 30-40 points a year, maybe 50 points in a career year. He's a Flame though, and a young man, I'll be cheering for him every step of the way, but if people are talking about talent level, then other posters should have the right to respond objectively speaking without being roasted.