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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Recency bias says the Vegas pick will be over-rated and ranked higher. You see it every single draft and the post draft rankings.
Anyone who watches Wyttenbach and Potter will acknowledge Potter is the more dynamic and better player. I could understand why he may not garner a lot of Hobey Baker support. He's more Luc Robitaille than Paul Kariya IMO.
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That wasn't the case last year and typically isn't. Potter was ranked after Brzustewicz (a 3rd round pick) as well as Gridin (28th overall pick).
Reschny ranked highly as there were a number of folks on this board pointing to his playoffs, stellar back half of his season and the fact that he drove Victoria's offence last year. He felt to many of us like a steal at 18 and was the highest draft pick on Calgary's prospect list outside of Honzek and Parekh.
The Vegas pick is likely to be later and will fall outside of the top 5 unless a big name drops down the draft board or Vegas misses the playoffs.
I suspect, if they don't trade for another big prospect or higher 1st round pick, it'll go something like this:
Calgary 2026 1st
Parekh (if prospect)
Big debate over Gridin/Reschny/Wyttenbach, especially if Wyttenbach wins the Hobey
Potter (although he'll get some love in the above discussion)
Vegas 2026 1st
Fairly open (although I have it as Honzek, Mews, Stock...)