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Originally Posted by Macindoc
I agree, need to lock him up now for 7 years. He probably won't hit Jones' heights (after all, Jones was projected to be 1st overall for good reason), but he should have noticeable bumps in production for the next several years, and he's going to get a lot more expensive if we bridge him.
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Not that I'm really commenting on anything, but the ONLY reason Hanifin wasn't billed as a potential first overall, like Jones, is that his draft year happened to have some okay hockey prospects in McDavid and Eichel.
Going into his draft season it was the three of them (with Hanifin being a distant third place) but his scouting report was every bit as strong as Jones was.
https://www.tsn.ca/talent/mckenzie-h...anifin-1.88237
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Hanifin is a shade under 6-foot-3 and weighs 205 pounds. The scouting report says he has world-class wheels, elite offensive skills, can run a power play and use his size effectively to play physically when it's required. He's not quite as big as Nashville Predator Seth Jones, the last prospect, before Hanifin, who went into his NHL draft year billed as the next great American defenceman. Some scouts like Hanifin better than Jones at the same stage of development. Others think the jury is still out on that. Regardless, Hanifin is certainly viewed as being in the same universe as the top defenceman from the 2013 NHL draft, who was ranked No. 1 much of his draft year before going fourth overall to Nashville.
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