You're building a team through the draft but you're mostly building assets.
Don't know much about either play but can't wait to get a look at them.
Not to mention that none of these players are making an immediate impact. We don't know what the strengths and needs will be by the time they are ready. Even if all these smaller players hit and you're worried about having too many smaller players, you get tradeable assets. Avoiding smaller skilled players is how you get Tyler Boucher or Isak Rosen instead of Matt Coronato.
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side profile, it looks like he has the upper body physique of an Olympic gymnast. Saw or read somewhere that he added 15lbs of muscle during the last college season.
My top 10 are below. A big part of my ranking is NHLe, so I’ve put draft year NHLe, draft +1 year NHLe, etc. beside each name.
1. Parekh - 38.5, 46.5,
2. Reschny - 36.7,
3. Brzustewicz - 22.2, 36.4, 18.2
4. Mews - 24.9, 31.9
5. Basha - 33.4, 31.2*
6. Gridin - 30.6, 32.9
7. Battaglia - 25.7, 35.5
8. Potter - 22.6
9. Misa - 32.5, 33.6
10. Morin - 25.0, 19.7, 21.8
I know it’s going to be controversial that I left Honzek off. But Honzek’s NHLe has gone down each year, from 32.3*, to 23.3*, to 16.1. So, I have Honzek at 11. Stockselius is at 12.
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@ Nelson- where do you have Suniev falling out? I think his counting numbers aren't far off the other forwards if at all, or maybe I'm using old conversion data?
@ Nelson- where do you have Suniev falling out? I think his counting numbers aren't far off the other forwards if at all, or maybe I'm using conversion data?
Suniev’s a tough one for me, a notable omission I probably should’ve mentioned. His D+2 season was great, at 35.0. But he is old for his draft year, and other forward prospects were into the 30s in their draft seasons. Or Battaglia was at 35.5 in his D+1 season. Maybe he’s just a late bloomer? It’s not that I’ve given up on him. I just think there are quite a few good prospects right now.
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Tod Button post draft talk with Steinberg had an interesting tidbit. Tod said they “had a unique piece of information on Potter that maybe others didn’t have”. Is this about family or about his play?
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Tod Button post draft talk with Steinberg had an interesting tidbit. Tod said they “had a unique piece of information on Potter that maybe others didn’t have”. Is this about family or about his play?
Yeah I heard that too and was trying to figure out what it could be.
Playing with an injury the entire season?
Something that their advanced stats (remember we heard they are AOTC) revealed?
Yeah I heard that too and was trying to figure out what it could be.
Playing with an injury the entire season?
Something that their advanced stats (remember we heard they are AOTC) revealed?
I don't know - it was a weird side comment.
It was weird. I like your injury thought. That would be something Tod could know and feel it was proprietary.
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Tod Button post draft talk with Steinberg had an interesting tidbit. Tod said they “had a unique piece of information on Potter that maybe others didn’t have”. Is this about family or about his play?
He's taking human growth hormone to get bigger?
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Tod Button post draft talk with Steinberg had an interesting tidbit. Tod said they “had a unique piece of information on Potter that maybe others didn’t have”. Is this about family or about his play?
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