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I'll have a go. It's tough because the explanations were just a sentence or two, but here we go!
1) M - Defender with elite skating, smarts, skill, defensive abilities. (franchise d)
2) D - Big smart offensive centre (average defense).
3) B - Small offensive centre, leader in points (struggled between D and B).
4) H - Elite shooting offensive winger. (lacks defense)
5) C - Big, smart offensive winger who plays both ends well.
6) N - Small, two way defender (above average all around).
7) E - Fast, big, two-way winger. (poor stick-handling)
8) J - Productive, fast skating big winger (no two-way game).
9) G - unknown european winger with tools.
10) O - unknown european defender with size and skating.
11) L - Great skating winger with average skill set.
12) F - Athletic winger, not much skill
13) P - Toolsy defender without much info.
14) A - Big defensive centre.
15) R - Smart defender, lacks skating, good shot and IQ.
16) K - Defensive centre.
17) I - Average forward with good shot.
18) Q - Depth defender.
How do you rank the top 10 this year? How do you feel the talent tiers sort out? I've heard a lot of talk of a big 3 and I supported it for a long time but I'm starting to feel Laine/Matthews have pulled away from pulju and Dubois has moved up.
I currently have it:
Matthews
Laine
Pulju
Dubois
Julovei
Sergaechev
Tkachuk
Nylander
Chychrun
McLeod
Chychrun is too low. Sergachev is too high. I cant see him going top 6 in this draft.
How do you rank the top 10 this year? How do you feel the talent tiers sort out? I've heard a lot of talk of a big 3 and I supported it for a long time but I'm starting to feel Laine/Matthews have pulled away from pulju and Dubois has moved up.
I currently have it:
Matthews
Laine
Pulju
Dubois
Julovei
Sergaechev
Tkachuk
Nylander
Chychrun
McLeod
My reasoning is that Laine is much easier to project and you know what he is, he's an elite shot who is amazing at getting into scoring positions, he just feels like a guy who will be a consistent 35+ goal scorer. Puljujarvi has a more complete game, has more tools and is an elite skater, but I see a lot more that could go wrong, even if he has a slightly higher ceiling. I'd be ecstatic with either but prefer Laine.Bob certainly feels there's a big 3, and has been for a long time.
I just don't get how Laine has separated himself from Pulju when Pulju has been playing better hockey lately, they go back and forth and it's just what type you prefer.
Bob certainly feels there's a big 3, and has been for a long time.
I just don't get how Laine has separated himself from Pulju when Pulju has been playing better hockey lately, they go back and forth and it's just what type you prefer.
My reasoning is that Laine is much easier to project and you know what he is, he's an elite shot who is amazing at getting into scoring positions, he just feels like a guy who will be a consistent 35+ goal scorer. Puljujarvi has a more complete game, has more tools and is an elite skater, but I see a lot more that could go wrong, even if he has a slightly higher ceiling. I'd be ecstatic with either but prefer Laine.
I am unaware of any flip flopping since the wjc and have seen nearly everyone rank Laine higher. Besides that, when you watch him you see things in laines game that are just better than pulju that few players can do. I don't think pulju will be any worse or better than I did 3 months ago but now I feel Laine has played himself above pulju's talent and Dubois has played himself into pulju's talent level.
I can definitely understand if someone picks Laine over Pulju, no problems with that, but I don't get the different tier talk.
And Pulju can do things Laine can't and is a very rare prospect, skating and overall game goes to Pulju. Pulju has been the better of the 2 since WJC when you look at everything they do on ice, and yet Pulju gets comments like he's only living on WJC hype and has been unimpressive while Laine has been beasting, he has but so has Pulju and nothing suggests they are on differnt tiers or someone would have closed on Pulju but not on Laine.
None of the rankings ever have any tiers between them.
Obviously no rankings have tiers, I meant I have yet to see a ranking since then that has Laine going after pulju. And like I said, pulju is doing well and is playing better in the fel post wjc than before, but so is Laine and Laine is doing it to a greater extent imo. Not just stats but for added elements to his game and how well he is executing what he already has. And what pulju is better than Laine at is not as rare as what Laine is better at and I feel the ability to close the gap between what the other one is better at also is in favour of Laine.
Matthews
Laine
Puljujarvi
Chychrun
Dubois
Keller
Nylander
Tkachuk
Juolevi
Sergachev
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