I'm not saying Gauthier or Young are as good or better prospects then Brennan, I was merely pointing to their #'s being as good, or significantly better when people here argued Brennan's poor #'s are due to playing on a bad team. I'm sure that played into it, but it was possible to post a solid save % on that team. And while Gauthier was a 2 years older then Brennan, Young is a full year younger.
So for Brennan, same as it is with Stillman the question is, is there more than the #'s suggest? I have no issues shrugging off the notion that the story is strictly in the numbers, but if we are going to use these nebulous factors such as "top rated NA goalie" why not also factor in where they were actually drafted?
Which kind of brings us back to the original Stillman criticism which was, he wouldn't be getting votes if he weren't drafted in the first round, but I'd argue back that he is getting negative push back because it appears he was drafted too high. Where as the board sentiment regarding Brennan is the opposite, he was very good draft day value. Stillman is viewed in a negative light, Brennan in a positive one.