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Fair enoughnomorekids said:Something else I disagree with, as well.
I'm not a huge fan of overhyping ANY prospect, because it can have a tendency to make you look foolish down the road. You know, at one point...Luke Richardson was going to be THE quintessential number one NHL d-man...and here..an average NHL career later...he's looked at with scorn by fans of the defensively challenged Columbus Blue Jackets. I like what I see in Phaneuf\Suter\Crosby\Kessel and so on...but I try not to be as naive as to guarantee they'll be superstars. Anything can happen when you get to the NHL.
I think part of sports is ups and downs. I learned this last year at the Stanley Cup finals run... if you don't get excited, your missing out on a lot. If you do, you set yourself up to get hurt (I almost needed a shrink ).
Prospects are the same thing. It's fun to get hyped up about a promising prospect, esp after all the crash-and-burn Daniel Tkaczuk's and Rico Fata's that have gone through here, and the question marks like Oleg Saprykin and the "safe" picks like Eric Nystrom. Finally, we have a prospect to get hyped up about and say "hey, this kid can actually be a someone."
Sure you set yourself up to get dissapointed, that happens. But if you keep an even-keel, wait and see with everything, then I think your missing out on something very special in sports.