To be honest haha my trust in prospects goes Bobby Mac, SEPH and Hench tied, .... ... Craig button after the young fella at the grocery store. He also reminds me of someone off goof troop kind of bugs me. He knows a little more than Eklund and O dog maybe.
Growing up I always felt like he had something against the Avs watching him on SC. Can't remember but a few comments and I've never liked him since lol.
Which grocery store kid? The one who broke the Varly-signing?
In all seriousness, I wonder why you and so many others have so much against Button?
Is it because his rankings are never like the consensus crap, where moving a player one to three spots up or down will create havoc amongst the armchair scouts? It's almost like he actually watches a lot of games, form his own opinions and, oh my god!, voices said opinion no matter what the above mentioned consensus is. Just like a scout should do.
Quite the difference from for instance FC which consistently have rankings that resemble most rankings found around these parts so much you feel you've seen the same rankings plenty of times when they come out.
I respect Button and his rankings a lot, because of his history working in the NHL, that he has the balls to publicize rankings that always go against the grain in one way or another and because someone like Mark Edwards have said Button is one of the very few scouts or people who call themselves that who actually go to the rinks and watch a whole hell of a lot of games.
Much the same reasons why I respect Kyle Woodlief and Redline and always make sure to get a copy of their rankings and reports before the draft.
Almost every single time someone offers the response to Button (or Redline) the same way you did, the reasoning seems to be that his rankings are "all over the place", ergo they're "crap", because they're not at all like the other rankings out there and because most all other rankings are so close to each other, they must be the be all end all.
Sigh, I wish the rankings of some NHL teams had been publicized just to see the reaction from all the armchair scouts. Some have actually leaked, like Vancouvers one year (then again it was Vancouver so everybody just lol'd) but one can get a lot of info through snippets here and there. The best ever behind the scenes draft video was the St Louis 2007 draft, where a short commentary somewhere in there was that they got seven or eight guys ranked in the top 35-40 on their list (been a long time, hard to remember the details).
Then again, that scouting team only featured slugs like Kekalainen and Armstrong....
