I think the funny part is that apparently every top player in this years draft from a nation other than Canada is better than Tavares. That's perfectly fine with me, hopefully NHL teams listen to HFBoards and my Avs can draft him with a middle of the pack 1st rounder and I can laugh my ass off for the next decade or two.
Tavares has shown a continued progression in his game, people said he was greedy and he only looked to score goals, what does he do? He works on his playmaking and becomes one of his leagues best playmakers. They say he is slow, so he works out in the summer to get faster. They say his defensive game is a joke, so he concentrates on it to try to make it better. Tavares is progressing in every aspect of his game, he works on his weaknesses and realizes that he does have these weak spots in his game.
Unfortunately, all these pro scouts on HFBoards have already declared that he is absolutely unimpressive and every prospect in the world that is faster than him, or flashier than him, or bigger than him, is absolutely better than him. It's gotten to the point where nothing he does impresses people, hell he could score 90 goals against the US and people would say that he was lazy on the backcheck, or that he wasn't that good along the boards. He could shutdown the Schroeder line and people would say that he was totally unimpressive offensively. Hell he jokingly had a pushing match with a teammate and some people started clamouring that he was a bad teammate.
As to why Tavares is a better talent than Schroeder, he's got a much longer much more thoroughly picked apart pedigree, and yet even PRO scouts have him as the top rated prospect. He has shown progression in every part of his game, he has excellent hockey vision, can snipe with the best, can pass with the best, he has excellent one on one moves and most of all, he has the drive to work on his game until he is one of the best. Now, that's no knock on Schroeder, but Tavares has just proven so far with his hockey track record that he is a better prospect, that may change in the future, but the future is the future.