How can you say that considering 30 teams have different scouring staffs and rate draft picks differently.If the '08 and '09 drafts were merged, Tavares and Hedman would still go 1 and 2.
How can you say that considering 30 teams have different scouring staffs and rate draft picks differently.
With Tavares it's almost a lights out lock that he's #1 in '09.
No... No he isn't.
No... No he isn't.
Then you are also saying that Bob Mackenzie is reporting inaccuracies or that 7 out of 10 scouts are laughable. Which are you saying?. . . I'm just saying that he's so far beyond Stamkos that its laughable.
Then you are also saying that Bob Mackenzie is reporting inaccuracies or that 7 out of 10 scouts are laughable. Which are you saying?
Then you are also saying that Bob Mackenzie is reporting inaccuracies or that 7 out of 10 scouts are laughable. Which are you saying?
I posted this elsewhere, but I'd hardly call Stamkos behind Travares "laughable"- after his slow start he's only 8 pts behind Travares in O scoring at 9th, he's on a 1.5 pt per game average with the last few games getting 2-3 points. The scouts were absolutely crammed in when Sarnia was playing Sagniaw(what an odd game that was). I think both Talents are incredible, Travares is more of a pure goal scorer, Stamkos is an all around player, both are great talents. Travares and Stamkos will both get drafted high, and will both I think have careers that do well, and I think we'll be discussing Stamkos and Travares the way Crosby vs Ovechkin is discussed now- I just wonder why the sudden anger at Stamkos?
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but tavares is still outscoring him and hasn't heated up thus far. he outscored him by a wide margin last year and the bottom line is that he's a year younger.
No real offense intended towards Justin DiBenedetto or Devin Didiomete, but I just find it's hard for a single player to really control play 5-on-5 anymore. Those guys just aren't Brett MacLean. But then when you add Wilson and Katic on the point, get Didiomete doing his thing down low, it's a much better opportunity for the line to function to its strengths. I think it's a situation that's very common in the OHL these past few seasons. A really good PP unit can really pile up the points with the frequency of minor penalty calls these days. And despite the somewhat slow start for Sarnia overall, I think the Stamkos line has generally been + or even so far.However the real difference is that Stamkos does not produce much 5 on 5. In fact he does very little, an unbelievable threat on the PP but 5 on 5 he needs to work on.
TSN has an article on it's website debating whether or not Tavares would be the number 1 pick in this ut year's draft. 7/10 scouts say Stamkos would be their choice. I know Stamkos is a great player and should be a star in the NHL someday but how do you pass up on a talent like Tavares. Tavares is a talent that doesn;t come along very often. These scouts may say this now but i think they would change their tune on the actual draft day. I know the argument is insignificant since they won't be drafted in the same year but interesting nonetheless.
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=217783&hubname=nhl
I think that this was more of a knee jerk reaction by many to the poor showing that Tavares had during the Russia Canada series...if you look at all the factors, many which have been mentioned in this thread, I think that Tavares is easily a safer, better overall pick than Stamkos, esp. since we're comparing a 17 year old with an 18 year old in this survey which is already indicating that Tavares has a much higher ceiling in the long run.
John Tavares is only 6 months older then Stamkos.