AnonymousHockey
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- Mar 20, 2019
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They have lists all year. Just not free like Prospect Pipeline. Might want to check the quality over quantity and accuracy too. Some players far too low, far too high. Justin O'Donnell #124? Red Savage #140? Caden Brown #160? A lot of glaring misses
I find this amusing on a few factors.
1) I believe prospect pipelines mentioned they collaborated with TheScout.ca for the final 300 list. I can't prove it because the "week warning" from prospect pipelines has been deleted. (unless im missing it entirely)
2) Not that opinions are actually wrong, (you can call them wrong in 4 years.) but discussing 'glaring errors' in a ranking list that projects an opinion of where a player should be drafted is a glaring error in itself. Your opinion would be no better or worse. Red Savage at 140? Decent player, but he's also verbally committed to Miami. His skill set could potentially make him higher, if someone sees a high ceiling he could go top 40.... they may also see an NCAA commitment and not get drafted at all. Slotting him somewhere between 40-300 is accurate.
3) Despite what my point 2 states, im gonna play your game of "look at the glaring errors." Here we go:
Scout.ca has Daniel Michaud going 9 overall. This is based entirely off a history of a GM taking a big power center. However the next pick, 10th overall, Owen Sound is Wyatt Johnston. This is now based off the player, and even says there is no recent history of a GTHL forward going to Owen Sound in the first round. So were basing things off a past history, but were also not.
Logan Mallioux not mentioned at all as a possible first rounder.
There is a decent history of GTHL kids with NCAA commitments actually going through with them, and USA kids with NCAA commitments, not, and going OHL. Yet here we are, with London taking Roman Schmidt, and not Dylan Gratton, Luke Hughes, Dylan Duke or Sasha Pastujov. BTW... if Im Mark Hunter, Im taking Pastujov with 33, not Roman Schmidt with 20. London wants a Dman with first round, they take Mallioux (Id almost guess he's gone by then). Then Pastujov with a second.
I'm also questioning the Stillman to Sudbury first round thing here. I get the connection... I know that's exactly why its there. However, based on connection, like London, why are they using a first to get him? Even if the NCAA commitment is a rouse to get him to fall in the draft, why are the using a first?!?!? You'd half expect if its a tactic, that they'd want him to at least fall to second round. Because some other team may get him? NCAA free ride to education. Sudbury picks at 25. There's a lot of names other teams won't want to miss out on just to mess with Cory Stillman and his kid.