anyone notice the trend when comes to hype and the #1 pick

[Vlad The Impaler]

This isn't even said all the time. It wasn't said about Fluery and Staal or Boumeester and Nash. It is reserved for the special ones.

Crosby is as special since Lindros, maybe lemieux.
Ovechkin was that special last year. Crosby jumped Ovechkin.

I don't remember hearing quite so much in this regard about Kovalchuk, but he was also special.

I don't know much about Lecavalier except for the Michael Jordan comment.

Regardless, you won't hear such comments for awhile now.

We are already seeing such comments. There are Kessel=American Crosby comments that have creeped up. Jay Bouwmeester was compared to Bobby Orr and has been hyped two years before his actual draft. Jason Spezza was nicknamed "Spetzky". Guess why?

It happens almost every odd year. And it's most probably going to happen again very soon.

HF is like a warp zone where time goes by differently. That's why we have a once-a-decade player every two years on average

 

[Epsilon]

We are already seeing such comments. There are Kessel=American Crosby comments that have creeped up. Jay Bouwmeester was compared to Bobby Orr and has been hyped two years before his actual draft. Jason Spezza was nicknamed "Spetzky". Guess why?

It happens almost every odd year. And it's most probably going to happen again very soon.

HF is like a warp zone where time goes by differently. That's why we have a once-a-decade player every two years on average

To be fair it's not just HF. Publications like Hockey News and the TV hockey media have been just as responsible for this sort of thing.

 

[Wisent]

Mabey this is because the #1 overall picks have been getting better and better over the last few years, Ovechkin has been called better than Kovalchuk and people are convince that Crosby will be better than Ovechkin, so it is possible that each one was the best prospect since Lindros at the time they were draft, just the guy the next year happend to be better.

Looking at the first picks since Lindros I don't think that this is the case.

 

[Wisent]

it seems every year now that analysts are saying so n so is the best prospect to come along since eric lindros etc. etc. we hear this with crosby, we heard this ovechkin, kovalchuk, lecavalier etc.

its starting to sound like wrestling, every wrestlemania they say is the best one ever

Not surprised. Hype is good for hockey as well as every other sport. Drawback is I just don't believe it anymore (can be an advantage as well).

 

[EroCaps]

It generally is ridiculous. This year it's deserved though.

Naturally.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Mabey this is because the #1 overall picks have been getting better and better over the last few years, Ovechkin has been called better than Kovalchuk and people are convince that Crosby will be better than Ovechkin, so it is possible that each one was the best prospect since Lindros at the time they were draft, just the guy the next year happend to be better.

I agree