Mantha doesn't have a super unrealistic potential to be a top 3 scorer in the league and mrazek to be the best goalie in the nhl?
Nope, not for me he doesn't especially in a league that will still have Stamkos, Crosby, Malkin, Tavares, MacKinnon and McDavid in it.
We will see St. Louis and Ovechkin certainly score a lot for wingers, but I think that is too tall a mountain. 10-11 is the only year I can think of with a strange winger led year, even then Crosby had the highest ppg ratio. I don't think he is going to be a Jagr or Ovechkin, every other winger has to place high has played with a consensus top 5 center really save Iginla. This would surprise me a great deal.
Sproul needs to get better on D, but he legitimately should score a ton of points and put him in the Norris conversation if his D even becomes passable, the issue with Sproul is just how good his D can get that is why it isn't very realistic.
Well it looks like Mantha will be off the board, but I would have voted for Mrazek over him next. Would be interesting if he could become that guy, see him as a Top 10 guy in the league maybe he gets a Vezina one of those years. I do have Gibson over him as the best goaltending prospect in the world though.
When I put his ceiling at a guy like Neal or Carter while that is extremely exciting it does say something. Could Neal finish top 3 in scoring, yeah but everyone would credit his elite center that is a part of the picture. Make no mistake Marty St. Louis won his Art Ross trophy when Vinny was still elite and once Stamkos made the steps to the true elite status.
We will see I would be ecstatic if where his big season has led some people to put his projections becomes true. I compare him to all-star players already so it isn't like I sell the guy incredibly short, but do I think he is going to have the career of a top 3 pick or 1st overall like that would attach, no I do not and there is a reason he was not taken there. Being a Perry or Iginla in terms of guys that have had massive seasons and won some hardware fine and went a little lower in the first round would be spectacular. Wing scores aren't really as consistent like that, part of why those two have had up and down production. We will see, what he is doing in the Q is awfully special and that number 1 is in all likelihood his in short order if he transitions to pro hockey the right way, but I have to see it first.