Since it looks like we aren't going to have much to talk about I will go ahead and stir the pot early.
Sproul unless you are voting heavily on potential should not be collecting votes already. His defense is miles from ready and has real concerns to whether or not he can ever be anything more than a third pairing PP specialist. I like that he is improving but he has an ocean to go. I hate the stat but his +/- has gone thud in hurry here lately as his mistakes continuously end up in the Griffins net.
Marchenko and Ouellet don't even have bad potential and are severely out playing him right now. As I stated in the first thread I think he actually has the highest potential in our entire pool, but there are serious problems to his game right now, I am glad his offense translated early in the pros, though he seems to have hit some kind of wall lately.
On a board where our #1 prospect is playing in juniors, it appears that potential takes precedent over everything else.
Not saying there's anything wrong with that, just saying that based on that you shouldn't be surprised.
I have Sheahan pegged at #4. But Sprouls high ceiling makes #5 pretty much a 50/50 toss-up between him and Jarnkrok in my eyes.
Like you said, he does have a very high ceiling, and IMO if he puts it all together were talking about a guy who could lead the defensive scoring race in the NHL. Offensively I think he does have THAT MUCH potential, but he needs to put in a lot of work in the other areas of his game like you said.
Kind of hard to ignore a guy with the size and offensive skillset he has at the D-man position.