Pip
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I am having this debate with a few people right now, especially on the main boards where they treat Gaudette like a generational talent.
I think you're exaggerating here.
I find the Canucks fanbase does not just overrate their prospects (I say most if not all fanbases do), but the Canucks do it maybe more than any other fanbase in the league (Leafs debate-able).
Wrong. Every fan base is nearly identical. We are not special as a fan base. What does happen is teams with mediocre to bad prospects tend to overrate the ones they have. We just happen to have a large fan base which means more attention to this team and its prospects.
I remember back when Cole Cassels was a prospect (I feel victim to this also), his hype was absolutely staggering, I remember people him pegging him into the line up the year after, 100% third liner by the 2016 season. Even tho he had god awful skating.
Cassels was a good tracking prospect that didn't work out. It happens all the time. There was some underserved hype because him shutting down McDavid (which in reality wasn't a team effort where Brown did a fantastic job as well), was a nice story.
The Canucks have had countless prospects who had rediculous hype, Cody Hodgson, Schroader, remember Jason king and Fedor Fedorov?
There's always WJC stars and greatness tracking prospects that didn't work out. If Hodgson and Schroeder were in another organization they would have received somewhat similar hype.
So what do you think?, is it the same as every fanbase?, or do we overdue it more?
It's basically the same. In Canada (and some US markets) there is a larger fan base which leads to more media attention and more individuals that have unrealistic expectations for prospects.