trentmccleary
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You said the same thing in the last thread, and I'm not really sure why you're so against the Rangers ratings but I don't really agree with your point.
Stepan, Grachev, Thomas and Kreider do all have the potential to be 1st line players. Is it all that likely? No, probably not but the potential is there in all of them so I don't see the issue.
Aside from these four I also don't really remember any Rangers forwards prospects being touted as 1st line players. Not Dawes, not Korpikosi, not Immonen, certainly not Callahan or Dubinsky and not even Anisimov. So I don't really see the Rangers bias that your saying has been going on for years here.
And yeah, maybe Kreider is overrated, but I'm sure a ton of prospects on these lists are as well.
Anisimov was given a 7.5. The rest were hyped up a tonne here.
It's highly unlikely you'll produce 1st liners with picks beyond the 1st round. It's hard enough in the 1st round.
If any team could or should be proclaiming that they may have picked a 1st liner deep in the draft... maybe, maybe Detroit - who actually have a history. Not the Rangers who produced jack all in 20 years and certainly not multiple longshot potential 1st liners.