Patrick Stefan says hi
Patrik Stefan had less hype, and actually became a decent middle 6 center. Stefan was a bust, but nowhere near Yakupov level.
Patrick Stefan says hi
Read what I was replying to.
Np. It can really make reading these forums confusing sometimes when your ignore list is large.I cant. i think i may have blocked the guy.
edit: I clicked the show ignore content button. I thought you were sick of the bust talk, not the dallas eakins thing
apologies
It was actually Grigorenko who got compared to Malkin the most.There were some talking heads who were over-hyping that draft comparing Nail to Ovechkin and Galchenyuk to Malkin, but that was likely due to the previous draft not having much hype and networks trying to get ratings. I will say that the tanking rhymes had to do with trying to sell tanking to other fans as a way to improve as people figured out that signing UFAs to not suck anymore was not viable in the cap era. Pretty much every draft had a rhyme for 1st OA and possibly the 2nd and 3rd OA as well.
It was actually Grigorenko who got compared to Malkin the most.
Yeah, drafts are rarely hyped the year before they happen, so Galchenyuk tearing his knee early on sort of limited the hyperbole around him.Thanks for the correction, I think you are right, I was getting those two names confused pre-draft. That really does help my point on talking heads over-hyping the draft beyond what common fans thought.