I'm a big fan of Hart too, got to see stone the Kelowna Rockets a few times this season. When he's on his game, he's unbeatable and you'd never know he was "short" by today's goalie standards. He is so positionally sound that there is nothing to shoot at on his good nights, he plays much bigger than he is if that makes sense. Granted, it's one thing to do that in junior where only a handful of players on each team have a pro-calibre shot. The NHL is a totally different beast, everybody is capable of picking corners, but I like Hart's chances of becoming an impact goalie. Something tells me he won't be there at 32 anyway. I could see the Leafs taking him at 29-30, but I could also see Hart going as high as the mid-teens. Yes, I'm that high on him.
Thanks for all the positive feedback in general, glad you all appreciate my efforts. It was a time-consuming project, and not necessarily the write-ups but deciding on the actual picks. It became a bit of an obsession, to the point where I was spending a half hour debating between a handful of prospects for the 203rd overall pick as an example. I tried to do my homework/research and not just pull names out of the hat. Even the list of honourable mentions, I had like 240 skaters left over and had to shorten that list to 100, which took hours. The goalie honourable mentions were even harder for me because I feel as though I didn't draft enough goalies in general and had way too many quality leftovers. That will be one of my regrets in hindsight I'm sure, that and perhaps drafting too many over-agers, but I can't wait to see the results.
Oh, and good call on comparing Abramov to Vrana, I see a lot of similarities there too, but can you ever have too much of a good thing? It sounds like the Capitals could be trading Marcus Johansson at the draft, so having Burakovsky, Vrana and Abramov as skilled young top-six wingers wouldn't be a bad thing. I can't see Washington passing on Abramov if he's still on the board.
