Ok, sure.
Just proves my point, I should apparently be chased off the board for not thinking that an average junior/ECHL/AHL defender is one of the top skaters in hockey, period. Not for his size, not outside the NHL, but in the NHL and notwithstanding his size.
You don't have to leave the board or anything but it boils down to you making a claim that is directly contrary to what basically everyone else says about Day, including professional scouts and people who watch prospects for a living. You are the one making the extraordinary claim here, hence the request for something more than "random person on the internet opinion" to back it up, especially when it devolves into "it's obvious that I'm just right and the only one who knows anything about hockey around here".
e: and let's be clear, this isn't just about someone saying that Day is potentially a top NHL skater as well (a point I would agree could be argued), but that you specifically said you didn't think he was a good skater period. Not just that he wasn't a top skater compared to NHLers, but that his skating in general just wasn't particularly good.
It’s an emperors new cloaths syndrome. He was granted exceptional status=hence many assumes he is exceptional at something. Since he clearly isn’t exceptional at hockey it’s projected on his skating. ManU thinks it. Edge claims that I can’t see it because I don’t understand what skating is about.
I don't see why you have to also go this way either because you're dismissing the fact that other people have watched him play with their own eyes and saying they couldn't possibly be correct and they must only think he's a good skater because he was once upon a time granted exceptional status.
Hockey isn’t all about skating, but if you are 230 lbs and one of the best skaters in the world you must surely become fairly good at hockey. Right?
Let’s rest this discussion now and we can revert to it later when we see how Day’s career plays out.
I mean...that's the problem with Day. He's a great skater, and that's about it. That's not enough to be a good NHL player.
That all said, the fact that these kind of arguments always devolve into people on both sides going "you just don't know anything about hockey at all and you suck and you probably smell" is ultimately silly. Everyone's gotta be so right and the other people so wrong that they'll do anything to put the other person down instead of just being better at arguing their point.