To be top 9 they would have to be better than Marner, Nylander, or Kadri. They're not any of these things and I doubt either of them play in the NHL. Their production is quite bad and they're getting vastly outperformed by younger players.
To be top 9 they would have to be better than Marner, Nylander, or Kadri. They're not any of these things and I doubt either of them play in the NHL. Their production is quite bad and they're getting vastly outperformed by younger players.
By top 9, I think he means on one of the top 3 lines, as in a top 9 forward, top 6 would be 2nd. line or 1st. line, top 3 would be 1st. line.
Marner and Nylander are hopefully top 3 forwards.
Of course Joshaua and Toninato should be considered top 9.
Way to early to judge. We'll have to see how Joshua adapts to college hockey before we can even begin to make a judgement on if he has NHL potential.
Toninato has to make a significant improvement in a short time before he becomes a bust.
Odds are that both never play more than a handful of NHL games (though I still have high hopes for Joshua). That's totally ok. The majority of third round or later picks are in the same boat.
Lol what has Toninato done to deserve a potential bust label? He just scored 16 goals in his sophomore year, while playing a 2-way game. Zach Hyman didn't have 16 NCAA career goals until the end of his junior year. He's done nothing but impress so far, Joshua too.
you people ascribe literally 0 value to bottom 6. Stop comparing them to marner/kadri/nylander, they simply arent those kind of high end blue chip prospects. Last time I checked, teams need 2nd/3rd/4th line wingers that can play. Not every prospect is going to be ppg or anything like that, stop making these false hopes. We have a lot of bottom 6 prospects and they still need to be developed. You guys need to realize that bottom 6 players have value and to stop writing off prospects that aren't top 6. To say that they wont be on the leafs because they dont have top line potential is an absolute joke.
I've only seen Toninato in one complete game, an NCAA tournament game this year. That isn't much so I won't be very definite in my opinion. But I was moderately encouraged watching him. He passed the eyeball test as a centre, with good size and decent skating, in fact, good skating by college standards. He played as the number one centre on one of the strongest teams in the NCAA. That's not an insignificant accomplishment. I'm not sure his teammate, Cameranesi, will even be signed by the Leafs but I would be very surprised if that is the case with Toninato.
The first hurdle for a prospect is earning that entry level contract. Toninato is well on his way to that. He is not an "a" prospect, perhaps, but he is worth following with interest.
you people ascribe literally 0 value to bottom 6. Stop comparing them to marner/kadri/nylander, they simply arent those kind of high end blue chip prospects. Last time I checked, teams need 2nd/3rd/4th line wingers that can play. Not every prospect is going to be ppg or anything like that, stop making these false hopes.
We have a lot of bottom 6 prospects and they still need to be developed. You guys need to realize that bottom 6 players have value and to stop writing off prospects that aren't top 6. To say that they wont be on the leafs because they dont have top line potential is an absolute joke. You guys make such a big deal about size... Joshua is a 6'3 200 pound kid who got 20 goals and 44 points in 52 games this season, that literally sounds like a great 3rd line winger somewhere down the road imo.
Which leads us right back to a top 9 player, which is a 3rd. liner.
3rd. liner is both a bottom 6 and top 9 player.
you people ascribe literally 0 value to bottom 6.
Drives me nuts. The prospect poll is kinda a joke to me right now.
Which leads us right back to a top 9 player, which is a 3rd. liner.
3rd. liner is both a bottom 6 and top 9 player.