Tawnos
A guy with a bass
If ever there was a year for me not to do this poll post-draft and instead of it post-preseason, this was the year. I really wish I'd waited. Haggerty sure as hell wouldn't have been below Kristo, Hrivik wouldn't be below Tambellini, Noreau wouldn't have been #29. I suspect a bunch of rankings would be different.
In the future, I will do them post-WJC and then we'll wait to do them post-preseason. There will be no more summer polls, instead, we'll do early season poll and mid-season poll because that's when we wind up seeing the most of our top prospects.
I agree. In fact I posted this in thread about where Kevin Hayes ranks:
I have a hard time not seeing him as top-5 in the organization.
That being said, I think the only real reason we do these polls in the summer is to fill the downtime. Right after training camp is really a much, much better period for evaluating where these players stand.
I also think that the offseason is so incredibly important for young players development as a time to internalize that between the end of one season and beginning of another, the player can really mature.