jin said:
I think you've set up a self-fulfilling prophecy. You have set up the conditions of your "debate" like this: Fact - We do not know how prospects will turn out in the future (part of the deffenition of prospect is it not?). Since we don't know what prospects will be good or bad we can't judge a teams prospects until the future.
Colorado has good prospects. Prove me wrong using facts.
Hate to say it, but you know, based on what you are saying we can't. Please prove to me that the sun will warm the earth on June 25th. I will not accept any arguement that isn't fact based and undefeatable.
Actually, no, that's not what I am saying at all. All I am saying is that if you want to argue something, back it up. Have some solid evidence if not outright proof that what you say is going to happen will happen.
Will the sun warm the Earth on June 25th? Well, given that the Sun has warmed the Earth every single day in Earth's history, barring a cataclysmic event, I am going to go ahead and say that, yes, the Sun will warm the Earth on June 25th.
However, HF's organizational rankings, since their inception, have proven to be wrong more often than they are right.
Colorado's draft picks tend to make the NHL more than 27 other NHL teams (Ottawa, Colorado and New Jersey are tops).
I am not saying that we can't know how well prospects will turn out. Not at all. What I am saying is that we CAN know, just that the WAY we can know is not by reading some contrived organizational ranking list compiled by non-professional writers (much less scouts or anyone else who has done any sort of active professional analysis of talent be it in person or via statistics).