I mean, you hated on my WIP sponsored Bijan pick, and that's fine. Where we the Eagles be without Barkley? I mean, really?If you don't have some truly embarrassing opinions with hindsight, it just means you're too stupid to look for and/or find them.
I have my NFL draft boards going back to 2001. I assure you I know I'm an idiot.
No insults man. I was just trying to speak plainly and we weren't really talking about the same things. Its all good.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
Read that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
Ooo this is a tricky one. I was on both sides of the Myers coin. I got accused of hyping him up too much shortly after he signed as an UDFA- It was truly a breath taking watch, but then people did get too carried away the next year and I wasn't all the way there.
We all might have wasted our time by not saying TK though. Forward > Defensemen if all else is equal is something I've learned.
You should change your tag line to Morin Stan for the feelsRead that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
I was definitely too high on Morin (not in that post but in general). His highs were extremely high and I overvalued those over his whole body of work. I think if anyone watched him extensively before he broke his jaw in his D+2 I don't think it was as crazy too value him highly. He was a freakish athlete with improving puck skills, but I probably put too much faith in blind development in areas that are difficult to improve. He missed loads of dev time in Junior and later in his ELC. It was a death sentence for a player of his skillset.
And that one blurb about Hagg 11 months after he was drafted was, believe it or not, a pessimistic take at the time. Hagg was a big scorer in Junior and even played on the PP in the WJCs in his draft year. It was also 10+ years ago. In that era, he did have a decent skill level. It never improved and possibly got worse when he came to NA (wonder why!). He also bulked up too and I don't think his stiffness helped matters.
This applies to Morin also - The baseline skill level for defensemen went up exponentially shortly after this time period (hell Sanheim has never been a PP regular in his career and he was a one man offense in the WHL). I promise you won't find many, if any, positive Hagg posts from his D+2 onward from me. And I was on an island for much of that time.
2014 is the first year I really started to watch prospects regularly. I'd like to think I've worked out some of the kinks and developed better opinions in part because of bad opinions the past.
I don't value anything from him until it's in spreadsheet form. Colors preferred.
I'm light years away, bb. Might be making a similar mistake I've made before with Jackson Smith, idk yet. I've learned a ton from y'all though.
Read that #1 prospect poll in 2016. I definitely died on a hill in that one.
I have much worse opinions out there. I said Barzal wouldn't be a 1C. This doesn't hurt me.
I was definitely too high on Morin (not in that post but in general). His highs were extremely high and I overvalued those over his whole body of work. I think if anyone watched him extensively before he broke his jaw in his D+2 I don't think it was as crazy to value him highly. He was a freakish athlete with improving puck skills, but I probably put too much faith in blind development in areas that are difficult to improve. He missed loads of dev time in Junior and later in his ELC. It was a death sentence for a player of his skillset.
And that one blurb about Hagg 11 months after he was drafted was, believe it or not, a pessimistic take at the time. Hagg was a big scorer in Junior and even played on the PP in the WJCs in his draft year. It was also 10+ years ago. In that era, he did have a decent skill level. It never improved and possibly got worse when he came to NA (wonder why!). He also bulked up too and I don't think his stiffness helped matters.
This applies to Morin also - The baseline skill level for defensemen went up exponentially shortly after this time period (hell Sanheim has never been a PP regular in his career and he was a one man offense in the WHL). Andrew MacDonald was getting PP time in 2014. Fringe prospects turned into non-prospects pretty quickly. I promise you won't find many, if any, positive Hagg posts from his D+2 onward from me. And I was on an island for much of that time.
2014 is the first year I really started to watch prospects regularly. I'd like to think I've worked out some of the kinks and developed better opinions in part because of bad opinions the past.
Myers taught me that hockey IQ is the most valuable skill, even if Tippett and TK keep trying to show that it's not needed (they're not as dumb as they look, they just don't know how to gear down and slow play down). Especially for D-men, where positioning is everything on defense (know your angles).Ooo this is a tricky one. I was on both sides of the Myers coin. I got accused of hyping him up too much shortly after he signed as an UDFA- It was truly a breath taking watch, but then people did get too carried away the next year and I wasn't all the way there.
Laughton was another guy I was in the middle of for most of his time as a prospect. Didn't hate the pick (wasn't a Maatta guy). People got carried away with the offensive projections the next year in part to the prospect pool being shit. I couldn't get there. Thought he got a raw deal spending pretty much all of the last year of his ELC in LHV. He was clearly too good for that level. And 12 years later he's still here.
We all might have wasted our time by not saying TK though. Forward > Defensemen if all else is equal is something I've learned.
TK makes more mistakes than anyone else on the team, mostly b/c he tries to do too much or does it too fast, he's a whirling dervish. Tiippett has a similar style, he gets in trouble when he forces things, but he's actually a good passer, just relies too much on his speed and shot.
TK is smarter, but Tippett isn't nearly as dumb as advertised.
