2009 Born for the 2025 OHL Draft

[Jordan Malette]

Hey everyone. I'm the man behind the OHL Draft work at PuckPreps and was pointed to this thread for obvious reasons lol.

I just want to say that if anyone ever wants to have a discussion about how I go about things or have a conversation about a player, I'm all ears. Feel free to DM me on twitter and I'm more than happy to have a conversation. We may not agree on everything but I put a lot of time / effort into this so I'm always happy to share my thoughts / hear other perspectives with others interested in this stuff.

Aside: I watched McGregor plenty in U15 and both he and Freeman are on my list, just not mentioned in the article as I didn't go player by player mentioning everyone.

@JordanMalette

 

[OHL4Life]

To be fair I don’t disagree with any of the names he mentioned it’s just evident he doesn’t follow draft classes until September of the U16 season. He doesn’t know who anyone is that didn’t play, or didn’t play well in the Titans tournament and that leads to him missing top end kids like McGregor.

Its fascinating to me that he didn’t mention a kid like Freeman as a big point getters at tournaments have been overvalued dramatically in his previous rankings.

in other words, he doesn’t know what he’s doing and doesn’t go there games. a month before the draft Fitzgerald was scoring 2 goals a game for he past month every time he played and was at like 24. we all know Ethan belchez drama. he’s a kid with no experience and blindly maki g a list, which anyone can do. Didn’t make it valuable. he has no one to tell him what he’s wrong or right about and when someone says what he needs to do to improve, he cries

 

[OHL4Life]

Hey everyone. I'm the man behind the OHL Draft work at PuckPreps and was pointed to this thread for obvious reasons lol.

I just want to say that if anyone ever wants to have a discussion about how I go about things or have a conversation about a player, I'm all ears. Feel free to DM me on twitter and I'm more than happy to have a conversation. We may not agree on everything but I put a lot of time / effort into this so I'm always happy to share my thoughts / hear other perspectives with others interested in this stuff.

Aside: I watched McGregor plenty in U15 and both he and Freeman are on my list, just not mentioned in the article as I didn't go player by player mentioning everyone.

@JordanMalette

look at the feedback last year. Appreciate your passion but you got to get it to games, your lists will suffer until you do. you can’t do it alone and without ppl with experience to let you know what your missing or what you need to improve on, you're a ship without a sail. there are tones of guys who are in the same boat as you that find the ability to go to games all over Ontario like OHL guys do, and OHL guys give them all the time of day, they get hired by teams. Neutral zone is at every tournament and are now used by OHL scouts, they do it the right away, if they can do it, so can you, if you try.

there is a reason nhl teams have gotten rid of video scouts for the most part, it’s not nearly as accurate as in person. do you want to make a list, or do you want accuracy and improvement. Draft eligible kids bust thier ass all year to get noticed and put in a ton of work to get to where they are, if your going to judge and rate them, I would suggest it’s only fair you do the same, but maybe I’m old and from a different ‘school’.