"Look at this draft, look at where my list was in August, where it’s going to be in May, a lot’s going to change,” Pronman said. “That’s just part of the process. Sometimes you’re right, sometimes you’re wrong. … Like, is (Kevin) Korchinski that much better than (Sam) Rinzel right now? Is that wrong, quote unquote? Did anyone think Rinzel was going to be better than Korchinski two, three years ago? I don’t know. It’s all a good debate. That’s my answer in a long-winded excuse."
I don't envy his position here and having to own wrong takes (we would all look stupid at times if asked to do this for a living), but this ignores that a) D+3 players are way more of a known commodity than D0 players, and b) he was ranking Nazar a matter of months ago, not years. There was no defensible reason to have him 14th in the Blackhawks' own U23 pipeline at the start of the year. He was closer to the 14th best prospect in all of hockey than he was to the 14th best Blackhawks prospect.
I don't envy his position here and having to own wrong takes (we would all look stupid at times if asked to do this for a living), but this ignores that a) D+3 players are way more of a known commodity than D0 players, and b) he was ranking Nazar a matter of months ago, not years. There was no defensible reason to have him 14th in the Blackhawks' own U23 pipeline at the start of the year. He was closer to the 14th best prospect in all of hockey than he was to the 14th best Blackhawks prospect.
