I really want Cole Eiserman, I think he will be the steal of the draft if he drops past 12-13 and end up being Pastranak lite.
You cant teach elite goal scoring. Its something the wings do not have anywhere in the pipeline.
Cole Eiserman is a one-touch player that doesn't create anything on his own. If he doesn't score then the puck is either frozen or on its way out of the zone right after his chance. A ton of his production was on the powerplay. 25 of 58 goals on the powerplay. Wasn't there a chart from the 2017 draft when we drafted Rasmussen that showed when such a big ratio of your production comes on the powerplay in junior it's a negative indicator.
Plenty of scouting reports have also mentioned that while he has talked to his coach about improving his defensive play and play off puck, there hasn't been a really notable improvement. He's also about Zadina's size so don't expect a power game to develop. And his finesse game isn't all that terrific.
A lot of people have pointed out that one dimensional goalscoring specialist prospects look great in juniors, but suffer greatly at the pro level when you need a backup game. Arthur Kaliyev Cole, Jake Virtanen, Kieffer Bellows, Oliver Wahlstrom and Filip Zadina are 5 examples of outright busts that were drafted as goalscoring specialists. Laine is about as useless as a pecker on the pope when he's not putting pucks in nets. And how often do we bitch about DeBrincat when he's not putting the puck in the net? There's plenty of other examples of this type of prospect busting or playing and being a net negative to make me leery of picking them.
I think it's more likely Cole Eiserman becomes the next Mike Hoffman than the next Brett Hull or even the next DeBrincat. Still a hard pass for me.