No it wasn’t about everyone. He named 3 guys in the Top 10 in rankings and thinks they have up to 100 point potential. It’s just not based on any reality. It rarely happens. If they truly had that potential, it would be an obvious 1-2-3 at the top of the draft, regardless of the amount of defencemen.
That's patently untrue. Potential doesn't mean they're guaranteed to do it, just like doing it doesn't mean people thought they had the potential. 3 players hit 100 points in the 2015 draft. 1 went 1st, 1 went 10th, 1 went 135th. Why, if they had that potential, weren't they 1-2-3?
2011 draft has had 5 players hit 100. They went 1, 3, 15, 58, 104. Shouldn't they have gone 1-2-3-4-5 ahead of any of the defensemen?
Plus, guys who have 100 point potential don't hit it for a variety of reasons all the time. Injuries, bad team situations, mishandled development. Marner and Eichel from 2015 certainly have 100 point potential (Marner was 1 point shy in 80 games), but neither have hit it yet.
He never said "these players are going to all hit 100 points", he said their UPSIDE production was 80-100 points (not sure why you misrepresented it as saying 100). Yeah, of extremely talented players like them have things go right in their development and with the team they're drafted to, they probably will hit between 80 and 100 points at some point between the ages of 22-28. Not all of them necessarily will, and some random 4th rounder probably will later on too.