Yeah and people are allowed to call those opinions uninformed, ridiculous etc. If you want to act like you know more than Redline based on a few highlights and scouting reports than go right ahead and I'll keep laughing at you.
I scouted Barzal for five minutes and I knew he was better than Zboril, Jake or Senny.,
Totally agree, we cannot be " reaching" for a player here at 7.
And Bob McKenzie has him ranked #13. Does this apply to Bob - should he not be acting like he knows more than Redline?
Yeah because saying people should trust the scouts is really acting like I'm smarter than everyone. You really got me there big guy lol.
He doesn't know more than Redline. He doesn't even scout players himself. And that doesn't change the fact that a lot of places have him top ten.
Why are you bringing up Misa and Hagen's, they're both long gone by 7th. As for the rest, you've clearly never watched Martin play so we can agree to disagree here.
Maybe but he said he had been playing with it since November.
He's not my guy either. I've got him 9th behind the top 6, Eklund and O'Brien. My point was that he deserves to be in the conversation and that I find it funny how people here have such strong opinions on prospects they know very little about.
You are correct, he doesn't scout the players himself. He actually does a consensus ranking based in where NHL scouts rank players.
That's why I dont care who Sweeney takes as long as he doesn't go way off the board and picks someone not on the list below.
McQueen. You may not pick him but he absolutely belongs in that group.
Fair enough, like I said I have behind Eklund and O'Brien too. I just think you're underestimating Martin's offensive skill but I digress.
I agree. I don't see how anyone can say they know who's going to be better out of that group. I'm not just talking fans, scouts too. Look at any draft 5+ years ago and the best players come from all over the place. In 2020 the 7th best player in the draft was taken in the 2nd round (JJ Peterka). The 7th overall pick was Alexander Holtz, who you could probably get for free this summer.
I give up, I even googled it and the only answer I found was Jack Hughes with 19 but it also said he did it at the 2022 combine which was 3 years after he was drafted. There's a video of Lane Hutson doing 21 but not sure if that was at the combine.
I thought it was Zeev with 16. But I also thought we’d have the reveal by now too.
That’s what I’m afraid of, right there. Cal Clutterbuck at 7, but more likely a very humbled player that transitions from “violent” in Jr’s to defensively responsible forward with an occasional hit in the NHL.
