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Good summary. I'd add that it was definitely 50/50 when mentioning Solberg whether he was liked or "too rich for the first half of round 1" / "if you're drafting him for the WC performance he'll struggle to meet that". Of note, most of these teams also sound like later-round teams. Jiricek had a few positives but def a few people not getting it or worried about his injury... same Emery, a couple scouts mentioned "more of an athlete than a player" or "we like him but maybe too rich for us now." Even scouts who liked Lev said his comp is John Carlson and who didn't like Yak said his comp is Evan Bouchard, so we're still talking pretty close to each other imho. Also one of the scouts said "we'll take any of them" even though he put Lev first and Dickinson last.Great content from Wheeler in the Athletic. Asked a ton of experts for top and bottom d-men in the top 6. Almost everyone had Yakemchuk (60%?) or Dickinson (20%) last. He also asked how close is your 7th ranked guy (mostly Jiricek, Solberg, and Emery) was to those six, and it was probably 60/40 against having a 7th guy in the convo. Jiricek most commonly came up with the caveat of (if not for the injury). Several who had only seen the college guys or the OHL guys and didn't stack rank all.
Lot of love for Sennecke from both players and scouts. Players had Catton as player (other than Celebrini) that impressed the most. Celebrini had 23/88 votes, Catton 12, Sennecke 8, and Eiserman 5. You could only pick non-teammates that you had played against.
It's crazy how little consensus there is after Celebrini. Levshunov, Celebrini, and Demidov seem to be the favorites, but they have some knocks as well.
All bets are off 11 days out!