Andrew Hutchinson potential? Why only a 5/10 Grade?

[Kavliary2000]

He is rated really low by HF with a 5!
His profile sez that hes stuck behind a lot of bigger names on the Preds D Prospects depth chart....

The stats say otherwise

2003-04 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 46 12 12 24 39
2003-04 Nashville Predators NHL 18 4 4 8 4
2004-05 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 18 4 13 17 26

Does he have decent NHL potential....?
I would think so, most of the Pred D prospects are very young..I think he has a chance to be a regular someday soon

His offensive numbers are good...how is he defensively...he is 6-2 200lbs...

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[SmokeyClause]

He is rated really low by HF with a 5!
His profile sez that hes stuck behind a lot of bigger names on the Preds D Prospects depth chart....

The stats say otherwise

2003-04 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 46 12 12 24 39
2003-04 Nashville Predators NHL 18 4 4 8 4
2004-05 Milwaukee Admirals AHL 18 4 13 17 26

Does he have decent NHL potential....?
I would think so, most of the Pred D prospects are very young..I think he has a chance to be a regular someday soon

His offensive numbers are good...how is he defensively...he is 6-2 200lbs...

He's, uhhh, not so good defensively. Offensively, he is top notch and it showed while he was in the NHL as he racked up very, very good points considering his role as a 6/7th Dman and seeing only second string PP time behind Zids and Timonen (which isn't much). He needs work on the defensive end, but he could be a nice third pairing Dman/PP QB for a team other than the Preds. I'm afraid he's just stuck on a team that already has enough Dman for their PP.