As I mentioned above, it's easy for the player and agent to make a show of appearing to be transparent about the injury, but I find it difficult to believe that they shared the imaging data. Maybe I'm a critical thinker to a fault, but I'm also used to university students trying to pull the wool over my eyes, or academic writers making inflated claims.
Where was Clayton Keller on Bob’s list? Where was Pierre Luc Dubois? Point being, these guys don’t get it right everytime. Picking a Lindstrom over a Catton would be very similar to passing on Keller for Pierre Luc Dubois.
But they provided medical reports, I doubt it's a doctor’s chicken scratch with a thumbs up.
The report includes someone's interpretation of the imaging. Not the image itself, which is one or more volumetric images, depending on the MRI pulse sequence (T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and so on), which is typically hundreds of millions of voxels and would require a massive digital transfer to happen. This is not just a screenshot embedded in a pdf: the image is volumetric, and someone with something to hide can easily scroll 1-2 pixels away from the worst of the injury to show a 2D screenshot of what appears like a fairly benign disc.
It will certainly affect where the team ends up ranking him but final team lists will be polished up this week. Teams in the top 10 will certainly be having discussions about the medical reports in these meetings. Not sure if that input made it to lists submitted to Bobby Mac from individual scouts. It's just like geo-political factors for Russians. It doesn't impact player evaluations developed by scouts but impacts teams final lists when team execs get involved.
Asking you, because you seem to know what you're talking about...but wouldn't teams do just this with that report?
I think all we have heard, says that 2-15 are an absolute toss up depending on who you ask...........which is crazy, but there does seem to be a ton of chatter about a lot of the kids.
Yup. Even a stay at home dman increases forwards offensive production if he makes a good first pass after winning puck battles. Strong D often dictate a game.
It depends on how critically they think. Some of these teams (like most people) place great faith in physicians, but are not detail-oriented enough to ask: are we being gaslit here?
Bob doesn't make any mistakes as he doesn't evaluate any of these players. His rankings are based on a poll of scouts from 10 NHL teams.
Exactly...so if the medical reports say he's good and it's nothing major, you either trust your own medical doctors to back that up, or you don't.
Bobby Mac makes his lists purely based on what scouts and managemnet of NHL teams tell him. Zero of his own analysis goes into his lists.
Interesting.................did not realize this is how he gets his lists...if he doesn't make mistakes, then he is also never right.
Given the stakes, i'd be absolutely shocked if whatever report they were provided with, wasn't then vetted through each teams sources, especially the teams picking in the top 10.
But how can they know the severity of it? Not every back injury is the same...I had sciatic issues 4 years ago, it was so bad one morning I debated taking a leak in my bed because trying to peel myself off my bed to walk to the bathroom was too painful (I did it btw lol).
I think the kid did very well at the combine..........so he was more than fine there.
Better international numbers? What?
They may not, but a herniated disk tends to spill out, like really a disc-shaped elastic container (annulus fibrosis) of thick molasses (nucleus pulposus), and while it may stabilize and heal to a significant degree, the tear in it can (more) easily reinjure, since it does not have the integrity of the uninjured disc (which is why Eichel's surgeons threw in the towel and gave him a synthetic one). In a contact sport, that gradual degradation of the disc has a higher probability of happening again than it would in a pristine disc, so that the hole in the elastic container can reopen again, spilling thick molasses onto that sciatic nerve.
