Man Bear Pig
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People were saying it before Leafs won the lottery though. It's close between Laine and Matthews at this point.
Meh, it happens every year. Every year there's usually someone who's been the consensus #1 all year, people get bored of talking about that player and need something to discuss so there's almost always talk of other prospects. Seems like it's done more out of boredom than anything to me. I said this before we won the lottery too. Laine is a little bit different though. The Finnish hockey fans are extremely bias and have an agenda to try and get people to buy into Laine being the #1 this year. It doesn't even bother me because it isn't happening. There's not much doubt in my mind that all 30 NHL teams take Matthews #1. I'm aware a few scouts said they'd take Laine first overall but that's just a few scouts opinions, no GM is going to rely on one scout's opinion alone to make a selection. The consensus is and always was Matthews going first.