It really has something to do with it. It happens literally all the time; some guy who has a little bit of credibility and a lot of media coverage says something about a player and pretty soon a whole lot of people agree and thus a new discourse has been born. It happens every day and on every topic imaginable. People tend to adopt certain discourses if they are already somehow predisposed towards it.
Believe me, I am an academically trained historian, I deal with discourse analysis a lot.
Maybe that applies to some sheepish masses. But thank God there are a lot of completely individual people who don't care jackshiiit if the others agree with them or not. I am one of those people for sure, as I have absolutely no need to agree with others about issues. Sure it's fine to agree also on something, if your opinions really truly and individually match, but I for sure don't NEED that to happen. I use my own mind to make my point, and I couldn't care less about any kind of consensus, if it is against how I truly see things. Sure others can think how they think, but I don't have to change my view on something, just because some other opinion becomes popular and the others don't like my opinion.
Sure I can change my views and opinions too, but for that just popularity, or an acknowledged expert or two will not be by themselves enough. I need to get a clear logical explanation with stone cold facts why the other opinion might be after all better.
I have seen Roope Hintz play in a lot of games for already several years and all that time he has appeared to me as a fast and very talented and skilled player, whom unfortunately lacks a certain drive and intensity. His physical development and his interviews by themselves already tell that the dude has some serious issues with consistency and ambition to develop himself. He just simply seems like a talented but lazy young hockey player. I have formed these opinions mostly during the last two years by strictly what I have seen and heard from him, and no dude or dudes commenting on tv have affected one bit how I see Hintz as a player.