AmericanDream
Thank you Elon!
interesting, obviously not a Leafs guy so that stuff is news to me, but pretty crappy of Button to be like that...no real reason to either..I always knew his love for Yotes players like 93Leafs said as well...but that is a bit surprising to say the least. I will still enjoy his stuff, but might look at things a bit different now.Nylander-> Had him rated as the top prospect at one point on one of his prospect rankings.....going back to a season and a half ago or so he went on Leafs lunch- Leafs radio show in Toronto (this was during the Babcock-tough love, 4th line dangling endpoint)...he quite obnoxiously guaranteed he'd be traded within a year. Subsequently, he retracted this after Nylander won the WC MVP. But it was the arrogance that makes you lose respect for a analyst that speaks with that level of hyperbole...especially when your expectation (whether this is fair or not versus the expectation of simply being a analyst made for TV is subjective)- is as a relatively objective analyst.
Liljegren-> It's just the juxtaposition of Liljegren in his pre-draft ranking->afterwards (where he took him off the top 50 prospect ranking less than a half year after). This is coming off a horrible draft year with mono vs a year where he had a pretty strong draft year as an AHL'er. I also thought (from a Leafs lens)- that his commentating on the WJC was biased in this regard as well, but acknowledge it's a bit subjective as a Leafs fan.
Anymore specific questions feel free to PM me, don't want to derail the thread with qualms that are mostly off-topic and Leaf-specific, that's probably the last thing people want to hear on the prospect board.