What is a realistic upside for him? 40 points? Or does he have PP QB skills and flirt with 60 in his prime? Probably hard to say right now as he is just trying to adjust to the NHL but from watching him play, where do you think his current skills take him?
His ceiling is as high as any offensive D out there. Why ? His head. Its going to be dependent on the teams he gets though, because he's not an overly physically gifted guy. Sweet edges, sweet shot, sweet hands, but nothing stands out, until you realize the kind of passes he can pull off and how he can handle the team on the ice.
There's one guy I've seen on D with that type of head for the game. Y'all know what I mean and, yeah, I went there.
I don't care about whole CHL vs Europe thing, but there has been something wrong with scouting him.
Pronman: "When I would discuss him with NHL scouts throughout his draft season, his just OK skating would come up as a reason to hedge against him" These scouts can be product of Coreys imagination or they are just bad at their job.
Scouts are f***ing stupid, mostly, scouting and just hockey management is filled with friends of friends and its not based on skill or ability but on who you know, until they get this out of their head, they'll never stop the dumb drafting.
Ive made a lengthy post responding to the skating concerns with gifs Ive taken from games Ive watched... Its utterly ridiculous how scouts can't evaluate things like that. Hockey management are the only job in the world where actual nobodies could do a better job than the person employed. Oh, this and politics, most likely.