Its ridiculous, and its Craig Button driven. He is given a lot of respect for some reason, which I don't understand. I don't dislike the guy, but I'm certainly not trying to learn anything off what he says. A lot of fans on this website have more knowledgeable opinions than Button. From my read of Button's knowledge, I get the sense that he doesn't watch many of these players during their club seasons, and makes unnecessary judgements based on short international tournaments. He's also prone to insane judgements during these tournaments that make no sense to justify wild swing in his rankings. Last season, he used one clip where Boqvist made a bad decision at the WJC18 to justify dropping him a lot, even though he was the best defensemen at the tournament and I think any fair person would say his stock should've went up based on that tournament.
Button is the one driving Broberg and Podkolzin towards being top 5 picks. He was also the person who drove Poehling towards being like the 2nd or 3rd best player in his draft class. I mostly try to block it out. So far, I've liked Bobrov's decisions with players of his home country. I trust that he would not take Guskov, unless we are talking about 3rd or 4th round. I think our scouting department should be focused on one of the elite centers, Turcotte, Cozens, Newhook, Dach, Zegras with one of our early picks. If for some reason Hughes, Kakko or Byram, falls to our slot, I think you take them if the centers aren't there, but I think this team needs to come out of the next draft with a guy who projects as a 1C.
