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F Adam Fantilli - Univ. of Michigan, NCAA (2023 Draft)

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Dion TheFluff said:
this guy has become criminally underrated on HF. Definitely a high 1st overall pick in most other drafts with his size, skating and offensive toolkit package. Lack of IQ is getting blown out of proportion a bit because of a few poor games at the world juniors (even though he was one of the younger players at the tournament).
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To be fair, most of the people who say that only saw Fantilli at the WJC, or didn't even watch his games at all.
 
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austin63867 said:
To be fair, most of the people who say that only saw Fantilli at the WJC, or didn't even watch his games at all.
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I think it was fine to judge his WJC performances and use it to affect ranking (I thought he sucked in the first two games in particular, though he eventually rebounded), but some definitely went all out to trash his entire projection off such a limited body of work. There were even a few sightings of Yager > Fantilli on some of the subforums, which baffled me completely.
 
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GlassesJacketShirt said:
I think it was fine to judge his WJC performances and use it to affect ranking (I thought he sucked in the first two games in particular, though he eventually rebounded), but some definitely went all out to trash his entire projection off such a limited body of work. There were even a few sightings of Yager > Fantilli on some of the subforums, which baffled me completely.
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Yeah, I think with Fantilli it's hard to analyze based on WJC because he was on the 4th line and out of position, which is not likely to happen in any other level but for Canada. If he played C I'd put more stock into it but I can't blame him.
 
GlassesJacketShirt said:
I think it was fine to judge his WJC performances and use it to affect ranking (I thought he sucked in the first two games in particular, though he eventually rebounded), but some definitely went all out to trash his entire projection off such a limited body of work. There were even a few sightings of Yager > Fantilli on some of the subforums, which baffled me completely.
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Imagine thinking Yager is better than Fantilli at any single facet of hockey 😆
 
Torts said:
After this weekend I'm finding myself thinking that this will be the only NCAA season for Fantilli. If he continues playing like this and develops over the summer I can't find a reason he would not be on opening night rosters of teams like Chicago, Columbus, Anaheim, San Jose, etc...
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If Chicago drafted him, they'd keep him in Michigan for another year with Nazar.

New management is really adamant about taking their time with prospects. And there'd be no point in pulling him into a dumpster fire situation.
 
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austin63867 said:
To be fair, most of the people who say that only saw Fantilli at the WJC, or didn't even watch his games at all.
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He was a no show at the U18. Played even some time on Bedards wing and didn't look anything special. The YOG, a tournament someone like Michkov or Miro simply destroyed, he again was not particularly noticeable.

So, to be fair, internationally he didn't look like a future 2nd OA at all.
 
Reminds me of Bufield but with significantly better IQ. Mind you, I don’t byfield lacks in that department, but it’s not up to par with his other traits.
 
KaprizovSaveUs said:
Reminds me of Bufield but with significantly better IQ. Mind you, I don’t byfield lacks in that department, but it’s not up to par with his other traits.
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He got way more offensive skill. Byfield is probably a bit faster north/south but Fantilli is better east/south and more creative.
 
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Top 4 in this draft got me like:

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I'm even excited about #5 & #6.
 
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He’s getting better and better each game. Not only the 2 points, but he had a couple of nice setups that could have easily been goals before he was tossed.

Unfortunately he will be out for tomorrows game in Detroit on national tv. He has to just be smarter in situations and better maintain his cool, although in fairness to him both PSU and Wisconsin were playing on the edge against him the previous couple of weeks and he played through it. Tonight was probably even worse and he lost his cool a bit. Naurato was not happy with how MSU was playing and said so in the post game quotes.
 
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