Satanphonehome
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We don’t, for example, have s Stutzle level of talent.
The world juniors threads seem to get buried with agendas fueled by personal pre-draft rankings, favourite team biases, and nationalism.
Quinton Byfield was picked ahead of Stutzle, so at least one NHL team thinks we probably do.
Byrum was a 4th overall pick, Drysdale a 6th, Cozens a 7th, so those guys are reasonably in the ball park. McMichael outscored Stutzle last year. I saw Perfetti ranked close to him in several pre-draft lists.
You can reasonably believe Stutzle is better than all of them. But objectively, he hasn’t shown himself to be on another level.