Anyone got an update on Lindstrom’s back?
Any sort of core injury is crippling in hockey.
After living through Ryan Ellis and Nolan Patrick I’m extremely weary of any injury issues
I asked several scouts and nobody was concerned. They were hearing medical reports were clean. I investigated that the best I could before keeping him at #2.
Interesting list. Surprised that neither Emery or Elick made the list, and that there are only ten D in the top 32. I would imagine that will make for the quite the run on D early on in the 2nd round.
A lot of scouts don't even have Emery ahead of Skahan.
Question for Mark, you said in the fall might be one of the worst years for the OHL. Do you still feel that way?
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I had planned to talk about this prior to the draft. My answer is a big NO!
It stayed weak in the QMJHL and it was the weakest NTDP for draft prospects in years but the OHL prospects made huge strides since I said that last fall.
I didn't expect players like Luchanko, Beaudoin, Vanacker and O'Reilly to climb as much as they did. We have a bunch more as our list continues on outside of our top 32.
I can't remember a season where so many OHL players improved so much. It was a big talking point with NHL scouts this year. OHL based scouts were a bit down in the dumps in the fall...it's a long season for the NHL team scouts who don't leave Ontario when it's a weak class in their area. I was a happy camper and so were the NHL area guys.
Some teams allowed the QMJHL scouts to come to Ontario this year because the Q was so weak.