HockeyProspect.com Top 32 for 2025 Draft - November 25th 2024

[JeromeHP]

I like seeing Carbonneau this high, have been keeping tabs on him for awhile.

Two questions for @Mark Edwards and @JeromeHP --

1) Since you guys were high on Lindstrom last year, why are you not similarly as high on McQueen?

2) What do you think of Carbonneau's teammate, Mateo Nobert?

1- We saw Lindstrom with a better goal-scoring potential than McQueen and Lindstrom played a more mean physical game than McQueen. I am looking forward to seeing McQueen back in action, there are many unanswered questions about him at this point with the low viewings we have of him this season.

2- I have watched him with Carbonneau but I didn't see a guy who I should focus on for this list. He didn't have a good season last year but he's doing much better so far. I'll focus on him a lot more in the 2nd half of the season. This first list is like a race, you're trying to see as many players as possible before the November list and you can miss some guys. I saw him as something similar to Alexandre Blais of Rimouski (Anaheim 4th rounder last June) but I'm not sure yet if I like him better than Blais. Probably a better version than Desruisseaux of Chicoutimi who went undrafted last season.

 

[ConnorMcMullet]

Totally agree, but my thoughts are if you are going to have players ridiculously high to the point that it is a hot take, you better hit on those IMHO.

So every list that differs from the consensus must be better than it?

The fact that HP’s lists typically stray further from the consensus than other outlets is a testament to the work they do themselves. Most lists online regurgitate the same takes. GM’s lists likely look a lot more like HP’s, and vary a lot more than most fans would expect.

I’m a little surprised by @Pavel Buchnevich’s comments, you’re someone who puts in the work yourself and I’d say your lists are usually full of what would be considered hot takes. I respect your opinions because I know they are based on your own evaluations and not whatever is already out there. HP deserves the same respect IMO, especially since their lists have aged comparatively well more often than not.

 

[S E P H]

So every list that differs from the consensus must be better than it?

The fact that HP’s lists typically stray further from the consensus than other outlets is a testament to the work they do themselves. Most lists online regurgitate the same takes. GM’s lists likely look a lot more like HP’s, and vary a lot more than most fans would expect.

I’m a little surprised by @Pavel Buchnevich’s comments, you’re someone who puts in the work yourself and I’d say your lists are usually full of what would be considered hot takes. I respect your opinions because I know they are based on your own evaluations and not whatever is already out there. HP deserves the same respect IMO, especially since their lists have aged comparatively well more often than not.

I subject myself to the same opinions and yes I have absolutely whiffed on some of my hot takes as well. Serron Noel was probably my worst, I saw a powerforward there and he turned up to be an ECHL dud, the injuries didn't help though.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I was being sarcastic if you couldnt pick up on it. Kinda ironic coming from someone who literally only posts in NCAA player's threads lol.

The first people to move off of Wright being 1st in his draft year were probably being totally ridiculous too!

Didnt you see he out produced a 16 year old McDavid and crushed the U18s????

I'll forever laugh at people trying to gatekeep other people's opinions and not following the "consensus".

Hagens is second in the NCAA in assists as like the second youngest player in the league. How is he having a season comparable to Shane Wright?

 

[Wheatens]

Hagens is second in the NCAA in assists as like the second youngest player in the league. How is he having a season comparable to Shane Wright?

Huh? He is not comparing Wright's season to Hagens' season or anything like that. Just a recent example of the consensus #1 player coming into his draft year, losing that ranking to a different player during their draft year and how the earliest people to make that call were perhaps derided for their opinion. Whether that opinion is right or wrong, who knows?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Huh? He is not comparing Wright's season to Hagens' season or anything like that. Just a recent example of the consensus #1 player coming into his draft year, losing that ranking to a different player during their draft year and how the earliest people to make that call were perhaps derided for their opinion.

Maybe let him speak for himself on what he meant because there's no reason to bring up an example of Wright in a discussion about Hagens.

You can say that other players might overtake him without trying to use a drastic example of a player who is seen as having lost the 1OA by having a weak draft season.