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Jack Hughes or Alexis Lafreniere?

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Who’s the better prospect?

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Hughes because of skating. No way IMO the best player in the world will be anyone without exceptionally high-end skating going forward....
 
a canuck member who was able to catch the showdown games live, thinks if Hughes was 6'0, he be comparable to Connor McDavid, now he might be over is head, because he wasn't there to scout jack, more of watching Quinton Hughes, but that's the word around jack Hughes, and that's what he noticed. Dude is just a dynamic beast. skating along with puck handling skills at high speed is un matched, and probably unmatched by anyone at the 2019 draft.
 
TwoPiece said:
You know that Lafreniere isn't draft-eligible until 2020, right? And that U18 statistics aren't a universal measurement to how good a player or prospect is?

Just wanna make sure.
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Being 2020 eligible doesnt matter right now. Both are born in 2001 which means they have played the exact same years of hockey in their lives.
 
What I meant when I said Hughes is the closest thing we have seen to McDavid was more about their style and speed, not stats (although Hughes stats are really really good). Hughes has that same game breaking skating ability as McDavid.
 
Lunazaia Nox Fleuret said:
Big Québécois center with a scoring touch playing for the Rimouski Océaniques? :sarcasm:

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Ohh I can't wait for RDS's boner on this one
 
I have so far been more impresse by Hughes of what i have seen. Hughes seems to be a difference maker in almost every shift, while Lafreniere can be more "invisible" for longer stretches but still show up and score a goal. But i have limited viewing and Lafreniere is younger. But as of now i would go with Hughes.
 
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lawrence said:
a canuck member who was able to catch the showdown games live, thinks if Hughes was 6'0, he be comparable to Connor McDavid, now he might be over is head, because he wasn't there to scout jack, more of watching Quinton Hughes, but that's the word around jack Hughes, and that's what he noticed. Dude is just a dynamic beast. skating along with puck handling skills at high speed is un matched, and probably unmatched by anyone at the 2019 draft.
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McDavid vs Q. Hughes is going to be a real fun matchup going forward.
 
lawrence said:
a canuck member who was able to catch the showdown games live, thinks if Hughes was 6'0, he be comparable to Connor McDavid, now he might be over is head, because he wasn't there to scout jack, more of watching Quinton Hughes, but that's the word around jack Hughes, and that's what he noticed. Dude is just a dynamic beast. skating along with puck handling skills at high speed is un matched, and probably unmatched by anyone at the 2019 draft.
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So he’s better than Mcdavid?
 
Who’s better overall? Lafreniere

Who will have more value? Hughes(due to positional value)

Who will teams want more? Probably Lafreniere as he’s younger and currently a better overall prospect
 
firstemperor said:
Hughes is clearly better but Lafreniere projects better to me with his stature. I think you can get away being a somewhat undersized center (stature wise) like Crosby....but we're talking a generational level talent with incredible lower body strength. Tough to tell how Hughes will fare at the next level in that regard.

Either way, I'd take Hughes without much of a second thought right now.
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I agree with this. Hughes as a junior hockey player probably equals McDavid, considering the way Junior Hockey is played. But there are questions about how he projects to the NHL. There aren't questions there about Lafreniere. I still agree with you that Hughes is the better prospect. But I think Hughes is currently better compared to his competition than he'll be compared to them in the NHL where its a different style of play.
 
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Lunazaia Nox Fleuret said:
Big Québécois center with a scoring touch playing for the Rimouski Océaniques? :sarcasm:

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Lafrenière is a winger.

Anyways, I would say he is the best prospect in the Q not named Crosby since Lecavalier...

To put things in perspective, he scored 11 more goals than Mackinnon in 2 more games as a 16 y old.

Impressive to say the least.
 
SantaClaus said:
What would be a fair player comparison for Lafrenière ?
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Just for style of play as a LW, maybe a better skating, worst shooting L. Robitaille?

Not saying he he going to be a HOFamer or that he will score 196 pts in his 3rd year in the Q! ... but i can can a similarity in the playing style.
 
jj cale said:
Does anyone out there think Hughes is as good a prospect as Mcdavid was at that age?
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I watched both McDavid and Hughes live quite often during their time in the OHL and NTDP, respectively. While Hughes is a terrific prospect, McDavid was on a different level. He's the best player I've seen at the junior level in a long time.
 
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Michoulicious said:
To put things in perspective, he scored 11 more goals than Mackinnon in 2 more games as a 16 y old.
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And Jack Hughes as a 16-year-old at USDP u-18 team scored over twice as many points and goals as Auston Matthews.

But of course, Nathan MacKinnon was so much better a prospect than Auston Matthews... wait.
 
ijuka said:
And Jack Hughes as a 16-year-old at USDP u-18 team scored over twice as many points and goals as Auston Matthews.

But of course, Nathan MacKinnon was so much better a prospect than Auston Matthews... wait.
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Jack Hugues is also a terrific prospect. I'm not sure who will be the better player between him and Lafrenière... Hard to predict. Both have the potential to be franchise players.

I however fail to understand what you want to imply with your Matthews comment.
 
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Michoulicious said:
I however fail to understand what you want to imply with your Matthews comment.
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What I want to imply?

Jack Hughes, amazing scoring internationally(much better than Lafreniere), Jack Hughes, amazing scoring in his league(Matthews used as a comparable, should I have used Eichel instead?).

What I don't understand is how despite all the stats I point towards, people do not accept that Hughes is vastly outperforming Lafreniere. Whatever comparables you want to use, it always comes down to Hughes being far above Lafreniere, no matter what you want to look at.

Even so, we'll have "yeah but what does scoring matter" "yeah but what does skating matter" and all the cop outs one can imagine. Lafreniere just isn't even close to being as good as Hughes at this point in time and absolutely nothing backs that opinion up.

And THEN we arrive at the winger vs center argument. But it's not even needed. Lafreniere has abosolutely nothing tangible on Hughes.
 
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