He's a freak, a unicorn. He's no kk. I don't know why so many hab fans got obsessed with wright without even watching any video of the other prospects. If you get so invested in someone you gotta be looking at more than just their elite prospect page, it only tells a sliver of the entire story.
NHL scouts have been high on slaf all year. Many according to the black book had him at one over wright all the way back in January. This wasn't just some random late surge. Takes time for the media to catch up to the scouting world when a new challenger appears.
I'm more then confident he will be far better then k.K, his skating, stride and strength are far superior, I won't even go into his shot.
As for habs fans, I'd go easy on them, like any other teams fans they want the best for their team and sure as heck we do need that elusive number one centre and there was a guy who looked like he was a sure thing for a few years so when you get the first overall it seems like he's a fairly obvious choice and it's natural to defend that player you think the team is picking.
It is hardly a Habs fan thing, you would have got the same thing out of any teams fan base.
anyway, enough of that, I'm happy with our pick at 1, I agree with you he should turn out really well, I am more concerned about the Dach move but I am hopeful, we rolled the dice there but it shows what kind of team we are trying to build and sometimes you have to roll the dice to make it happen.