Most overhyped prospects in recent memory?

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Cody "best hockey player outside the NHL" Glass.


People got REALLY overhyped about a D+3 player wiping the floor with teenagers in the WHL

 

[FerrisRox]

Everybody in Montreal cheered for him because he’s the 1st physical and mean player (that can also play hockey) we get since I watch hockey , which is at least 20 years.

Has it already been twenty years since Shea Weber retired?

Time flies.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

M.Knies.

 

[Transplanted Caper]

Casey Mittelstadt is a good name, though hard to view that outside the vacuum of expectations around the Sabres after thinking what adding Eichel a couple years previously could do for them.

Even though fans were ticked at ownership and the whole situation around the time of the Stone trade, there was probably too much hype (thanks to the GM himself) put on Erik Brännström.

Cody Hodgson probably had too high expectations even though it was a bad back that really derailed him.

Tough to pick on specific players in a way. Everyone talks themselves into their own guys and now have ample chances to pick and choose their good moments to reinforce their views.

Would be fun to go back ten or twenty years and see some of the consensus 'untouchable' players the team boards had during deadline proposals.

 

[DaveG]

Jack Campbell, most hyped goaltender I can remember. Glad he managed to somewhat get his career back on track though

I'll one-up that one: Zach Fucale. The hype was crazy around him being the next great Quebec goalie, etc well before his draft year. Despite a monster WJC in his D+1 I just never saw the hype with the guy. OK junior stats, smaller frame, etc.

 

[Chainshot]

Almost miss the days of people hyping Jordan Schroeder and Louis Leblanc over Nazem Kadri.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Hindsight is 20/20 thread ??
Right now it's Michkov, at least in the Michkov thread on HF anyhow. You know who else put up between .8 and .9 pts/gm as 19 yr olds in the KHL? Filatov and Yakupov. So did Kaprizov and Kuznetsov, which you'll see referenced often but not the first 2. Wonder why?
There's literally a poster in that thread trying to explain why his .85 pts/gm in the khl are more impressive than Bedard's .85 in the nhl. Because reasons i guess? That's also a comparison between 2 players that meant something 3 years ago and doesn't mean shit until Michkov plays in the nhl.
Maybe he's Kaprizov, maybe he's Filatov. Who knows, but his own khl team thinks so highly of him that they loaned him to a different khl team. Because reasons i guess?

Yakupov was older than Michkov, scored at lower PPG in fewer games. Oh and he scored 31 points in 48 games in the NHL as 19 year old that season. If he had the season like this now he would have been behind Bedard only as the best rookie. And NHL had just 20 PPG+ players that season not half the league as it's now. One season wonder...

As to Filatov it was his D+2 season, and he was 7 months older than Michkov.

 

[WarriorofTime]

There was once a considered a debate between Adam Fantilli and Charlie Stramel once late 04s.

 

[93LEAFS]

He's still a decent and useful player, but Lafreniere. People were throwing around best prospect since McDavid, better than Matthews, Dahlin, Hughes, MacKinnon, and Eichel after his WJC. He simply never had the dynamic skill sets those guys had. Can he still be a useful top line player? Yeah. But, he's not really elite at any one thing.

He was supposed to walk into the league and comfortably be a top line winger. 4 years in, he still isn't that. Maybe he makes a big jump soon.

If we want to go back over 10 years, obviously names like Yakupov, Ryan Murray, etc.

I'm gonna avoid saying Nolan Patrick since while hyped, hard to separate what went wrong from a long string of injuries.

 

[93LEAFS]

Horrendous take on Laf. He was the best Q player since Crosby. He'd go top 2 in almost every draft year, including potentially this year.

MacKinnon was a better prospect than Laf. Just had way better raw tools (his skating/strength combo) and played a more important position.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

How about Trevor Kidd, guy was so hyped up in Canada as the next great goalie that Calgary traded up to get him instead of drafting Martin Brodeur.

 

[93LEAFS]

How about Trevor Kidd, guy was so hyped up in Canada as the next great goalie that Calgary traded up to get him instead of drafting Martin Brodeur.

Might as well just go Daigle if we are going down this path. I wouldn't say the 1990 Draft is recent memory. I guess Jagr is still active, but pretty much everyone from that draft has been retired for like a decade, and most of the NHL was born after that draft.

 

[Brodeur]

How about Trevor Kidd, guy was so hyped up in Canada as the next great goalie that Calgary traded up to get him instead of drafting Martin Brodeur.

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Felt bad for Kidd, he got off to a hot start in 1999 and got injured doing rapid fire skill comp demonstration.

SUNRISE, Fla., Dec. 13 -- Florida Panthers goaltender Trevor Kidd, off to the best start of his career, will be out a minimum of two months after dislocating his right shoulder in a skills competition Monday.

Kidd is 13-4-2 with a 2.03 goals-against average and .932 save percentage. He ranks second in the NHL in save percentage, fourth in wins and fourth in goals-against.

When he came back he wasn't the same. Then the Panthers got a young Roberto Luongo after the season.

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From the same era, Jamie Storr was perpetually on the cusp for years. Although he was beset with various injuries as well.

Early 90's would have been a weird time to scout goalies. Last of the standup style goalies before the butterfly took over by the end of the decade. It's interesting watching highlights and how a guy like Sean Burke reinvented himself over time.

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Might as well just go Daigle if we are going down this path. I wouldn't say the 1990 Draft is recent memory. I guess Jagr is still active, but pretty much everyone from that draft has been retired for like a decade, and most of the NHL was born after that draft.

I guess, it sure doesn't feel like it was that long ago but I'm old.

 

[EdmFlyersfan]

I do. I was a kid when it happened but the fact that I even recall some random dman from Philly being the next big thing means that he probably was given a fair amount of attention

Janne Niiniimaa had was more hype than Sanheim...I remember him being compared to Lidstrom.

 

[HarrySPlinkett]

Max Comtois. This is specific to TSN and the WJC's but man, they loved them some Max Comtois.

Who among us doesn’t like to Comtois?

 

[Albatros]

Janne Niiniimaa had was more hype than Sanheim...I remember him being compared to Lidstrom.

Niinimaa was a 2nd round pick that ended up being the fourth best defenseman in that draft, wouldn't call him overhyped.

 

[MTU34]

There was once a considered a debate between Adam Fantilli and Charlie Stramel once late 04s.

And then there’s the one guy that still thinks it’s a debate

 

[Mobiandi]

The Brannstrom hype was outrageous. Ditto for Krebs

 

[viceroy]

Also, Cody Glass.

Thank god he was overrated. That's why Vegas wouldn't trade him to MTL and we had to "settle" for Nick Suzuki.

Niinimaa was a 2nd round pick that ended up being the fourth best defenseman in that draft, wouldn't call him overhyped.

Never in a million years did I ever think I'd see some dude go to bat for Janne Niinimaa.

 

[Giant Panda]

Is anyone going to tell him Mitts is providing top 6 production and is not close to Poehling?

Would've been pretty close had Poehling not had his mental health issues.

 

[Leafshater67]

Nobody thinks Xhekaj is a star. He’s a solid bottom pairing guy and legit heavyweight (for the modern era) that plays a fan friendly style. We all know he’s not a 1D or will ever be one and that’s fine.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Nikita Filatov was ranked over Steven Stamkos by some magazines

 

[Turin]

Good call on Soderblom.

I'll say Patrik Laine was quite overhyped and was claimed to be the heir apparent to Ovechkin. They play nothing alike and for some reason Laine has peaked at age 19. I hope he gets back on track when he returns to the NHL.

Laine deserved the hype, his shot was the best in the league from distance immediately as a teenager. Problem is he didn't improve his game w/ experience and his physical skills actually got worse because of injuries.

 

[Albatros]

Never in a million years did I ever think I'd see some dude go to bat for Janne Niinimaa.

Just because he was a non-factor in Montréal in his 30s doesn't make him a bad prospect. He had a good NHL career in Philadelphia and Edmonton as a solid top-pairing defenseman, arguably top 10 in the league at his best.