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Most overhyped prospects in recent memory?

It's got to be Connor Bedard and it's not even close. The generational tag was all over the place for him.

After 2 years in the NHL, he is no where close to being generational... I think it's pretty obvious by now.

Bedard is an undersized, one dimensional winger disguised as a center. He has a good shot, but is kind of slow for his diminutive size. His hockey sense is very questionable after witnessing some of the bonehead plays he does pretty often. It's like if he's still playing a junior game.

His faceoffs skills are terrible and is pretty abyssal defensively, which causes him to start trying to chase the puck after a whistle more often than not.

Hopefully for him, a coach will have the courage to put him at his place aka the wing. If he still plays at center, I don't see any success in the future for him.
 
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Erika said:
It's got to be Connor Bedard and it's not even close. The generational tag was all over the place for him.

After 2 years in the NHL, he is no where close to being generational... I think it's pretty obvious by now.

Bedard is an undersized, one dimensional winger disguised as a center. He has a good shot, but is kind of slow for his diminutive size. His hockey sense is very questionable after witnessing some of the bonehead plays he does pretty often. It's like if he's still playing a junior game.

His faceoffs skills are terrible and is pretty abyssal defensively, which causes him to start trying to chase the puck after a whistle more often than not.

Hopefully for him, a coach will have the courage to put him at his place aka the wing. If he still plays at center, I don't see any success in the future for him.
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I was getting roasted hard for those observations on him pre draft.

Dude needs coaching. He needs to have a ton of pressure taken off him so he can develop. He needs to work on his shiftiness and his play through the gaps.

The Bedard we see is a rushed development based on overhype. He could've ended up as the next Tavares (but as a winger) or as an elite winger but people believed him to be something he wasn't.

Hype destroyed his ceiling.
 
the guy the oilers took at 4th. Matthews, Laine and Pizza boy were the big three. There were gasps when the BJS passed on him and the oilers pounced like a cat on a rat. The Finnish BJS GM clearly knew one thing and nothing else
 
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I was getting roasted hard for those observations on him pre draft.

Dude needs coaching. He needs to have a ton of pressure taken off him so he can develop. He needs to work on his shiftiness and his play through the gaps.

The Bedard we see is a rushed development based on overhype. He could've ended up as the next Tavares (but as a winger) or as an elite winger but people believed him to be something he wasn't.

Hype destroyed his ceiling.
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They also are giving him no support essentially. Even Tavares had guys like Okposo, Bailey and a few others who basically came along a couple of years before him and gave him something to work with. Bedard is playing with next to nothing which is just destroying his development. Chicago needs to just load up on a few quality skilled vets as support for him and take some pressure off.
 
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Aaron Kiviharju and Brad Lambert of Finns. Also Aatu Räty despite that i believe he will be a solid NHLer. So pretty much every Finn with a high expected pick lately if you throw in Kakko and Kemell..

Plus Topi Niemelä but of course because he is a Leafs prospect
 
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Michkov. Heard incessantly from a few obnoxious loudmouths on here before the season started that he was generational and was going to put up anywhere from a point per game to 100+ points this year. Meanwhile, he couldn’t outscore Hutson and isn’t even a finalist for the Calder. Now, there’s an active thread where the same crazies from before are comparing him to McDavid and saying he has “multiple Art Ross potential”. Absolute insanity 😂
 
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Aaron Kiviharju and Brad Lambert of Finns. Also Aatu Räty despite that i believe he will be a solid NHLer. So pretty much every Finn with a high expected pick lately if you throw in Kakko and Kemell..

Plus Topi Niemelä but of course because he is a Leafs prospect
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Disagree on Kakko. Got pretty mishandled as well. Lambert is a high risk. But yeah, Kemell seems to become another Teemu Pulkkinen even if he should have been a better skater and more skilled. Preds are pretty shit developing forwards. Also we have franchises like Jets... I mean, can a finn survive there after Selännes days? Heinola sure wasn't overhyped. The potential was really there and obvious.
Aatu Räty always lacked in the skating department and severely with no explosiveness nor intensity. But he will become a NHLer and a decent one. Also, Kiviharju and Aatu Räty dropped in the end, can you really call them overhyped afterwards? Kemell on the other hand...
 
Collberg was pretty overhyped once. Filatov. I mean by now you can call Jiricek overhyped but I always say big potential in him... I mean hasn't some Devils fans written that Casey is better than Nemec already? Making Nemec overhyped perhaps?
Bärtschi? Murphy? Siemens. Griffin Reinhart. Morin. Dal Colle. Senyshyn. Lias Andersson. Cal Foote. Turcotte. Podkolzin. Owen Power, he is so bad imho. Can't even defend. Savoie.

Kupari was overhyped, Vaakanainen, Jokiharju? Zboril? Zadina, Mesar? Kylington? Liljegren? Victor Söderström?
Sweden produce a whole lot of great D's but they have plenty of overhyped ones during their prospect years as well.
 
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I feel like it's kind of inevitable when it looks like there's a great draft class. It'll be hard to hype anyone at the 2025 draft, but the supposedly loaded Gavin McKenna draft? Yeah, they're not all going to make it.
 
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Michkov. Heard incessantly from a few obnoxious loudmouths on here before the season started that he was generational and was going to put up anywhere from a point per game to 100+ points this year. Meanwhile, he couldn’t outscore Hutson and isn’t even a finalist for the Calder. Now, there’s an active thread where the same crazies from before are comparing him to McDavid and saying he has “multiple Art Ross potential”. Absolute insanity 😂
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Lol. Michkov was PPG+ after the 4 Nation, when he rested, was placed on the 1st line and played under coach who actually encouraged his offensive creativity. Michkov showed everything people expected from him, and especially his great IQ.

How can one call him overhyped?.. Ah yes, of course it's a Montreal fan.
 
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