If anyone needed more proof that the guy has a hard time evaluating talent.
McLeod a superstar, I mean c'mon. Guy gave Jan Bulis vibes.
In McCagg's defence, I do not recall him ever claiming that McLeod was going to be a "superstar" despite him really liking McLeod and every person in the history of "scouting" has made very poor choices in hindsight. I have been guilty of defending an opinion that is being attacked from a position of ignorance and therefore doubling down unnecessarily on something from which I probably did not have a strong initial conviction. This is the nature of public message boards and I try and restrain myself to varying degrees of success but it is not difficult to get pushed into a corner where you are steel manning and argument that you don't actually feel strongly about when confronted with fallacy ridden attacks which do accidentally end up being correct from time to time despite the broken process that was used to get there.
I certainly am not a fan of Grant's work but berating someone for a missed pick is selective criticism when the real way that you determine whether a scout has talent is to judge their process and their opinions on aspects of a player's game. I find Grant to have little more than the average fan's understanding of skating, puck-handling, shooting mechanics as well as an obsolete/antiquated view of the way the the game is actually played. He doesn't see these player's live and for the few that he does see live he doesn't see enough of them. Grant is little more than a super fan trying to make some money doing something that he loves. His demeanour and overall disposition are gross at times and his interviews are nothing short of cringe inducing horror shows so I have very little use for anything that he says or does.
Oddly enough he might not actually be as terrible a scout as I have been repeating around here. This is not to say that my opinion on his talent has changed as it definitely has not. But.....if he was given a position I think he would be passionate and driven and he would stand up for what he believes in and challenge other scouts in the room and that is never a bad thing imo. He might be the worst talent in the room but he might inspire other scouts to go out on a limb a little more for their guy and the group as a whole might improve even if you are lowering the average IQ in the room lol.
If there is an award for the most back handed compliment of the year on this board, I may have just locked that one up with this post.
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