Maybe he's trying to tank (heh) his value so Arizona doesn't pick him first
The best chance Wright has to avoid Arizona is by going 1st in the draft. The Yotes best odds will be for third overall.
Do you mean Jackson Dorrington at 77?My top 96 (no goalies):
1 Shane Wright
2 Matthew Savoie
3 Ivan Miroshnichenko
4 Juraj Slafkovsky
5 David Jiricek
6 Conor Geekie
7 Logan Cooley
8 Joakim Kemell
9 Danila Yurov
10 Brad Lambert
11 Ryan Chesley
12 Simon Nemec
13 Rutger McGroarty
14 Jonathan Lekkerimaki
15 Elias Salomonsson
16 Nathan Gaucher
17 Isaac Howard
18 Frank Nazar
19 Noah Ostlund
20 Tristan Luneau
21 Seamus Casey
22 Marco Kasper
23 Denton Mateychuk
24 Hunter Haight
25 Tucker Robertson
26 Noah Warren
27 Jack Hughes
28 Filip Mesar
29 Matthew Poitras
30 Ty Nelson
31 Mats Lindgren
32 Paul Ludwinski
33 Charlie Leddy
34 Rieger Lorenz
35 Liam Ohgren
36 Kevin Korchinski
37 Pavel Mintyukov
38 Simon Forsmark
39 Bryce McConnell-Barker
40 Liam Bichsel
41 Maddox Flemming
42 Cutter Gauthier
43 Danny Zhilkin
44 Devin Kaplan
45 Gleb Trikozov
46 Alexander Perevalov
47 Jozef Viliam Kmec
48 Julian Lutz
49 Vladimir Grudinin
50 Servac Petrovsky
51 lane Hutson
52 Calle Odelius
53 Jordan Dumais
54 Gavin Hayes
55 Jiri Kulich
56 Isiah George
57 Spencer Sova
58 Ruslan Gazizov
59 Artyom Duda
60 David Goyette
61 Jake Furlong
62 Sam Rinzel
63 Filip Bystedt
64 Matthew Seminoff
65 Maveric Lamoureux
66 Ryan Greene
67 Otto Salin
68 Jimmy Snuggerud
69 Owen Pickering
70 Antonin Verreault
71 Vinze z Rohrer
72 Cruz Lucius
73 Liam Arnsby
74 Alexander Suzdalev
75 Pano Fimis
76 Jorian Donovan
77 Jackson Donovan
78 Hudson Thornton
79 Brandon Lisowsky
80 Tomas Hamara
81 Mike Mastrodomenico
82 Miko Matikka
83 Ludvig Persson
84 Arseni Koromyslov
85 Tyler Duke
86 Jagger Firkus
87 Luca Deb Bel Belluz
88 Cole Spicer
89 Kirill Kudryavtsov
90 Ryan Healey
91 Jani Nyman
92 Colton Smith
93 Owen Beck
94 Topi Ronni
95 Kasper Lundell
96 Jackson Edward
I think a lot of people would even put Jiricek top-5.My guess is Jiricek top 10 and I think Kulich moves up into late first round. Of course, I have a bias so keep that in mind!
Surprised that both Wright and Bedard are having “ok” seasons but neither seem to be separating from the pack as previously expected. Doesn’t look like either will be “generational”.
Wright
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Savoie
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Lambert
Jiricek
Yurov
Nemec
McGroarty
Lekkerimaki
Kemell
Cooley
Hutson
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Mintukyov
Slafkovsky
Geekie
Mateychuk
Bystedt
Dumais
Hughes
Howard
Mesar
Nazar
Duda
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Ohgren
Ostlund
Seminoff
Kasimaki
Ingram
Casey
Gazizov
Odelius
Nelson
Del Bel Belluz
Snuggerud
Hejduk
Guevin
Gustafson
Persson
Fenenko
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Firkus
Gajda
Greuter
Kessler
Kulonummi
Robertson
I am not surprised, but the WJC will be crucial for his draft stock.A bit surprised Miroshnichenko isn't in your top-45 to be honest. Interesting list otherwise.
Stopped by to see if the usual woes of North Americans with evaluating Russians are going away. Nope, they are here to stay. A bunch of awful takes. The real problem though is they will be again refected in the actual draft.
Let's make a list of usual NA failures when evaluating Russians:
1.Lack of actual scouting/information/insight on players playing in Russia. Most of it seems to follow some takes and hypes published by NA based experts who don't really know much about hockey in Russia and so they copypaste eachother's wild guesses. Prime examples last draft: Svechkov over Chibrikov and hype around Poltapov. This time around I see the exact same with Miroshnichenko over Yurov. And a hype around Trikozov. He seems to be this year's Poltapov.
2.Partially because of 1. overrating Russians playing in NA leagues. Example: Gazizov over Perevalov. Really?
3.The usual NA bias. I get the Savoie hype and it's a pity I won't get to see him at the WJC. I somewhat get the C preference, still I don't see particularily Wright(on Savoie I would need more input) ahead of guys like Yurov or Kemell. They are Canadians. That's all what makes them "better"? Also that much "better" that the aforementioned non-Canadian prospects end up outside the Top10 on many lists behind NA players who I hardly see on their level.
To be fair…that poster also said Michkov was tracking to be better than McDavid because McDavid played in a terrible junior league in North America and not in a strong professional league like in Russia. So take it for what it’s worth.found the guy who was long Docusign