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RD Zayne Parekh - Saginaw Spirit, OHL (2024, 9th, CGY)

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His splits by month are hilarious.
October: 1.20 point per game
November: 1.70 point per game
December: 1.22 point per game
January: 2.10 point per game

When he’s cold he’s one of the best offensive defenseman in the league, when he’s hot he outproduces the elite forwards.
 
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Yepthatsme said:
Just casually took the CHL scoring lead for defenseman while doing it too. It’s at the point where I caught myself being slightly disappointed he only got 2 points.
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@Yepthatsme, in a 10-7 win against Guelph he put one between the pipes and a couple dimes, we’ll take the 3 pts kids looking like he should.
GP-45 G-25 A-46 Pts-71 The 100 pt mark is going down to the wire with 15 or 16 games left, to lazy to check
 
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Between late last seasons and early on this on this one his goal scoring was somewhat on a downtrend
glad he pick it back-up. He's a true menace out there.
All those Saginaw games finishing 12 to 8 had me wondering about his defensive but the scoresheet sure look nice!
 
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Feels like we got a top 3 talent at 9. I was initially disappointed Tij Iginla didn't fall to us, but this guy is looking like exactly what the organization needs.

I mentioned it in the Flames forum, but one thing he has above his ridiculous skills is that he actually wants to be the face of the organization. He sees himself as becoming a franchise-defining offensive defenseman. He actually had the work ethic and smarts to finish high school early so he could focus on hockey. He is an absolute gamer and we are thrilled to have him in our pipeline.
 
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He reminds me more-so of Erik Karlsson. He's just so smart and skilled. I had him ranked as my #3 defenseman at the time of the draft. The only defenseman I like more than him in his draft class now is Zeev. I hope he gets to 40 goals this season. That'd be an insane accomplishment
 
Slurpeelover27 said:
He looks like he has the potential to be the next Hughes/Makar. Skates like Hughes and shoots like Makar with sublime stickhandling. Hughes was not great at all on defense when he first stepped into the NHL but figured things out over his first few years. Hopefully, Zayne can join the big club next fall and have a similar trajectory.
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He’ll more likely be the next DeAngelo.

People don’t realize that there’s like one of those players you name per draft. Sometimes even less. Every player gets the best possible comparison, and usually it’s unrealistic (as it is here).
 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
He’ll more likely be the next DeAngelo.

People don’t realize that there’s like one of those players you name per draft. Sometimes even less. Every player gets the best possible comparison, and usually it’s unrealistic (as it is here).
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that's why they said potential.

and it's much more likely that he is way better than DeAngelo.
 
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Agent Zuuuub said:
that's why they said potential.

and it's much more likely that he is way better than DeAngelo.
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DeAngelo is a career .56 PPG player. That's 24th in the league amongst active defensemen for their careers.

I don't know why DeAngelo is viewed as some bad outcome. There's like 2 defensemen per draft that score as much or more than DeAngelo.

There's a chance Parekh could be better. You'd like to think it's possible for the 9th overall pick to be the best player out of a draft or at least top 2-3, but I don't think it's even a median outcome for a 9th overall pick to be better than DeAngelo.
 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
DeAngelo is a career .56 PPG player. That's 24th in the league amongst active defensemen for their careers.

I don't know why DeAngelo is viewed as some bad outcome. There's like 2 defensemen per draft that score as much or more than DeAngelo.

There's a chance Parekh could be better. You'd like to think it's possible for the 9th overall pick to be the best player out of a draft or at least top 2-3, but I don't think it's even a median outcome for a 9th overall pick to be better than DeAngelo.
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its not about where they were picked though. it's about talent level, Zayne is a much better shooter, better vision, bigger, and has arguably been the best CHL player in the last two years.

Parekh could have been drafted in the 2nd round and it would still be a disappointment if he ended up only as good as DeAngelo. He would still be a good player but considering the level he has shown so far it would be a disappointment.
 
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Tony DeAngelo? :laugh:
Funny stuff guys.

Still find it ridiculous Zayne might have b2b 30G seasons and possibly eclipse 100pts in a season as a junior defenseman and his only options next year as a skinny teenage blueliner are back to the OHL or against the monsters in the NHL.
 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
He’ll more likely be the next DeAngelo.

People don’t realize that there’s like one of those players you name per draft. Sometimes even less. Every player gets the best possible comparison, and usually it’s unrealistic (as it is here).
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It's not just about the hype and the raw stats (point totals). It is the eye test that shows he has the high end offensive skills that not everyone can attain no matter how hard they work at it. When I first saw Cale Makar after he was drafted I knew then he could be the best offensive dman ever to play the game. His skillset was off the charts. In many ways I see that high of a potential in Parekh. He can't skate as well in terms of power and speed, but his style is more shifty like Hughes. His attack is a hybrid between Hughes/Makar and sky is the limit.

Hughes got walked regularly in his second year as a pro and Makar took 2 full years before he turned pro as he needed to gain strength and also work on his defensive game. I think Zayne can be strong enough in the fall to compete in the NHL and also should be allowed to make mistakes as he goes. Like I said, Hughes was extremely poor defensively when he first started and his shot was a muffin too. Not everyone needs to take the same path and I see little point in him playing another year in the CHL.

Of course you could be right about DeAngelo, but I would bet big money that he will be much much more than that.
 
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