Shock. Semin being underrated.
He easily makes top 5-7 on any draft list from this year, from what he's shown so far. Period. He has that much talent.
The only knock that was on him coming into this draft was his size. Which it still is a question, has not shown to hurt him so far.
And as for the Orpik debate, he's certainly not of Adam Foote quality. Foote at least has some resemblance of a potential offensive game. And yes, Orpik is physical, and played decently on an awful team, but that doesn't make him exceptional. The other interesting comment was his no history of injury problems, while I'm not sure of the stats so far, the type of game he plays is not going to lean itself towards him being completely healthy. I hope he stays healthy, but odds are good he'll at least get banged up here or there.
And we won't even go into the Ryan Whitney situation. While he should eventually be a great player, he has shown zero at the NHL level. His game "should" translate to the NHL exceptionally, but it hasn't yet. For that reason, he should still have some questions. I hope he can kill the mistakes that he made early, and might still make. He's still a project that's 2 years from reaching the potential some of you talk about. Even then, young defenseman sometimes struggle.