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Draft Round 1 #23: New York Rangers Select RW Gabriel Perreault (Boston College, NCAA)

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GAGLine said:
Some players fall because they should. Some reaches aren't reaches.

If we had traded up to 16 to get Gabe, no one would have known we could have gotten him at 23, and everyone would be touting it as a brilliant move.
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Yeah, should we go down the list of all the "fallers" that resident "prospect experts" on here were creaming over but then didn't amount to crap after they were drafted? Never hear about them...

Watching the exhibition game, one thing I picked up was the commentator saying that Coach Brown mentioned Perreault gained 10 pounds over the off-season and came in more physically robust. Would like to see him take another step in his skating as he carries that weight.
 
Greg02 said:
Perreault comes in at number 7 on ESPN's top prospects outside the NHL list.
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www.espn.com

Who are the top players outside the NHL? Ranking the top 50 prospects

No. 1-ranked player Ivan Demidov -- the fifth overall pick this summer -- was an easy choice, with lots of debate thereafter.
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Greg02 said:
Perreault comes in at number 7 on ESPN's top prospects outside the NHL list.
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wolfgaze said:
www.espn.com

Who are the top players outside the NHL? Ranking the top 50 prospects

No. 1-ranked player Ivan Demidov -- the fifth overall pick this summer -- was an easy choice, with lots of debate thereafter.
www.espn.com www.espn.com

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lol this is completely off. he's a pure vision playmaker with secondary goal scoring chops
 
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noncents said:
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lol this is completely off. he's a pure vision playmaker with secondary goal scoring chops
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Yeah he's more of a playmaker but he gets enough shots to keep goaltenders honest which you need to do to max out your production. Panarin at times has laid off getting shots and his production goes down when that happens because opponents start reading him to pass. Last season and so far this season hasn't been that way though.

Perreault is also sneaky as f*** when he doesn't have the puck. He has a knack for finding soft spots in dangerous scoring areas and is great at disappearing to reappear for timing plays. His hockey IQ reminds me a lot of both Fox and Panarin. They're puck magnets on the one hand but they always seem to know where everyone (both teammates and opponents) are and the read and react puck skills are almost always both precise and instantaneous.
 
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eco's bones said:
Yeah he's more of a playmaker but he gets enough shots to keep goaltenders honest which you need to do to max out your production. Panarin at times has laid off getting shots and his production goes down when that happens because opponents start reading him to pass. Last season and so far this season hasn't been that way though.

Perreault is also sneaky as f*** when he doesn't have the puck. He has a knack for finding soft spots in dangerous scoring areas and is great at disappearing to reappear for timing plays. His hockey IQ reminds me a lot of both Fox and Panarin. They're puck magnets on the one hand but they always seem to know where everyone (both teammates and opponents) are and the read and react puck skills are almost always both precise and instantaneous.
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Oh absolutely, not denying he doesn't have a deceptively good shot, but i was just surprised they focused on that to discus him haha.
 
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The Crypto Guy said:
Oh absolutely, not denying he doesn't have a deceptively good shot, but i was just surprised they focused on that to discus him haha.
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Sometimes you have to wonder what all these people who have the platforms to speak about these things are seeing. There are lots of teams and prospects to cover but you should at least get the best prospects kind of right.
 
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Prospects board mostly doesn't have him as top half of the first round because he's too small and too slow. Meanwhile that board worships Mitchkov. (Not saying GP is as good as Michkov but he's not exactly Chris Kreider in terms of size and speed either).
 
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This kid is a beauty… I’m still in awe that he fell to our pick and we didn’t screw the pooch….
This had shades of McIlrath over Tarashenko written all over it but someone over there, an adult said woah, slow down. We got this.

You can tell a kid will score in the bigs by how relentless he is to score. That’s the kind of thing you either have or you don’t.
The mind and vision have to be there, and you have to have enough chops/skill to execute it….. doesn’t matter if you’re smaller like st Louis/Panarin or a freight train like Lindros in his draft….. even a large guy like Malkin who isn’t as physical, but he’s got the goods….
This kid has the goods.
 
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SnowblindNYR said:
Prospects board mostly doesn't have him as top half of the first round because he's too small and too slow. Meanwhile that board worships Mitchkov. (Not saying GP is as good as Michkov but he's not exactly Chris Kreider in terms of size and speed either).
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I'm not sure Michkov is going to turn into a better player than Perreault. They're both fantastic talents though. I actually do think Gabriel could turn into a Panarin kind of player. What he did with USNTDP and for BC and at the WJC's last year. His skating has improved quite a bit and there is so much deception in almost everything he does. He's a point producing machine and my guess is Michkov might be more spectacular but Gabriel will make use of his linemates and teammates better.
 
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eco's bones said:
I'm not sure Michkov is going to turn into a better player than Perreault. They're both fantastic talents though. I actually do think Gabriel could turn into a Panarin kind of player. What he did with USNTDP and for BC and at the WJC's last year. His skating has improved quite a bit and there is so much deception in almost everything he does. He's a point producing machine and my guess is Michkov might be more spectacular but Gabriel will make use of his linemates and teammates better.
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Not a top 15 prospect in a redraft though. :rolleyes:
 
Oof, that's one of the worst scouting reports I've ever read. Perreault is the reason that there's a guy on each line who gets rewarded for quietly getting open.

I swear nobody in the media has even seen a highlight of him in years.
 
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Two on one, Leonard to Perreault back to Leonard for the goal with 53 seconds left to make it 3-2 BC.

Perreault forced a turnover after that, and Leonard scored on the empty net. I'm not sure if Gabe touched the puck or not.

Edit: The box score doesn't show him with an assist on the EN goal, but maybe they'll add it.
 
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