Do you think Demidov is a better prospect than Sennecke, Lindstrom, and Levshunov?
NHL players again, are paid to PLAY hockey, they are not paid to evaluate hockey talent.
If you don't have any opinions of your own, that's okay to admit.
How the f*** can you draw an equivalency between the fact that one team valued a junior aged player over another and a consensus of NHL players voting Crosby? Do you understand what a consensus means? If the draft order was different, the selections could have been different.
You are trying to bait me into saying Demidov, as if it will somehow prove that ridiculous point you are trying to make. If you wanted to use the draft as your point, the closest thing would have been to share Bob's pre-draft ranking, which is as close to a consensus as we can get. Ironically, Demidov was number #2 on his list which is a bigger evaluation group then just one team.
I will answer your question for fun, even though it proves jack shit.....
My pre-draft ranking was
1. Celebrini
2. Dickinson
3. Levshunov
4. Demidov
5. Lindstrom
But.....I know nothing and don't pretend to. Are you 12 years old?
If I bump into an NHL player at a local bar and ask him who the best forwards in the NHL are, and then decide to debate his opinion as if I have a smarter opinion, I would look like a big f***ing idiot.
If a consensus if NHL players are voting Crosby as a top 10 forward in the NHL, then it has some credibility. Is it gospel? no. But it certainly means a hell of a lot more than anyone of us.
Get off your high horse man. None of us in here (except for maybe a handful of us) are just fans. We have opinions, we share our opinions, we discuss our opinions, but ultimately, we have no knowledge compared to the players who play the game every single day.
If you want to believe otherwise, then that's your prerogative.