I have not included any detailed comments here, I'll be saving those for posts leading up to my final list and to the draft itself. That said, if you are curious why I have some players ranked in the positions I do (at this time), ask away and I'll do my best to answer!
Top 30:
- Couturier
- Nugent-Hopkins
- Huberdeau
- Strome
- Larsson
- Landeskog
- Hamilton
- Ryan Murphy
- Bartschi
- Zibanejad
- Khokhlachev
- Grimaldi
- Phillips
- Armia
- Puempel
- Rattie
- Beaulieu
- Scheifele
- McNeil
- Morrow
- Oleksiak
- Miller
- Brodin
- Namestnikov
- Siemens
- Rask
- Prince
- St. Croix
- Klefbom
- Noesen
9 comments:
Good list overall. You math guys are really clinging to Coutourier at #1. I think there could be quite some movement in the 2-8 range and if the Oilers can sneak up and get a guy they like at 7 or 8 then I'd be real happy.
2 guys I can see moving up are Morrow and Oleksiak. McNeil at 19 would be great too.
Good list!
I'm so torn on the top two. I really like a lot about SC's game. Size, faceoff ability ect. But I'm always nervous about players from the Q. On the flip side I like a lot of what I'm hearing about RNH but at times I wonder if scouts like to hop on the bandwagon too. I doubted the Oil last year when they picked Hall but a year later and I am very comfortable with the pick. So what do I know!?!
I like SC at the top. I think people get dazzled at this time of year by hype. SC is a big, highly talented two-way player. He brings so much more to the table than the others. He is a complete player. I think in the long run he scores as much or more than RNH, as well as keeping more pucks out of his own net. That counts for something with me.
If trading to get two of the 6-8 spots would get us Landeskog and one of those D men, that would seem like a pretty solid plan.
I keep having this vision of Landeskog and Hartikainen flanking the toughest "third line" to play against in the league in a few years.
Wow, it looks like you, me and LT pimping SC. Its like being the guys crying in our beer while the party is going on. I'm not seeing many others pimping SC these days, I'm sure the RNH wagon is quite full now.
Interesting list as always speeds.
My first impression is that this list leans heavily on math, which is fine by me. Couturier at the top, Strome so high, Larsson so low - this list looks like one that might be genuinely predictive of long term NHL impact but maybe not so predictive of the actual order the names are called on draft day.
How long have you been doing these lists for, speeds? It would be fun to see how your record has been.
Showerhead:
I have been doing them since 2001, but I'm not sure ho far back I have records of my lists.
I have been planning to go back through them at some point and do a comparison, I think that will be a summer project.
Two posts that I am planning on getting out before the draft are:
- players I liked better than the conventional lists that turned out well, and
- the guys that did turn out that I didn't like as much at the time of their draft.
I can give you two examples off the top of my head of misranking players, I'll stay light on the details so I can write about them in the future posts, but I underranked Patrick Kane in 2007, he was #2 on my list in 2007. And I probably overrated (it's early, but i think it's fair to say, at this point anyways) Schroeder in 2009.
Definitely looking forward to those posts, speeds. So much so that I won't even ask who you had at #1 over Kane. (Oh, if Lupul hadn't scored against Calgary...)
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