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Originally Posted by 72off
hopefully between Boldy, Zegras, Dach, Krebs, Turcotte, Broberg, etc there are enough good players that the Canucks get someone useful at 10, and 40
Most of the rankings I've read say that it's clear Hughes-Kakko as 1a/1b, then a lot of arguing for the rest At midseason, Pronman had these buckets:
Special prospect: 2 (Hughes, Kakko)
Elite prospect: 4 (Cozens, Dach, Podkolzin, Zegras)
High end prospect: 7 (Boldy, Byram, Newhook, Turcotte, Broberg, Krebs, Robertson)
If anyone's interested, the Athletic mock draft goes:
1: NJ: Hughes
2: NYR: Kakko
3: CHI: Podkolzin
4: COL: Cozens
5: LAK: Byram
6: DET: Turcotte
7: BUF: Dach
8: EDM: Zegras
9: ANA: Krebs
10: VAN: Boldy
11: PHI: Caufield
12: MIN: Kaliyev
13: FLA: Harley
14: ARI: Lavoie
15: MON: Broberg
My preference in the #8 spot for Oilers is Boldy. He took on the role of shooter this year with the USNDTP and with McDavid/Nuge/Draisaitl, they have a bunch of quality centers who are more pass first (it seems crazy to describe a 50 goal scorer as pass first, but Draisaitl took that role simply because no one else on the team would/could).
If we were a competently run organization, I'd be hoping we took Kaliyev. I suspect he turns out to be a poor man's Patrik Laine - scores goals and doesn't do much of anything else very useful, but is super valuable just because goal scoring is so hard. In an organization that could maximize player value by putting them in a position to succeed, he'd be great. On the Oilers, with the MSM talking about how his sandpaper isn't snarly enough, he'll get run out just like Yakupov and (in progress) Puljujarvi.