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https://twitter.com/ByronMBader/status/1004109337072025600
"O. Wahlstrom vs. B. Tkachuk - OW has a 73% chance of making the NHL and 27% chance of being a star. BT has a 58% chance of making the NHL and 9% chance of being a star."
He also said we should have drafted Perfetti or Rossi instead of Stutzle
He also had Olli Maatta having the same star probability as Erik Karlsson through their draft year to D+4 year.
As you can see above, his takes can be really flawed and even downright ridiculous
I once said about him "Trying to make an exact science out of something that is more an art than anything is a bit foolish."
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Anyway, I have made a series of polls on the subject on an another popular hockey forum. Here's the goalie prospects ranking (less than 45 GP, less than 25 y/o)
#1- Spencer Knight
#2- Yaroslav Askarov
#3- Jake Oettinger
#4- Jeremy Swayman
#5- Kaapo Kähkönen
#6- Lukáš Dostál
#7- Filip Gustavsson
#8- Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
#9- Cayden Primeau
#10- Michael DiPietro
#11- Dustin Wolf
#12- Mads Søgaard
#13- Joey Daccord
#14- Justus Annunen
#15- Daniel Vladar
Daccord is now gone but Merilainen is probably going to rise very fast in these rankings
Please show me a team that has a better overall top-3 than Gustavsson/Sogaard/Merilainen. If it's not #1, it should be very close
Once again, Bader is out to lunch