Banni
Rejoint: juin 2018
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I have thought about this.
Thing is if you take Laf you get a bigger guy who's physical. The penguins lack that in the top 6.
However, if you take Stutzle, you got a guy who projects to C at the NHL level. He's very much a Barzal like player. Fast, stick handles really well, hard on the puck. He played both LW and C in Europe. With his speed in the NHL game he's probably more suited to play C. As the smaller ice, putting him in the center of it makes him the most dangerous.
I wouldn't take Byfield. I think off all the guys in the top 8 he's the most likely to be a bust. He relied way to much on his size playing against smaller kids.
Meanwhile the knocks on him are that he takes plays off and has bad practice habits.
I think his comparison is a lot more to a pool party kind of player. Big, was physical on the kids. But couldn't transform that game to the NHL level. Given the other guys out there, I would pass on him till outside the top 5.
Having said that, if you could move 1 for 3 and 5 and take Dry and Raymond or Holtz. I think you do that.
But who ever you take on those picks has to be NHL ready otherwise you are missing out.